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infodump... and looking to stir up trouble, I admit. (And fighting off a bug, which leaves me feeling like this sort of sedentary pursuit...)
1. Until recently, I thought you were a girl.
2. We've been within a single degree of separation for something like twenty years now, and I think we've only met in person a handful for times. I don't know if we even have that much in common now, though at one point we would have.
3. You have a commitment to aesthetics that I both appreciate and enjoy, though I suspect we barely share a common language. You are someone that instinctively I am afraid of hurting, mostly indirectly.
4. You're hot, you're bright, I like you a lot and I don't know how poly, or if you are bi... I occaisionally gnash my teeth in frustration over this.
5. I'm pretty good at ignoring the whining, it's the manipulative behavior couched in terms of compassion that gets to me. I think you're still on my friends list mostly because it would cause even more drama to boot you, though I suppose eventually I'll be in the right sort of mood to enjoy it.
6. I think of you fondly, both and I trust you to have good intentions. Which softens a lot that I don't trust you to be discrete, or to keep confidences, nor do I trust you to know what constitutes my best interest. It does help that I don't think you're stupid.
7. I rather get the impression that you don't know where you're going with your life, and that through some alchemy I don't quite get this often manifests as a pervasive bitterness against others. And yet, you don't seem firmly rooted in this yet, so I hold onto hope.
8. Random exercise of authority seems to be a primary mode for you, which isn't usually something I seek out. And yet, I value having such people as you in my life, in large part because I don't feel the least bit protective of you, and feel able to engage in all kinds of power plays and mind games with you without any fear that I might damage an innocent. I've been told that this is not the same as actual liking (I'm not sure if I agree) but regardless it's quite refreshing.
9. You've been on my list of people I ought to get to know better for some time now. I've never been sure how much that's returned, and what's actual avoidance versus iffy communication. And with my schedule... well, I'm not particularly hesitant about asking (I have, in fact) but I haven't really had time to pursue the point. I don't know if we're the same species, but probably the same genera, anyway.
10. You've been annoying me a lot less recently than I've come to expect, even though I've been interacting with you more. Strange the things that change people.
11. It's got to be the artful mixture of sensitivity and crudity that makes you interesting. From a distance.
12. Though it's usually not my sort of thing, at one point I was surprised to find that I found the thought of tying you up by your wrists and beating you black and blue remarkably appealling.
13. Y'know, it wasn't all that long ago that almost everyone I hung out with was older than me. I'm still trying to figure out what happened -- am I sufferring from arrested development in how I enjoy your thoughts and reflections on life? The shiny new bit is only part of it.
14. We're some kind of virtual cousins, though I've only met you a handful of times. Strange what common culture will do.
15. I've been drawn to you for the last few years, and have little better idea what to do with it now than I did originally. I think you make a good friend, probably anything else would be foolhardy for both of us. Though there's something else there, and I don't know if I will quite be able to leave it alone until I figure out what it is.
16. I wonder sometimes if we'd get along if we ever met. Our areas of interests overlap, and yet I often get the impression that I'd be quite the freak in your world.
17. Sometimes I'm very cautious with people. You I am cautious with not because you're a stranger, because you aren't,, and not because I know bad things about you, because uniformly I don't, but because the social net between us is wide and not very deep, and I can't do anything without effecting others.
18. I heard a few bad stories about you, and got one very bad impression... but your posts are interesting, and sometimes insightful.
19. One of the problems with knowing someone for too long is that you end up knowing way too much about their past, even things that are perhaps kindest forgotten by everyone. Sometimes I think my memory is too good, for everyone involved. Certainly, I see the person you are now in the light of the person you once were. Perhaps you've changed more than I realize. I hope so.
20. We used to be closer. I think you know why we stopped being so close, and while that's no longer such a problem, I'm not sure the changes in my life don't make it pretty unlikely that we'll be close to that degree again.
infodump... and looking to stir up trouble, I admit. (And fighting off a bug, which leaves me feeling like this sort of sedentary pursuit...)1. Until recently, I thought you were a girl.
2. We've been within a single degree of separation for something like twenty years now, and I think we've only met in person a handful for times. I don't know if we even have that much in common now, though at one point we would have.
3. You have a commitment to aesthetics that I both appreciate and enjoy, though I suspect we barely share a common language. You are someone that instinctively I am afraid of hurting, mostly indirectly.
4. You're hot, you're bright, I like you a lot and I don't know how poly, or if you are bi... I occaisionally gnash my teeth in frustration over this.
5. I'm pretty good at ignoring the whining, it's the manipulative behavior couched in terms of compassion that gets to me. I think you're still on my friends list mostly because it would cause even more drama to boot you, though I suppose eventually I'll be in the right sort of mood to enjoy it.
6. I think of you fondly, both and I trust you to have good intentions. Which softens a lot that I don't trust you to be discrete, or to keep confidences, nor do I trust you to know what constitutes my best interest. It does help that I don't think you're stupid.
7. I rather get the impression that you don't know where you're going with your life, and that through some alchemy I don't quite get this often manifests as a pervasive bitterness against others. And yet, you don't seem firmly rooted in this yet, so I hold onto hope.
8. Random exercise of authority seems to be a primary mode for you, which isn't usually something I seek out. And yet, I value having such people as you in my life, in large part because I don't feel the least bit protective of you, and feel able to engage in all kinds of power plays and mind games with you without any fear that I might damage an innocent. I've been told that this is not the same as actual liking (I'm not sure if I agree) but regardless it's quite refreshing.
9. You've been on my list of people I ought to get to know better for some time now. I've never been sure how much that's returned, and what's actual avoidance versus iffy communication. And with my schedule... well, I'm not particularly hesitant about asking (I have, in fact) but I haven't really had time to pursue the point. I don't know if we're the same species, but probably the same genera, anyway.
10. You've been annoying me a lot less recently than I've come to expect, even though I've been interacting with you more. Strange the things that change people.
11. It's got to be the artful mixture of sensitivity and crudity that makes you interesting. From a distance.
12. Though it's usually not my sort of thing, at one point I was surprised to find that I found the thought of tying you up by your wrists and beating you black and blue remarkably appealling.
13. Y'know, it wasn't all that long ago that almost everyone I hung out with was older than me. I'm still trying to figure out what happened -- am I sufferring from arrested development in how I enjoy your thoughts and reflections on life? The shiny new bit is only part of it.
14. We're some kind of virtual cousins, though I've only met you a handful of times. Strange what common culture will do.
15. I've been drawn to you for the last few years, and have little better idea what to do with it now than I did originally. I think you make a good friend, probably anything else would be foolhardy for both of us. Though there's something else there, and I don't know if I will quite be able to leave it alone until I figure out what it is.
16. I wonder sometimes if we'd get along if we ever met. Our areas of interests overlap, and yet I often get the impression that I'd be quite the freak in your world.
17. Sometimes I'm very cautious with people. You I am cautious with not because you're a stranger, because you aren't,, and not because I know bad things about you, because uniformly I don't, but because the social net between us is wide and not very deep, and I can't do anything without effecting others.
18. I heard a few bad stories about you, and got one very bad impression... but your posts are interesting, and sometimes insightful.
19. One of the problems with knowing someone for too long is that you end up knowing way too much about their past, even things that are perhaps kindest forgotten by everyone. Sometimes I think my memory is too good, for everyone involved. Certainly, I see the person you are now in the light of the person you once were. Perhaps you've changed more than I realize. I hope so.
20. We used to be closer. I think you know why we stopped being so close, and while that's no longer such a problem, I'm not sure the changes in my life don't make it pretty unlikely that we'll be close to that degree again.
