Confessions #5: Hi Leela

I started blogging in early 2002--whoopie pie, this month marks a proper anniversary! I've been posting at this particular site for two years (as of January 8, to be even more particular). Though I did print out some of my living-in-London entries, the first four incarnations of RAWR have almost entirely evaporated.

Which bums me out. It would be so satisfying and so fun to have had just one blog this whole time, with a glorious, decade's worth of archives. To have had 22-year-old, 23-year-old, 24-year-old, 25-year-old, 26-year-old, 27-year-old, 28-year-old, 29-year-old, 30-year-old, 31-year-old, and 32-year-old Rory all contributing.

It is un-everything-good to be too pleased with yourself, so this can be marked a confession: I've always liked re-reading old posts. Sometimes there's an awfully good one and it's a tiny thrill to think, "Oh, I made that." Even just the average, blardy blar blar blog post has the power to transport me back to a high-def memory of what my life was like when I was writing it, and that's invaluable.

What I'm saying--and have always said--is: you should all have blogs. They are great and so are you and if you had one, I would RSS the hell out of it.

Bonus confession: there's just something about Super-Terrific. 

A couple or a few years ago, a girl named Leela stumbled on my blog and left some friendly comments. I followed one back to her blog and read at least 100 posts in one evening. When Leela graduated from high school, she closed up blog-shop; it wasn't until she left a comment here just a few weeks ago that I knew she's started up again. I think she's a college sophomore now. In Canada.

I was excited to reaquaint myself with what Leela had been up to. One evening I puffed some herb, made a huge mug of Lady Grey, and cuddled up to read the whole darn thing. The next morning, I saw that I'd actually taken some notes:

• Man, she's just adorable.
• Her writing, reading and perspective have matured--of course they have. It makes me feel...strangely proud?
• We still have strikingly similar writing styles. If I'd had a blog at Knox, it might have read a lot like this.
• Shit...she's definitely depressed.
• I know this is such a high thought, but I'll stand by it: though she's a complete stranger, and we've never directly communicated and will never meet, I'm convinced that if we'd had the cosmic luck to be born sisters, we would have been the sort of sisters who totally kick life's ass together.
• Which isn't to say the sisters the cosmos did give us aren't perfectly lovely.

Comments

[Joe W.]

Did you just say 'Puffed some herb'?
Rory, that's hilarious.

[Leela]

Hi back! This made me blush like a damsel. Thank you for being so sweet.

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