"Do You Remember Meeeeeeeeeeme"

[dr4b]

Hi, I answered in zqfmbg and megami's journals so in theory I have to post this here. And in turn if you answer, like every other ANSI Standard Meme, you post it in yours. Etc.

"Add a comment to this journal telling me what you remember about first meeting me (online most certainly counts; if you have a choice between online and in person, I'll request the most amusing :-) I'll respond to each comment with my memories of you."

Comments

[thatenglishguy.livejournal.com]

It was in IZ I think, I don't fully remember, Aqua1 might have been there.

Hmm.

[laurii.livejournal.com]

I believe it was at IZ's only free bemani night ever, by the Para Para machine. I think we talked for a little while, but I don't remember exactly what was said or anything.

Next memory I have of you is just putting two and two together. "Oh, that girl is DR4B on the BBS! Okay!"

[orangey.livejournal.com]

I think the first time we actually met was at am IM volleyball game. I believe you were playing on the court next to the kilties and i managed to hit you with a runaway volleyball. You made a comment about the first time we actually meet I tried to kill you, I laughed and probably turned red and I think Mikey formally introduced us.

I also remember at some point trying to convince you to play cymbals in kiltie and to come to drumline functions.

[jd7a.livejournal.com]

lessee...I certainly met you through blackpaladin, and probably pretty close to Mudge A211. Did you and Trev walk into the room that first night bk2w were watching movies together, and you were just really confused about him having a girl there? Yeah, I think that's it.

Geesh...that was a long time ago. 9 years?

[cheesethrower.livejournal.com]

"OMFG. Taki's the one with big boob's"

I think you know the rest ;)

That's easy!

[jayspec.livejournal.com]

If I didn't remember, it's included on your "interesting things about my Live Journal friends" webpage. But, of course, I do remember.

It was way back, in "Jason fails out of Carnegie Mellon: Part I: Depression and Radio." I was in my dorm, Doherty Hall, but it wasn't in my room. I forget whose room it was, though.

I was wearing my original issue illegal "Shpidah!" tee shirt, and you mentioned that you knew the person who designed it.

(Later, I would temporarily trade that beloved shirt to Penny Kantrowitz for a Billy Joel "River of Dreams" shirt. Unfortunately, we lost touch and the temporary became permanent, and I was left holding the sucky collateral. I mean, Billy Joel's nice and all, but that was "Shpidah!" I do foolish things when I like a girl.)

We didn't really get to know each other that well until "Jason fails out of Carnegie Mellon: Part II: Depression and Scotch 'n' Soda." I didn't remember you when we re-met, but you, with your photographic memory, remembered me.

And, speaking of photography, my default Live Journal picture, which also appears on the non-headshot side of my theatre résumé was photographed by you. Fortunately, I may need to abandon that picture soon. Not because it's bad, but because I've apparently lost so much weight that it no longer looks like me! Woot!

[brkdwn-palace.livejournal.com]

in person it would be when you were a freshman and i was one of those folks who had graduated but was still hanging around and playing games with the gaming club while i looked for a real job.

[wednesday]

I was visiting CMU, and I thought you were one of the reasons why shawn was Not Interested In Me Again, so I was all prepared to be intimidated by you. Then you had a really cool shirt and really cool hair and you weren't intimidating at all, so I stopped being scared. :)

[zannah.livejournal.com]

I think it was just at Iz, not too long after you'd moved here... We were waiting for DDR or PPP or something! I have a bad memory. *blush*

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Haven't met you in real life yet and I fear our paths lie far apart.

The way I met you online was by going through the dearly-loved, sadly-missed "Most similar interests to yours" list here on LJ. Out of the top 20 or 30, apart from people who were on my Friends list already, there were only about three or four interesting journals. Yours was one of them.

Er, that's it.

[dr4b]

Yup, it was. I was there with my normal DDR gang and you were there with Steve, and you wouldn't play DDR with me :(

[dr4b]

Yeah, I think the first time I really remember meeting you was with Mikey at a Sunday Movie, although I might be wrong. I definitely remember the volleyball thing though. Hmmm...

Re: Hmm.

