And this on my 12th LJ-iversary, too

[cosmolinguist]

Paul Magrs, the writer of many of my favorite Doctor Who stories, asked me how I was doing as Andrew went to the counter to order our coffees. "Oh, all right," I lied.

And then this nice-seeming man I'd just met, who I wished would like me because I already liked him based on the evidence of his writing, said some of the most bone-chilling words in the English language: "You've got a LiveJournal, don't you?"

A fine start! Any hope I had of impressing him obviously had to die right there. But I was mystified: Andrew never mentions my writing because he's much more cautious than me about sharing his private life (such as it is!) on the internet, and obviously I talk about him all the time here. So how did he know? Andrew and Paul Magrs are friendly acquaintances at best, and hadn't really spent much time together. I had to introduce myself at POD because Andrew hadn't thought to mention he'd be bringing me along.

I'm left to conclude that I just...look like someone who has a LiveJournal. Heh.

Comments

[matgb]

Or maybe, because you've mentioned him by name on here before, his name is unusual enough that it's easy for him to Google and your journal is indexed, he found it by googling his name? Just, y'know, a thought ;-)

[andrewhickey.info]

I think she's linked back to his blog from here actually, so he's probably seen the linkbacks.

[cosmolinguist]

I did link to his blog when I reviewed Never the Bride, but a) that was a long time ago and b) how would he connect that to the person he just met at POD for being your wife?

[calissa]

Did you say yes?

[cosmolinguist]

I did, I couldn't resist. I said I'd just realized then it was 12 years that I'd had the thing, so we got talking about how different a place the internet was, twelve years ago. He was a really thoughtful and interesting guy to talk to, and even when Andrew came back to the table, still made a point of including me in his conversation even though I don't know nearly enough about Doctor Who to keep up with those two. :)

[calissa]

He sounds like a very lovely man. It is good to make new friends.

[andrewducker]

We are all Marked.