Monday Meme -- Special Anniversary Edition

[the_other_sandy]

My LJ is one year old today, so here's an LJ-related meme.

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# Number of journal entries: 302 (including this one)

# Number of people on your friends list: 30

# Person who introduced you to LJ: viridian5, although it took me something like 8 years to get one after she did

# Still friends with this person: As much as you can be friends with someone you've never met in RL ;-)

# How many people have you introduced to LJ: 2 ::waves at bit_boy and auntbop::

# List everyone on your friends list who you have met in person: awfulhorrid, bit_boy, bookwurm, jennetj, jensenrick, kroki_refur, mikasteelelell, mrwhat, smallwaldo, thefannishwaldo, and wraithfodder

# Total LJers met: 11 (technically 10, since 2 of these people are the same person)

# 5 people on LiveJournal that you have known the longest: I'm only going with 3, since they tend to blow away the competition. I've known bookwurm for about 24 years, mrwhat for about 19 years, and bit_boy for about 15 years or so

# Anyone on LJ you can't stand: Yes, but they're not on my flist and I tend to ignore them whenever possible

# Name one person on your friends list you would most like to meet: Probably viridian5 because she's the person I've known the longest online without ever having met

# Ever ban someone from commenting in your journal: No, my LJ has been remarkably wank free (thank you, flist)

# Number of comments: Posted: 717, Received: 689 (I had no idea I'd commented that much)

# Biggest pet peeve about LJ: No hit counter--there's no way to tell if anyone is reading unless they leave a comment, which not everyone does

# Do you feel close to most of the people on your friends list: Yes-ish. It's hard for me to feel close to people I've never met, but I care about them and enjoy reading their posts

# How many journals on LiveJournal do you have: Just this one

# Communities I currently own/maintain: None

Comments

[kb9vcn.livejournal.com]

Funny thing, I just realized I'm a double Friend Of Friend to viridian5, via you and issadomae.

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

::waves:;

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

♫ It's a small world after all... ♫

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

::waves:: I'd love to meet you, though I don't travel much these days.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Now that my BF lives nearby, I only seem to go to Lansing, MI, to attend MediaWest and to Las Vegas to visit my father. I haven't done any real traveling in forever. It's hard to get up the wherewithal when you don't have anyone to travel with.

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

I've done New Orleans alone twice, and you need twice as much strength to do it that way sometimes. Plus, I get depressed and alienated on long, lone trips.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

My problem is that part of the fun of traveling is seeing or experiencing something new, which is more fun when you have someone to share it with. I went to college in London for a semester when I was an undergrad and did a lot of sightseeing on my own there, but I wound up starting a travel journal because I felt like I was going to explode from not being able to let the squee out.

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

On my second trip to New Orleans I found an internet cafe and shared some of my squee with my f'list. *g*