I met a fellow BDer!!

[Formendacil]

Going through and replying to some--alas, not all!--of the stuff I meant to reply to earlier, though the sleep deprivation and mad dump back into "reality" discouraged it.

Originally Posted by Encaitare

Formendacil kept blowing my mind with his somewhat suggestive sense of humor, which I had not been expecting at all. One of the more hilarious surprises of the trip.

Really? Really, Encai? How long have we chatted online and you did not expect this? I am amused.

Originally Posted by Diamond18

Correction: I recognized YOU. Even after Boro introduced himself I didn't know who he was, due to my being deaf from the plane's descent. So there was an awkward few moments of "Yay Michael! Aaaaaand... other dude..." before it registered.

Heh, well... you covered nicely enough at the airport then. And, now that you mention it, I didn't want to bring up that Boro was merely "other dude" to my "first dude."

Originally Posted by Kath

Form I feel to have spent little time with. I suspect this is due to our conflicting schedules. He naturally gets up, oh, 4 hours before I do! And for someone who claims to naturally be lazy he seemed to be constantly on the move! Actually, to be fair, he was mostly picking people up from airports/stations and doing a very fine job of it. On the odd occasion we got to sit and have a nice chat he was very funny and it was hilarious to watch him reveal his subversive humour to a newcomer who would stare in shock and giggle nervously for a bit. Having spoken to him on MSN this sense of humour didn't surprise me. That said, reading his Annotated Twilight would shock anyone! There is a picture of Glirdan and myself reading it, and I think our expressions say it all! This man has a healthy career ahead of him writing satire if he ever wants to!

See, Encai--Kath picked up my sense of humour from online! She's quite right about the shocking newcomers bit--and there were a delightful number of newcomers about (not all of them, alas, shockable).

As for being naturally lazy, Kath, I most certainly am--I just also didn't sleep super-well on the floor (or even on the bed in the "boys' room")... and there's a certain amount of manipulative sneakiness in getting up first--it means you have a much clearer shot at using the washroom. Besides, as the resident curmudgeon who went to bed first each night, it's only proper that I should have been the first one up--even if it was only a mere 4-5 hours of poorish sleep later.

I assume no one is wondering where the sleep deprivation I've mentioned comes from...

Originally Posted by Estelyn Telcontar

Of course, we are all hoping that one of you will drop a hint about that midnight kiss - can we expect another Downs couple sometime?

Really, Esty, as long as there are Downers left untaken, you can probably expect there to eventually be more Downs couples. We're all too entirely taken with each other.

Originally Posted by Lalaith

Agree with Esty, this is all great vicarious fun, especially the loved-up bits (I do try to have firm faith in the clean-living rep of Downers, but I am beginning to suspect that this fabled New Year turkey was actually spiked with MDMA...)

Any reputation for clean is 90% attributable to Boro and Glirdan. As for the rest of us? "Clean" might not be the best description of our living all the time.

Originally Posted by the phantom

Formendacil- A master at pretending to be serious when being funny, and obviously more skilled than me at falling asleep. The man actually went off to bed with sixteen of us in the next room shrieking our heads off. He seemed to be pretty responsible in general, and if forced to choose I would say Formy would have to be considered the resident "father" of the moot (an appropriate title for him, I would say).

Ah... allow me to reveal to you my dastardly secret: earplugs. Definitely had them for three or four nights.

Also: getting up too early--it makes you pretty tired come nightfall.

And: Big family. You learn to sleep with some noise.

And that seems to be all the posts that I need to catch up on replying to. For the record, I'm still not mentally past Bostonmoot. I'm not sure it's a wise idea to have another one for several years, given how long the emotional recovery seems to take.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Esty

Of course, we are all hoping that one of you will drop a hint about that midnight kiss

The best hint of all is that the hints have already been dropped.

[Encaitare]

Originally Posted by the phantom

Encaitare- Unexpectedly tall, and chillingly familiar. She was like an amalgamation of people that I used to know- my orchestra girls from back in the day. When I played in various youth symphonies and university orchestra and such, I knew a small group of girls that played with me in nearly every group. We had a shared taste in music and films, and a similar sense of humor, and I just loved them. From everything I saw Enca was shockingly similar to them, and I am completely convinced that if we knew each other in RL we would be friends.

