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[jack]

Good job ✓
Good friends ✓
Relationship with subheadingy and beautiful woman ✓
Life ✓

Chorus: Yay!

Going abroad on holiday was one of the fun things I wanted to do this year (or, to be fair, last year), and I'm pleased I have: for several years I've never got round to it, having so much excuse to spend time with people nearby.

Chorus: Aw!

But the reason I was in Stockholm specifically was to see livredor as a delayed Cyril and Methodius[1] weekend. We really met at my and her Christmas parties, and had a date at New Year when she was in the country, and exchanged email spiralling out of all control, and are now officially going out.

Chorus: Squee!

[1] Apparently the correct honorific for "Saints" is "Sts." But is that right? Shouldn't it be "St.s"? But that looks completely wrong :)

Chorus: Wuh?

It was obviously a calculated risk visiting someone in an unformed relationship; it could indeed have been awkward if we had felt pressure to get on. But we decided we were objectively optimistic, given how well we hugged both on our coffee date, and electronically, indeed, we were as comfortable hugging in real life.

Chorus: Squee!

So we had a lovely weekend and debating, snuggling and Stockholm, and I don't really have anything more to say in this paragraph, I just wanted to mention again that we officially examined the common relationship paradigms available to us in this culture and decided that "relationship" and "going out" best cover what we agreed we were going.

Chorus: SQUEE!

Chorus: But do we get a link?

Of course. Her post: here

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

In retrospect, that would have been a relevant thing to tell people on my postcards, when I was wondering what I could write beyond "Sweden yay! I sent you a postcard!". I completely forgot, (a) forgetting that people wouldn't have known the gossip by Monday, even though it felt very natural by then and (b) knowing that I don't know anyone who would read my postcard before my livejournal.

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

Ss is a perfectly acceptable abbreviation for saints.

[miriammoules.livejournal.com]

you beat me to it!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

(But look at the shiny relationship! Pay attention to the shiny! :))

[liv]

I very much love that your friends respond to the news of a new relationship by debating what is the correct title for more than one saint. *bounce*

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

abbreviate(plural("Saint")) = "Sts." makes perfect sense to me (accepting that there might be other widely accepted abbreviations of it as above). plural(abbreviate("Saint")) seems like an odd way to go about it.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

PS welcome back.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's all good.

(I assume you mean 'back from Sweden', not 'back from being single' or 'back from thinking about flights' :))

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Yes, back from Sweden. I'd not modeled singleness in a place-like way but I had noticed that you'd been rather occupied with thinking about flying l-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. It feels wrong to leave out the middle and put a "." at the end, but that is normal practice, I now recall. But it seems less precise than applying the plural and abbrev functions in a strict order :)

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Woot!

[midnightmelody.livejournal.com]

The honorific as used in Catholic-everything is 'Ss.', as in Ss. Cyril and Methodius. (Wandered over from livredor's post, and saw my favourite festival mentioned and spelling-pedantry all combined.)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Hi!

And thanks, that makes sense. Although it sounds like a really cool name for a ship. Google turned up 'Sts.' top, that's why I guessed that.

[liv]

Yay. I am glad LJ makes it possible to connect you and cartesiandaemon, because you are indeed the person who brought the idea of Cyril and Methodius into my awareness. And therefore made it possible for a Jew and an atheist to have a long, convoluted discussion about exactly which saint's day we should be celebrating.

[midnightmelody.livejournal.com]

Gosh, that is very gratifying! I figure that all people who have thought about religion at all ought to celebrate two saints who made it easier for people to access theological ideas. Personally, I try to spend at least two hours in a bookshop every 14th Feb. :)

[rav-hadassah.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I am a friend of Livredor's and happy to hear you guys are an item!

All the best of luck and love!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Unicode: ✓

Footnote in the middle of a page: ✓

[simont]

icon++ :-)

(Although, <geek subjects="Tron,polyhedra"> it's listed in your icon list under the title "Bit - no", but the yellow octahedron is the shape the Bit assumes when it says Yes! The No shape is a dark red very spiky stellation of the icosahedron. </geek> )

[robhu.livejournal.com]

:-)

I was aware of this error, but I haven't corrected it as AFAIK doing so will change all the previous usages of it to my default image. I didn't think anyone would actually check what it was listed under :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

ROFL. Indeed, lovely icon. An indeterminate fix would be to add a comment to the description saying so, although admittedly that would draw the attention of people who didn't know.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Hooray for everything mentioned above. I can already see that [Unknown site tag] must be great because we have a startling number of mutual lj friends, proving once again that either a) the geek world is too small or b) I know too many people.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

:-D

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

Awesome and congratulations!

Also, am I the only one confused by "subheadingy"? In what way is she like a subheading?

[ilanin.livejournal.com]

I considered remarking that I was pretty certain I wouldn't date somebody who wasn't offended by being called subheadingy but that this shouldn't stop anybody else.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

It is true, it is imprecise, she is not like a subheading, but predisposed to use subheadings. (Actually not, but that's what it means.) That should probably go in the FAQ, hold on... :)

[ravingglory.livejournal.com]

Yay! (not that is news is in anyway unexpected)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:) Indeed. For the benefit of people who either didn't notice the relationship postings in the welter of others, haven't been recommending me books, or didn't expect the trip to go well, here it is :)

[ravingglory.livejournal.com]

Ok, you are right, just because I expected didn't mean other people on your flist didn't. Anyways I like hearing the new officially.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wasn't very serious. I mean, I mainly just wanted to make it all official, and post a lot of FAQ :) Anyone who knows the situation well probably did know how it would turn out (we did) :)

But I was half serious, because I bet a lot of people who don't follow the journal closely didn't know that the Christmas squee had actually gone anywhere, if they missed the passing mention of the *reason* for the Stockholm visit :)

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Aww, congratulations :-)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Thank you.

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Squee indeed! :-)

I would normally use "SS" for "Saints". Could be the Catholic influence.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[redbird]

Hello, new sweetie of my friend livredor. Her friendship and mine has been mostly online (there's this ocean in the way), but I have gotten to show her little bits of my city.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

:) *hugs* Thank you. (I like "New sweetie" more than other things we've been called :))