Small Calamities

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These are the Times
November 2, 2006 | permalink

I met Jess last night. Like, in person. It was a good time- beer and wine were drunk, conversation was had, and tipsiness ensued. It was great to meet her- I've been reading blind cavefish for a couple of years pretty regularly, and I am a big fan, as goofy as that sounds. In fact, Jess' site is the very first one that I began reading on a regular basis, back when I started the first incarnation of this site.

You might find this hard to believe, Gentle Readers, but I'm not the most socially adept person you'll ever meet, and I don't meet a lot of new people; the new people I do meet are people who are working for me. Which isn't awful- They're great, and in truth nearly all of the people that I love best in this world are people that I have met on gigs. People like Turtalia and Waiscoatman and Smacktalk, people that I count as family. But this isn't a thing that most of us do forever; the flexible schedule and the good pay make it a temporary situation for most people, something to do until they achieve some other goal, and they move on. So the average age of my crews keeps dropping, and I find we have less and less in common. So hanging out with Jess, with whom I had things in common with and who was also not in the business, was awesome.