The Guardian for this meeting was Eos Amaterasu. The comments are by Eos Amaterasu.

DR42 Resident: 's current display-name is "Chiff Chaff".
Beautifulmarira Resident: 's current display-name is "Mari".
DR42 Resident: ηαмαѕтє
Beautifulmarira Resident: hello

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DR42 Resident: Geez, join a group and the e-mail address book fills right up.
Beautifulmarira Resident: :)
Korel Laloix: Heya
DR42 Resident: That really is a wonderful dress.
Beautifulmarira Resident: hello
stevenaia Michinaga: waves
Beautifulmarira Resident: it is very pretty
DR42 Resident: I think I would wear it without the tafetta.
DR42 Resident: But, then again, look at what I wear!
stevenaia Michinaga: hi Eos
stevenaia Michinaga: Dr, Korel, Mari
stevenaia Michinaga: my dress?
Eos Amaterasu: hi steve, korel, Mari, Chiff

Korel Laloix: I am gong to be a bridesmaid again in August... just so looking forward to seeing what taffeta fashion disaster I will get to wear this time... lol
stevenaia Michinaga: rezzing is slow tonight
Eos Amaterasu: yes, korel looks like made of cloud
stevenaia Michinaga: congratulations
Korel Laloix: Very.
Beautifulmarira Resident: sounds fun Korel
DR42 Resident lovs Korel's fashion statement!
Korel Laloix: This will be my thirteenth time.... I can't wait.
Eos Amaterasu: wow!
DR42 Resident: Well, you are doing my share then. 0 for me.
Beautifulmarira Resident: oh wow
Eos Amaterasu: this must be part of some cultural matrix
Korel Laloix: I just like to play matchmaker... so ...... lol
stevenaia Michinaga: so you must have plenty of b bridsmaid dressses
Korel Laloix: Don't remind me.
Eos Amaterasu: what is it to be a bridesmaid?
Eos Amaterasu: bridesmaid of cloud :-)
Korel Laloix: A lot of helping with planning things.
Eos Amaterasu: ah, so you're actually a wedding consultant?
Korel Laloix: To an extent.
Korel Laloix: Help with the flowers choices.
Eos Amaterasu: and an anthropologist?
stevenaia Michinaga: you have vast experience
Korel Laloix: invitation putting together and guest lists.
Malinson Resident: 's current display-name is "Malinson Bloobury".
Korel Laloix: Arranging the church and reception.
Eos Amaterasu: you pull the strings on society
Eos Amaterasu: does the power go to your head?
Korel Laloix: Putting together the most humilating pictures possible for the reception... smiles
Korel Laloix: Of course it does... grins
Eos Amaterasu: heh heh
stevenaia Michinaga: Do they have many traditional first nation weddings
Korel Laloix: One of the best parts.. bossing peopel around.
stevenaia Michinaga: lol
Korel Laloix: I have done those.. but most regular if you want to call them that.

