You know who's not around anymore? Salin.

[Phillycat]

I saw her on the Oscar thread. She was really really nice. I wish she still posted.

I suppose it's only us losers who keep posting on the same website for 7 years. Normal people get a life after a while, don't they? x(

[Danger Mouse]

1. What's a 'life'?

[TK421]

4. What you don't have n/t

[Danger Mouse]

8. ...

:cry:

[salin]

28. It is something, I believe, mythical

that some people refer to ;-)

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

2. Normal people get a what what now?

:shrug:

[femmocrat]

3. You're right!

I miss her Word Association threads.

[Phillycat]

5. She was just super-nice.

Very even-handed and fair. Which is rare here! :D

[salin]

12. thank you and *blush*

I still read DU regularly (esp latest news and opeds) but life right now gives me few extra minutes for posting. It is very flattering to be remembered. Thank you. :D

[salin]

11. be careful for what you wish for

;-)

If I get home from work early enough one evening this week - I just might be compelled to start one of those :D !

I still read DU nearly daily, but life has gotten to busy that I don't often have time to post. :hi:

[Shakespeare]

6. Once in a great, great while I still see her post.

She's a very valued member here--kind, reasoned and very bright. I'd sure love to see her around more often.

[salin]

13. Thank you -

for the past couple of years, life has been so busy (60+ hour work weeks) that I rarely have time to do much more than read. But I generally do a twice a day read of DU. When I have posted, in recent times, I rarely get a response (certainly due to the size of the community) - so it almost feels like I am once again a "newbie". It is very heartwarming to read that some Duers still recognize me on DU - and still read my meandering posts. :D

Reading this gave me a lift. I had become to feel pretty anonymous when I post. I greatly appreciate your compliment.

Peace,

salin

[Shakespeare]

18. Of course I recognize you!

You might remember me better as Not_over_it. :hi:

Good to see you here tonight, and know that all is well (if very busy).

[A-Schwarzenegger]

7. She was the first person who ever PMed me here.

I'll have to PM her & see if she's around.

[salin]

14. I am - and thank you

I rarely PM, but your Arnold "act" was so much fun - even before Oscar. I have always felt a warm connection with your whimsical postings. Thanks for PMing me, or I wouldn't have seen this thread. It is so rarely that we get to see that we are appreciated by others. :D :hi:

[jonnyblitz]

9. she was cool. she was close pals with ex -DUer NSMA also.

she sent me a few really nice PMs here and there out of the blue back in the day.

[salin]

15. Hi there... and interestingly enough

while NMSA and I hadn't talked for several months - we were on the phone today.

Didn't we laugh - on some PMs - about being "called out" as freepers? After being here awhile that became an amusing thing (give that there was so much online evidence per our postings to the contrary!

It is good to "see you" tonight, and thanks for the kind sentiments.

[jonnyblitz]

17. i bet it's been about a year since I have talked to NSMA on

the phone. I have since gotten a different cell phone number and haven't really given it to anybody since i hate phone chat except for mapping out logistics when I travel or meet people or for emergencies. I generally don't participate too much on DU or hang with DUers offline like I used to either.

As for our PMing I honestly forget what we talked about. I just remember you and your niceness but I forget details! :hug: :hi:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

23. Say hi to Teena for me next time you talk.

She's one of the few Duers I've actually meeted in person.
Miss her around cheer.

[salin]

24. I will pass on your greetings,

I know it will give her a big smile!

[GOPisEvil]

10. She pops in from time to time.

Her project consumes a lot of her time. I remember her getting it off the ground.

She's just so...nice.

[salin]

16. Thanks and a big HELLO!

You are absolutely right. The project is now almost at maturity, doing very well, but still consuming 60+ hours a week. I still real LBN and the oped forum daily - but posting time is almost negligible. I have been very fortunate that our paths have crossed on those times that I have been posting. :D

Heck at one point you graciously put together a silly (and embarrassing, but in good humor so okay) icon for me back in my young and fairly superficial days. (Do you even remember that?)

I hope that you are well, and that life is delivering you interesting developments!

Peace,

salin

[DS1]

19. YAY

:bounce:

[salin]

25. Back at ya!

:hi:

:bounce"\:

[salin]

20. Our dear Oscar thread originator

and now author (how cool is that!) sent me the heads up per this thread.

