Luck and longevity

[shadesong]

Conversation at the party....

Me: "I've known gwynraven for wow... a big chunk of our lives."
photognome: "Does she beat me?"
Me: "I've known you eight years, right? Gwyn, what is it for us, seven years?"
gwynraven: "I've been on Tamson House for eight years."
Me: "And I've been there for nine, so yeah, I've known both of you for about eight years, wow."

And yendi for nine, of course.

That's great. :) I love it that I have such wonderful people in my life, have for so long, will have forever. I'm not the type of person who develops roots in physical places. These are a different sort of roots...

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

You know, it's funny that you were thinking about this recently, because I just last week did a post on how few old old friends I have right now, and then my Friend told me about this "8-year-cycle" thingy. I never bothered to research it, but it sounds reasonable enough.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Eeeenteresting.

Tamson House is a friend-group that's existed for eight-nine years, max, simply because the mailing list was created nine years ago. A bunch of people from it have fallen off, but a lot of us still hang together... we'll see how that goes...

My adolescence was too fragmentary to have cohesive friend-groups. I was shuttled to too many different places. I have friends from when I was four here on LJ, from middle school, from my senior year, from Vegas, but none of 'em update...

pyramid schemes

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

I have friends from when I was four here on LJ, from middle school, from my senior year, from Vegas, but none of 'em update...

Wow, can I relate. I try to pester my high school and college friends into posting, but it never seems to work. :)

My friends basically go in phases: there's my high school (era) friends, of whom I only still speak with one, my college friends, of whom I speak with four to five, my friends from Usenet, of whom I still have nine or ten really close ones, and then my friends from the last, say, five years, of whom I have a ton. It's like a pyramid of friends!

mmm.. virtual roots.

[gev.livejournal.com]

I dig virtual roots.
but I'm also fairly rooted in Austin.
it'd take a LOT to get me to leave Austin for very long.

Re: mmm.. virtual roots.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I have no roots in Atlanta.

I have itchy feet...

[beldar.livejournal.com]

I tend not to keep friends for very long. Not something I do on purpose. It just happens. (This topic might be a column someday.)

Speaking of which, shouldn't you have had a 2HC column in today? I was all set to pimp it in my LJ...

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Indeed, it's hard to believe it's been so long since I was a starry-eyed up and coming senior in highschool trying this whole "mailing list" concept for the first time :)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

...and Elayna was a toddler...

[gwynraven.livejournal.com]

Yep. I remember a few toddler-Elayna stories :)