I was RSVPing to an evite, and noticed that I could click on another attendee’s name and see our Shared Events — events to which we were both invited. I hadn’t previously realized that the Shared Events are historical; the ones that have already happened aren’t deleted.
I found myself looking an invitation from 2001, remembering that party, being quietly stunned at the passage of time.
Y’all — have you had similar moments, when you can’t believe it’s been (x) long since (y) happened, and how different things are (or not) since then? Tell me.
coppervale
May 9, 2006 at 3:04 amAbsolutely – we’ve been in the new Coppervale Studio for THREE YEARS now… but every time someone asks us how long it’s been (we’ve been restoring it all the while – it’s a century-old church) I have to think about it, and am ALWAYS surprised it’s been more than a year.
Feels like we’ve been here forever.
Feels like we just moved in.
quirkybird
May 9, 2006 at 3:26 amI graduated from college a year ago.
I feels like a lot longer. This has been one hell of a year.
moriath
May 9, 2006 at 4:10 amIt’s been three years since I graduated high school…which means I only have a year(ish) until I’m done with college. *That* freaks me out.
quirkybird
May 9, 2006 at 4:13 amNote that I used one of my most pretentious icons for the above pronouncement. The money wasn’t wasted!!
thinkofaname
May 9, 2006 at 4:15 amYeah, definitely.. this year Day of Silence came and went and I couldn’t believe, on that day, that it had been a year since the last one.. really, I can’t believe it’s been a year since everything that happened a year ago, heh. I look back and remember it happening so vividly as though it were last month or something, but really.. it was so long ago!
nevikmoore
May 9, 2006 at 4:48 amI live this experience nearly every day of my life. Here’s one that you and I and a few other LJers share: it’s been nearly four years since we all hung out in Manzanita. How do I know? I have been working on the same Sheldon story ever since. Baldwin started working on Little Dee at the same time. I thought of all this a couple weeks ago when his first collection of Little Dee strips came in the mail. As Cathy Guisewhite would say: ack.
Also, a friend of mine turned 37 recently. I remember when she turned 27. And when a certain librarian in England we know turns 38, you’ll hear a giant wooshing sound as the last vestiges of my youth get sucked into the black hole of time. But that’s not for a while yet. :-)
nevikmoore
May 9, 2006 at 4:49 amYeah, that’s right. I quoted Cathy Guisewhite. What of it?
capn_jil
May 9, 2006 at 5:54 amI’m graduating college. WHAT THE FUCK, PEOPLE.
it’s like two seconds ago I was a damn bum.
slayground
May 9, 2006 at 11:00 amAlways.
anonymous
May 10, 2006 at 12:05 pmHi there!
My name is Christina and I’m from Toronto Ontario canada.
anyways I really enjoyed readin empress of the world.
I think it’s an amazingly well written novel that touched my heart in many ways.
I was talking with a few of my close friends yesterdsay and we were thinking it would be FANTASTIC, if you could make it into a movie. I really think that would be incredible. Seeing such an amazing book come to life with real characters. Oh and if you decide to make it into a movie and you know when the auditions are going to be? be sure to contact me haha:P I’m an actress:)
I also read at the back of the book that you are starting a sequal, just wondering if that’s true and if so when it will be comming out.
You can reach me at roxie_xo_babe@hotmail.com
please feel free to contact me with this information.
thanks!
Christina
anonymous
May 10, 2006 at 12:10 pmok, i think it is way cool that you can pre order The Rules for Hearts, but i’m so lost… i read somewhere, but i can’t remember where that the release date was going to be Oct. 19, 2006, but then amazon said it is coming out April 5, 2007, so could you clear that up… please… thanx
Shannon
(you can e-mail me… anja_loves_tabby@hotmail.com … thanx)
halfalive
May 11, 2006 at 1:36 amit’s been almost 5 years since i last saw my best friend. we still talk online and whatever, but i don’t know, i just hadn’t realized it’d been quite that long.
ms_anthropy
May 11, 2006 at 3:01 am– I reccomend children to really give you the time bends. And after only six years I already find myself wishing I could go back and do bits of it over again, because I’m better at it and way more comfortable with it now. Not to mention the fact that I’m sometimes afraid I blinked and missed some stuff.
– I’ve been married -how- long?
– In a few weeks it’ll be OUR 15th “anniversary,” dearheart. ‘Nuff said.
shandralyn
May 12, 2006 at 6:14 amWhat Nevik and Ms_anthropy said – having kids makes you live that nearly every day. Still, sometimes one forgets… and then you have your tenth anniversary, or your daughter is nearly done with her first year of middle school, or you find an ex-girlfriend (who stayed a friend, but with whom you had lost touch) from 1991 on your new-fangled MySpace account. ;)
Hope you don’t mind if I “friend” you!
thisisnotanlj
May 12, 2006 at 6:31 amhey shannon — the 2007 date is correct, it got rescheduled. publishing’s like that sometimes.
thisisnotanlj
May 12, 2006 at 6:32 amfriend away!
anonymous
May 12, 2006 at 9:47 am:( I want it to come out sooner, not later. *pout*
Sophie
anonymous
May 19, 2006 at 6:12 pmthanx for that… AHHH that’s to long, i so have to get Empress back from my gf so i can read it a billion more times…
– Shannon