Nowena, please don't misunderstand me. Each of my compartments is very roomy. I find I don't fit well into a restricted compartment. I have been in the nun compartment, ex-nun compartment and a few others we won't go into here. So I do know what you mean. People are always surprising. What compartment for instance does jez fit into? She just will not stay in one she keeps jumping around and making hers bigger and bigger. I can't keep up with her.

Some things can be compartmentalized but people do have a way of falling out of theirs, sometimes for good and sometimes for bad.

Well, I was just teasing you, but I like your reply. Could you see that my space has ample Mountain Dew on ice?

Oh Nowena, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Kit loved Mountain Dew. Sure I'll see that you have a big cabinet of your own, cold room for your AMountain Dew. Also, a nice chaise lounge to rest your weary bones after a day er night. I'll stick your compartment right next to jez so that I can find two of my favorite people quickly.

Great! Oh, by the way. Hope you don't mind if I bring along three cats? They hate to be left behind and I think you'd love Ruby. She's a whole compartment on her own.

While I love the other two dearly, Ruby has become the closest thing to a familiar that I've had in a very long time. We understand each other more and more every year, and that's actually scary in some ways.

Cats are always welcome. Cameron is territorial but Amy is sweet and friendly. Ah, we have a garden, a big garden so they can roam around there if they wish. Compartments for the cats are no problem, mine insist on having their own.

I had a cat like Ruby. Alexandra was her name, a large calico. Losing her was as traumatic to me as losing a family member or close friend.

Lt's see I need to stock up on Mountain Dw and cat food. Hmm...I need to do a little expanding. Maybe some redcorating to make my compartment complex a little more friendly as I seem to be collecting new friends. Silvery and her new husband but long time companion need a place. Two children, one from a previous marriage. Better add a playground.

Being involved in several voice acting forums has led to a different opinion of Internet and Real Life definitions. The Internet is a part of real life. You can find jobs, shop, communicate with others on it quite easily. Sure there are sharks out there just the same as in so called real life. Sure you can make the same mistakes online or offline. Find happiness, share joys and news, get hurt, watch some one you care about destroy himself. Online or offline it is the same. One advantage of Online usage is that you can keep in contacts easily, email, instant messaging, SKYPE, join FaceBook, Twitter etc. You can also loose contact just as in offline life. Internet friendship is as real, joyous, painful as offline friendship. Internet life is what you make it just as is offline life. We live in a mobile world now and the Internet brings us closer together. I can share the same interest with someone in Hong Kong, Israel, UK, Japan. I may say hi to my neighbors here in New Jersey, may visit them in their homes and actually know less about them, have less in common with them than I to with a person 3000 miles away.

Internet makes it possible for a shut=in person to maintain contact with world, to be less lonely, more social than he would be otherwise. Use the same common sense you should use offline that is all. I don't give out my financial access codes to those I know offline,, I don't give out a lot of personal information to people I don't know well offline. Infact there are Internet friends who know more about my opinions, sexual preferences, what I like to eat etc than there are offline people. Part of that is that it is true that rejection on the Internet is less annoying than face to face rejection. That I think is the only difference.

Can I jump in into this conversation between both of you Nakia and Nowena?

I know that online friendship can be indeed deep. Sometime you don't feel lonely because you know you can talk to someone on the internet. It might have something to do with the way internet works. The people you meet there are kind of "close strangers". You can share with them some of your deepest thoughts and you know as well that it should not transpire to real people around. But sometime it does...

And I would like to thank my online friends who are still with me. You know I am grateful for you being here and waiting for me

You are always a delight to see, Lalwende. Wherever I see you.

Yes, I think online friendships can be a wonderful blessing not expected. It can be difficult, sometimes, to know what is really happening with online friends, since we can't see the body language clues, but the internet has also helped us to learn to make our words more appropriate in that direction, I think, so that our feelings are better known.

Lalwende, it does my heart good to see you here. "Close strangers" that is very good. I like that. You and Nowena are both very wise and very good. It is good to know you both are here. I am an emotional person and Nowena has been a great support and help to me. You Lalwende have helped me in many ways. Finding mods to help is just one of them.

Because I am emotional sometimes I get frantic when I can't get in touch with people I care about especially since my friend's death. I know Lalwende doesn't know about that and this is not the place to discuss it but it hit me hard and deep. So both of you please do me a big favor and keep in touch. Keep and old woman from worrying, please.