Welcome!

[gurdymonkey]

A shout out to my LJ friends to give a warm welcome to the lovely and talented vittoriosa.
Some of you already know her, some of you may remember her from my "anachronism" post a couple of months back.

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Crazy footwear

[vittoriosa.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Jehanne! It's rather amusing to see that my chopines have already debuted on LJ. :-)

On a totally unrelated note: Any chance you and your hurdygurdy are going to be at A&S early on Saturday? My 9am class is going to include a brief period-instruments demo...we've got the usual suspects (recorder, percussion), and some more exotic items (vielle, bladder pipe, and a shawm that will make me the enemy of anyone trying to sleep in). Would love to include the 'gurdy as well, if it's convenient for you -- if not, no worries.

Re: Crazy footwear

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

http://gurdymonkey.livejournal.com/177706.html mentions my plans for A&S, and you guys are definitely invited to lunch with us if you like.

If the sight of me in 16th century Japanese clothing playing a 13th century Spanish hurdy gurdy will not make anyone's head go splodey, I can pack it along.

Re: Crazy footwear

[vittoriosa.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :-) Thanks so much for the lunch invite, but V's ceremony is happening during the lunch break, so I think we will be a little, er, preoccupied. And I will be attempting not to fall and break my neck in chopines that are TWELVE INCHES HIGH. whee!

Re: Crazy footwear

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

On grass, no less. You are braver than I.

Re: Crazy footwear

[vittoriosa.livejournal.com]

Or stupider. Well, beauty is pain, right? ;-)

Re: Crazy footwear

[bovil.livejournal.com]

Peeked at your journal...

This ain't Facebook or Myspace. It's part of the reason I like it.

"Friends" isn't a good descriptor, but there isn't really any good descriptor. The "Friends" list is for two things. One is "Who do I want to read?" The other is "Who do I want to let read my restricted posts?"

If you're only going to post public-level posts, you only have to worry about the first one. If you're going to post friends-only posts, then you've got to think about whether or not the two things overlap (which is why there isn't a good single descriptor, sometimes they don't), or learn how to use friends-filters to further restrict access.

I'm with you. My "friends" list is mostly folks I know in real life (or whatever approaches real life). There are a few authors and artists whom I've friended, but I've only picked up maybe a half dozen folks through purely online interactions, and most of them have direct connections to folks I know in real life.