Ok, when I got my dorm assignment in college I was supposed to be on the east wing of the 2nd floor of the dorm. But when I actually showed up to move in, I'd been reassigned to the 1st floor of the west wing. This worked out great for me, because my roommate was fabulous and geeky.
For the first few weeks of settling in my roommate and I stuck fairly closely together. But sometimes when I got my breakfast I would see this other girl, and think 'she looks like my sort of people.' If I hadn't had my roommate as a friend I think I would have gone up and introduced myself, but since I was shy and had a her for a security blanket, I didn't.
Then my roommate and I found out that there was an anime club. When we left the dorm I saw that girl rollerblading away. Then when we got to the club, that girl was there! My roommate and I introduced ourselves, and quickly became friends.
I was pretty much in awe of Twig, since I was a good little nerdling, but I'd only just dabbled in geekery before. And she knew all about anime and gaming and just seemed far more tapped into a community than I really knew existed. And she was such a good writer, or course. Her roommate was awful, so pretty soon she was spending most of her time at our room, and after that we made sure that the three of us stayed together.
It turned out that her dorm room was the floor I WOULD have stayed on if I hadn't been reassigned. So I feel like we three were pretty much destined to meet.
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Date: 2011-07-12 06:19 pm (UTC)Ok, when I got my dorm assignment in college I was supposed to be on the east wing of the 2nd floor of the dorm. But when I actually showed up to move in, I'd been reassigned to the 1st floor of the west wing. This worked out great for me, because my roommate was fabulous and geeky.
For the first few weeks of settling in my roommate and I stuck fairly closely together. But sometimes when I got my breakfast I would see this other girl, and think 'she looks like my sort of people.' If I hadn't had my roommate as a friend I think I would have gone up and introduced myself, but since I was shy and had a her for a security blanket, I didn't.
Then my roommate and I found out that there was an anime club. When we left the dorm I saw that girl rollerblading away. Then when we got to the club, that girl was there! My roommate and I introduced ourselves, and quickly became friends.
I was pretty much in awe of Twig, since I was a good little nerdling, but I'd only just dabbled in geekery before. And she knew all about anime and gaming and just seemed far more tapped into a community than I really knew existed. And she was such a good writer, or course. Her roommate was awful, so pretty soon she was spending most of her time at our room, and after that we made sure that the three of us stayed together.
It turned out that her dorm room was the floor I WOULD have stayed on if I hadn't been reassigned. So I feel like we three were pretty much destined to meet.