peppa wrote:to any staff members:
are the staff members friends? do the staff have meetings regularly to discuss new rules, monthly pets, annual events? do you get to know each other outside of that or hang out as friends? i've always wondered..
I'd say we make a pretty solid group of pals, yeah! We do chat outside of CS, and when there's events and stuff going on you can bet we talk about it, too :D We also do other things like playing games together or watching movies or
forcing gently persuading chevreuil to read books and share commentary with us.
There's a handful of people who I've already been friends with before any of us joined the team, but working together we also certainly connect with each other if we haven't done so before.
I've met two others IRL before.
Raire and I have been online friends for like, forever, but the first time we met was actually when I got stranded at a train station near his home, and he came to the station to help me pass the time. Another time he let me sleep over for a night because I'd been to a concert and wouldn't have had the energy to make it all the way back home at such a late hour. I was blessed with the opportunity to pet his bunnies
and then hold one for nail clipping, immediately becoming a villain in their bookBurrito Bunny and I met for a day when she and her class were on a trip in Europe. Their teacher allowed me to join them for the day, we went to a museum and a restaurant and it was pretty fun
once I found them, at least.
It was also really funny because her coursemates initially mistook me to be multiple years younger than I am. Flattering, really :]
I had to use public transport without knowing French and am proud to announce I only took the wrong bus once.
I would love to meet up with more folks one day, and I'd be lying if I said that I'm not secretly still hoping CS will have another hangout at a con one day, like the one at Anthrocon all those years ago.