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The gospel of Vacant
March 9, 2008
Tonight was probably the most fun I’ve had so far in Austin, and it didn’t really even have to do with SXSW. Next time, I’m going to just use the money and spend the whole week with Leah, who is outgoing and hilarious and gorgeous and all things wonderful.
As it turned out, she ended up working at a wedding event that was also going on at the convention center. After wrapping up there, me and Richie met her for the first time, said hi to Taylor, and drove to a little pizza place and ate delicious food. We talked and talked and talked some more. And we took pictures. And then we talked about everything else.
It was really incredible. Leah and I read a lot of the same things, we don’t understand a lot of the same things, and we’ve both been publishing our lives online for a pretty long time. It was completely comfortable and very satisfying to talk to someone who not only understands what blogging is, but can relate to everything it entails when you’re a 20ish girl. It was another crazy moment, since Leah’s was one of the very first blogs I ever started reading, back before Wordpress and Flickr and Facebook.
It was the perfect change of pace to get away from the crowds and into the city with an Austin native, especially one that awesome.
(She wrote about it here.)
March 10th, 2008 at 8:10 am
love that picture. Meeting people from online is sometimes scary but ultimately pretty fulfilling because you understand each other on this whole other level.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:38 am
That is an incredibly awesome picture. I’ve never read a lot of Leah, but on your recommendation I will certainly do more so.
And yeah, meeting people from online can be scary… although that’s how I met The Wookiee, so it can’t be all bad ;)
March 10th, 2008 at 11:26 am
I’m sorry to hear you’re not having any fun in Austin. Good luck this afternoon…
March 10th, 2008 at 11:35 am
That picture is amazing! I love the blue wall!
March 10th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Leah’s blog was the first blog (belonging to a stranger) that I ever read. I found it when I was Googling my own name. I was OH SO excited to have found her blog again now that I am a blogger too!
March 11th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
How fun. LOVE the pic. Tell the dude he does good work.