I have a lot of new friend-ofs. Which is good, no worries...

[conuly]

But it seems like I got nine new friend-ofs in the past three days, six of them in one day, so I'd like to know who you all are. I'm pretty sure I don't know you all, and introductions may be in order. Heck, people who've been my friend-of longer can also tell me why.

Sample questions you may want to answer

1. Who are you? If I don't know you, how did you find me?
2. Why did you add me?
3. Had you read my journal for a while before adding me? If so, why'd you bite the bullet and add me?
4. What's one thing interesting about you that I might like to know? Or several boring things, whatever.

Comments

[queer-recruit.livejournal.com]

1. I am Gayle, a 27-year-old in Sacramento who owns this website (http://www.queerbychoice.com), and more details can be found in my journal, or just ask me. I found you while searching for people who list both agnosticism and feminism as interests.

2. I looked through your interests list and journal entries for further signs of your political persuasion. They were full of positive signs. You are a member of about a million left-wing political communities, and of quite a few communities about books, history, and academia (I <3 people who bother to read), and of several childfree communities (one less obstacle to conversion!)

3. Yes, I read your most recent entries. Oh look, anyone who can count being added by __republicans__ as a (sort of) positive addition to the friend-of count despite clearly not agreeing with their politics in the least is unlikely to object to being added by me either!

4. I just got interviewed this week by a writer for the New York Times magazine who's working on an article about my website. It's not the first time I've been interviewed, but it's the biggest media outlet that's interviewed me, and in the 24 hours leading up to the interview I was very, very, very stricken with stage fright.

Re:

[conuly]

Y'know, just to be perfectly upfront and honest here, while I already believe the vast majority of humanity is at least somewhat bi, I think it'd be more useful to try converting them all to being ambidextrious, or even autistic. I'm not very much attracted to either gender, I've had a grand total of about three or four of those in my life, and a few more famous people of either gender whom I thought were "omg soooo hott!!!111one", so any and all efforts will most likely be wasted on me.

As for the silly Republican whatshisname, he'd been adding a lot of people, apparently just to piss them off (or so I assume judging by their rants in some of my comms...) I take it philosophically... another person to add onto my count! I'm nearly at 80.

And as for childfree comms (not the infamous one), I love kids. Seriously. Love my niece, love my nephew, they're the greatest. But I can't even take care of myself, there's no way I ever intend to try to take care of somebody else.

*hugs* Stagefright goes away. Trust me. You'll get over it about three days after the article prints.