so any questions, thoughts, anything that you want to add

or if you, like owly, missed the meeting but have burning questions!

can you kind of sum it up? what points did you discuss? what was the connection to SL?

lol please write me a report. jk. but a sense of what ground was covered would be lovely

i am technically being sneaky while in a meeting right now so hopefully other people can do that in the meantime lol

gah the person next to me keeps looking at my screen sorry

Yay!!!

I will write but I can't until I get home.

Waves to the nosey person near cat

I'm not even supposed to have my phone on my desk, sigh.

I can respond when I get to a computer.

ok so one of my other questions is wtf kind of names is dibs lol

sorry for the lack of punctuation, but that's the kind of statement one has to get out without any

name*

I crashed and then had to go start my day, but I was glad to see you in the pixel, guys.

ok, well first we actually DID discuss Dibs as a pseudonym, I think it was Polly who said she kept thinking about "first Dibs" and then it kind of made sense?

the origin story of why I picked this is I first read it probably around the age of 10/11 at my grandparent's house where I had free run of the Reader's Digest Condensed books. They had a ton of them.

it really stuck with me and I picked it up again while I was studying developmental psych, and my latest read was when I started therapy last year. I was interested in what other people thought about

Dibs overall, but also how people thought about it in the context of SL residents using SL as a type of "play therapy".

honestly, having not been active in SL since August, I'm afraid to look back and sort out what my life there was all about

Therapy time!

nope! nope nope nope nope nope nope nope

BUT I can certainly see how SL and "the room" are similar, oh yes

sl has a lot more drama

and no one ... no one ... is as patient as Miss A with letting people do whatever it is that they want to do to work out their shit

I think my therapist would be, if it was play therapy.

but if you mean SL... nobody has time for anyone!

I forgot to say last night that I was in therapy for five years and that my therapist always thought SL was wonderful for me

the play therapy part of SL can be powerful. I have incredibly fond memories of massive multiplayer goofiness - especially the home sim back to hallelujah blue etc. launching craziness was VERY therapeutic

and I know I constantly talk about this, but I actually find being able to go to a virtual beach on SL in the middle of winter very therapeutic.

i like having my OWN space that i can decorate however ever I want - even if it is only virtual

I could have a vaudeville hook in SL...

i could LAUNCH a vaudeville hook in SL

similar to the polly paperclip inspired toilet launcher

Gail when I first joined SL I went on quests for rain, secret passages, fireplaces.... Definitely filled in some serenity and curiosity holes. But then I discovered people there....