I don’t really know many bloggers in person. A few people in my family blog, but most of my friends don’t blog. I don’t even know if they read blogs or know what blogs are, for that matter. (I’m not saying that their lives are any poorer for not being into the whole blogging thing. Just stating a fact.)
Thinking about it, there are a few people whose lives I’d love to read about:
M. Yes, M. You must be wondering why I want to read about my husband when I live with him and know him (in the biblical sense) right? Well, M has an interesting outlook on the world and I just think it would make good reading if he expressed it in writing. Also, given that we live in the age of email, M and I have written woefully few notes and/or love letters to each other, and I’d love to read more of his writing. (I don’t count the millions of emails we’ve written to each other, although maybe I should*. I do wish there was a way of displaying a person’s handwriting on the computer screen, though. Fonts are so impersonal. You can’t see that my current ink of choice in my Lamy 2000 is Waterman Florida Blue, or that my ys and gs and js are doing funny flourishes at the moment…)
My Mum. Again because I think she has a unique view of the world and I’ve love to read what she has to say.
Our Dutch relative Wubbotje, because I don’t really know much about him or his family and life in the Netherlands… Only thing is I think I would have to learn Dutch as he doesn’t write English. Babelfish works, but having to run each post through the translator would get really tiring, really fast. And of course machine translation is never perfect.
SG. She’s married to M’s friend P, and has a very busy life looking after their son and the books for their business. Hmm, I doubt she’d have the time to navel gaze as I do, though…
Could you tell that I was having warm fuzzy feelings about other bloggers this morning? I love meeting people through their blogs!
*Should I? Do they count if they say profound things like this:
From: CW
Sent: Friday, 3 February 2006 2:43 PM
To: M
Subject: I’m bored!.. And I want to talk to somebody**! And I want to go home!
Boo hoo hoo!
[to be read in a strident, sulky, arms-folded-across-chest voice.]
Hope your day is going well (mine is too. It’s just Fridayitis I think).
I suspect not.
** I was the sole staff member looking after one of our branch libraries at the time…
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I’ve met and know some good people through this whole caper.
FuschiaReads- older sister
FlopEaredMule- younger sister
ForBattle is a bunch of us, talking amongst ourselves (mostly) about stuff we talk about down the pub but with pictures. Through that i have met in person Zoe (CrazyBrave) from Canberra and Kate (Moment to Moment) from Perth. Been to the Sydney Bloggers meet up a few times for pub triva and chats.
And now you through nerding..its all good fun.
Same here Cozalcoatl 🙂 i like this whole ‘nerding’ business. I haven’t actually met any bloggers in person yet (not counting family members). I’ll have to get over my shyness when the time comes for a blogger’s meet, I think!