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[d_aulnoy]

Dear LJ Braintrust:

Do you live in California/have cool friends in California to whom you'd like to introduce me?  Now that work is approaching manageable levels, I find that I miss my social life.  LA or San Fran areas welcome ....

Love,
d_aulnoy

Comments

[owlfish]

morganlf. She's a medievalist grad student who's published critical work on science fiction and popular culture, loves good food, and had a really cool internship this summer in London at the BL working with manuscripts. I'll let her know about you too, if you'd like. She's in the LA area.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Yes, thank you! I feel odd friending people *completely* out of the blue, without even so much as a comment discussion on a shared community ... going the "introduction" route feels much more natural to me.

[morganlf.livejournal.com]

Owlfish is making me all red in the cheeks! *waves hi*

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Hello! It is a pleasure to "meet" you - I've been enjoying your posts immensely!

[morganlf.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you have any L.A. questions...this is one strange city.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

one of my favorite lj-ers who I hope I will meet one day sooner rather than later is claudelemonde

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Gratsi for the recommendation!

[sacredchao23.livejournal.com]

One of the sweetest, nicest, and all around greatest people I know is my friend from grad school, Erin (a.k.a. scattergrrrl). She is currently doing her PhD in communication and culture at UCSD. Look her up, she's fantastic.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Will do, and thanks for the tip!

[rosefox]

griffen is a grad student in sociology at one of the LA-area UCs. (Can't remember which.) If you want someone to academic-geek at, he's your man.

I have a ton of fabulous friends in SF and would love to introduce you to them. We're taking a trip there in April; if you feel like heading north around then, I'd be happy to make some in-person introductions.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Excellent, and thank you! Now, while SF in April would probably be a stretch for *me* ... how would you feel about playing yenta for a friend of mine who's recently moved up there? He's a fellow academic, and one of the loveliest people I know. And/or, alternately, about taking a trip down "south"? We're not pure luxury, but we try ....

[rosefox]

I don't know many academics in SF, but if he wants to meet awesome queer poly techies, I can provide them in spades.

We'll be in L.A. in October, or such is the plan.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Dude, sounds good to me on both counts .... will e-mail for further details.

[davekirtley.livejournal.com]

Abby Goldsmith
http://www.abbygoldsmith.com/

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Spacebo!

[servalan.livejournal.com]

I swear. I know all the cool people in Long Beach. Okay, maybe not all of them, but if they're not cool enough to come for drinks at my flat next Friday, then they're not cool enough to know. (Hmmmm, with a guest list of, like, 10 people, we'll just call me elitist. Also, eclectic.)

[claudelemonde.livejournal.com]

whooooooahhhhh you do not know me! (or do you)

[servalan.livejournal.com]

**gasp** A cool person in Long Beach whom I do not know? This is a travesty and must be fixed immediately. Coffee? (Probably at Portfolio because if you're going to be "cool" in Long Beach...)

[claudelemonde.livejournal.com]

are you on myspace? i am dying to know who we know in common. i haven't been socially hanging out in LB in probably 18 months cos i am sort of hating 'the scene' (OH GREAT ANOTHER NIGHT AT THE V ROOM? SIGN ME UP) but i still know most of the major groups... i am www.myspace.com/claudelemonde...

i live at 2nd/alamitos, where are you? this is weird!

[heyiya.livejournal.com]

Hello from LA! :)

I'm set for a pretty busy semester, but let me know if you're going to be in the vicinity of Silverlake, Echo Park, Los Feliz, Hollywood...

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I'd be delighted to introduce you to the friends I was telling you about in/near LA. I'll dig out their blog so you can get to know them a bit. They're not on LJ. Is it permitted to send them here to Mme. d'Aulnoy, as long as it's by private correspondence? I know you have concerns about your Secret Identity....