twisting around

Being a west-coaster, I have the dubious fortune of living in actual ‘SL time’. I don’t have to do any math to figure out when an event starts, but then most events start right at or before my dinner time. The east-coasters are usually going to bed around when I can normally log on, and the Europeans are waking up for work.

So I often explore a seemingly empty SL. It’s nice, in that I can poke around and prod at things without interruption, but at the same time, it seems a little … counter to the whole point of SL. Ha.

A field of flowers at Ode. Catch the butterflies and get pieces of jewelry.

The SL fashion blog Shopping Cart Disco has a regular feature on Sundays–SLsecret–modeled after PostSecret and it’s many clones. A number of the secrets thus far have talked about loneliness and an inability to make friends in SL. As much as I’m enjoying playing in SL, I have found it rather difficult to make friends. Partly because of the time thing, I’m sure, but also because I have–in SL, as well as in RL–a very reserved manner. It usually takes me a couple of months to make friends in RL, and in SL a couple of months can feel like five years.

In a tree at La Reve.

I have a small circle of friends, and a slightly larger circle of acquaintances. I’d like to know more people (maybe even some in my own darned time zone! Where are all the Pacific coast SL-ers??), but I often feel stymied in this. One place I go to on occasion is friendly and fun, but also … feels kind of insular and like a closed circle at times. Lots of places in SL feel like that, actually.

Also, I’m really enjoying building things and I need to balance social activity with that, all in the limited time I have to give to SL-related activities. Sometimes it feels like it’s an either/or situation: do you want to play SL on the building track, or on the social activity track? If only I could gain XP by building that I could then spend on upping my charisma… or something equally nerdy. *g*

In the wheat field in the Refuge and Expansion.

Mellowing out at the Inspire Space Park. Everything kind of floats around as spacey, mellow music plays. There’s meditation balls that will let you float freely amongst the space stuff. There’s also dance balls and canoodling balls. If a date took me here, I would be impressed. That’s all I’m sayin’. *g*

A free–yes, free–blimpcycle! So fun to ride. Get one (and lots of other cool, well-done free stuff!) here.

Some pics so my rambling, talking out of my rear-end post isn’t the top post. *g*

I run and I run but the scenery never changes.

Anyone have a carrot?

Um…. a little help here?

You never know what will happen when you sit on a poseball. Sometimes you act out a scene from a romance novel:

Sometimes you just canoodle, until Cthulhu rises from the waters to eat you:

And sometimes you spend five minutes looking at the poseball name wondering if it’s some sort of naughty euphemism:

I– last night, I didn’t build anything or explore any really interesting place. No, last night I put on a bunch of outfits from my inventory and took fashion show pictures of myself.

…lord, it is just Barbie in 3D, isn’t it?

The rest are posted on flickr here.

So I made a building! It only took eleventy-billion tries, too. I had so many problems with the flickery seams thing, until I found prim docker. Thank goodness for prim docker. Did you know sometimes a prim will move just a teensy little bit when you click it to edit? I didn’t, until I noticed the crappy seams and re-checked my position numbers. So. Frustrating.

Rear view:

Front view:

Inside, a loft (ooh, how completely uncommon! /me rolls her eyes):

Downstairs, workshoppy-area:

And the roof:

It’s just a simple boxy-structure, but I think I learned a lot by building it.