On Getting Acquainted

[queerbychoice]

Do you ever meet someone, and decide you want to get to know them, and try your very best to accomplish this, and recognize that you're making progress, but still feel continually frustrated at your inability to squeeze into two months of acquaintanceship ten years' worth of conversation?

Yeah. That's how I feel about Delfe. I want my ten years' worth of conversation now. I don't want to have to wait ten years for it.

Comments

[humanx.livejournal.com]

This happens to me on LJ a lot. (In person too). With you, for example. And ill. And - you know what we should do is, we should make like one of those awful crush sites, only minus the spam and fancy glitz and crush necessity, so you can list your LJ "wanna be friends/wanna do you/wanna talk all night" folks and in which category they fall, and if there's a match you both get an email. We really should.

[dlfke.livejournal.com]

patience is a virtue, gayle!

i am sure we will have our chance to converse (starting when my computer starts to function properly.)

until then, we remain mysterious to each other and that's kinda fun too.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

I'm not mysterious to anyone, ever. I have a knack for telling my whole life story within a few days of meeting anyone, and besides that I'm extraordinarily easy to research online. Not only have you heard all the most significant highlights of my life just in the journal entries I've made over the past month and a half, but you also have access to all my daily journal entries dating back to early July, plus both of my websites, plus if you're logged into Yahoo so it recognizes you as a list member, you have access to all the archives of my mailing list dating all the way back to May 1999. You could spend days and days doing nothing but reading my old email posts all day long if you wanted to (and if you had a whole lot of free time on your hands). It would be difficult to find anyone less mysterious anywhere than I am, because there's just such a huge volume of my words everywhere for you to immerse yourself in.

I'm also the kind of person who likes to immerse myself in other people; last spring I immersed myself for several days in reading every single thing that Frank ever posted online, including the entire archives of a mailing list dating back about three years. It was great fun, and I picked up some bits of knowledge about him that it's unlikely I'd have learned even now, a year later, if I hadn't read the archives.

But for you I have nothing to read. I think I shall have to persuade you to carry a little miniature tape recorder around in your pocket all day long and mail me a box of all the resulting tapes at the end of each week. Then I'll collect all my boxes of Delfe tapes and spend hours poring over them until I piece together all your mysteries.

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[dlfke.livejournal.com]

i'm not that mysterious either. which i guess is why i do not have that much to say in my journal. by not saying much i can pretend that i lead a dazzling life, packed with glamourously intellectual activities. or is the juxtaposition of the words glamorous and intellectual simply preposterous? honestly, work and school are all that keep me silent. lately i have been bogged down.

it is good to know that you are very available online. when i find a good solid amount of free time i will definitely spend some of it on reading about you, do not worry. as far as i know, i don't have any thing posted online. i have never been a regular poster in any other communities and i trashed the website i set up as a freshman at ucsd. it was way too embarrassing and you might have found it amusing.

it is late and i have procrastinated enough. it is time to write literary mumbo-jumbo and make my professor think i am brilliant.