--BELL--

DR42 Resident: I'm off to take some serious drugs and fall asleep.... later. (All prescription, of course...)
Beautifulmarira Resident: night
Eos Amaterasu: ciao, chiff
Korel Laloix: Take care.
Eos Amaterasu: I take walks along Halifax's Dingle Park, where every weekend there are weddings... I've done many wedding walk-thrus
Santoshima Resident: 's current display-name is "San".
Beautifulmarira Resident: :)
stevenaia Michinaga: I think they call that crashing :)
Eos Amaterasu: always: bride in white, men in black, and women in splashes of colour
stevenaia Michinaga: Hi San
Santoshima Resident: hi
Korel Laloix: mmm.. having honey rosted cashews for a snack.
Eos Amaterasu feels and tastes each word
Korel Laloix: That sounds nice.. but keep in mind, the real purpose of a bridesmaid frock is to make the bride look good by comparison.. so we are always a fashion train wreck.... lol
Eos Amaterasu: very noble behaviour, korel
Beautifulmarira Resident: :)
Eos Amaterasu: but also couldn't you all look splendid?
Korel Laloix: We could.. but were would the fun be in that?.. smiles
Korel Laloix: Compaining about the dresses is part of the tradition...
stevenaia Michinaga: so you have 12 wedding albums?
Eos Amaterasu: heh heh
Korel Laloix smiles
Korel Laloix: Eleven.. one was a double.
Eos Amaterasu: You should get some kind of degree for that
stevenaia Michinaga: sna poofs
stevenaia Michinaga: *san
Korel Laloix: I would not mind... I could easily plan weddings I think for a living.. but not what I want to do wtih my life.
Eos Amaterasu: plan the next day?
Korel Laloix: I have done some of the set up for honeymoons as well.
Korel Laloix: That is sorta fun.
stevenaia Michinaga: oh?
stevenaia Michinaga: like pick locations, make rervations?
Eos Amaterasu: provide coaching?
stevenaia Michinaga: lol
Korel Laloix: More just doing research.
Korel Laloix: But it depends on what is wanted... I just try to help.
Eos Amaterasu: what's an ideal place?
Korel Laloix: And when the timeline is very limited, you end up helping more.
Korel Laloix: Sort of depends... this time they have not asked me to help but they are going to New Zealand to ski I think.

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Eos Amaterasu blinks
Korel Laloix: But have set up cruises and Hawaii honeymoons before.
Korel Laloix: I am trying to find a good vacation for Reeba and i right after we both Graduate in December.
Korel Laloix: So I am working that at the moment.
Eos Amaterasu: Paris
stevenaia Michinaga: well you ahve 11 brids to ask how they liked theirs
Korel Laloix: That does soudn lovely.
stevenaia Michinaga: *brides
Korel Laloix: True.. smiles
stevenaia Michinaga: or Paris, hard to argue with that Eos
Korel Laloix: But we are looking at possibly going to Argentina for a horse back riding and beach trip.
Eos Amaterasu: awesome
Beautifulmarira Resident: cool
Korel Laloix: But... expensive for sure.
stevenaia Michinaga: you only graduate once
stevenaia Michinaga: (or twice)
Korel Laloix: Well.. my second time... for my masters.
Korel Laloix: This one place has agreed to let us ride the same horse as together we weight under two hundred pounds.
Korel Laloix: And that will save us a bit.
Eos Amaterasu: do horses like to be ridden by two people?
Korel Laloix: But the air fair is what is the big issuee
Korel Laloix: Reeba does not thing it would be a problem... but I have no idea.
Eos Amaterasu: an adventure.... possibly a comedy :-)
Korel Laloix: We do end up on the silly side from time to time for sure.

Eos Amaterasu: btw, re the theme of hypocrisy, one thing I was wondering about was the SL/RL boundary
Eos Amaterasu: you're one thing in one life, another in another life - or are you?
Korel Laloix: I think we are different even if we don't want to be.
Korel Laloix: I am in a phase of making my AV as much like me as I can.. but have not always done that.
Eos Amaterasu: or the same even if we don't want to be?
Korel Laloix: Exactly.
Beautifulmarira Resident: some would say that in SL you can experiment with ways of being that you would be hesitant to try in RL
Eos Amaterasu: sounds like fun :-)
Korel Laloix: That is very true..
Korel Laloix: When i joined Sl to do a paper on Cybersex.. that was a recurent theme... trying out things people would not do RL.. yet.
stevenaia Michinaga: you can more of what you cannot be in RL
stevenaia Michinaga: which might be more honest here
Eos Amaterasu: as with all rehearsal, it's a rehearsal for realization
Beautifulmarira Resident: you can hide away from reality here
Beautifulmarira Resident: make your own little perfect life
Beautifulmarira Resident: pretend your not so perfect RL doesn't exist
Eos Amaterasu: how does that make your RL feel?
Korel Laloix: I don't guess I approach it like that.. but I am sure there are some.
Beautifulmarira Resident: not me so much but someone I know did this, weraked their life when SL became more real than RL
Korel Laloix: There are a lot of people that hurt themselves with online things..
Beautifulmarira Resident: kinda sad to see really
Korel Laloix: porn, gambling, neglecting their SO.