I was so excited that we both loved the same bands! It's not a very popular genre, but I love talking about it. Also, I am pleased to have been described as "chilling," even out of context.

Originally Posted by Formy

Really? Really, Encai? How long have we chatted online and you did not expect this? I am amused.

Well, like I told you the other day, you often make me laugh on AIM but usually have a very, shall we say, clean vocabulary. You must understand, my dear Michael, that you came with the good-Catholic-boy tag stuck to you, and this being so far removed from my life experiences, I would remain somewhat reserved so as not to offend your delicate sensibilities. Now that I know your true colors, all bets are off!

You guys... I really miss you all.

[wilwarin538]

Originally Posted by Encaitare

You guys... I really miss you all.

Me too!!!!!!!! ♥

I find in every conversation I have with anyone I somehow get to a point where I can say "When I was in Boston blah blah blah", or I say stuff like "I know someone who blah blah blah" or "a friend of mine blah blah blah" and it's always me bragging about one of you guys cause your all so cool, and therefore make me sound cool for having cool friends.

[Mirandir]

Originally Posted by Fea

The best hint of all is that the hints have already been dropped.

Truefax.

Originally Posted by wilwarin538

I find in every conversation I have with anyone I somehow get to a point where I can say "When I was in Boston blah blah blah", or I say stuff like "I know someone who blah blah blah" or "a friend of mine blah blah blah" and it's always me bragging about one of you guys cause your all so cool, and therefore make me sound cool for having cool friends.

Awwwwww wilwa I've been doing the same thing! Then it comes out that we know each other from the internet and the strange looks start.

[Mnemosyne]

Originally Posted by Mirandir

Then it comes out that we know each other from the internet and the strange looks start.

That's when the strange looks start?

[Formendacil]

Originally Posted by Mnemosyne

That's when the strange looks start?

I'm with Mnemo here--the strange looks started long before I left, when I told people I was going away during the Christmas holidays to meet people from the Internet.

Wilwa's quite right, though--everything seems to relate back mentally somehow or other to either the trip to Boston or the people there.

[Mirandir]

Originally Posted by Mnemosyne

That's when the strange looks start?

Haha well the people I'm telling generally know I'm insane already.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by wilwarin538

and it's always me bragging about one of you guys cause your all so cool, and therefore make me sound cool for having cool friends.

Me today at the grocery store... "So it's apparently really hard to get Jello and meat in Denmark."

"What?"

"Jello. And meat. Denmark."

"Okay, dear."

[Glirdan]

Originally Posted by wilwarin538

Me too!!!!!!!! ♥

I find in every conversation I have with anyone I somehow get to a point where I can say "When I was in Boston blah blah blah", or I say stuff like "I know someone who blah blah blah" or "a friend of mine blah blah blah" and it's always me bragging about one of you guys cause your all so cool, and therefore make me sound cool for having cool friends.

ME TOO!!! And then I feel bad because I get the "We weren't there so shut up!" look...It's actually rather entertaining seeing some people's face.

[wilwarin538]

Originally Posted by Mirandir

Awwwwww wilwa I've been doing the same thing! Then it comes out that we know each other from the internet and the strange looks start.

Haha, actually yesterday I was talking with a girl I work with, who I don't know all that well, at our staff party and she had seen the word Bostonmoot somewhere on my Facebook page (not surprising) and she wanted to know where it came from. So I was like, well we're all kinda LOTR geeks, and before I even went further she was like "Ohmigosh, me too, that is sooo awesome, I totally get it now, that's wonderful", so I took it a step further and said I actually met all of you on a LOTR site, and she thought it was marvelous. Made me very happy, and so you're all I talked about for most of the dinner, and she was totally into it. I may have a new BD recruit in the making.

I totally ♥ you guys.

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Me today at the grocery store... "So it's apparently really hard to get Jello and meat in Denmark."

"What?"

"Jello. And meat. Denmark."

"Okay, dear."

I just realised. . . We never made Jello!

This makes me feel sad.

I am back home in my extremely cold house and will write my version of the events soon(ish).