Imaginary Internet Friends
Oct. 26th, 2008 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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hfnuala at lunchtime but we didn't say when that was so I booked cinema tickets thinking "after 1pm" and that was the end of lunchtime so we had to cancel and then the train wasn't at the originally planned time so we uncancelled. That is, I got a call while I was about to help Linnea try on some garments in H&M and threw her at Rob, grabbed Emer, and sprinted for a meeting point.
We did manage a pleasant coffee (thank you for the coffee!) and Rob and Linnea arrived later and my children ran riot all over the cafe in the usual weekend frenzy. So that was nice.
It's always a bit odd, meeting imaginary internet friends in real life. Obviously they areall real people but it's... odd. It almost always involves phonecalls to make arrangements, too, and I don't like phonecalls to people I don't often speak to on the phone (yes, I know).
Anyway, it was lovely, and I really do need to sort out getting everyone up to a youth hostal in Scotland next year. Must call the YHA and use my railcard discount.
hfnuala at lunchtime but we didn't say when that was so I booked cinema tickets thinking "after 1pm" and that was the end of lunchtime so we had to cancel and then the train wasn't at the originally planned time so we uncancelled. That is, I got a call while I was about to help Linnea try on some garments in H&M and threw her at Rob, grabbed Emer, and sprinted for a meeting point.We did manage a pleasant coffee (thank you for the coffee!) and Rob and Linnea arrived later and my children ran riot all over the cafe in the usual weekend frenzy. So that was nice.
It's always a bit odd, meeting imaginary internet friends in real life. Obviously they areall real people but it's... odd. It almost always involves phonecalls to make arrangements, too, and I don't like phonecalls to people I don't often speak to on the phone (yes, I know).
Anyway, it was lovely, and I really do need to sort out getting everyone up to a youth hostal in Scotland next year. Must call the YHA and use my railcard discount.