People, existing in real life! O_O NOT JUST THE INTERNET!

[guingel]

So, my current guilty pleasure is watching Gift, the 1997 KimuTaku drama. Actually, it's not quite a guilty pleasure but it's more entertaining if I think of it that way. I. . . just got 12 minutes into an episode before I realized I'd started watching with part 2 of the file and had missed the entire first 24 minutes. But, you know, KimuTaku was wearing a beautifully tailored suit and had loads of shiny, shiny, beautiful hair and pouty lips so I was cool. XD Actually I'm genuinely fond of his character, even if all the others are kind of awful. Usually there's one interesting guest character per episode, too. And I'm finding myself strangely invested in the overarching storyline. D:

Also, this is me pretending not to have a big crush on Kawai :| . . . but actually on the inside when I look at pictures of him I'm all :D :D :D :D. I mean, he is bug-ugly, but just SO AWESOME. I-I totally have a crush on him.

On Tuesday evening. . . I MET ayamachi IN REAL LIFE. O_O And neither of us turned out to be a crazy axe murderer or anything. I mean, I was pretty sure about me, but you never know. Anyway, it was loads of fun and also really strange and cool to meet her in person after talking with her so much online. Katie came with me, which I think makes us really overwhelming. I talk really fast and we keep up a kind of constant incomprehensible patter. On the other hand, this means that no one else need feel any pressure to contribute to the conversation! . . . Anyway, ayamachi said we were funny. >.> Next time I'll be more chill! :D And we won't try to navigate midtown manhattan during rush hour. You can come visit me now, since Kelly can be assured that you're a real person! (Note how I just switched from third to second person. I don't know what my intended audience is. I'm sleepy and I'm writing this in little bits across a long period of time.)

So yeah, it was interesting and surreal to see what someone is like in person, how they talk and act and move and interact with me, after seeing them online all the time. I think both ayamachi and I were pretty much how we expected (at least, she told me I was just like what I expected) because neither of us have been trying to deceive each other or seem cool (clearly we are not trying to seem cool XD) or anything like that. The whole day I was like "!!!!" cos I didn't really know what to expect and stuff. :D

I have other stuff to say but I am incapable of thinking about it right now. I'm going to go back to reading about CRIME. But for work this time, not to freak myself out.

Comments

[kegom.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha, I absolutely love your header here. XDD Yes, these people DO exist outside of the internet!

I can understand how you feel, though. When I met an internet-friend in RL for the first time, I was SO nervous. I'd talked to her before, on the phone. (She'd called me one evening, after we'd exchanged phone numbers, and I was totally floored, because I hadn't dared to call her, but she did!)
But the first time I saw her, she came to my house to spend a few days with me, and she drove five hours, and when she was at my door, I was absolutely giddy with excitement. ^-^ (And now she's one of my best friends in RL, too. Funny how that works out.)


I think if you were to meet me for the first time, you'd be rather dismayed at how poor my spoken English is. ;P And I'd be stumbling over my words worse than usual, because I'd be so excited I couldn't think right. ^^"

[guingel.livejournal.com]

This had me thinking back to the first time I met internet friends, cloudtrader and inkwraith, who I'd known on LJ for a couple years, but I hadn't seen any pictures of them and Katie and I flew to San Diego to go to Comic Con with them and share a hotel room! It was crazy. They were so sweet but it was extra crazy cos I had no idea what to expect at all.

Hehe, I don't know if I'd have the guts to call someone that I met online. I'm not a good phone conversation person. IMing is really different - sometimes I think about that, what it would be like to chat out loud with the people I'm type-chatting with. I did telephone roommate!Corey as soon as I got her number - they gave us each other's email addresses so i sent her this whole "here's what I'm like" email, and she responded and gave me her number and I called her IMMEDIATELY. XD She was all "whoa!" And when I'm nervous, like I said in the entry, I talk fast. XD

Aww, I think if we met you'd also be dismayed at my English ability. XD If you have an accent I should slow down my rate of speech naturally, though - at least, I did in England. You should still visit me in New York. :D

[kegom.livejournal.com]

I know that I couldn't call someone I'd met online! I'm a total chicken when it comes to that, and I really hate talking on the phone! ^^"

It's something else when it's someone I know I'm going to have a lot to do with, like your roommate... but otherwise? Nah, too scared! ^^"

I talk fast too, when I'm nervous - and I also stumble over my words and make a mess of what I'm meaning to say... and that in both of my languages! XD


Yeah, I have a strong accent (which I hate, but well, nothing to be done about that), and I often stumble over my words, because apparently (at least according to my father) I want to use really long and complicated sentence structures, and then I get confused. ^^" (Which I think might come from definitely writing more English than speaking it. It always takes me about a day to get into the language properly again, and then it's better.)

And it would probably be good if you were to slow down... I have no idea what your accent is like, a lot of times I can understand Americans, but especially the southern accents confuse me horribly! ^^"

And yes, one day I might take you up on that offer! XD

[ayamachi.livejournal.com]

I WAS SUPER HAPPY YOU DIDN'T KILL ME.

>>Anyway, ayamachi said we were funny. >.>
What's with the >.> face?! You don't trust me? D:

So since we both know we're real now, we have to do more things. :D

[guingel.livejournal.com]

I TOTALLY AM WHO I PORTRAY MYSELF TO BE, YES? I'm not even one of those internet people who acts like she's all cool and popular and then in real life never leaves the house. I like I think I am somewhere between both, in internet life and real life. :D

It was like. . . self-deprecating >.> face. I can't just call myself funny like that! That was an "ayamachi said we were funny and I was glad that she said so but maybe she was just being nice and I still am worried that we overdosed her on katie-laura-ness" face. That didn't come across?

Yes we totally do! I'm basically free in the evenings, so. . . whatever your schedule looks like. . . I can't eat out for dinner that often, but I'm trying to work out something where I bring real food leftovers to work and have them for lunch, but make a sandwich and have it for dinner so i can do stuff in the city in the evening. It's still in the planning stages. In the meantime, do you wanna come over sometime?

[ayamachi.livejournal.com]

I'm free in the evenings except for Mondays. :3

>>In the meantime, do you wanna come over sometime?
Yesss. :D

>>I can't just call myself funny like that!
YES YOU CAN! Cause you are.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

I'm totally chatting to you right now, too.

In case you didn't notice.

Just thought I'd mention it.

[ohmiya-sg.livejournal.com]

:O I'm watching Gift too, and I love Kawai despite his looks. I need to read your journal more.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

:D I will try to post interesting things? Or at least post at all!

I'm up to episode 8 in Gift but I've stalled again - I go in and out of "drama-watching" moods. Sometimes I really want to bury myself in a drama but more often I just want variety shows.