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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.

[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.

[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.)

[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!

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Unicode: ✓

Footnote in the middle of a page: ✓

[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?

[ravingglory.livejournal.com]

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

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Aww, congratulations :-)

[miss-next.livejournal.com]

Squee indeed! :-)

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

[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.