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[heidi]

So noone told you life was gonna be this way...

So in September, 1994, there was this new show starting, and I was starting my last term of law school, living in DuPont Circle in Washington DC, planning to take the Bar in Florida, and in posession of no clue what I was going to do after graduation, but convinced it would involve staying in DC and working in communications law.

Your job's a joke

I was about to start working for a firm that was trying to get one of their clients a contract with this little company in Northern Virginia called America On-Line. I was in charge of the negotiations, as I knew how to get online with my 4800Baud modem, and my boss didn't know how to use a mouse.

You're broke
Or if not, I was spending far too much money on margaritas at rooftop restaurants in Adam's Morgan.

Your love life's DOA
But little did I realise that five weeks before, I'd met the man I was going to marry. I told another Zone-friend about a month ago that had I not been starting a romance with Aaron that fall, I might've considered other opportunities. I'm weirdly glad I never did, but I'm also glad that I'm finally focused enough to realise why that sort of thing scared me as long as it did.

Internet communities didn't exist then, not the way we know them now. And it's impossible to explain how glad I am - how proud I am - to have been part of one of the first - one of the longest lasting.

And while I cried tonight at the end of the show, I didn't cry half as much as I did when laughingirl got back in touch with me last year and I rediscovered the lives of so many people who presences I so strongly missed.

So if I can swing it, maybe we'll do another Secret Santa Extravaganza this winter?

Comments

[tempestus.livejournal.com]

...I cried tonight at the end of the show...

I cried through almost the entire episode! It was an excellent goodbye, and I will miss the show.

But I do know now what I want for Christmas! *hums Friends theme*

[rachet.livejournal.com]

I bawled. I think Lori was making fun of me though she was very good at not showing it. :-)

[longtimegone]

Man, I cried too. I was *thinks* 13? 14? when the show started. I've never been the biggest Friends fan. I loved the show of course, but I usually watched it in reruns on the WB or stayed current through friends that watched the show religiously.

As I watched the final moments tonight, crying like a little girl, I felt like an era of my life was ending. That show was part of the cultural backdrop of my most formative years.

It probably doesn't help that I am actually finally done with school, so there's another ending for me.

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

Weepy here, too. Your television remembrance was way less maudlin than mine. :D

One question, though, because I was terribly confused - where was Emma all this time?

[stephandra.livejournal.com]

With Rachel's mom. Her mom was taking her into Paris after Rachel had gotten things set up.

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad somebody knew the answer to that. I always worry about her - it seems like Rachel's always just leaving her in random places.

[sugarjet03.livejournal.com]

I just finished watching it (taped because my brother had his conference track meet), and I cried. It started when I was nine, but I didn't start watching it until my sophomore year of high school. Since then I've seen many of the older episodes, and my roommate this year and I watched the new ones religiously. It was so sad, but I think that they ended it in the best way possible.

~Erin

[viridescence13]

I loved the Secret Santa Extravaganzas and the Zone Postcard Exchanges and all of that. It would be really nice if we could start some of those things back up again. :)