Well, it appears that Meandering Maundering has passed into the great
beyond, and with it the Heyday of Oathbound.  It used to be that I
couldn't log in here without seeing at least one new response or item.
And now, days, weeks, go by with very little activity.  The old guard
has vanished, and only a few of us remain... It makes me sad, but I
guess this is the way things go hmm?

Even so, your fearless leader #1 isn't going anywhere.... I know I've
been sporadic over the past couple of years... And I won't make any
foolish promises to stick around forever, but I'm here now. :)  So
who else is here with me?  Does anyone still care to discuss friendships?
Or other relationships?  That's what this conference is supposed to be
about... Or shall I quietly mourn the passing of Oathbound, and read
back through the old items... remebering the glory days.. The days of
the psychedelic 'bus' tour... Of locking people in bathrooms, when sun
aka Fearless Leader #2 was still with us.  Does any of the old Guard
remain besides myself?

If you want to look back, as I have done, type browse at the ok prompt
to see a listing of all the items that got too long to be useable and
had to be frozen... <smiles> It was a good trip my friends, I only hope
that it's not over yet.  Maybe we initially began as Mooncat and Sun's
vanity conf... but I thought we had grown beyond that.

thanks for the memories, may we continue to make them-

                Anne, Fearless Leader #1, Moonkitty.. Kethry

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        Love and kisses, Elsbeth of Valdemar, eh?

Well like I said, I'm not going anywhere... And I never said that
anyone's mother won the horse faire, or that they're father hunted
by sent.  Was just a little melancholy this morning. 

        Ah, yer father was a hamster and yer mother smell't of elderberries!

Who told? <pouts> That was *supposed* to be a secret!

Get out the comfy chair!

I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

Aw, man!  Seems like I've barely just found a good conference when they whip
out the requiem and pronounce it dead.  First accordions, and now this?  

Yea, verily, a tragedy of epic proportions.  Or an epic of tragic proportions.
Or a tropic of etic digressions.  Or something....

When's lunch?

        Look Anne, it's meandering maundering 'gain!

Yeah, that also happened to Inferno, one of the other legendary
dormant or dead conferences.
Boy did those take up a lot of my time, but it was worth every second of
 it. Would be a pity to miss you guys. Then again, I still pop up in
Agora  every once in a while.

See, you start the mourning and people show up.  Perhaps Oathbound
isn't really dead... just in a... depression? <grins>

Like I said... I'm not going anywhere... Just got a little maudlin
yesterday. <grins>

<huggles everyone> See, if ya'll talked this much all the time, I wouldn't
be mourning the glory days. <winks>

Is anyone awake or is this a wake?

We're awake....I've just not been here for a few years, because it got too
busy to keep up.

Clees: Would you like to help me get Inferno back up and funning again? 
I've been trying to come up with ideas to get it back to a bit of glory.  :)

<grins> I miss those Days Meg.

And Mr. Mat, we're awake... so itwould seem... If not then the dead are
really noisy. <grins>

<huggles everyone>

(meg bangs on her drums all day)

Bring out your dead! (THUMP!)  Bring out your dead!  (THUMP!)

<snickers>  I'm not dead yet! I feel haaappy!

He's almost dead! Look, can't you just take him now?

<shrugs, looking around> Well... not really.. It's against the rules...

Is something beginning to smell?

Everybody hugs everyone, would we be at the brink of Valentine's day?
Now, there's another difference between Americans and Europeans. We 
don't hug, what's more: it's considered a very suggestive and intimate 
thing. So, we kiss (1, 2 or 3 times, according to local culture), but 
keep our bodily distance. It confused me when people hugged me, and yet 
a very pleasant experience (hey, not being used to this kind of 
intimacy). I guess I highly overrated the intent of the hugs of course, 
haha.

<grins>  I like hugging... and since we do it alot, well some people, 
there are ways to do it that are... impersonal?  Make sense?
Course... kissing is good to... <giggles and wanders away>

Oh, I highly suggest to everyone the Astrology Chart/report up for
sale in the Auction conf.  I got mine yesterday... And it is WAY
cool, very descriptive, and it explains nicely- and it's *just*
for me.  <beams>

Kisses can be suggestive as well when one of them is on the lips.
But, I have watched Americans hug and indeed some of them seemed 
insincere. Still it is a strong intrusion on my personal territory and 
therefore in a way startling. (If you get what I mean)

        I understand that.  You may have a different personal space than the
people that were hugging you - I often run into that problem myself, even with
people of the same subculture.  

Hugging friends was new for my when I started college.  I never used to
hug friends in high scool, or before.  My family isn't all that big on
hugs either... Cept me and my mom we hug each other. I like it though,
because it makes me feel emotionally closer to people and not so distant.
I've spent a lot of my life being relatively distant from people, and it
didn't make me all that happy. So now, I like to hug hello and goodbye,
<shrugs> I don't know all the exact reasons, but it makes me happy.
<grins>

*HUG*

Poor Scott had to get used to my family being all huggy...my grandmother and
aunt especially...he just about crapped his pants when my mom was hugging
him!  Me, I'm just a giant cuddle.  I want to hug and cuddle
everybody....and frequently do.  :)

Ha!
I don't say I didn't enjoy it.
In fact, when bhelliom picked me up at the airport and she hugged me it 
felt like the right expression of feelings at the time. That was a real 
hug and lasted for some time. What do you want? We had been writing for 
four years without ever meeting.
So now I have experienced it I will let people hug me when  they want 
to. At least it beats the 'macho' type punch in the shoulderblades with 
feint boxing movements by more than a mile. ;)

        *That* I reserve for close friends.

John- only close friends are allowed to beat on you? <grins>

<huggles Meg>

        Something like that, Anne.  Something like that. :)

<laughs>  Sounds like incentive to be a close friend. ;)

        I sense such hidden hostility in you ...

        Do you often wish to change your pitch up?

My pitch up? <scratches her head in confusion>

Whaddya mean, hidden hostility?  I've gotten very good at expressing
my anger. <grins>  There's nothing hidden about it.

I only beat up on close friends...:)

Pummeling close friends?
What do you do when you are in love with somebody??

I geuss I should explain....I've been known t owhakc people on the shoulder
or side of the arm....nothing that hurts (Or if it does, it certainly not on
purpose!)  I mostly do it if they're being silly, and I'm not angry about
it.  If I am angry, I don't hit...I don't want to cause damage. And I only
do this to friends, because I don't want to offend anybody.

Thwapping people in fun is okay, cause the point is not to really hurt
the person.  And like Meg, I try not to hit when I'm really angry..
cause I don't really want to do damage... Unless I was getting attacked,
in which case... I would want to do a lot of damage...

        You only hit friends because you don't want to cause damage and offend
them?  Or .. ? :)

        Such a violent world, *sigh*.

Well... <grins> I hit friends to show I care... see?  I also huggle
them.  And yes, it's a violent world.  It's all the Politicians fault!

I remember once Valerie made the commant that she thought that I didn't like
her because I hadn't thwapped her...wehn it was mostly just cause she was an
adult.  :)

<laughs>  People are strange.... ;)

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