a few minutes of two obviously-shy people being shy
Oh yeah! I remember that part :-)
I felt I already knew you, because of LJ.
Right. The process of getting to know someone on LJ is so different from in person! I can browse a person's journal for a long time before taking any kind of risk ... heck, there isn't much risk to take. In person, if you invite someone to "do lunch" and in the first ten minutes you find they're deeply abrasive, you're stuck for at least the lunch and maybe a couple of rebuffed return invites.
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Oh yeah! I remember that part :-)
I felt I already knew you, because of LJ.
Right. The process of getting to know someone on LJ is so different from in person! I can browse a person's journal for a long time before taking any kind of risk ... heck, there isn't much risk to take. In person, if you invite someone to "do lunch" and in the first ten minutes you find they're deeply abrasive, you're stuck for at least the lunch and maybe a couple of rebuffed return invites.