First Impressions

kodanshi thought i was a mutant woman with big feet.

ned thought i wanted his sexy, sexy moustache.

james and others are jealous of my supposed glut of female attention.

mission accomplished.

Impression I make?...not sure...probably not too serious.

For those of you I've met, my first impressions were by and large positive and by and large they were right, with only a handful of notable exceptions. But I'm not going to delve into it, since no one else is doing it. :P

I think I am generally recieved in the spirit with which I give myself, but p'raps I talk about pies too much.

I've had two homeless people yell at me saying "Hey..... life's not so bad, man..... CHEER UP!" in the past two weeks.... maybe I should watch more 50s sitcoms.

dammit I am getting all inadequate, time for more coffee

I think I come across as the guy who doesn't know when not to go for the painfully bad joke, or even worse, the guy who knows but does it anyway because the resultant cringing makes him laugh.

As far as the ilx universe goes, most of you I don't even recall my first impression of -- memory is such a faulty thing. I tend to think well of people til their actions prove me wrong. Doomintroll I disliked off the bat, but came to like his oddly entertaining posts.

And the folks I've met (offline) from the ILXChange (all 92 of 'em) have been amazingly swell as well. The folks I've met (online) are swell as well. It's like a big fat beesting. I love it.

When I started reading Bitchcakes! I had a mental picture of Ally as small, Hispanic-looking, without glasses, and really bubbly and chatty, with a high girlish voice. I was wrong on every count.

My impression of Otis from the very first posts of his that I read was of someone who was older (like in his 30s) and wise and laid-back and sort of a folkie. I think I saw him as a larger stocky guy with a round face and brown hair parted on the side.

I imagined Fred as bigger and more relaxed and louder than he seemed at the NY meet. I didn't imagine him with glasses or a beard, though I guess he lost the beard.

For some reason I was really surprised by Anthony's photo. I'd imagined him as a skinny, clean-shaven guy with angular features and dark hair and who looked like he had more attitude.

I imagined Tracer to be older and to talk more about bluegrass and less about techno.

I imagined Sterling, Jimmy, and Dan to be white. I think I saw Dan as being medium build, fit, and having short neatly-coiffed red curly hair and wearing a Cure T-shirt.

And no-one ever believes me when I tell them my age ... they always think I'm at least five years younger than I really am. Which is a compliment, I guess.

I initially read this as a verb form, thus 'to be beested.' Which sounded quite wrong.

As for me, I'm 46, with a BIG beergut, little devil-horn-like patches of white hair sticking out of my scalp, feet the size of crock pots, and a really raspy cough. *HACK* Excuse me. I'm also a good dancer.

First impressions are a bit odd because it's all about what the person was like at that moment (duh, talk about stating the obvious) and so they can vary hugely. Some people who have only met me once think I'm extremely quiet, others assume I never stop talking (one person told me that the first time she met me she assumed I was on speed because I was talking so much. I wasn't on speed though, you see, I'm like the world's least speedy guy - that's what makes it funny, otherwise it'd just be someone making an astute observation). I'd say I probably come across as someone quite shy but trying to talk through it.

Oh and people always ALWAYS assume I'm gay.

First impression I make? Um, probably nervous, not very good at talking, and very bad at saying anything interesting when I do talk. Either that or drunk, hypercaffeinated and falling over. Fairly apt either way, then.

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yup.

I do have long, straight black hair Torenako. I knew we were the same number (whatever it was) for a reason.

Person who's gender I'm most in doubt of: Sean SF.

Noone know who I am even those who once knew me.

This is hilarious. Sundar has described one of my best friends from high school.

First visual image of Mark S was wrong: I know this even though have never met him (cor).