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Birthday
• 1985-07-23
Gender
• Male
Location
• Chichester, England
Member Since
• 2003-08-04
Occupation
• Ex-OtakuBoards Team Miyazaki Leader, Actor, Writer, Director, Stage Combatant...
Real Name
• N/A

Personal

Achievements
• Becoming a Moderator on OtakuBoards, starting up my own production company with my best friend Dan.
Anime Fan Since
• I liked the Mysterious Cities of Gold before I did Pokemon, but Pokemon was the first Japanese Anime I really liked.
Favorite Anime
• Digimon, Wolf's Rain, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Outlaw Star, RahXephon, Zoids, Princess Mononoke, Trigun, Howl's Moving Castle, Bleach, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, One Piece, Fruits Basket
Goals
• To write my series of stories, and to act in cool stuff.
Hobbies
• Writing, acting, anime, GameCube, Wii, swordfighting
Talents
• Stage combat, writing, acting, being vaguely humourous, and listening.

myOtaku.com: Solo Tremaine

Sunday, August 22, 2004

Gears, Wheels and The Spaces Inbetween

Lawrence is round tonight... again. Except this time it wasn't really intentional. I'm not trying to sound ungrateful, but... there are things I'd rather be doing.

Anyway, we also had another of my friends round, who I got to know because he's the husband of mum's friend. He's very cool, likes anime and knows a heck of a lot about our computers. he's the one who's bee trying to sort out the network for us, but as it turns out we'll just have to go for a cabled network because the wireless is being interfered with so badly it's not funny. But either way as long as I have Broadband in the library I don't care that much.

But since Lawrence and Mike don't know each other, I have to spend time with them separately. And both things that they were doing interested me, so I could be spending long periods of time with both whilst leaving the other on their own. It's awkward, and I don't like isolating people.

*whistles idly*
It's almost on exactly the same level as being isolated, although what's worse is when you're in the same room as two other people and you feel like you're on your own. Yes, it's couples time. There've been times when two friends of mine (going out with each other) have been having a private conversation or trying to excavate each other's throats with their tongues and I've just been sat there, forcing myself to wonder about where the furniture was made so that when they ask me if I'm alright I can answer truthfully.

Well, half-truthfully. If I said "Well, I was looking at your table but I was really thinking about how stupid I feel sitting on my own like a nonce while trying not to watch you two search each other's bodily passages", it might not go down too well.

One step up from that is a fifth wheel. Two couples, one friend of both. Although unless their moments of passion or discreet awkwardness co-incide, you can usually have a conversation with the free pair, which usually consists of sarky remarks about how rude it is to completely ignore the rest of the room; by the time they get round to it, the other couple says exactly the same thing. Buh...

And then you come to a loose wheel. This tends to happen at parties where you get groups of people talking to each other and you float about between people you know, trying to lodge yourself into a nice chair and have a decent conversation. I often find myself tacking comments onto what other people say because I'm not an instigator of the conversation. And if I am, the counterpart usually gets interrupted by someone else and continues talking to them. Grr... maybe it's just a drama student thing.

But all three are incredibly annoying and all come with their own unique disadvantages as well as the big "Why on Earth did I bother coming in the first place?":
-The first makes you feel lonely,
-The second makes you feel lonely and incompetent, because at least two of your best friends have been able to find someone suitable,
-And the third makes you feel socially inept, with the bonus detriment of making you dislike parties, hence making you feel or look more antisocial and hence getting you involved in conversation even less.

I try to accommodate everyone as best I can, heh, but it's not easy ^_^; Things just tend to organise themselves that way- if you're floating about it doesn't necessarily mean that you have no friends- it might just mean you have a lot of friends but they're all busy ^_^

That's my excuse, anyway.

*coughs*

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