Daily Bloggery 2009-03-18: "We need to talk . . ."

Gwenny was absolutely correct, of course.

The thing is, those four little words have gained a lot of other, less than nice, meanings. Like "I need to have an uncomfortable conversation with you, pay attention," or "I need to talk, you just need to listen." It's a conversational flag more than a literal request for verbal conversation.

Last night, those words appeared in a whisper (private in-game) chat with Gwenny as I was getting ready to log out of WoW. I logged off as planned, but as I lay down to go to sleep, my mind churned over those words. Another concern -- I enjoy expressing affection verbally to my SO. Several times last night, I said "Honey," etc in Vent, and I worried that she was catching flak from some of the other guildies about it.

10 min later, I logged back into Vent (the guild voice chat service), grabbed Gwenny and asked her about it.

The conversation went something like this:
Gwenny: "I was running heroics [high level dungeons] all night, and we did not have any chance to, you know, talk to each other."
Me: "I know how demanding heroics are, so I just listened. Hearing you have heroic fun motivates me to level faster. Anyone bring up any issues with my VDAs (verbal displays of affection) in Vent or gchat?"
Gwenny: "No issues have been brought to my attention. The guildies think you're great. There may be issues with a specific guildie [longish explanation of who and why], I'll let you know if I see him online."
We spent a few more minutes discussing non-WoW matters -- you know, two-way voice conversation, out of game. She does not have a cell phone -- something she's going to fix soon.

I have an ever-growing list in a text file: "I Love Gwenny, Reasons Why." This is Reason 17.

Health: SGLs rocked yesterday, all below 120.