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[moominmolly]

I haven't been posting a lot, lately. I've been a bit internal. I haven't even mentioned that we're going to Japan for two weeks, starting this Saturday. Japan! I've never been to Asia at all. I'm a bit thrilled, as you can imagine. I had a very odd weekend -- February has a lot of memories for me, both good and terrible, and so I try to make Februaries count. I think this one will count. I hope.

If you run into me in February, ever, give me a hug and kiss me gently on the side of the forehead. If you can reach.

Anyway, in addition to feeling quiet and contemplative, I feel lingeringly open and nostalgic. I need to contextualize everyone and everything. So, I'm fascinated by all of the responses to the 'memory' meme. And it feels a bit self-indulgent, but I'm really quite curious, so:

if you read this,
even if i don't speak to you often,
please post a memory of me.
It can be anything you want, it can be good or bad,
just so long as it happened.

I'll take out the instruction to post it in your journal. You will, or you won't, and me telling you to do so won't change your mind one bit.

Comments

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Odd. I should have dozens of these, but not a single firm one is coming to mind. I guess that's just the state of my mind today. I was going to say your coming to our apartment to pick up Rory, not because I really remember any details of it, but because I'm sure it must've happened. After all Rory's not in that apartment any more, is he?

I can pull up any number of memories of your face (at different hair lengths), but I don't recall what was coming out of that face at the time or whether the body attached to it was doing anything interesting either. Perhaps I never really knew you after all.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I think I circled around knowing you -- I'm pretty shy. :) My strongest memory of you was going to eat pierogies on a whim. I have no idea why we did that, but I do still love pierogies.

[obra.livejournal.com]

Where in japan?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Suggestions?

Certainly Tokyo and Kyoto. I have a few other ideas (including hiking around a volcano!), but the itinerary isn't set yet.

[ladytabitha.livejournal.com]

Blue-tinged fingernail clippings.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I wrote about that, once.

[kungfoogirl.livejournal.com]

I would give you a kiss on your forehead, but I am midget-sized, so unless you're sitting down, I can't oblige.

But!

My memory of you.

Online:
Endless talks while you were in Amsterdam. My favorite "Hi Christina!" picture is of you.

In the desert:
I actually have a hard time separating the people I was with from the event itself, because they WERE the event.

But I particularly remember you driving up to the gate at BRC and talking to the welcome gate people. And you turned back and told me that I was going to need to get out of the RV for a moment. You knew what was going to happen, and I didn't have a clue. For some reason, that moment stuck with me. Perhaps because with all those other people and with how late it was, it would have been easy to forget that I was there.

Overall:
Do you remember when I IM'd you and make a point of telling you how amazing you were? I'll never forget how you took that compliment. Completely without ego, but with a vast amount of grace.

Oh! And I also remember that awesome, nasty bruise you had in November. I liked that.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

You know, I would end my wanderings at that all-night internet cafe just to chat with you. :)

I remember...

[zsquirrelboy.livejournal.com]

Watching you walk down the isle at your wedding with your father, dressed in a tux and a veil. When I saw that you were crying a little bit, it occurred to me that for all it's unconventionality, this was still a wedding.

For me, It has become the image that comes to mind when I think about what a wedding can and should be.

[sol3.livejournal.com]

(i already posted it in mine, so i get away with not reposting it! :)

I have fond memories of yulia and i meeting you and david for coffee at diesel - it was rather nice to hang out and chat in a Not Party[tm] situation.

(Not that I don't enjoy party situations as well - but they often tend to leave me in a fairly reserved/held back place)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Yeah! :) That was fun.

Parties leave me in an odd place. Not reserved, precisely, but not usually fully there, either. Or, at least, there in a very particular way.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

"NO PUKIN'!"

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

A club I belong to more and more!

[laura47.livejournal.com]

the boy and i are good for wednesday or thursday, by the way. you and yours?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Wednesday would be lovely.

[chillguru.livejournal.com]

i will be happy to give you a hug should i see you in feb. *smile*

i remember sitting across from you at a johnny d's brunch. we were part of a very large group of brunchers, which i believe you and your boy organized. i think that is the first time i ever really talked to you directly, rather then just being in a group of people that were talking.

i already posted this in my journal last week, and it got very little response.

#8^D~

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

it got very little response.

As someone else said to me a moment ago, memories are such personal things. I think I replied to only one of these, as if giving up a memory would take it out of me, or something.

You: I remember you greeting me with a broad smile when I came to B's door one morning, and you had no idea what she was up to. :) You smile with your whole face. I like that! (And you can give me a hug even if you don't see me until March. *nod*)

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

I remember watching you dance to (Paperboys? Danu? Similar...) at Johnny D's, when you were just visiting. Long hair flying, happy and joyous.

... and the thumbprint in my notary journal always makes me think of you...

Then there was that time that you brought those fruitcakes over to me when I couldn't come get them because the car was in the shop. ;)

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

btw, you may have hugs and gentle kisses any time you so wish them.

I hear tell that I hug real good...

