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Time, Never On Your Side
Mar. 21st, 2005 10:27 amI was going to leave the TBRU remembrances behind, but I guess this is a more general thought, so here goes.
Last night some of us went out to the way over-crowded Hidden Door, found it almost too hard to move, and decided to do dinner instead. While Bennegan's isn't great food, the special, appetizer, burger and dessert, was a good deal. The better part was getting to sit down with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bobaloo, Justin (tuc1), his partner Alan (spargel), Kip (scarabbear) and Chris (oakleycub) one last time. The several meals, even the disasterous meal at Chili's, were the highlights of the event for me.
This weekend seemed to be a little too much, too many people I knew, or barely knew and wanted to spend time with. there simply wasn't enough time, and with wanting to spend time with Chris, and see his softball game and not staying at the hotel and all, that time was very limited. Everyone else had their own agendas, and their own people they wanted to see. I know I heard several times, why couldn't there be a big LJ meeting, since everyone was trying to find everyone else.
I know of at least 45 people form my friends list who were in attendance. there was just no way i could see, nor talk to every one, and really, it's unfortunate. I guess it's a sad factor of the internet age that were capable of making connections across a wide area now, but when you do finally get the opportunity to meet face to face, its only in these brief time-spans. Here's an event were your friends come from Boston, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, and all places in between, and seemingly you get a hug, and they all go back.
The problem with such a cornucopia of riches is that I find I'm not really talking to anyone but the LJers, since it's a safe world for me. Why actually have to make contact with a stranger when you know something about an LJer?
Still, with so many LJer's, they all have little groups of their own, and not all of them meld together nicely. You don't know if when your with group A, that someone from group B will mesh nicely, so you aren't sure if you should ask them along to the party or not, or sometimes when your hanging with group C, and group D walks by, do you regret letting them go by when you really did want to talk to them?
Of course, there's always the wonder of whether you fit into any of the groups at all.
What I'd love to do is crisis-cross the country going to dinner with different groups each night. Just a chance to get to know people and sit down and talk. the groups shouldn't be larger than ten each night. maybe we could turn it into a TV show for the new LOGO channel. Bear Feast, with your host, me. sort of like the Jon Favreu show with a Bear twist. Perhaps Seen (zombietruckstop) could help write questions, no topic barred.
This will have to do until we get our own Bear state.
Last night some of us went out to the way over-crowded Hidden Door, found it almost too hard to move, and decided to do dinner instead. While Bennegan's isn't great food, the special, appetizer, burger and dessert, was a good deal. The better part was getting to sit down with
bobaloo, Justin (tuc1), his partner Alan (spargel), Kip (scarabbear) and Chris (oakleycub) one last time. The several meals, even the disasterous meal at Chili's, were the highlights of the event for me.This weekend seemed to be a little too much, too many people I knew, or barely knew and wanted to spend time with. there simply wasn't enough time, and with wanting to spend time with Chris, and see his softball game and not staying at the hotel and all, that time was very limited. Everyone else had their own agendas, and their own people they wanted to see. I know I heard several times, why couldn't there be a big LJ meeting, since everyone was trying to find everyone else.
I know of at least 45 people form my friends list who were in attendance. there was just no way i could see, nor talk to every one, and really, it's unfortunate. I guess it's a sad factor of the internet age that were capable of making connections across a wide area now, but when you do finally get the opportunity to meet face to face, its only in these brief time-spans. Here's an event were your friends come from Boston, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, and all places in between, and seemingly you get a hug, and they all go back.
The problem with such a cornucopia of riches is that I find I'm not really talking to anyone but the LJers, since it's a safe world for me. Why actually have to make contact with a stranger when you know something about an LJer?
Still, with so many LJer's, they all have little groups of their own, and not all of them meld together nicely. You don't know if when your with group A, that someone from group B will mesh nicely, so you aren't sure if you should ask them along to the party or not, or sometimes when your hanging with group C, and group D walks by, do you regret letting them go by when you really did want to talk to them?
Of course, there's always the wonder of whether you fit into any of the groups at all.
What I'd love to do is crisis-cross the country going to dinner with different groups each night. Just a chance to get to know people and sit down and talk. the groups shouldn't be larger than ten each night. maybe we could turn it into a TV show for the new LOGO channel. Bear Feast, with your host, me. sort of like the Jon Favreu show with a Bear twist. Perhaps Seen (
zombietruckstop) could help write questions, no topic barred. This will have to do until we get our own Bear state.
