I'm having a not-very-good day, so a distracting meme

[cupcake_goth]

Yes, I'm seeking distraction. Humor me.

"If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now, even if we don't speak often, please post a comment with a memory of you and me. It can be anything you want- good or bad. When you're finished, post this little paragraph on your blog and be surprised (or mortified) about what people remember about you."

(Mind you, I'm already wincing at the idea of what bad memories might be posted, but oh well.)

Comments

[alterjess.livejournal.com]

Standing in the ley-lines in your backyard last Halloween.

(And since I forgot to post in your "what did I miss?" entry, I have new tattoo (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alterjess/58250262/).)

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's a fabulous tattoo!

[djeternaldarkne.livejournal.com]

really talking to you for the first time at C9.

[butterflake.livejournal.com]

I remember the first time I met you at Staxxy's birthday party at her apartment in 2002, also the first time I met her. We were standing in a circle of people in the middle of the room telling stories and I remember you saying that your husband was at home painting.

The second time I saw you was at the Merc for the DIE anniversary that next January when I walked up to you an Alexia and said "Hi," then stood there awkwardly with nothing to say until I quickly took my leave.

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

Toledo and AndCon. And if you have had even a *passing* thought about that in the past 10 years, I will be mightily surprised. ;)

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

::blinks::

Oh. Oh dear. Well, I asked for distraction, didn't I? ;-)

(I'm pretty sure I still have the CD by those boys. I'll have to check when I get home.)

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

I was over at your house to buy something from you, and you were walking around your kitchen hatless. With your hair down. I had to work hard not to look too shocked; it was the moral equivalent of seeing another woman in her underwear.

[la-perkins.livejournal.com]

Watching you feeding your pet crows.

[chicating.livejournal.com]

Meeting you at LAF2f and having the dogs sniff Clovis.

[debg.livejournal.com]

Two memories:

1. In Mill Valley, the children asking about your clothes, and the two sensibly clad women on the bench, and one of them leaning over to the children and nodding at your dress and saying to the children, with a kind of simple reverence her voice, "Isn't it beautiful?"

2. A visual: you standing in your kitchen the morning of the Great Blizzard, with the Christmas tree full of bats and the world outside invisible under snow. And you were wearing your Harry Potter robe.

[caliban1227.livejournal.com]

"Shawn, the Fish says you would look good in Mascara."

"THE FISH LIES!!!"

[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

I hope this makes you smile for just a second. We (me, you, and DJUH) were at the Best Little Rabbit, Rodent and Ferret House. (I think we had fled the house on account of a Fragfest.) You were down on the floor with skirts spread all about watching the bunnies with their whiffly little noses! And for the rest of the evening, you kept looking at us and whispering, "wheeeeeeffly little nooooooses!"

[oldhalloween.livejournal.com]

I've played this one before with you so instead...tell me something I don't know about you? Something funny or so un-goth is hurts, the happiest memory, or a wish. :0 )

Hmmm, funny and possibly un-goth? Okay.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

My favoritest pajamas ever, the ones that I own two pairs of, are pale blue and have stylized pink bunny heads on them. I occasionally search eBay for more of them.

[angldst.livejournal.com]

I met you briefly at the Vogue last year. You were wearing a bright red corset, and you.looked.fabulous! You were on your way out, I was on my way in, I wish we'd have had more time to sit down and have a real conversation. :)

*hugs*

-d

[caliban1227.livejournal.com]

Ok, mine wasn't really you and me, but I was a witness.

How about the time we were at the Merc and a guy in crow makeup walked in.

you said "If only I had a wetnap."

I handed you a wetnap.

You stared at it for a moment then said "Must only use my powers for Good."

[theflittermouse.livejournal.com]

That was my boyfriend!
Okay, it got back to him that evening, through Douglas that Miss Jilli wanted to wet-nap him. He was MORTIFIED. Needless to say, he does not do crow make-up any longer.
We had nic-named him "fun with eyeliner" from "Gother Than Thou".

[princekermit.livejournal.com]

Walking Greenlake with you and Jeff and offering to run interference on the guy trying to take your picture.

[blueslide.livejournal.com]

Meeting min and you too late at Lila's after the Mission of Burma show. Neumo's had a double-header that night, with a booty-licious R & B extravaganza scheduled promptly at 10 after MOB, yet the mighty MOB somehow managed to play until after 10:30 and by the time I made it to Lila's you two had been bearing a rather long slow spot in the set list, a seemingly endless spate of "undanceable synthpop", and were ready to leave. I feared the Lady of the Manners was highly offended.

[caliban1227.livejournal.com]

I just seem to keep going with this.

The time when we worked at WotC and you were talking to "The Boy" from New Orleans. I took the phone away and said "This is her brother, she is not coming down unless I get a letter of references."

[arian1.livejournal.com]

I have no memories of you yet, other than when Kij told me you were the inspiration for the Gilly in Dork Tower :) Maybe sometime when I visit Seattle to see her I can put a person to the legend :)

Ahhh, the horror of the mundane!

[robespierrette.livejournal.com]

I remember Ellie and I trying to help you find "standard business attire" for some damn trade-show. We were shopping somewhere like Ross, and they had nothing that worked. I mean, really! You, in a big, boxy suit jacket?

Boy, was that a long time ago!

[lyndi.livejournal.com]

You, me, and several others in late March standing all glorified gothy'd out in a Graveyard. And purple ink. =)

[tortoiseshell.livejournal.com]

I met you first time pool side at the LA F2F while you cooled your toes. Of course I am not so fond of meeting people for the first time when I am in a bathing suit!

I was delighted that you were every bit as charming as your posts. It was a special bonus that your speaking voice was equally charming and now I can hear it when I read your words.

[trudybooth.livejournal.com]

When I met you in LA. I was surprised at how delicate and pretty you are. And if I saw you now I still would not poke your nose again -- but know it would be a conscious effort to fight the urge.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

Thinking of you always makes me happy.

[moonfiregirl.livejournal.com]

I dont know you really at all but everytime I see you I am impressed with your poise, grace, and sense of style.

[amaliedageek.livejournal.com]

Watching the series finale of Angel with you at minim_calibre's house, and handing you an Irish linen handkerchief when we started crying. (Also, coveting your eyeglasses.)

[trystbat.livejournal.com]

Meeting you for the first time a zillion years ago at BayCon when you were working the booth for WotC (w/the nice boy who made my fave drink later that nite). You were stunningly, completely, perfectly the embodiment of Perky Goth then & again every time I've seen you since. You astound & humble me.