I started YGM because I had to deal with my first true, someone-kill-me-please heartbreak. All posts before this one was done on www.blogs.24.com/feylian. I wrote it specifically for Perfect Guy. We wrote to each other every day for about 2 months and I had gotten used to writing everyday and I couldn’t give it up.

I still like the ygm format we eventually settled on and will keep on using it. I have a somewhat strange way of writing which is greatly influenced by my speech, the huge amount of time I spend on chat clients as well as PietSous and Boaz who inducted me into the doubtful joy of MMORPG (like WoW) acronyms. Therefore, a brief glossary:

ygm – ‘you’ve got mail‘. Perfect Guy and I used this in order inform one another on GTalk that we’d written those previously mentioned mails. Still just seeing this acronym makes me smile like a demented schoolgirl. No mean feat, that.

ftw – ‘for the win‘. Urban dictionary defines it as follows: “An enthusiastic emphasis to the end of a comment, message, or post. Sometimes genuine, but often sarcastic”.

/”word” – denotes an action. MSN offers custom emoticons* and the keyboard shortcuts for them almost all start with /.

/bounce – a state of being closely resembling ecstasy, before the word was robbed of its true meaning by MDMA. I am mostly so happy that I literally bounce**

*’sentence describing action’* – denotes an action. Blame this one on GTalk which bolds such sentences. We have since adopted it as stage directions. e.g. *collapses into a sobbing melodramatic heap at her twisted verbosity*

btw – ‘by the way’. Textual segue or off stage whisper. Sometimes both.

milf – ‘mom I’d like to do bad things to’

fail – Again thank you Urban dictionary for this definition: “either an interjection used when one disapproves of something, or a verb meaning approximately the same thing as the slang form of suck”. Also see epic fail.

sigh. pine. – Another state of being. Sometimes used seriously/truly but mostly it is froth.

*, **,*** – Footnotes. Until I find a way of doing superscript, yonder stars will have to do the job. Blame my love of this literary laziness on the most amazing/brilliant author of all time, David Foster Wallace.

That said, welcome to my new abode.

Feylian

*the only good thing about it btw. It fails. Constantly.

**an alarming sight seeing as I turn 30 very, very soon and am hardly elfin.

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