[dr4b]

Yeah, so the first time I remember seeing you was actually at DM4 - we were both in Standard Tech, and you had a big cheering group and were really proud of full comboing AM-3P Standard.

But I'm not sure when I talked to you. I think you came to my first Bemani party and I barely knew who you were aside from "plays PPP".

[dr4b]

It'd be funnier if the first time I met you was at Sakuracon, of course... "DEANNA ARE YOU DRUNK ARE YOU DRUNK ARE YOU DRUNK?"

[dr4b]

Yup, that sounds about right. I definitely met you first with Brian in the infamous Mudge A-211, then we ended up pledging APhiO together, then you were my roomate for a semester... and yeah, wow, 9 years ago. Isn't that scary?

Re: That's easy!

[dr4b]

Yup, I totally remember meeting you up in Doherty during my bagger weekend. It was Doherty C-14: Sonia Chandra was my bagger host. I think you were there visiting one of her roomates, but I can't remember any of their names, of course.

I still have my shpi-dahh shirt of course :)

I even think the next time we met, at KGB two years later, one or both of us were wearing TMBG shirts, which is how I made the connection.

I'm glad you've lost so much weight! It'd be great to see you again someday :)

[dr4b]

Yeah! I think I even played INWO or some other Illuminati game with you, but I can't remember. I remember that I was introduced to you as something like "This is Fred... he used to be APhiO president... now he's a professional slacker" :)

[dr4b]

Oh no, you're kidding... I never knew about the Shawn half of it. Especially since he wasn't interested in me as far as I knew. I remember meeting you mostly as "Shawn's cool friend Wednesday who draws anime people", back when anime still meant Ranma 1/2 to me.

But the funny part is, you met me while I was still coming off of four months of virtual anorexia; I remember you describing me as "tall, skinny, long hair, wears long hippie skirts a lot" on that random "Do you know Deanna?" thread on the BOFH or Linux or whatever mailing list... and at the time I was not skinny at all, had short hair, and had given up on skirts. I hadn't heard anyone describe me as skinny in at least 4-5 years at that point :(

[dr4b]

Yeah... we met online because of Carolee's journal... then we met at IZ like a month after I moved here I think. I was playing some PPP and DDR, and you turned around on PPP like "Are you Deanna?" and I was like "uh... yeah!" and you were like "I'm Zannah!", and I was just not sure what at all to say because I am usually easily intimidated by pretty people, so I was really intimidated by you. But we did para, and I think Dylan from Team Metricks was there too, 'cause I seem to remember sitting next to the DDR machine with him and you and that weird guy Eric, and maybe your sister? Oh well.

[dr4b]

Oh, wow :)
We both write long detailed entries, and often I'm not sure what to reply to yours, but you've been one of the few complete strangers on LJ to add me as a friend that it totally made sense, like I could imagine us being really good friends if we didn't live half a world away from each other. So I am glad you did add me!

[donutjay.livejournal.com]

We met at the first KGB meeting of the Fall 1995 semester. It would have been late August. Josh introduced us. I think you might have had purple hair at the time. I don't remember much else, though.

[visionline.livejournal.com]

Our paths could have crossed while you were in Gov's school and I was in pre-college. But it didn't happen then. While waiting for the bus to go on the Clipper Ship Cruise during Orientation '94, it was. I shouted out "Red Dwarf" into the croud, and eventually found you, Ben Cordes, Ryani Ingram and others.

[wednesday]

I never knew about the Shawn half of it. Especially since he wasn't interested in me as far as I knew.

I couldn't be certain of that one way or the other now. What I know was that he talked about you enthusiastically and glowingly, and I put two and two together, because that's how it tended to go.

I remember that thread now -- it was on a bofh.* newsgroup of some sort. But. Y'know, every time I see a picture of you now, you still look skinny to me. Or, at least, "definitely not fat."

[ag5j.livejournal.com]

I met Dee in person sometime during my sophmore year of high school (91/92), although I can't remember the actual first time we met. I'd actually known her for a while before that from ddial. I'm actually curious if Dee remembers any more than I do...

[electroworld.livejournal.com]

I talked to you on IRC one day :D

That's really all I can say :P