A meme I like, for y'all

[jbsegal]

It's been making the rounds. This version of the text taken from Vicka and Very Lightly Modified from there.

Add a comment to this journal telling me what you remember about first meeting me (online most certainly counts; if you have a choice between online and in person, I'll request the most amusing :-) I'll try to respond to each comment with my memories of you.

And, of course, if you like it, try it in your own journal.

Comments

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I was with ceelove, visiting town, and she dragged me to Johnny D's to see the Paperboys. You took one look at me and said, "Yup, I understand." :)

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Yup. You, your long hair, dancing like a peanuts character to great CeltRock...I could totally see it.

[xeger.livejournal.com]

It was wet.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Hurricane Bob, wasn't it?

And House Sable Swan was the quest.

I asked for your name. You wrote it for me, illegibly. It took years for me to actually find out what your last name was.

I still love that cape.

[xeger.livejournal.com]

I actually don't remember if it was Bob - but it was soaking wet.

It took me several more years to actually find House Sable Swan [and I've only now remembered why I made a mental note to myself at that time!]

My handwriting has actually deteriorated, if you can believe that :)

*grin*

[krikket.livejournal.com]

When I first moved to Boston, I was on sensory overload from meeting the sheer numbers of people in the Susboid community in a *very* short time. So I can't be certain when we first met. (For instance, it wouldn't surprise me if we had met at the coffee-house thing on a Tuesday night, or at a party...) Hell, I might have known you by face/name at the point I'm about to mention due to my slipshod memory.

But the first meeting that I can recall, where you didn't fall into the mass of humanity, was at my first Baitcon, when you welcomed me to the site, standing on the lengthy driveway at the previous location.

And I had a wonderful time. 8^)

[exponentialdk.livejournal.com]

The year was 1999, and the Internet industry was in full boom. You had applied for a job at the Kendall Interborg, and it was my turn to interview you.

We didn't have conference rooms or interview rooms. That would have been too "old economy." We were expanding too fast for that sort of thing. So I interviewed you in this windowless stub of a hallway that had doors to us, some other company, and the elevator lobby. There were no chairs, of course. You probably sat on the floor, and I probably tried sitting for a while, then gave up and paced.

I remember nothing about our interview, except exiting that stub of hallway, with a line like: "One more thing. Doesn't anyone confuse you with jailbait@apocalypse.org?"

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

I'm not certain, but I don't think we'd met before then, but I'd seen your name around on elbows.

(I wasn't living up here while Cafe Liberty was open and only went to the downtown one once or twice.)

Glad you had fun.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Yup. That's my memory, too. Wasn't onetwolittleb in on that part of the interview, too?

[exponentialdk.livejournal.com]

I don't remember. The only reason I even remember where we had the interview is that I remember exiting the place with you while putting my foot in my mouth ^W^W^W^W^W^W asking the above question.

(I had been hearing your name since probably you first joined the elboid community... I think at least since the end of the 1980s.)

[iamlisabee.livejournal.com]

You showed up at my door step, late one night (after chatting on irc), and took me off to some coffee shop or another. I remember (being the rather monogamous type, myself) feeling somewhat bummed to hear that you had a love (or two.. *grin*). I'm glad to know ya!

[exponentialdk.livejournal.com]

Or was it suspects? I don't know. I've never been an elboid or a suspect, but I'm pretty sure the person I kept hearing mention you was an elboid.

[exponentialdk.livejournal.com]

Heh, I just stumbled across the meaning of susboid, and see that the two groups (elbows and suspects) have become one, at least on LJ. How many years/decades ago did the two groups merge, or did they start that way?...

[thespian.livejournal.com]

it was like, a decade ago now, and it was in Maryland soon after my marriage to Steve, and my first thought (which has been repeated from time to time upon seeing you anew) was, "That hair has got to be murder to brush, it's so wavy and wiry."

I can't believe it was the first time...

[tulpaspin.livejournal.com]

My first Baitcon I met you coming in and you greeted me as an old friend. You then grabbed the heaviest stuff I was lugging and helped me bring it to where I was camping.

Being rotten with names and faces, I'm used to the "We must have met before and they must remember it better than I do." feeling, but this time I also had an additional helping of "What an incredibly cool welcome regardless!"

You made quite an impression (even if it might have possibly been a second one.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Lord, I don't know. A convention, perhaps a Lunacon? I don't think you lived in the city at the time. And yeah, I know it's not funny, but there you have it.

[coraline]

we were standing outside the coffeehouse in the MIT student center and onetwolittleb introduced us. it was either right after mazer's coffeehouse show, or we wwere standing there discussing the upcoming coffeehouse show. and she introduced us and i had the canonical "oh YOU'RE jailbait!" reaction.

[coraline]

it's been a reasonably long time, since as far back as i heard of them (ok, yeah, i'm young and it isn't THAT long a time) suspects has "always been" the set of elbows-plus-those-who-want-community-announcements-but-not-the-elbows-flaming-and-traffic...
(so that's around ... 6 years? at a guess?)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

It was my first Baitcon, and I wanted to officially meet you in person, since, well, you were the host, after all. As I recall, we curled up on the hammock together and it was nice. I further seem to recall a proposition that followed shortly thereafter :).

[awfief.livejournal.com]

Uh. . . how to say this?

Summer Flea, 1996. I was 18. You were intrigued. Your hands were all over me. I liked it. :)

[dbang.livejournal.com]

Arisia 1991 in Waltham. In the lounge area. I was feeling a little lost, it being my first con and not knowing anyone, and you spent about an hour talking with me and making me feel at welcome. You were probably flirting with me, too. :-)

Oh my god, that was a long time ago. At least two lives ago, maybe three.

I like this meme, I'll have to put it in my LJ too.

[lolitasir.livejournal.com]

I met you at one of the BR events (maybe 2001? or was it 2000?) and you told me that you had wanted to answer my personal ad which had appeared in Prometheus in 1998 but you didn't because you lived in Boston.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

A convention, probably around 1987ish... The first pictures of you show up in my books at Disclave 1988. Which was right before Baitcon I.

Geez I feel old. :)

[donnad.livejournal.com]

Looking back at all the other comments, It seems so far I'm the only one who seems to have known you before the 1990's... (or at least the only one who'll admit it) :)

Now I really feel old!

[ceo]

Like many, it was when you welcomed me to my first Baitcon. 1995, I believe.