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Welcome to Holidailies, where certain members of the journal community make a pledge to update our journals on a daily basis as a special Christmas gift to you, our loyal readers. I'm very tired today. I hit the 'point-of-no-return' in the novel I was reading and stayed up to 11 last night finishing it off. Little stuck for content ideas then, so let's dip into the Thursday Three and see what they have for us. 1. Who is your best friend and why? Aw, this'll be shmoopy. It's Lisa. It has to be Lisa. Why? Because she's not just my lover, she's my companion. Seriously, we do nearly everything together. We hang out, go places, do things, all together. We try to understand and accommodate each other's divergent interests, of which there aren't too many. We tell each other everything. We're both incorrigible gossips, so in an effort to keep some confidences, we have a pledge only to gossip to each other, which satisfies our urges. Anyone who asks me, 'Can you keep a secret', I always say, 'Yes, except that I will tell Lisa'. If I feel like going somewhere, I wonder if she'll want to go with me. If she doesn't, half the time I lose interest in going myself. 2. Who is your best online friend and why? I am horrible at being a pen pal. I've had over a dozen pen pals since junior high school, and none of them lasted longer than a year (most much less). Email isn't any better for me. For online communication, I'm mostly stuck with email. Messenger programs don't work behind my firewall at work, and if I turn on the computer at home, it's to get some work done or play some games, so I rarely turn them on at all. The only person I've kept a continual email friendship with is Jax. Jax lives in the deep south of the United States, and I've never actually met her. We met through one of my online email games, and have been chatting behind the scenes ever since. Email friendships are weird. We've spoken on the phone once, when she was going through a rough patch, and it was strange reconciling her real voice to her online one. It's the writing that keeps us talking I think. We both tend to write reams of non-publishable crap every day, avoiding both real work and stuff that will make us millions on the market. I've learned lots about her family (her deaf kids, her long-haul trucker husband) and her mine. She's the one I gossip to about Lisa. 3. Are they both very different or alike? Somewhat similar. They're both high maintenance gals (and both will smuck me when they read this) in that they very much want to know precise details and get lots and lots of input on everything. They also both demand that I keep my head on straight and are overflowing with sympathy when things go badly. They both have an evil sense of humor, and take endless pleasure ribbing and teasing me. They both have enormously creative minds and enjoy exploring where it takes them. For differences, it's harder to say. Email is a projective medium, where as much as the writer attempts to put their meaning into the text, the reader views it through a haze of their own perceptions. Someone writes you a critical email; if you're happy with them, you'll view it positively. If you happened to dislike them, it comes off as derogatory. In the same vein are emails. I've only ever read what Jax has written, and it's awful hard to determine how much is perception and how much is preconception. One day we'll meet and see each other for real. I expect that we've shared enough that we'll be friends in person too, but it's impossible to say for absolute certain. Lisa, on the other hand, is right here, where I can see her face, feel her heartbeat, share her life. I know what she's thinking and feeling. That takes it the next step beyond simple friendship. In Ancient Times...
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