[chaggalagirl.livejournal.com]

one of my favorite molly memories? you being quite stompy in your godzilla costume. *stomp*

and i'd have to say talking with you (albeit briefly) at sean s's (gah! grammatical nightmare!) last party in somerville. as awful as i felt, you gave me a feeling of solidity that i really needed at that moment. and i haven't ever thanked you. so... thank you. mew.

i miss you.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I could give you that, at least. *hug*

[veek.livejournal.com]

Coming back to your place, the one with the slanted ceilings, after a day that was long, longer than was possible, how could it have been so long? Sitting out on the tiny balcony, on fold-out chairs, looking out at the street and the sunset, lingering in slow conversation. I don't remember what we talked about, but I do remember going back inside for the evening.

[dolohov.livejournal.com]

Oh, gosh. Where in Japan will you be?

Kyoto is an absolute must; I think you'll get a big kick out of the Temple of the Golden Pavillion.

You'll love Nara, too -- it's smaller than Kyoto, but older (it was the previous capital of Japan) and it has museums and sacred deer which roam the streets, and people selling deer cookies to feed them. If you get out there, go see the Daibutsu, a huge Buddha statue in the world's largest wooden building.

I actually have at least one friend there at the moment I could put you in touch with -- he'd be a good tour guide, since he speaks the language really well.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Is your friend in Nara? I'd like to go. I am normally a little bit, I don't know, skittish about contacting unknown metafriends I've never spoken to, but, I mean, Japan...

[annaoj.livejournal.com]

I remember you trying on your costume (that I made) for Company of Wayward Saints, back in the winter quarter of '94

[annaoj.livejournal.com]

or, erk! that was winter '95, wasn't it. heh. :)

[amare.livejournal.com]

Bohemian Pocket!

And a really cute pointy goatee.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Bohemian pocket! You have permanently marked that jacket. I can never take that pin off of it.

I have now lost all photographs of that goatee. Sad!

[fanw.livejournal.com]

Hmph! Someone stole my memory! I too remember the first time I met you when you were flouncing about as Godzilla. But I also remember you being rather strong and agreeably forceful at the following Halloween. It must just be in your personality. :)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I remember being afraid to give you the orange. :)

[vimnelius.livejournal.com]

if you read this,
even if i don't speak to you often,
please post a memory of me.
It can be anything you want, it can be good or bad,
just so long as it happened.

Back in the summer of '98 or '99, we all used to eat lunch at the Med every week. One such Wednesday, we were all sitting at the big, round 7-seater table near the kitchen. Our food arrived, and upon seeing your food, you told us that you liked deciding on your order at the last minute so that you're more likely to forget what you ordered. Then when your food appears, you'd be pleasantly surprised.

I remember thinking, "What a fantastic way to eke just a little more delight out of life."

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

You know, I do still do that, but I never thought of it that way! Except insofar as I'd like to approach everything that way. I guess I don't realize how often I succeed. :)

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

Being interrogated by your while LARPing. :)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I miss U of C LARPs!

[piratedan.livejournal.com]

I remember the big grin on your face when you were getting your head shaved for scav hunt. We didn't know each other at all back then.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I know it persisted for a long time, but it's funny to think of knowing you without knowing you.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

I will give you a suck-up memory!

The first time I saw you, my first thought was "Oh my GOD what a drop-dead athletic-gorgeous woman can I drool NOW."

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Wow! This was unexpected and really incredibly flattering. Thank you.

[coraline]

i remember this raven person, who was the girlfriend of my boyfriend's girlfriend, visiting from chicago...

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Ravyn. Which she never thought of herself as, so I had to retrain myself to think of her as "Molly," after I and all my friends thought of her as "Ravyn."

[ceelove.livejournal.com]

*tucktucktuck*

(Actually, you can take that as a memory or as a sentiment.)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

:)

Thank you. As always, thank you. :)

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

I remember the first night I met you, you'd biked to Teele from Bedford? and I wished we had the bike rack on the car, just so I could offer you a ride home and eke out ten more minutes talking to you.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Can we get dinner some time?

mixing memory with desire

[srisyadasti.livejournal.com]

You teaching me how to do a jig, specifically a Breton jig, to the Pogues, in the living room of Chez Geek. That's still the only jig I know, and I would love to dance it with you again, because wo fun.

Oh, and as for japan, there is a Studio Ghibli museum!!!! In case you don't already know, that's the studio that Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Princess Mononkoe, My Neighor totoro etc), I read a big article on it and it sounds fucking amazing. That, and there's a world reknowned costume institute in Kyoto. You may not be made as moist by that idea as I am, but they have some amazing things there.

Jig!!!

Re: mixing memory with desire

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Jig!

Whoever said that you shouldn't ever send email when drunk was at least slightly wrong.

[nacht_musik]

(Yeah, I too edited the meme significantly before posting it. =)

Some mysterious chick named "Ravyn."

Brisk weather, maybe in February. A bright orange spiraling playground slide at Tufts which could have doubled as a Van de Graaff generator. And leaning way back on the tire swings. And a stylin' top hat.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

That's my canonical memory of you, too.