Intersections

[alanajoli]

I love it when bits of my life intersect.

I remember when I was first on facebook, I connected with Jim Coppoc, a friend of mine I'd known through high school friends, who is now a poet and professor. A college friend of mine immediately sent me a message, wondering how in the world I knew Jim! She'd met him in a completely different context.

The same thing happened a couple of years ago when I realized that spyscribe, who I knew from college, shared a mutual group of gaming friends who lived in Connecticut. The story of how that happened is only slightly convoluted, but the result has been spyscribe's having more reasons to come out to Connecticut than just my family, so delightfully, we've gotten to see her a few times we wouldn't have otherwise.

It's especially fun when these moments happen while I'm working. As part of my bread and butter work, I write essays for Something about the Author (without bylines, so I'm probably not allowed to say about whom I'm writing). A couple of times, including this last batch, the person I'm writing about is also someone I know through livejournal. It's awesome to be able to say to my editor, "So, if you can't get in touch with this writer, I can send them an lj note!"

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In correlating news (speaking of connecting people, or in this case, people to items), a few new items are up at the kickstart_tu auction, including out of print books by janni and a new critique -- this one a line-edit offer (which I have to say are actually my favorite types of critiques). Less than a week left to put in any donations or bids!

Comments

[holmes-iv.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one totally blew my mind, too. :-)