Often I go to things, concerts and the like, and I return to the blogosphere and discover that someone on my blogroll has been there as well, or someone leaves a comment.
I wonder, because I freely publish pictures of myself on t'internet whether people see me and say 'oh it's that woman who blogs' but feel shy of saying hello because I write like I'm a stroppy bitch well, it can feel funny approaching someone you don't really know.
And occasionally people have approached me and it's a funny situation because it's different from a random conversation with a random stranger, because maybe I know something about them and they know something about me, and I'm conscious that people can sometimes find me, how shall I put it, over-confident, but that's only a bluff for being shy, then I'm conscious of not being over-confident but I go all shy anyway, and I say I need to go to the loo, which isn't really a lie, and then I worry that maybe they think I'm rude. Which perhaps I am but only because I'm shy and conscious of being overconfident because I'm shy.
But I never mind someone approaching me and saying "I know you off the internet" and introducing themselves, in fact I can safely say it's really nice when that happens. And I can almost always be found in the place where smoking is allowed.
But is it wise to announce my whereabouts in advance? I mean, okay, it could mean some weirdo could approach me but a weirdo could approach me anyway without preplanning or without even knowing about the blog, so what's the harm in saying where I'll be before I'll be there?