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Beautifulmarira Resident: people find addictions of all kinds to lose themselves in, online is just another same as drugs or alcohol
Korel Laloix: True...
Korel Laloix: There will alwasy be ways to self destruct.
Beautifulmarira Resident: with the same devastating effects
Beautifulmarira Resident: yes Korel
Korel Laloix: Just sad to see the carnage that they leave behind.
Eos Amaterasu: so SL inevitably affects RL?
Beautifulmarira Resident: absolutly
stevenaia Michinaga: it is an aspect of RL
Eos Amaterasu: or of some kind of L
Eos Amaterasu: there also DL - Dream Life
Korel Laloix: I have been in Sl for more than a quarter of my life.
Korel Laloix: I can't even beging to tell you how much it has effected me.
stevenaia Michinaga: and dreaming of SL
Eos Amaterasu: yes, I once dreamt of Wol
stevenaia Michinaga: there is much to enrich anyone here if they choose wisely
Beautifulmarira Resident: ah that's the thing to choose wisely which we do not always do
Eos Amaterasu: could SL be a kind of shamanic path?
Korel Laloix: Oh I have done a lot of the bad Sl choices for sure.... lol
Beautifulmarira Resident: depends on where in SL you go ;)
stevenaia Michinaga: in what sense, Eos
Eos Amaterasu: kind of shapeshifting reality sense, for healing or wisdom of open discovery
Eos Amaterasu: or open discovery
Eos Amaterasu: or both :-)
Eos Amaterasu: rehearsal space for becoming yourself
stevenaia Michinaga: yes, good point
stevenaia Michinaga: frean from RL encomburences
stevenaia Michinaga: Free
Beautifulmarira Resident: or just a place to hide away from yourself too. there is this thing called choice that people have to make and while self discovery sound great it can be very frightening
Eos Amaterasu: erk!
Beautifulmarira Resident: maybe I'm too cynical about it
Eos Amaterasu: or a place to be safely yourself?
Beautifulmarira Resident: who is me?
Eos Amaterasu: :-)
Korel Laloix: I have found some frighting things about myself on Sl for sure.
Beautifulmarira Resident: i have only found betrayal
Eos Amaterasu: yikes
Eos Amaterasu feels sad
stevenaia Michinaga: so have I Korel (found out freightening things about you) but it only makes me enjoy your company more :)
Korel Laloix: Thanks... I think... smiles
Beautifulmarira Resident: sry I'm not good company tonihgt, there really is more to SL than what I have experienced and I realize that I'm only expressing one aspect
Beautifulmarira Resident: maybe why I have been hanging out here lately
Beautifulmarira Resident: this is a nicer spot than most

--BELL--

Eos Amaterasu: bringing the reality of things here is the best offering: how they are, no praise, no blame
stevenaia Michinaga: glad you found it
stevenaia Michinaga: I love in an hour we can start with brides maids dresses and end up here
Eos Amaterasu: so what colour will you be, korel?
stevenaia Michinaga: from what we wear to what we are
Beautifulmarira Resident: the essence of being
Korel Laloix: No idea this round yet.
Beautifulmarira Resident: has always thought black would be a cool bridesmaid colour (rather goth like)
Eos Amaterasu: I was at a wedding recently where the colours were black and purple
stevenaia Michinaga: not a good summer color
Beautifulmarira Resident: lovely
Eos Amaterasu: (my sister's wedding :-)
Beautifulmarira Resident: is heading off now g'night all
Eos Amaterasu: 'night, Mari
stevenaia Michinaga: night, glad you stopped by
Eos Amaterasu: must also hit the sack
Korel Laloix: Take care.
stevenaia Michinaga: ditto
Korel Laloix: Soudns liek a good idea.
stevenaia Michinaga: night Eos
Eos Amaterasu: ciao, belllissimi
stevenaia Michinaga: Korel
Korel Laloix: ciao