I still read DU in the early am and late pm - but have little time to post. When I have written a post in the
past couple of years, (because I post so rarely) it is often like being a newbie again. No one responds and it as if one is talking inside of a windtunnell (where the sound gets absorbed). It is very nice, and flattering to read this thread. Thank you for the kind words.

Sadly I have to report, that even though I don't post much these days, it isn't a sign that I have a "normal life". I still work very long hours (60+ a week). After the Bushjr years, many of us don't have a life (outside of work)!

Thanks again for the kind words and remembrance on this thread. It is very nice to be remembered, and so kindly. :hi:

[Phillycat]

21. You know I was catpower2000, right? That's why I remember you so well...

I've been here since time began too. :rofl: It's really good to see you. :hug:

[salin]

26. I remember you as both

janesez and catpower2000 :D :hi: Seven years - wow - how time flies!

Hope that life is treating you well! :hug:

[Phillycat]

29. It is!

I got married last year, and my husband and I are moving to France in September. We are so excited! :bounce:

[salin]

36. Wow!

That is quite an adventurous move. How very exciting! Congrats - on the marraige, and the life adventure! :bounce:

[RainDog]

22. Hey, I think I remember you! ;)

And I miss seeing you here and here, tho I do see your mom from time to time. (Her mom is also great.)

When did we meet (on DU first) - whenever it was, that was shortly after I joined DU. I miss our beers at the Uptown after the Wed. war vigil... I don't even know if that's still going on. I heard from Christine b/c I left my sleeping bag at her house when I went to Washington with UPJ. I don't really miss our journalist "friend." Long story. Don't know if he published that book yet or not.

Hope things are going well for you.

I tried to carry on your word association threads but I don't think I've met the challenge.

xoxo

[salin]

27. Hello!

I still try to get down there on Saturdays - but am reduced to come back up here on Sunday - so my time in your neck of the woods is quite short. One of these days we have to meet somewhere for coffee - maybe the bakehouse or paneras near the mall?

Mom and I just got back this week from a second trip to Norway (we went two years ago, as well) to see family. What a fabulous trip!

I will never forget how we met. You posted about seeing anti war literature/articles at the local farmer's market back before the Iraq invasion (summer 2002) - and I posted back that I was the person who found the articles and that my mom had reproduced them and brought them to the peace table at the Farmer's Market! I think we ended up going for coffee that very same day!

I haven't read anything from our journalist "friend" in quite some time, he was.... well... interesting.

I hope that you and your sons are well. Life is busy, but also rewarding here in Indy.

Bsst,

salin

[RainDog]

33. Norway sounds great!

Yes, I do remember you pm'd me that Sunday and we met an hour or so later at Panera. I just didn't know when it was... as in year, time of year... I remember we sat outside so it wasn't too cold. However, I am the ultimate space cadet as far as dates, numbers, time... my internal clock's battery is dead.

My kids are doing really well. Youngest just graduated h.s. and will start college in fall. Ack! I'm so old now. oh well. it happens. I am, unfortunately, still hurt and prone to anger or tears about things that should be long gone in my life (ifyouknowwhatimean.)

Yes, we should try to get together one day... maybe a Sat. at the Farmer's Mkt? That means I would have to get up before 11 on a Saturday, but I think I can swing it. Neenie's, right by there, has real gelato made from grandma's (Neenie's) recipes.

I'm applying for jobs elsewhere, btw. I hope I'll be within driving distance of my kids, but if not, I'll just have to deal. Waiting to hear back on two positions now, but still need to send out more resumes. Had an interview yesterday, in fact. We'll see. (biting fingernails)

Oh, I found out that our "friend" is teaching journalism near you, at least part-time. Still doing his thing for various places, tho. Did I ever tell you what happened when he came to my house? If so, we DO need to get together for coffee or gelato. All I can say or he'll jump all over me when his psychic hotline finds out I've said something about him. :eyes:

[salin]

39. You have raised your boys well!

I know there were some challenges, and now the youngest is ready to go off to college. Good on him and good on you!

I often don't get to start my drive down on Saturday until the afternoon, so the farmers' market may not work. But this Nelli's that you refer to (that I haven't yet heard of, nor tried out) sounds like a good place to meet sometime this summer. There is so much to catch up on!

