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It's Friday afternoon again. That means I'm supervising students doing coursework. Which means I can spod but only concentrate for three seconds at a time. Which means... memes!

I like the memory one. What's the first memory that comes to mind when you think of me? Tell me about it.

Date: 2004-04-23 07:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] erming.livejournal.com
Probably going for a walk in the country, staying at Sam's parents. Going cider hunting around the place.

I quite enjoyed the day though I walked my poor little feet off. Shame about the cows though.

Might not be the best of memories for you though.

Date: 2004-04-23 08:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
Yeah, I think I still have post-traumatic stress from the cows...

Date: 2004-04-23 07:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strange-powers.livejournal.com
It's probably hugging you goodbye at [livejournal.com profile] d_sameboy's party in Leighton Buzzard, after you got excited about the fake painting, or maybe you and [livejournal.com profile] verlaine duetting Fairytale of New York at the Karaoke Box.

fake painting

Date: 2004-04-23 08:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
I still think it features an adventurous use of blue in the armpit. No, really...

Date: 2004-04-23 07:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ceb.livejournal.com
Very brightly-coloured socks and big pointy awards.

Date: 2004-04-23 09:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
Nice image!

Date: 2004-04-23 07:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] philipstorry.livejournal.com
Mmmm. Breasts... *drools*

Ooops. Sorry. Just typed the first thing that came into mind. And it's nothing personal - breasts are just often the first thing to come into a man's mind. They're not really a memory, though, so not quite what you asked for. (I tend not to memorise women's breasts. They're not, in my experience, a very useful tool for establishing identity.)

Sorry. No memories really jump out at me. I have to actually think about it, which means that my mind (methodical and boring as it is) throws up my actual first memory involving you - that'd be meeting you for the first time in the Shakespeare's Head. That was a couple of years ago, I think. As memories go, it's hardly enthralling stuff to tell of. There will not, I fear, be large queues of people waiting for me to retell this particular memory, hanging on my every word.

Not interesting at all, really.

Unlike breasts...

(It's friday. Let me have my fun!)

Date: 2004-04-23 08:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] philipstorry.livejournal.com
Oh dear.

I just re-read that, and a short way into it my "internal voice" changed from mine to that of Jeff from Coupling (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/coupling/). That can't be a good thing... Especially as it worked quite well.

Date: 2004-04-23 08:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
By gum, you're right. Coupling will never be the same again.

(As the actress said to the bishop.)

Date: 2004-04-23 08:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] philipstorry.livejournal.com
It's a very strange afternoon here. I feel like I'm on a sugar rush, despite having had no sugar-laden substances at all today. (Just bread and ham, with low-sugar orange squash to drink.)

I am, therefore, about to eat chocolate. Just to see what happens.

Stand well back! I'm about to light the fuse!

Date: 2004-04-23 08:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] huskyteer.livejournal.com
Thanks for the Mammary?

I just had to say that.

Date: 2004-04-23 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] philipstorry.livejournal.com
I deserved that, I suppose. :-)

Date: 2004-04-23 08:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kiaransalyn.livejournal.com
The Portland Arms in Cambridge and thinking 'she's pretty.'

Date: 2004-04-23 08:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iresprite.livejournal.com
Visiting [livejournal.com profile] innanajones and [livejournal.com profile] gothwalk and meeting you. Hearing about your experience with RMS. Finding out you were a really cool linux chick. Minor crush. ;) And I believe we've determined you were the one who made the Leonard Cohen minidisc for me.

Yay!

Date: 2004-04-23 08:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
a really cool linux chick

Confession time: I have been swallowed up by Billware. Well, all I do on computers is write these days, and I need to send people Word docs. *blush*

Date: 2004-04-23 08:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] philipstorry.livejournal.com
OpenOffice.org! OpenOffice.org! :-)

Date: 2004-04-23 08:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
I know, but to tell the truth, I really can't be arsed.

How are the mighty fallen!

Date: 2004-04-23 08:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] philipstorry.livejournal.com
*grins* Fair enough.

Date: 2004-04-23 08:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] iresprite.livejournal.com
When I worked in Dublin, I was in charge of four NT machines. I now work on a machine running windows 98 because that's all the resources my company thinks I need to get my work done.

So I really can't point fingers at you. :) And hey, you find writing important. You can't lose too many points for that.

Date: 2004-04-23 08:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
Actually, to redeem myself a little, my new primary computer is a Mac with OSX. Hurrah for command prompts!

Date: 2004-04-23 08:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhodri.livejournal.com
"Panic on the streets of London..."

