an eternity, or so it feels.

[katster]

Session Start: Sun Jan 26 03:02:45 1997

...it's an IRC timestamp on a log, in Atlantic Standard Time. It was in something Zibby tossed me last summer for my own edification, but, short of going and digging for the actual log which may or may not be timestamped...

...this is as close as I'm going to get to determining the date that I first showed up on the previous incarnation of my current IRC channel. This is as close as I'm going to get to knowing when I started hanging out with one of the most fascinating groups of people I've ever known.

So, hi gang, and to some special people within that like Zibby and Ari and Mal and Cal and Damo, and Blue and Pupp and Aris and Ship and Will and keeb and MD and Fire, and a whole other host of people whom I'd never remember everybody even if I was to sit here and try.

Here's to five years.

Now I'll adjourn to have a quiet and subdued celebration somewhere as only half of the two people I'd most want to celebrate with are there.

Comments

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

Here's to five more, kat. I'm thankful you're still here after so long.

-pat

[phenyx.livejournal.com]

"fascinating"?

I think "dysfunctional" is the word you're looking for.
I personally think it's amazing there's anything left.

Then again, I have a special level of amazement reserved for the fact that the human species still exists despite its own best efforts and the combined forces of all of nature trying to kill it off. Maybe there's something to be said for people being resilient.

Five years, huh? Wow. Sure doesn't feel like five years... Feels like three, maybe, or four, and at the same time feels like an eternity ago. 's like we've always been here.

<kosh>We have always been here.</kosh>

[primis.livejournal.com]

Five years is a long time, especially with essentially the same group.

I was thinking about this the other day when someone asked me how long I'd been on IRC and I responded (not really pondering it) something along the lines of "a couple years". Didn't hit me until later that I was still in high school when I first started, and that was definitely quite a bit more than "a couple years" ago. That still boggles me to try and wrap my mind around it (and I'm not even going to *try* and go back to BBSing days that preceded that)...

But mostly I've found people come and go. None of the original channels I frequented are alive anymore. I'm only in contact with one person still out of the original dozens I knew and spoke with on a regular basis, and not even regularly with her, anymore. I've been through three completely different nets, an uncountable number of channels, and sometimes if I go back and look through the BoIRC it's depressing to realize just how many people have come and gone and how many channels have risen and fallen.

To still essentially have the same group is worth toasting and celebrating, for sure. That doesn't happen much anymore, at least not as has been my experience...


-- Primis.