I remember a rather unseemly and inappropriate assertiveness story that you told me about our "friend" - the journalist. I don't recall the details, but I do recall the "ick factor" response that I had to it.

It is great to connect on this thread - I look forward to catching up with yout this summer. This weekend my time will be pretty brief down there - as I am working on a grant that is due Monday. However, in general my hours are a little lighter in the summer and I don't always work on Saturdays (as I tend to have to do the rest of the year.)

:loveya:

[ThomCat]

30. Salin is a wonderful person.

There are a lot of great people who no longer post. :(

[Phillycat]

32. There are.

But not nearly as many as people think. :D (You're nicer than I am.)

[AwakeAtLast]

31. I love to see salin's posts!

And I've met her! :bounce:

She is great to meet in person! :D

[salin]

40. How kind!

and the sentiment is mutual. We really have to get together this summer. Maybe my memory is faulty, but I seem to recall that you moved a wee bit closer to Indy? It has been *too* long, we really have to get together again, soon! :hi:

[AwakeAtLast]

50. Yes, a wee bit

Pendleton area. PM me any time you want! :hi:

[Maddy McCall]

34. She got a little fed up with what was going on in GDP.

And I don't blame her....I did, too.

I think she kinda took it to heart, because she's been here so long, and hated to see DU self-destruct.

I love Salin...she's a great person.

Edit: Oops! Stupid me...I should have looked at the thread before I posted. :D

[jonnyblitz]

37. I am sure the lounge annoyed her a bit during that certain period.

[salin]

46. Your memory is quite good

I did throw a hissy fit or two per some strange lounge dynamics. I later found it rather amusing that some of the posters who had been rather obnoxious at one point, later lamented about the episodic hostile gangups that would occur from time to time in the lounge. I haven't kept up with the lounge in the last year or so, so I have no idea if this commentary would apply to the contempary lounge forum.

You have a good memory. :D

[salin]

41. heh... I seem to remember that back in the last primary season

that a third party had to suggest that you and I 'connect' despite and beyond the heatedness of that years GDP (it drove me crazy four years ago - so this time I pretty much avoided the whole forum - and thus it never drove me nuts!) And after that intervention... (from the third, and beloved party)... a nice mutual admiration society between the two of us was formed. :D I always deeply appreciate the (all to rare) times that our paths cross. :hug:

[jonnyblitz]

43. damn, if we keep talking about you every night you will post!

:hi:

[salin]

45. LOL!

The only time I have to read (and now post) is late night (eastern time) or very early in the morning. So yes, this could stretch on, if folks that I haven't "seen" for awhile respond, i guess the conversation could stretch on awhile - and the irritation of loung denizens who have no idea who I am and keep being confronted with a thread jumping back up. :D Oh well :D :hi:

[Forkboy]

35. This thread proves you wrong. She doesn't have a life either.

:P

She's a great poster, and has always been one of the DUers I enjoy reading posts from.

And it's great to see her in this thread! :hi:

[salin]

42. No life! None!

bur am oddly satisfied with life as it is today. :D

It is so great to be remembered and recoginzed by those that I have always respected and appreciated (esp those with great ironic postings that I have always found amusing, and centering (per when threads get absurd)). Please know that I get a kick out of reading your postings, when I have run across them. :D :hi:

[Fox Mulder]

38. You can still have a life and post on the same website after seven years.

[salin]

44. agreed!

:D I don't have much of a life, but that fact has nothing to do with my posting on DU for seven *gasp - has it really been that long - years*. I was just nuts enough at the beginning of the decade to think I could start a nonprofit organization - and now work for that organization. The "fault" for no life, is completely my own. The cool thing is that I still read Du in the early am and late pm almost daily - seven years after I stumbled upon DU. :D

[Fox Mulder]

47. Hey!

Glad to see you back. :)

[SarahB]

48. After awhile, it sometimes just gets a little stale.

I've been around 5 & 1/2 years and I just don't have the motivation to post like I did when I used to post a lot. It happens. :shrug:

I remember Salin though and liked her a lot. Hi Salin! :hi:

[salin]

49. Goodmorning SarahBelle!

I always have enjoyed our exchanges, nice to see you! :hi: