Meeting people, the geek connection.

So I was standing here at the email station computer, looking for the right word to complete my comment-style submission to a particularly hot and approaching-smutty RP scene, when someone to my left complains about how about half of said email station computers are total crap. He isn't wrong. A good four or five of these machines either take half an hour to log on or simply refuse to log on at all... possibly both because who in a university day has the time to wait a half bloody hour just to check their damn email and their attention span snaps like a balsawood glider in a Lethbridge afternoon breeze.

... then again, I also check four email accounts, LiveJournal, eBay, and maybe a webcomic or two every time I log on here, so I might be biased.

Anyways, guy complains and is right. I comment in support of his annoyance and then continue on, trying to remember the final word in the set of 'tactile, aural, olfactory, visual...' (I think it's oral but the RP hasn't reached that point yet).

Five minutes later, same guy is politely asking my attention, inquiring as to if he knew me from somewhere previous. He didn't. Really. I know a total of three people that I can recognize on sight within these educational walls... wait, no, it's two. This guy's new to me.

We end up chatting about not knowing people, going through the introduction checklist of name, major, and year (I could only answer two), mention our mutually tinted glasses (his is a homemade job,mine are perscription)... and I feel like I'm waiting to hear something. Something's missing from this picture... something obvious... somethinnnnng...

"... yeah, I used to be really shy, too," he says, "but then I got into high school and I fell into the D&D crowd..."

... ahhh, there it is.

Now I know Caleb.