Friends & other life things

[mousme]

Reconnected recently with an old, very good friend from high school. He was my first boyfriend, for what it's worth, and now we're both out of the closet as gay. No idea what that says about either of us.

He's also working in a field adjacent to mine, so we're having fun exchanging war stories. It's been great seeing him again: we were almost insperable the last few years of high school, and I missed hanging out with him.


I'm trying to be less quiet on LJ, but I have no idea how that's going to work out. I seem to have lost a lot of my ability to just fill the "post" space with random stuff anymore. I blame Twitter for part of that: the little tidbits that can be summed up in one sentence usually go on there these days, and there seems to be little else worth mentioning.

I've lost touch with a bunch of people, and I've let things slide so long I'm frankly embarrassed to even try to reconnect, because what can I even say? In one case, the last time we spoke directly (nearly a year ago), the exchange ended up kind of unpleasant -the person in question took something I said in jest seriously and sent back a reply that was kind of nasty, so I just let it drop- so I'm not even sure they want to talk to me anymore. Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

This is one of those times when being able to know a person's thoughts would come in really handy.

Comments

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

My thoughts are I wish your camera would upload the Camels Hump pics!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I know! I'm still looking for that damned wire. I think the cats ate it or something... :(

[heartofawarrior.livejournal.com]

Yay for you two reconnecting! Good friends really do help the world go 'round :-)

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

Twitter really rots your brain. Not as badly as FB, mind you, but it still does seem to make you think that your life can be expressed in 140-character blurblets. It doesn't promote reflection and it doesn't allow you much room to properly express yourself.

Only reason I'm on there are the Usual Suspects.

We need to go snowshoeing soon.

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

miss you! hoping to book you for a cooking day next Sunday at Ceri's!

[toughlovemuse.livejournal.com]

This! This!

[catsarah.livejournal.com]

The thing about losing touch with people, is that they've lost touch with you too, often for similar reasons (busy, family, work, life). They may be thinking the same thing that you are, "I'd like to reconnect but..." There's no harm in picking up the phone or sending an email that said "Life's been crazy, and I was thinking of you, how the hell are you?". Know what I mean Vern?

I have a friend that lives way the hell up north in Blind River, and I sometimes don't see him for years and when we get back together it's like we were never apart!

And the thing about face eating demons, it only hurts until it stops ;)

[wererogue.livejournal.com]

I was going to say something exactly along these lines (the losing touch thing, not the face-eating demons.)

We're all busy and knackered - we'll see you at Capricorucopia, if not before ;)