Ushgarak and his slow journey into the social world...

Aw, do you feel loved now? Two people would gladly be yours...if only the world were smaller.

And Lara is not uninterested... why can't I meet nice people like you in town???

Can't complain, already got a wonderful year out of someone here.

No, sod it, I CAN complain! Right, flights to and from Ireland are cheap...

Nice people like me? Oh, you make me blush!

Round trip to Ireland? No problem! I'll provide room and board and transportation.

Including the plane? That would be clever...

On the other hand, I don't travel very well. You could come here... but then I am afraid I can offer you no conveniences save my hospitality, which I would endeavour to try hard at. Oh, I guess that would include room and board...

Alright, I'll be there shortly. You're hospitality and efforts would be more than enough. Well worth the trip I would think.

Damn right!

Ok... what is the catch here?

Lol, no catch! I've been meaning to take a vacation anyway...

Ok...

Look, there HAS to be a catch. My first board meeting went great. Since then, no-one has been able to organise ANYTHING! Look at the London meeting thread! A shambles! I can't even arrange to meet Lara properly and she lives only the other side of London from me!

Well that sounds silly. If you live so close I mean! Meet up for something somday! I mean, if I came to London...after getting to know you all a smidgen better...I would like to arrange some sort of meeting.

Well, I am free ANY time, it is only my general agrophobia I have to combat. But Lara is a very busy girl and it can be hard to organise these things for real.

Getting to know people as best as possible is the real trick now, isn't it? You don't want to run into an on-line axe murderer in real life. I am as dangerous as your average turtle, of course, but such trust has to be earned (though I can point you towards others to give me a reference!)

I don;t suppose you use any instant messengers, do you?

AIM- Metallicagirl58

Well, my own instincts after talking with you have earned you some credibility already...so you better not be an axe murderer. Otherwise I may never be able to trust my instincts again!

I'll promise not to bring the axe. But bugger! AIM always crahses my computer. I am on ICQ or MSN.

Hmm... I see you have PMs blocked... will it stay that way?

Um, lol, how do I change that?

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Enable Private Messaging to 'yes'

It says yes...hmm...

Errr... well it was certainly blocked a moment ago! But it isn't now! Just sending you one...

Private messages...I feel special. 😉

I'd love to say you were the only one... but this place is 90% of my social output (the results of what this thread describes not withstanding). I like to communicate with others as much as possible!

Oh well, I don't take it personally. I just feel special to be apart of your social output now. That's good enough for me.

Lovely. Now you are one of us! And you can watch my social fumblings in this thread with the rest of them...