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Well, that went surprisingly well.
I think I keep forgetting that 'the girls' are 18 and grown-up, no longer giggling teenagers.
They still are very hard to converse with, though.

Media in vita

An lj-friend passed away last night, a month before her 33rd birthday. I did not know her well; I merely knew some of her fan-work, and I knew her because she was the metaquotes mod. I liked her sense of humour. I suppose that is not the worst thing to say about somebody after their death, "I liked her sense of humour", although it might not be part of a list of Things You Want People To Say Of You After You're Dead. But what do you say when all you know about a person is what you read in their livejournal? I enjoyed reading hers. And she was the second person I knew to use the term 'subrealism' (and probably the one who coined it).
This is all terribly trite, so I shall shut up now. I'm just... terribly sorry; for her, and for her husband, and the others whom her death leaves behind.

Rest in peace, _redpanda_.