Well. I've been back for a while and keeping quite busy. New semester is about to kick off...I've been spending this week playing Orientation Guide to the new crop of incoming students...the nontraditionals like myself who are coming here, not from High School, but from a meandering road of work and adventure and occasional failure to get a degree at a well-respected institution of higher learning (tm).
Started doing Muay Thai workouts with a former Marine, fellow student. He has some size on me. First workout he busted my nose pretty good. My fault more than his...forgot to look AWAY from the pads.
I'm not going to be around much longer on the site. I'll miss it to a certain degree...though I realize most of the time that I'm really missing what it was more than what it is. Not that I don't absolutely adore many of the amazing people I've met on here...whether ever in real life or not....but it feels like the site is going far afield of what it was. At first I thought "maybe I'm just not the demographic anymore". It wouldn't be unusual.
But then...I'm not ALL that different from what I was 11...almost 12 years ago now.
I saw the site when first came online...directed here by another site that had tried to be a goth/erotica site...the oubliette I think it was called....run by Caitlin R Kiernan and Poppy Z Brite...anyway... and I think either it has changed more than I have, or it has become what it always meant to be.
It feels like the community aspect is being pushed aside...like the site needs me a lot less than I used to need it....as an outlet and a forum...a meeting ground...a haven.
I'll be around for a little while...maybe see how this all pans out. I don't know yet.
But it's been mostly a blast.... from pen pals while I was serving overseas to the insanity of SG Prom '05...to the fast friends and Current Event flame wars...watching good people go through their adventures and tribulations and being able to be a part of it.
Most of my friends on here have other ways to reach me. If you don't, feel free to message me and I'll point you towards my online presence out in the webernets.
Best of Luck to you all.....and may Cthulu have mercy on your souls.
just kidding...
...Cthulu wouldn't even consider not snacking on your immortal self.
as I said in a post over a decade ago:
love and slack and squalor and hope and joy and pain and all that
Volkov
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darksphere:
Similar feelings with the site. I feel I moved on a year or two ago. Seem to come back every once in a while to see if it's changed. Would be good to stay in touch. You're one of the more interesting members I've talked to, be it sparsely.
voltaire:
It's deff or the same anymore. It's lost the community aspect completely in my opinion. It's sad, because that was such a major selling point for them.