Heart-warming... and belly-filling.
Dec. 2nd, 2004 10:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eregyrnYou know what's really cool? When you take the plunge and throw off your natural hermit-like instincts, and meet for dinner someone you've only meet online... and it turns out they're the kind of nerd who's cool and witty and fun to hang out with. The kind of nerd with whom you can have discussions about fandom *and also* discussions about a wide range of other things, because they're the kind of nerd who has one foot in fandom because they love it, and the other foot in the real world. That is TOO COOL.
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tafkarfanfic and I went to Dali's for dinner last night (Spanish tapas place devoted to the surrealist master, therefore, delightfully decorated in a way that ought to remind you of Barcelona), where we had a great time being all adventurous, trying things that sounded neat even if we weren't sure about them (verdict: "prunes with goat cheese and bacon" sounds iffy, because of the word "prunes", and yet, when they come and they are wrapped up in the bacon as if they were scallops, and stuffed with the goat cheese, they are simply yummy). And she was off the hook regarding the baby eels, as they weren't on the menu (drat).
In the course of the evening we discovered that we have a mutual friend whomraqs and sazabhadri and I went to college with. It was yet another of those, "you never meet any new people, you only meet people who know the people you know" moments. I mean, what are the odds? Even though fandom is a fairly small world and all.
What's not cool, of course, is when you meet a new cool fabulous person, ONE MONTH BEFORE SHE'S MOVING TO CALIFORNIA. Yeah, we have stupid timing.
tafkarfanfic and I went to Dali's for dinner last night (Spanish tapas place devoted to the surrealist master, therefore, delightfully decorated in a way that ought to remind you of Barcelona), where we had a great time being all adventurous, trying things that sounded neat even if we weren't sure about them (verdict: "prunes with goat cheese and bacon" sounds iffy, because of the word "prunes", and yet, when they come and they are wrapped up in the bacon as if they were scallops, and stuffed with the goat cheese, they are simply yummy). And she was off the hook regarding the baby eels, as they weren't on the menu (drat). In the course of the evening we discovered that we have a mutual friend whom
raqs and sazabhadri and I went to college with. It was yet another of those, "you never meet any new people, you only meet people who know the people you know" moments. I mean, what are the odds? Even though fandom is a fairly small world and all.What's not cool, of course, is when you meet a new cool fabulous person, ONE MONTH BEFORE SHE'S MOVING TO CALIFORNIA. Yeah, we have stupid timing.
