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

[amw.livejournal.com]

I find the Second Life thing fascinating. Still haven't given it a try, but i doubt i'd have the time :-) I just find it so interesting how you can forge friendships in a virtual world, to the point where you want to log in and say hi even when you're on vacation. I get the same feelings about LiveJournal and message boards i post on, i just want to log in "just to see how everyone's going" when i'm away on vacation... Especially the first few days, when i really notice my safety net is gone. But then i realize i'm not frantically messaging all my real-life friends when i'm on vacation - in fact it's a nice break to kinda get away from all of that for a couple weeks - so now i try let my internet friends fall into the same bucket as my real life friends. We don't have to message every day, and when we're on vacation even less so, and it doesn't matter because of course it'll be cool when you get back because they are your friends.

Right now you and Emily barely get to see each other in real life so if i were you i'd be making the most of every second :-)

With regard to chatting to far-away friends online, i've found Skype video calling to be ridiculously awesome. The resolution isn't great, but it's miles better than text messaging or instant messaging - and it's free too. I feel like someone out of Star Trek when i can talk to someone on the other side of the world, see them, and i'm not in a special videoconferencing room or anything, i'm just hanging out at home. Rocks.