Date: 2004-04-23 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
Heh. That'd be the one where I didn't have the mike turned on. :)

Date: 2004-04-23 08:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] natural20.livejournal.com
Outside DCU one day when we were waiting for a Strange Things event that never happened. You were complaining about the college's attitude towards newsgroups...

Date: 2004-04-23 08:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
Oh yeah... because they didn't think rec.arts.sf.written was academic enough!

Date: 2004-04-23 08:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mooism.livejournal.com
Lots come flooding in all at once. All from last year, up until a year ago. I remember not quite being able to believe what was happening, and being anxious that maybe it wasn’t…

I’m not sure I should really go into great depth in public.

I still feel a bit guilty about your bag getting stolen.

Date: 2004-04-23 08:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
I still feel a bit guilty about your bag getting stolen.


Don't be - I managed to rewrite everything that was any good in the notebook I lost, and nothing else in it mattered a damn in the long term.

(I didn't manage to reconstruct my favourite thing in it, which was a story about a sociopathic girl and the messy murder of a cat called Sartre. But something very like it cropped up in my Nano.)

Plus I should have had more sense than to leave a bag outside my field of vision in a Wetherspoons...

Date: 2004-04-23 09:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mooism.livejournal.com
Sorry for distracting your eyes, then ;-p

Date: 2004-04-23 08:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alfaguru.livejournal.com
I remember, as if it were only a week or two ago, you friending me and me friending you back. Torrid times, but we were so much younger then.

Date: 2004-04-23 08:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
Phwor! *fans self*

(Should meet in real life at some stage...)

Date: 2004-04-23 09:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alfaguru.livejournal.com
Yers. Were you on my fiends* list when I issued my last invite? I suspect not. If you delve back a few entries you should locate it.

* Nothing I do is eveer an acsidnert.

Date: 2004-04-23 09:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mzdt.livejournal.com
I guess it would be idly following links from comments, and working out you were the person who had caused me to google 'that nice launderette' in order to locate a certain nameless pub...

ooh, and that [livejournal.com profile] kasku spotted you were on my friends list too...

Date: 2004-04-23 09:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skorpionuk.livejournal.com
Hmmm, good question. I probably first met you at a mono thing, and I probably thought, "Oooh, blue thing! Nice!", depending on state of inebriation. And, naturally, that you're very pretty. And, possibly, that you managed somehow to be even shorter than me!

Date: 2004-04-24 04:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
I think I actually met you first at Infest... but you're right about the blue thing, as I was wearing two bright blue fake-hair pigtails at the time :)

Date: 2004-04-23 10:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lostcarpark.livejournal.com
Hmmm... I remember at a pub in Abbey Street (now closed) at a meeting of the ISFA (now disbanded) noticing you surrounded by lots of people less shy than me and thinking, "she's cute."
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Date: 2004-04-24 04:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
It *was* life, too. :) And it's nice to be reminded of that.

Date: 2004-04-23 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hddod.livejournal.com
Hello!

Jammin'.

Date: 2004-04-23 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] casca-2u.livejournal.com
Not having met you in real life, the first memory is of your blue bottle fly icon, and your posting in the writerly community.

Would be great to catch up with you and [livejournal.com profile] verlaine at a pub one day :-)

Date: 2004-04-24 04:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluedevi.livejournal.com
Yes indeed. If you're ever on this side of the world, or we're on yours...

I have to nitpick, though, it's not a fly but a bee that I fiddled with in Photoshop so it would be blue. I like the idea of blue bees, for some reason.


Date: 2004-04-23 03:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kasku.livejournal.com
We haven't made any yet! But I always remember those photos from your journal of a walk in Highgate. I still have to find out exactly what that is. :-)

Lost somewhere in 2001

Date: 2004-04-24 12:42 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Well, since you insist...

Somewhere in 2001, the William Morris in Hammersmith, probably full of very drunk people in school uniform (it usually was in my memory).

Sitting talking away like we'd known each other years, while the reason for your being there sat doing the Times crossword.

Seems like a long time ago...

[apologies for anonymity, but I have no usable LJ account]

Hmm... been thinking about this one

Date: 2004-04-24 09:56 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] eldar.livejournal.com
I don't actually remember when I first met you, let alone where, or what I'd have thought. Some people do that, they just arrive in my life and I kind of wonder how it happened.

Date: 2004-05-10 05:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kyte.livejournal.com
Well there are lots of devish things that come to mind...

My first memory of you, I think, was your coming to the Tokyo Diner along with [livejournal.com profile] verlaine...

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