Hello hello!

Hi there! Just a first posting from my virtual self, Analise, and indeed the person behind my avatar. This blog will probably develop this way or that as it goes along, but it seems that it will have several purposes.

Firstly, this is a place to record the pretty places that I’ve been, the daft side of Second Life and those moments shared with friends. For me Second Life, which from now on I’ll call SL, is a wonderful creative world, made by the people who live in it. It’s also a place where I have made and kept friends, and it goes way beyond the chat room experience. In a chat room, even if you have some avatar that stands there and blinks, you can’t walk, fly and teleport around a huge world. You can’t go off to some chilled out place and project yourself onto an avatar that is dancing to vintage Salsa music. Typing (((HUG))) is so different to actually giving a hug to the other person’s avatar. SL hugs warm the heart – OK not like a real life hug, but that person still touches you.

I love the fashion of SL, I love to shop and browse, and I like bumping into people (often literally) and making friends in these locations. One thing this blog will definitely have is pictures of the bizarre and silly side of SL. One moment I’m re browsing around shopping, another I’m sky diving off the top of the shopping mall that I’ve just visited.

So anyway, this is My So Called Second Life. I ain’t no Claire Danes, but at least on SL I’m something more like the female that I wish I had been in this so called real life, bleuch!