The first official LitNet meeting... [Archive]

Koa

09-21-2006, 11:53 AM

...has just taken place! :D

Well, I'm actually wondering if it's the first ever, but it's the first I hear about...

The thing is, me and Nighty happen to be in the same city for our studies, so just a few hours ago we met up and had a chat in a park :):):)

I would have never thought I'd meet anyone from this forum... it's a weird nice feeling :nod:

subterranean

09-21-2006, 11:57 AM

Awwwwwwwwww..

picture...picture...!!!!!!!!

Tell us in detail about the so called official meeting...!!!!!

How you doin', E?

:wave:

Madhuri

09-21-2006, 12:03 PM

That's great!!! :nod:

AimusSage

09-21-2006, 12:30 PM

Awww, isn't that nice, a real genuine meeting, I think we need pictures :D :D :D

Why oh why do I live in such a remote place?

Madhuri

09-21-2006, 12:35 PM

Why dont you come back to Earth? :D

Pensive

09-21-2006, 12:42 PM

This is really cool, Koa!

Which place in England, do you live? My brother has just got his student study visa to Bradford, England.

Shannanigan

09-21-2006, 12:48 PM

aww....someone needs to vacation here so I can give you a local's island tour and we can discuss Caribbean literature! lol

AimusSage

09-21-2006, 12:58 PM

Why dont you come back to Earth? :D
I don't know, I kinda like mars, despite it's drawbacks, I can visit earth any time I want though, but why don't you all come over and visit? :D

kathycf

09-21-2006, 03:17 PM

mir

09-21-2006, 03:45 PM

anybody live in PA? :(

echoing subterranean: PICTURE! PICTURE!

optimisticnad

09-21-2006, 04:12 PM

awww. thats excellent, i wish i knew someone from this forum-maybe i do and i just dont know it. but iv got Smelly the Vampire and King of MArs for company...is it possible to do worse??? :-)

AimusSage

09-21-2006, 05:10 PM

That is really nice, Koa. Maybe it won't feel so strange to be studying in another country if you have a forum friend nearby. Aimus, I will be packing my bags for my visit to you...will I need an oxygen tank or do you have some to spare for us Earthlings?
You'll do fine, I've had a big biodome installed, I have a huge forrest in the back garden, so don't worry about the air. :)

The only one I think you'll have to be careful with is my neighbour, she's a bit well, not quite right in the head. ;) :p

Weeping Willow

09-21-2006, 05:37 PM

that's nice.. but as for you're wondering Koa i met Keltick Banshee like half a year ago.. i was in london and she in manchester and she came we had a nice weekend chiling talking traveling the city... it's was great!
i recommend it alot! if you get the chance! i know in the future i'll meet Riesa as well.. it just a thing i owe to myself... at least that is my point of view?.

Koa

09-21-2006, 07:33 PM

Ahem...I'm afraid there's no picture...I forgot to take my camera and it's a shame because it was such a nice sunny day (which is probably not that common around here ;)) but I don't know if Nighty would have agreed on a picture, I don't think she ever posted any... Well maybe next time :)

@Weeping: oh ok I didn't know that, I kinda hoped to be the first eheeh ;)

subterranean

09-21-2006, 07:40 PM

Is there any member currently in Bangkok right now?

:D

Riesa

09-21-2006, 08:59 PM

RobinHood3000

09-21-2006, 09:28 PM

Wow, that's really cool!

If only I could meet Rachel and Elizabeth one day...

mir

09-22-2006, 08:19 AM

Virgil, Pen, Robin . . . Kathy, Samemercury, Riesa . . . yeah, and pretty much everyone else on the forum. :) i wish i could meet you all . . .

Weeping Willow

09-22-2006, 09:57 AM

Weeping: oh ok I didn't know that, I kinda hoped to be the first eheeh ;)

Oh.. i'm sorry .. :)..

damn right, Willow. We've got a date with a beach, some musica, swaying hammocks, and maybe just a little Bob...

You better Believe it Sister!!!!!! :brow:

kathycf

09-22-2006, 03:17 PM

Virgil, Pen, Robin . . . Kathy, Samemercury, Riesa . . . yeah, and pretty much everyone else on the forum. :) i wish i could meet you all . . .

Pennslyvania isn't that far away. Actually I am not sure about the other's location but I know that Virgil is in New York and I believe Pen (when not in Camelot) lives in Pennsylvania as well. Let's make a date to meet in Conneticut, I think that is right in the middle. :D I will be the one wearing a pirate hat.;)

Seriously, it would be nice to meet folks, but I have a terrible insecurity that people (in general) will hate me on site. Silly, I know.

subterranean

09-22-2006, 03:27 PM

Previous post reminds me of one of the coolest older threads started by baddad about Forum Reunion :D

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4530&highlight=forum+reunion

AimusSage

09-22-2006, 03:29 PM

Seriously, it would be nice to meet folks, but I have a terrible insecurity that people (in general) will hate me on site. Silly, I know.
Oh come now, nobody on this site hate you! Well, maybe someone does, but we all hate that person in return for hating you :D

RobinHood3000

09-22-2006, 03:33 PM

Actually, I think Pendragon lives in Virginia.

Idril

09-22-2006, 03:35 PM

The Tolkien site I used to frequent planned meets all the time, of course they were all in England so I wasn't able to go to any but we did have a small North American one in Minneapolis a couple years ago and it was a great deal of fun. It's always fascinating to see how well you connect in real life. It's a little surreal because you're meeting for the first time, yet you know all kinds of personal details and preferences about the other person and there is a comfort level that doesn't normally exist with people you've just met.

kathycf

09-22-2006, 03:47 PM

Oh come now, nobody on this site hate you! Well, maybe someone does, but we all hate that person in return for hating you :D

Sorry Aim, my mistake. I meant to type "sight" instead of "site". :)
Thank you for hating my hater that hates me, though. :D

*edit*
yeah, I think it would be fun to meet people when you do know a bit about them and the way they interact with you. Fun, yet a little strange as well.

