so, yeah

so, what about jeremy?
i’ve written about him before. about how he’s one of the very best, supportive, intelligent, witty, caring, sarcastic, generous and easy people i know. how i’d met him on a talker some eight years ago and how, even though i wanted to, it was okay that we’d never met in person. well, we’ve done that now. that was the primary reason for my recent visit to corn-land. to finally spend some of that hanging-out time we talked about with one of my very favourite people.
so, how’d it go?
it’s funny how the mind works. for years and years i pictured him as about 5’7″ with really short, blond hair. when i first saw a photo of him i remember feeling quite off-balance. he’s nowhere near that short and nowhere near that blond. over the years, with some conscious mental restructuring, i’d constructed an almost 100% accurate mental image of him, so there was very little to surprise me when i first laid my eyes on him. although, he really didn’t seem thirteen inches taller than me.
just like the lack of surprise with his physical self, there wasn’t much which surprised me about his personality. sitting across or beside him and talking was pretty much exactly the same as typing our conversations via icq. other than it was fun to see his face move, have eye contact and find out he actually has teeth! he’s just as smart, funny, caring, et cetera in meatspace as he is online. i’ve met a lot of net.people over the last ten years and this was probably the best experience of them all.
so, what about his wife?
well, i was understandably nervous about meeting her. i was paranoid that she’d hate me and demand that jeremy never speak to me ever again and then i’d just have to go jump off a bridge or something. or, at the very least, enter rehab to work through the withdrawls. luckily, that didn’t happen (well, i hope it didn’t happen. she didn’t seem to hate me too much.). his wife is a perfectly wonderful person. she’s so smart, personable, funny, quick-witted, beautiful and nice. not to mention she and jeremy are completely perfect for each other. watching them together is like… yeah, i don’t even have an adjective for that. it’s amazing and what i assume everyone aspires their relationships to be.
i came away from minnesota hoping that i could develop a friendship with her just as i have with jeremy, which is more than i could ever have wished for.
so, what now?
well, i’d really like them to come to vancouver so that i can return the tour guide/entertainment-director favour and, really, just to have the chance to spend more time with them; because, that’s what you want to do when you find people you like very much, right?