I’m Hearing: The bleating of sheep

I’m going absolutely nutz sitting here today…I can’t concentrate on a thing. Mainly been talking to peeps on IRC since I got here, which has been nice because everyone seems to be in a fairly good mood. Got to talk to Jules for a bit, which was wonderful, and am now talking to Ross…boy I’ve missed you guys!

One thing we’ve been chatting about is meeting online friends in real life. I said to Ross it would be really cool if he and Julesenrosey took a trip to the US sometime for like 2 weeks so we could meet and hang out and whatnot. Then I really started thinking about how surreal that would be…I mean, being that Australia is virutally on the other side of the world, it’s like it’s so far away it is another world. All of you seem larger than life to me…you’re so real but yet you exist in my mind as photographs since I’ve never actually interacted with you. I see your lives as a series of still images when that couldn’t be farther from the truth. But to actually meet you and have a real life conversation with you with spoken words and eye contact and such…that would be such a huge deal for me that I can’t even begin to describe it. I guess some people might not see meeting an online friend as such a groundbreaking event, but when I finally do meet my Aussie friends, it’ll be a very important day in my life.

I’m not sure how I’d react at first…I’d probably be frozen in disbelief, like I can’t believe they’re actually here, in the same room with me. I’m probably going to experience something of the sort when I meet jetfuel when he comes back home. I mean, yes, technically, I have met him before, but I had no clue who he was then…he was just the guy who sold Jonathan his iMac. It’s going to be quite different this next time since I know him a lot better now.

Hmm. Well, I am going to buy some white paint and groceries, then going home.