RobinHood3000

09-22-2006, 03:49 PM

I'm with Aimus. Anyone that hates you, we hate. Or at least take a strongly violent dislike towards.

kathycf

09-22-2006, 03:57 PM

Heh, thanks.

Well I did say it was a silly insecurity of mine. I am fairly well liked in my day to day non cyberspace life, yet I still harbor the fear that I am hated. Oh, not hated,but disliked. It is like looking in the mirror and knowing that the face you see is attractive, but still feeling very ugly. I think it is possible to know something on an intellectual level, yet still not feel it to be true. If that makes any kind of sense. Ok, I will stop babbling now. :blush:

kilted exile

09-22-2006, 03:59 PM

AimusSage

09-22-2006, 04:19 PM

Sorry Aim, my mistake. I meant to type "sight" instead of "site". :)
I know... It's just one of the reasons why we can never hate you :D

It is like looking in the mirror and knowing that the face you see is attractive, but still feeling very ugly. I think it is possible to know something on an intellectual level, yet still not feel it to be true. If that makes any kind of sense. Ok, I will stop babbling now. :blush:
Do some more affirmation excercises. Stand in front of the mirror and tell yourself you are liked, you like yourself, and there is no reason to dislike you. Do this every morning, and you'll start accepting the truth soon enough. :)

Koa

09-22-2006, 04:52 PM

Previous post reminds me of one of the coolest older threads started by baddad about Forum Reunion :D

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4530&highlight=forum+reunion

I actually had that in mind too... but will you tell me what are you doing in Bangkok? :)

It's always fascinating to see how well you connect in real life. It's a little surreal because you're meeting for the first time, yet you know all kinds of personal details and preferences about the other person and there is a comfort level that doesn't normally exist with people you've just met.

Surreal is the right word. But I think that already knowing a lot about that person doesn't give any comfort, just the opposite, it makes me feel more nervous and embarrassed. There are people at the moment with whom I have a rather close online friendship but I'd be terrified of meeting... :blush:

grace86

09-22-2006, 05:55 PM

I think that is so awesome you two met. I would love to meet so many of the people here!

Idril

09-22-2006, 06:11 PM

Surreal is the right word. But I think that already knowing a lot about that person doesn't give any comfort, just the opposite, it makes me feel more nervous and embarrassed. There are people at the moment with whom I have a rather close online friendship but I'd be terrified of meeting... :blush:

I felt an initial weirdness but we quickly got into our 'routines' and it was like we had known each other for years, which on some level, of course, we had. That certainly depends on the person though, I will agree to that, there are people from that board I would've been nervous about meeting as well, they just weren't at that particular meeting. :)

Nightshade

09-22-2006, 06:42 PM

well it was fun as for piccys maybe next time but IM taking the pictures! :nod:
hey Shannanigan I might be coming over that way in a couple of years.
:D

Koa

09-23-2006, 08:01 PM

Niiighty do you have the i-net in your room now? I was going to ask if you're free tomorrow (mm today) but I remembered you go home at weekends... I've been a bit lonely these two days :o

What do you mean, you take the pics? I'm the model? Oh god, that's not pleasant you know...for the viewer I mean... :D

Nightshade

09-23-2006, 10:53 PM

hehe yes but I told you not going home this weekend.
yeah Im free just need to be home by eating time... yes the internet finally works or Im poaching someones wireless but the internet withdrawl got so bad I dont care anymore. telephone is still broken though:(

subterranean

09-23-2006, 11:16 PM

I actually had that in mind too... but will you tell me what are you doing in Bangkok? :)

I'm working, E! :D

Koa

09-24-2006, 04:44 PM

Nice to know, B! :D

Today we went to the city centre and read some graves :lol: and saw the Chinese arch :)

Shannanigan

09-25-2006, 10:56 PM

hey Shannanigan I might be coming over that way in a couple of years.
:D

Sweet!

I still maintain that if any of you feel like making St. Thomas your next vacation spot, I would be more than happy to give you a tour and take you to the best places to eat, local secret spots, etc...you don't have to spend every day with me, lol, but I just love to meet new people and it would be nice to meet some of the great characters in here!

I'm going to be in Los Angeles from December 8-22...but I dunno if anyone from here is there?

Nightshade

09-26-2006, 12:11 AM

I'm going to be in Los Angeles from December 8-22...but I dunno if anyone from here is there?

Ok I know its a bit stuffy and boring of me but I wouldnt advise just meeting up with anyone off the interent, when all is said and done you really dont know that much about them.
:D

and if you do go and meet them let more than one person know where your going - and get as much info as possible.

having said all that--- It wont be st thomas's its somewhere with an A, not antiga, an island about 25/35 ( cant rember) how big thats part of the british colonies/eu.

:D

Shannanigan

09-26-2006, 08:09 AM

ah, I think I know which one ;) I hava classmates from there! :)

anyways...yeah, I've met people off the internet before, and it's always done in a very public place and both parties bring friends, usually more than one...usually the scary people won't try to meet if those are the parameters, lol. If they do, then usually they and their friends are scary enough for me to go "okay, well, it was nice meeting you, but I've got relatives to go visit..." lol

Thank you for the concern though :D I agree with you totally that it shouldn't be a common practice, dangerous world out there...