(14:44:00) A.J.: hey
(14:44:22) m-c: hey
(14:44:28) m-c: how is it going
(14:44:30) A.J.: what’s new?
(14:44:38) A.J.: well, not a lot
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(14:56:55) A.J.: anyway
(14:57:02) A.J.: on the blogger side of things, there was some sad news
(14:57:11) m-c: what?
(14:57:46) A.J.: someone who had come to a couple of YULBlog meetings died in a car accident on vacation, she was friends with a few of them
(15:00:33) m-c: ah, yeah, i have read that yesterday.. it is so strange, blogwise i mean.. what happens then? keeping online the blog of someone who passed away is kindof strange.. I didnt knew her, but its the first time i get to ask myself about what happens when a ‘virtual’ being passes away..
(15:00:48) A.J.: i was just thinking the same thing, what happens to your Friendster profile? she had one there too, a lot of friends, for a shy girl from Ottawa she knew a lot of cool people
(15:01:54) A.J.: I guess the rule is, put your passwords in your will
(15:02:15) m-c: i went out yesterday with a friend of mine, and like many others she didnt knew what a blog is… it always amaze me.. Its crazy how all this is still underground, and in the meantime, it is changing our culture in so many ways..
(15:02:49) A.J.: yeah, for those who do it it seems like everyone in the universe does too, but 99% of people can’t even use the internet properly
(15:03:07) m-c: soooo weird still..
(15:03:12) A.J.: yeah
(15:03:59) A.J.: Nika (aka Veronica) has mentioned maybe some sort of informal meeting to drink some jameson’s in her honour…she was quite friends with her, spoke to her just before she left.
(15:06:30) m-c: did u ever thought about the fact that one day, my actual blog, where i write about many things happening in my life, might be something my ‘petits enfants’ will be able to access in 20 years if properly archived? this is awesome..
(15:06:46) A.J.: and scary
(15:06:49) m-c: hehe
(15:06:54) m-c: i think its cool
(15:07:10) A.J.: that’s sort of the point of adulthood, you get to hit the reset button and start over
(15:07:26) m-c: u say it
(15:07:32) A.J.: depends on how cool you were as a kid. For some it would be like an embarrassing yearbook picture…*forever*
(15:07:36) m-c: how old are u?
(15:07:39) A.J.: 33
(15:08:19) m-c: yeah, i feel like i just got into adulthood, strange thing.. like if until 6 months ago i was still a teenager..
(15:08:42) A.J.: I still don’t feel grown up yet
(15:09:23) m-c: well, i feel like a teenager trying to be an adult..
(15:09:28) m-c: doing my best to..
(15:09:40) A.J.: I think that’s when you really become an adult, when you realize even presidents and prime ministers are basically still making it up as they go along 🙂
(15:10:02) A.J.: yeah, when do we get to be the cool kids in school ?
(15:11:50) m-c: in the last 3 weeks, i happened to fall on pictures of me as a kid, like age 7 and 12. I took the pictures out and hanged them around, realizing that in my head i am still this kid, well, hard to explain.. like if ‘this’ would be the real me..
(15:12:47) A.J.: when I feel the most ‘me,’ I feel the most like when I was around that age
(15:12:56) A.J.: I think that’s why people like travelling,
(15:13:06) A.J.: because being someplace new stimulates that part of the brain
(15:13:15) A.J.: because back then, everything *was* new
(15:13:36) A.J.: we had no neuroses, worries
(15:15:13) m-c: i think becoming adults, we loose the spontaneity all kids have, replacing it by hard thinking. This changes everything, in our everyday life, in the art we do too..
(15:15:30) A.J.: yeah, like we stop ourselves before we even start
(15:15:34) m-c: right
(15:17:07) m-c: like if there would be a non written rule for everyone to follow, about being serious, doing only things which have a meaning and can bring you a concrete result
(15:18:42) A.J.: yeah
(15:18:53) A.J.: must do work according to what is written in my day-timer
(15:19:06) A.J.: cannot deviate from plan to look at interesting art
(15:20:42) m-c: that is where traveling is coming back, the only way for many people to escape an agenda, to get into adventure, the so scary unknown of not planned events.. That is maybe why we have so many workaholic people around there, maybe they just try to escape the smallest possibility of having something not planned!
(15:21:37) A.J.: i look at it from a kind of buddhist perspective
(15:21:48) A.J.: they are the kind of people that do not know how to "do nothing"
(15:21:56) A.J.: they always need music or the tv on
(15:22:07) m-c: i think im gonna get this conversation in text format and call it ‘changing the world on a sunny monday afternoon on msn’.. heh
(15:22:08) A.J.: they can’t sit around quietly with their own thoughts
(15:22:23) A.J.: go ahead 🙂