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alexandraerinToday's my dentist appointment, when (hopefully) the offending tooth will be dealt with decisively. I'm more than a little apprehensive about this, as I've never had an adult tooth extracted before. So yesterday, full of nervous energy and not much of any other kind (I had to keep lying down for intervals of anywhere between 5 and 20 minutes... couldn't sleep, but felt rather wobbly) I ended up hanging out on Formspring for several hours to keep my mind occupied as the hours ticked by.
It proved to be a fun experience, sufficiently distracting and not too draining. The questions covered everything from MU to D&D to my relationship with Jack... though there was a lot of odd feinting and dancing about before anybody asked anything solid about that. I had the feeling that a lot of the questioners follow my Twitter but don't read my Livejournal. They seemed to think my references to a boyfriend were me being coy and tried to guess at his identity, with results that were kind of hilarious to me personally.
Jack seems to feel I was being evasive, but I was doing my best to answer the questions I was asked. People were just being weirdly shy in a way. Like someone asked if he had a formspring account of his own, and after we put his account up for people to ask him questions, there was kind of a lull before anybody did. It felt like I got asked permission to ask personal questions a couple of different ways and nobody quite wanted to believe it.
Anyway, it was a good, positive experience and I think I'm going to make it a weekly thing, albeit probably restricted to a few hours instead of half the day. It seems like a good way of fulfilling my goal of connecting more with people and interacting more with my audience, without having to set up a public IM account or something.
This doesn't mean that people can't ask questions at other times, of course. But there was a fun public interaction feeling in having people asking them at the same time, with some answers clearly inspiring other questions.
Note: The Formspring website is a little bit glitchy right now. In particular, the "more" button doesn't seem to be working on individual pages. If you follow someone they'll show up in your home page feed, where the "more" button works just fine... but the following also seems to be working inconsistently. So you may or may not be able to see the fruits of last night's discussion any time soon.
It proved to be a fun experience, sufficiently distracting and not too draining. The questions covered everything from MU to D&D to my relationship with Jack... though there was a lot of odd feinting and dancing about before anybody asked anything solid about that. I had the feeling that a lot of the questioners follow my Twitter but don't read my Livejournal. They seemed to think my references to a boyfriend were me being coy and tried to guess at his identity, with results that were kind of hilarious to me personally.
Jack seems to feel I was being evasive, but I was doing my best to answer the questions I was asked. People were just being weirdly shy in a way. Like someone asked if he had a formspring account of his own, and after we put his account up for people to ask him questions, there was kind of a lull before anybody did. It felt like I got asked permission to ask personal questions a couple of different ways and nobody quite wanted to believe it.
Anyway, it was a good, positive experience and I think I'm going to make it a weekly thing, albeit probably restricted to a few hours instead of half the day. It seems like a good way of fulfilling my goal of connecting more with people and interacting more with my audience, without having to set up a public IM account or something.
This doesn't mean that people can't ask questions at other times, of course. But there was a fun public interaction feeling in having people asking them at the same time, with some answers clearly inspiring other questions.
Note: The Formspring website is a little bit glitchy right now. In particular, the "more" button doesn't seem to be working on individual pages. If you follow someone they'll show up in your home page feed, where the "more" button works just fine... but the following also seems to be working inconsistently. So you may or may not be able to see the fruits of last night's discussion any time soon.
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on 2010-03-27 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-03-27 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-03-27 02:13 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2010-03-27 11:47 pm (UTC)While true, this has to be taken with a gain of salt. I'm far too used to seeing right through you.
But yeah, it was tons of fun.
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on 2010-03-28 12:05 am (UTC)