Just talked to A on the phone - he is 25% of our holiday quartet, and Vice President Planning and Logistics.
I was telling him about last night and he described me as sounding languid and louche, and consequently correctly guessed that I was still in bed. But then it was 10am on a Sunday morning.
A is undoubtedly one of the most-wired of my regular friends. But I realised last week when F called me counter-cultural - which I hardly think is true. How can you live practically in West Hampstead and listen to Destiny's Child and like nail varnish and be counter-cultural? - that I kinda straddle a lot of different worlds. Jewish stuff. Comedy stuff. Writing stuff. Music stuff, sometimes. Creativity in general. Business/marketing/events.Geek stuff. Tech stuff. Local stuff. Art deco stuff. Must stop staying stuff.
So one of the worlds I inhabit, albeit on the fringe, is the online world. And when I kept saying to A that I'd "met" people and "talked" to them, he was - justifiably - confused. In the end, I said to him, "just work on the basis that from now till I say 'it's real life again' all the uses of the word met relate to people I met online." Like putting it between comment tags. Seemed to work.
I think there needs to be a new world for met-online. There probably already is, just I don't know it. Yet.
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