Sometimes Sinner, Sometimes Saint

Dropping the fonts for IC/OOC posts…just presume OOC unless I say otherwise.

If this is not the appropriate place to ask these questions, I beg forgiveness of anyone I offend. I mean neither to pry into other’s lives, first or second, nor to go where I am not wanted. Doing so socially was a frequent error during my first life childhood.

After listening to the most recent posted episode of The Milk ‘N’ Kookies Show, (their first episode from the KIC,) with the parting interview from Arctic Noel…I am TOTALLY lost…

I got the first letter they read at the beginning of the month, figured, “OK, whatever,” and didn’t think much of it. Then in this most recent episode, they played Arctic reading a letter he wrote to a friend. (Not sure if it’s the same Paulo {sp?} who DJs at the Vortex or not, but that’s the only kid avatar by that name that I know of. If it is one and the same person, does anything that has recently transpired have to do with why I’ve seen so little of him at the Vortex as of late?) Arctic stated that if his first life parents heard the interview, they might not be happy with it, but I can’t fathom why. Arctic was generic enough I’d think his parents couldn’t object that much. Well, he was generic enough to leave me more baffled and confused than I was before the interview. What was Arctic looking for in Second Life, where does Paulo fit in, and…oi… Koffeekid said before running that interview that we’d understand afterwards why he chose not to edit it, but I don’t understand what the heck happened, though the only part I would have edited anyway was one particularly long stretch of silence.

Okay, do I have a few hunches? Yeah. Would I post them here? No; that would be rude. Do I feel comfortable just contacting Arctic on YIM and asking him myself? No; I’d never heard of the man until MnK read his departure letter, and I’ve never met him personally, despite the curiosity I now have. (I was tempted to combine this post with a post about me, socializing, friends in SL, and such, but I’ll make that a separate post.)

So…..yeah…I’m lost…and in some ways I felt that the other kid avs all got it…I hated feeling left out as a first life kid and I can’t say I’m much fonder of it as a first life adult or Second Life kid. =-\

If it would still be respectful towards Arctic (and Paulo and whoever else is involved) for someone to enlighten me, (or crud, better still, if Arctic himself somehow found this, though I doubt that,) but not respectful to just post it as a comment on a blog post, I set up an e-mail account for this avatar (keeps my e-mail organized,) at janet DOT rothmanay AT DON’T_EVEN_THINK_OF_SPAMMING_ME_YOU_WRETCHED_BOTS g m ail DOT c o m I think any real human being (or its avatar) can figure out how to translate that to a real address. ^_~

And yes, I did debate making this post, but I felt even more awkward and rude at the thought of messaging, in-game, someone like Koffekid who would know, but whom I barely know about it. =-\ Again, take all my apologies for any offense I cause and then double it.

So here it is.

As my SL profile states, I have another avatar hailing from 2005, but for reasons, I wish to keep my SL kid-dom totally separate from my main ID.  I’ve read everything available in the Second Life Children Learning Tree, and profiles of other SL Kid avatars, and decided this was something I wanted to do.

I guess one can loosely put me in the category of one who would like to “re-write,” as it were, some of her unpleasant childhood memories with better ones.  I grew up in a house where both parents were very psychologically and emotionally abusive, but of course since they rarely laid a hand on me, I didn’t have the right to complain.  School was heck because, while, despite ADD, I rocked out at academics, I could never figure out the fine art of getting alone with my peers.  From where I stood, I was breathing and earning teasing for having the audacity to keep myself as part of the census.  That’s another part I’d like to “do-over.”

This entry being the exception, my general, intended format for writing on this blog will be that entries I write “in character,” i.e. in my best attempt to characterize child-like dialogue, will be done in normal font, (overall,) like this is.  If I want to write “as an adult,” as in as the woman behind the keyboard, (aged 24 IRL, FWIW,) then that will be all in italics like this. This way, you, dear reader, can tell before actually reading, some sense of what sort of entry I intended to write.

However, I’ll start all that next entry. For now, I’ll just type as I’ve been typing most of this entry.

I’ve been listening to back episodes of The Milk ‘N’ Cookies Show and it’s been quite amusing. ^_^ Tonight, one of the officers of an SL Kid group invited me to hear his uncle play a set of Grateful Dead covers. Aside from “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door,” I’m far from a Dead-Head, but I can appreciate a good cover by a good musician when I hear one, though his internet was acting up something horrid. Sure kills the stereotype of cable being better than DSL. Not saying DSL wouldn’t have the same problem, but the way Comcast commercials sell their product, you’d think cable never has any problems, period. (Qualification: the performer in question was not on Comcast. Comcast lawyers, put down the mouse or phone, and close this site before your employer realizes what sort of blog you’re reading at work! =-p) (WARNING TO READERS: I am a colossal geek. I was a bookworm during first-life childhood, and I think the geekage really is a natural outgrowth of that, though other childhood-bookworms may manifest their geekdom in different ways.) Anyway, I enjoyed that and also visited some other “kid-safe” places now stored as LMs or in my profile.

I wanted to go to the Sunday story telling at the tree house, but the first life body requires a bit more sleep than the Second Life one does. =-p (OK, my fault for staying up too dang late. I swear I’m going to bed as soon as I finish this.)

OK, finished here, but I have night prayers (yes, I really did that as a kid, same as I do now,) and finishing an episode of MNK.

Reminder Summary: plain text = IN-CHARACTER (except for this entry); italics text = OUT-OF-CHARACTER
I admit I may scrap that scheme if I only ever seem to blog in one voice.

I had an ending, but WP ate it. I blame my internet.