On the wierdness that can be Second Life.

[dolari]

Sitting at the Brearly Family's bonfire.

Second Life is funny when it coincides with your first.

I spend a lot of time on SL, for one major reason - I'm there to see Emily. It's a great way for us to get together with her being 2420 miles, three time zones, and an international border away. Together we get to visit other friends on SL, explore the countryside together, and enjoy each other's company.

Emily is here now. Our days are filled with fun (and phlegm, but that's an entry for later), and she's fixed about anything and everything that's been broken around the house. We have each other, and we have our love.

And yet at 7:30 each night, we head to Second Life. She's three feet in front of me, but we end up there anyways. I have a thing about communication that I share with erinlefey: Let's not use the internet to talk to each other when we're three feet away from each other.

She first mentioned going online the second day she was here. The first time I was a bit unnerved about going - I went to SL to see HER...and here she was finally here...but wanting to go back into SL. It was wierd for a time...but I can see why she went. We were together, yes...but there were friends we knew only on SL, also timezones and borders away, and it gave us a chance to visit them while we were BOTH here.

It's an odd feeling, but you know - if she wants to be there, I will be there. As it is, I do miss my friends on SL, if I don't see them for a while and as long as there's communication between us that isn't typed when we're on, I'm okay with that.!


Although it is very nice to be able to spoon in the real world.

More detailed real-world post coming soon. The days are just packed...but mostly with tissue paper as we blow our noses every ten minutes. :D

Comments

[audaciousd.livejournal.com]

You're so full of life... and disease! (much like myself, and did I get that quote right?!)

As for SL...well, I've had the experience of IMing with someone in the same room. :) I think it's kind of like other semi-passive activites (such as watching TV): it is possible to do stuff like that in moderation such that no harm is done to whatever other aspects of life, and it's also possible to be semi-interactive (IRL) even when watching TV, being on the innerwabs, etc.

Or maybe it's the antibiotics talkin'. :D

[audaciousd.livejournal.com]

Oh, and don't deny the curative powers of Shredded Weet.

Or THE POWER OF CHEESE.

srsly, i'm only on antibiotics, srsly