While I Was Out
Wednesday, June 11th, 2003 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthI think I've discovered another definition of the verb 'to gafiate'. (Which is (for readers outside the sf community) getting away from it all.)
To gafiate: to lose touch with goings-on to the extent that one misses the announcement of a friend's death.
Dave Mooring's dead. He was one of the crowd I used to hang out with at conventions before the BSFA and I became closely acquainted. I spent whole afternoons -- especially at Novacons -- indulging in comfortable conversation with Dave and Sarah. Wicked sense of humour, generous, playful: I have a photograph somewhere of him sending some cuddly toy off to heaven at the '95 Eastercon, aided by a bunch of helium balloons. Naturally, I was also jealous of his hair. When I was writing, he managed to draw some of my characters without having more than a couple of slurred sentences to go on. I've missed him over the last few years, when he and Sarah had been absent from conventions -- as it turns out, due to illness.
Too many people I know have died recently. Wish they hadn't. Wish Dave wasn't one of them.
To gafiate: to lose touch with goings-on to the extent that one misses the announcement of a friend's death.
Dave Mooring's dead. He was one of the crowd I used to hang out with at conventions before the BSFA and I became closely acquainted. I spent whole afternoons -- especially at Novacons -- indulging in comfortable conversation with Dave and Sarah. Wicked sense of humour, generous, playful: I have a photograph somewhere of him sending some cuddly toy off to heaven at the '95 Eastercon, aided by a bunch of helium balloons. Naturally, I was also jealous of his hair. When I was writing, he managed to draw some of my characters without having more than a couple of slurred sentences to go on. I've missed him over the last few years, when he and Sarah had been absent from conventions -- as it turns out, due to illness.
Too many people I know have died recently. Wish they hadn't. Wish Dave wasn't one of them.
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Date: Wednesday, June 11th, 2003 02:18 pm (UTC)Wish I wasn't, but...