fungible social status revisited

Wow, looking a my previous entry a few days later I'm not sure what sort of point I was tying to make!

This started as a reply to a post from ms_tek. So a lot of it is responding to the issues she is going through. But it has so much of my feelings I thought I would recycle it to here. But the representation is not the best.

shadowriderhope shines some light on one of my 'problems'. I know lots of freaks. But many of them are not as convenient as I would like. It would definitely be a blast to jaunt up to Ann Arbor to hang with her and her community for a few days. The three hour drive up to there is not that bad, but not quite what I would term convenient. 

So is it that I'm getting lazier as I get older? (That is a scary thought, I am pretty sure I have that trait maxed already...)

Part of this particular equation is that we know ShadowRiderHope as a blog friend. This is a very interesting new class of acquaintance. One used to have types of friends along the lines of: Close, School, Family, Work, & Childhood. This new classification is different in that you might have some very personal information about this person already with no personal interaction. You also might a years of information about their life without actually being a part of that life.

None of this is something that I would term 'bad', it is just new. I have little data on what is socially acceptable behavior in these sorts of situations. I am shy enough regarding social interaction, not having a rule book exasperates my discomfort quite effectively.

And this invite from ShadowRiderHope is not unique. We have issued similar invites and have some other standing ones as well. There are some invites that I would like to make but fear they would come across too creepy to the invitees.

And while some of this trepidation can be attributed to my shyness and laziness, some of it can be accredited to changes in my priorities. The ROI calculations for the amount of time and energy that I expend to the amount of fun I get have definitely changed over they last 5 years. And even my definition of fun has moved around some as well.

Wow, this entry in spiraling into emo sophistry. So I will stop for now.

ShadowRiderHope, thanks for the very enticing invite.

PinkEvil & awibs thank you for views as well.

And 'monkeybutter' we shall see if we can foment some freak soon!