*Foreshadowing alert!
** Not to worry; this isn't just another post of me whining my new town. Pinky swear.
Some fair maiden singleton friends, off in faraway lands themselves, began around this same time to test out internet dating. From my Hill Country perch, Princess LaMo here wholeheartedly encouraged the online dating. I am ashamed to admit that an equal part of me covertly, and not a little smugly, thanked God that I had met the Anonymous Husband the old-fashioned way.***
*** In a bar. I know, I know. Karma will have its way with me. Keep reading.
Enter Stage Left, Murphy & her bemused Law, one year and one blog later: As I hurried along last night in the Prettymobile, trying to catch the book reading of the OG of Personal Bloggers, hoping to meet a should-be-famous blogger there, it dawned on me. This being just one week after meeting up with this group of hilarious lady bloggers. And a good eight months or so after starting the Pretty blog here and e-meeting nice people such as yourself, a comfort while I otherwise struggled to find my way around this new city. Yes, I was speeding to meet someone I'd only "met" online, to hear someone speak who I'd admired from afar online, who I'd learned about from my other invisible friends online.
And so it came upon a frantic drive clear . . . I have become an online friend-er. A platonic, accidental left turn from eHarmonyville, but an online one nonetheless. Thanks, Universe! I get it! Irony!
Murphy = 1, Pretty = 0. And, with sincere apologies to my tremendous friends, singleton or otherwise, I am OK with that.
10 Comments:
So freaking hilariously true!
I won't even begin to tell you how thrilled and flattered I was to meet you last night - because I don't want to sound desperate! :) Seriously though, people meet on-line all the time and end up married, why not friendships - especially when we bare our true selves like we do on our blogs? I mean, I trusted meeting you last night more than I would have a supposed "match" on a dating website. Even my husband wasn't worried (although he does refer to Dooce as the blog that has a dog balancing crap on his head - he doesn't getting blogging 100% yet).
I think we can learn a lot about each other in this medium and I honestly consider myself quite lucky that it may lead to friendships in a city that, as of late, has made me feel somewhat isolated.
So let's raise a glass soon to the legal market rebounding so that I can get an office job and not sound so whiny! Can't wait to do it again.
(And serious, I so should not be famous).
Oh, and I forgot to tell you that there was a pretty pink book at the store entitled "Pretty Things" that I wanted to show you but I opened it and is was a history of burlesque! I should have known - it was right next to a book on Syrian Lingerie. No, seriously.
I look so forward to talking, emailing, texting, and tweeting my blog friends almost more than my real life friends. I'm so thankful for the girls that I've become so close with. It's so great!
i totally know what you mean. i haven't met a "cyber blogging" friend yet, but south carolina is pretty small and i am sure either at some carolina event or shopping in charleston i will run into one of them. must be a surreal moment!
many of my blogging friends are much more interesting than my real friends. I'd speed anywhere to meet any of them.
I've been a lurker for some time on several blogs and am just starting to comment on my favorites. I definitely know what you mean about online lives and friendships taking on such importance.
I love my blog friends. The lines between blong friends and real life friends are very blurred...especially since I have met some girls in real life.
Nothing wrong with it :)
The only time I am ever reminded anymore that this is a non-traditional way of meeting people is when I am talking about an internet friend and someone asks "how you do you know her?"
I love that I can keep in contact with people via internet. Sometimes there is just not enough time in a day to do the things I want to or speak to those who I want to, and the internet can be done while working... multi-tasking!! xxooo
well seeing is how i met you through blog land I love it! i had no idea when i started blogging that i would meet real life friends...plus i love saying "we met online" and seeing people's reactions...bwahahaha
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