Birthday Party - The Second Coming

[wiseheart]

As you all know by now, LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But some of us still had most of the comments in our inbox and decided to reconstruct the original party as well as we can, because we had great fun and the discussions were wonderful.

However, to avoid the same mishap occurring to us, we've decided to open up a second entry for further comments while working on rebuilding the original. We still have two days left, and we won't allow LJ to crash our party!

The original entry had 1328 comments, on 6 pages. The reconstructed party has now 500+ (all reposted within one day and a few new ones added), having reached Page 7 already.

Let's see what else can we come up with. New guests are welcome to share the fun. :)

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, you've reminded me of one of mine -- I hate pop music & used to refuse to dance at discos when I was a teenager (now I just don't go to them, but I'm less self-conscious also). One party my friends decided to nag me into dancing, and when that didn't work, they recruited a male friend of someone's boyfriend to ask me. Repeatedly. While his friends stood in audible range, laughing. It was sooo embarrassing -- at this point I'd hardly spoken to a boy who wasn't related to me or much younger than me (I went to a single-sex school and had no friends outside it).

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

How horrible!

My school organised dances with a boys's school. Hearing about these from older people (load music, dancing, dry ice, sneaking around trying to have more physical contact that the teachers approved of), I refused to go - I think I had to get a letter from my parents in the end to be allowed not to!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I should have just not gone, but I was a lot less confident in my opinions back then (I was about 15 or 16). I kept going to the things right through sixth form.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

It is hard to know what is best to do - I did badly at that during university, did too many things because other people wanted me to...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I did a bit better at university than in my teens, but it's not until my late 20s/early 30s that I really managed to evade peer pressure. (I don't think it's coincidental that it coincides with getting heavily engaged in internet fandom.) Not that it has no effect on me now, but I make a conscious effort to ignore it.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

*nods* Fandom was good for me as well - really made me better able to know who I was and to not be so dependent on rl acquaintances for social things....

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

It definitely makes meeting people with whom one has common interests and values easier.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Yes :)
and leads to parties like this and wonderful conversations :)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

We should keep up Soledad's party all year! Though I'd find it hard to get other things done!

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

*nods* It would be fun, but (like picowrimo) eats time :)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I could do with an extra 8 hours a day to actually get things done! However fast I type it's quicker to hold conversations face to face.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Typed conversations are easier - especially to be talking about more than more thing at a time ;)
I mostly need more energy and focus rather than time - I have quite a lot of time, but other factors are the issue ;)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Typed conversations do have a lot of merits. Indeed, it's really energy & focus I could do with a lot more of.