Friends via that internet thing.

So, on Saturday, I like, totally met someone from the internet.

I should clarify, the internet isn't actually a place, it's more a communication device where a whole heap of computers are linked up together, so when I say 'met someone from the internet' I mean that I met someone I had never met before.

Anywho, a few weeks ago I actually put a Ad on a website called Brisbane Exchange that basically said "hi, will you be my friend? I'm pretty fun and have a girlfriend and travel heaps but sometimes am bored in Brisbane". Then I sat by my computer and waiting for the avalanche of responses.

And sat.

And heard cichadas.

And saw some tumbleweeds.

And then I forgot.

So when I got an e-mail thing going 'you've got mail' it took me ages to figure out what was going on. Luckily, being awesomely supersmart I managed to get a clue. It was a girl that lived in Brisbane but had just come out of a four year relationship and didn't really know many people outside of that circle. I can understand that. So we kinda e-mailed back and forth for a bit seeing if we had any common interests and so forth. It took a couple of weeks to come up with a time that would suit us both, but we got there. Her e-mails the whole way through were funny, sometimes totally random, but very entertaining and towards the end they were almost too funny, like she was putting in too much effort... my stalkersense was tingling. Back in the days when I was a much lovelier person I got stalked by a totaly of four girls in as many years, like showing up at my house, e-mailing my friends, calling all hours sort of stalked, so my sense for these things is fairly finely tuned.

So anyway, I was still up for it and would just use my special stalker defuse sentences if required.

I got there first because it would be safer for a young lady to decide whether or not to approach a young man than vise versa, if she got nervous she could just keep walking.

I've never done anything like this before and I picked up straight away which one was her, she looked lost confused and made more eye contact than most. I wasn't sure if I'd be unco or nervous but I went straight into gentlemanly host mode and it was all good.

We were pretty comfortable straight away, I'm a good talker and she's a good talker and it was all good, she's really nice. Probably not as massively exciting as maybe I was hoping, but still very pleasant, very sensible and we do have a fair bit in common. Pretty much I think anyone can be friends with anyone as long as both parties totally want to be friends.

I think she'll be a good person to have hot chocolate with and see movies with and stuff. I'm a bit excited to have a friend. Now, all I need is someone who wants to go to gigs with, I'm looking into volunteering for Brisbane Community radio station 4ZZZ to entertain myself and meet peeps.

Meeting people over the internet was so out of my comfort zone, I usually decide if I like someone based purely on spark, and the internet doesn't really show spark as much, but it worked out well, she's someone I would have got along quite well with in any other social setting. Whooo!