Who are the people I'm acquainted with?

[jazzfish]

Memity goodness from loatiloat via fuzzyamy. As she says, look for your name if I’ve met you in person, and correct me if I'm wrong. I attempted to make this in chronological order.

My life evidently begins freshman year of high school; everyone before that has been wiped away in the face of the mighty sandstorm that is Jefferson. At any rate, that's when I first encountered theatrespace, in Troupe as one of my castmates in our Othello scene. A couple years later I started meeting the Troupies I still keep in touch with. The overly cute pictsy was probably the first, followed by antikate and Mo and Kim and such (hurrah for Tempest!). That was when I started hanging out with Guard/Band types as well, so I imagine that was around when I met beracjade and absolutliz.

gkjfdh is about the only person from my days in Boy Sprouts I've kept up with at all. (I kept in very loose contact with Andy McCoy and Jeff Firestone for a few years, but that's it.)

I know for a fact that the first time I spent any amount of time with evercontraire was RenFaire my senior year ('94), followed a few weeks later by trick-or-treating (yay!) based out of her parents' place. That was qtrnca's first year at Jefferson as well, so clearly I met her then despite not remembering how. Troupe, no doubt. There was a lot of that going on. I remember enjoying ferrying her about, although in retrospect I don't think I really did all that much of it.

I started talking to nathanw and skreidle that year, too (though skreidle has the honor of being the first of many on this list that I can't remember really how I met). That year or the year before scathach started appearing, too, for no readily apparent reason.

I visited Tech for the first time in late winter '95, and met cblack for the first time then. So she gets points for being the person in B-burg I've known the longest. Encountered vileone for what I'm pretty sure was the first time at August Eve '95, and established him as one of those people I'd like to spend more time talking to about Stuff, whatever Stuff might happen to be.

Once I actually got to college the people started popping up faster. More or less in order: platypusgirl (later roommate), athelred, wyrdone; and kittykatya probably at a VTSFFC meeting. I'm assuming I met other VTSFFCers such as jlfranklin, lekythen, markush, rubinpdf, and yubbie at around the same time, since I did a bit with VTSFFC at that point; they all feel like "people I've known about for ages," though.

On the other hand, I distinctly remember first really talking to vond on the bus back to campus from Technicon '96, although he'd been introduced around at lunch a week or so earlier.

I'm almost certain shadowsong was at Jefferson one afternoon when I came back that fall, and that's how I met her. I have vague memories of being possibly helpful with emotional difficulties. Or maybe just being there to listen. Some days it's hard to tell the difference.

Fall '96 saw uilos's arrival at Tech. Coincidentally that was also the time of narquelion's first visit as well, though I'm not positive I met her then. (Though I distinctly remember her presence at vond's favorite VTSFFC Halloween party.)

Starting in 1997 and running through about 2000 there's breaks in my memory. I can say "I lived here, then there, and I worked here and here," and I can deduce that THIS must have happened THEN because that's how it fits with external evidence, but I've lost a lot of what was going on then, mostly due to not keeping a journal. So there's a lot of speculation now. To begin with, either 1997 or '98 bitbug was dating my housemate Kym, so that's when he entered my life. And I'm absolutely certain that I was living in Six with Kym when I first met sir_alf (viz. move-out fiasco), so he gets filed in here too. (Did you know me before I was dating uilos? I really can't remember.)

ndkid's first year here was 1998, yesno? Whenever, I met him the autumn he got here, though I didn't spend much time with him 'til . . . hm. Certainly not 'til Spiel started up in fall 1999 spring 2000. I suspect '98 was kittenchan's first year as well, but that I really don't recall. [Nope, it was fall '97. Oops. -ed] I didn't really get to know her until she was dating vond, which started up. . . lesee. . . 1999? Hurrah for my ability to associate untterly random things with real dates.

We'll call it Xmas '98 that I went to a party at shadowsong's urging and met fuzzyamy (maybe, or maybe I only saw her at school), idoru (whom, as I recall, I spent much of the evening giving a backrub to. Or maybe that was someone else), jude, and klayzen. (On the other hand, jude was definitely dating Nick at that point, so maybe it was later? I dunno.)

Definitely summer '99 that I met faekitty; uilos and I came down to Atlanta for a friend's wedding and caught Phantom Menace with her and her boy, sir_alf. I think I've seen her all of once since then, but it's been good to keep up with her nonetheless. I probably met chaosnymph that same summer, at Origins. . . although I'm not certain. I know she was there in '99, though.

uilos and I moved into the Hellhole at the end of that summer; that fall I picked up desfido and a few other freshmen (of whom only he remains, now that Dennis has a job in Raleigh). Also met mrstickman for the first time at a Game Day that fall. Next spring the four of us went up to JohnCon in Baltimore, where we had much fun (despite the lingering odor of coffee in uilos's car) and met mnemex and Brian Joughin, both of whom I keep seeing at Origins.

Speaking of Origins, I'm pretty sure that it was O2K where I first made the acquaintance of those wacky California rabbits misuba and zyxwvut, along with elphie, whom I mentally lump in with them even though it's evidently been years since she's been in wacky California. That was also the year that the_radix, lyricon, and Erskin showed up and did Rabbity things, at the very first Big Experiment. It may have been when I figured out who fuzzface00 was, too, though I know I'd heard the name several times by then. [Clear memories of him making Button Men from the program book and discussing the inability to use On The Edge art for the two he'd created. Either '99 or '00. --ed]

Doubtless I'd known them before then, but I didn't really spend much time around cxi162 and laughin until we shared a wall, starting fall 2000. Since that was the first Student Showcase that Spiel was in existence for, it was clearly that year that I met zerblinitzky as well, on his way to the (nonexistent?) LUG table.

It's at about this point that things start coming back together. Technicon 2001 kirigoemimarin showed up at the Spiel room; and jedibfa was a coworker at Syncad, so obviously I met him in late May 2001. (Although we keep wondering if we were in an elementary school class together.) And I'm fairly certain that I technically met subbes at BaltiCon in 2001, but I only really remember her starting at Origins that summer. And I probably saw speedlime at Wunderland.earth before that Origins, too.

I met mikailborg at some Technicon, I imagine. I honestly have no idea. And I probably first met vt_komainu at Spiel but I don't even know what year that would have been. On the other hand, I doubtless saw nixve at a Spiel meeting in late 2001, but the first time I remember seeing her was in Roanoke in mid-December 2001, on opening day for Fellowship.

2002 was the Boston warren's first appearance in force at Origins. cthulhia, prog, queue, and ts52 (along with Denis, Karl, Diane, and others I'm probably forgetting) came and had rabbit-ears and were generally quite cool. (Hope to see y'all again next summer.)

That fall at Spiel we got, along with a couple misc LJless freshmen, vt_andros and rbeyma, both of whom have been at least semiregulars since. And the next spring jedibfa started dating a Theatre grad student who eventually got her own LJ as lizthefair. sirleebutler made this Origins interesting, and a few days ago I went to see Paycheck with nixve, Nick, and squirrelmadness. Which brings us up to the present.

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[jazzfish]

Oh. Oops. Must've just hallucinated you, then.