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My pics from the first tumblr meetup, Williamsburg, April 2008.

I made so many good friends that night: (Eric, Nick Gray, Soup, Bianca, Mark, Justin, Anthony.. dozens more so I’ll stop listing y’all.)

Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to tumblr for helping change my life.

Technically, it was the second meetup, but I’ll always reblog these images because they include me after my first night cooking at Whisk & Ladle (top right, in blue); a lot of my old college friends (who actually weren’t/aren’t on Tumblr; top image, middle group); and then a lot of friends I ended up making months, even years, later (Rachel, for one, top photo, brunette in black and grey). 

And then there’s the fact that Peter — the guy who this September will marry one of my best friends — is standing just a few feet away from those old friends I mentioned, people who are now like his family … but Peter and Andrea didn’t meet ‘til a little evening party at Lauren’s place some 6 months later (bottom left, big smile).

Which begs the question … where were you that night, Andrea? We could have moved this whole process up half a year.

And it also begs the question … just where would we be without Tumblr? Who would Andrea be with? And given the fact that I met M. through Cirino whom I met through Mark whom I met through Nick — who would I be with? 

And where would little Zoe be??

omg… this was the night nora, who after reading my blog and assuming i was gay, brought some dude to introduce to me. we were having a great ol’ chat about neighborhoods in nyc until i mentioned i loved this one particular neighborhood but lost it in a break-up to this woman i had been dating b/c it was her hood. he got a weird look on his face and just strolled away. 

hilarity ensued. the assumptions folks make about a pocket square, i tell ya..

i also brought a non-tumblring buddy and convinced him to tell people he wrote baugher if anyone asked what his tumblr was… 

heh.

I always love it when these pics make their way around again. The first night I met EVERYONE. I’m in the 3rd and 4th pics in purple with Lauren and Melissa and yucking it up with BK. Upon meeting Kevin, I timidly reached out an arm to shake his hand and he gave me a big hug instead. Chris came up to me and for some reason was surprised I was a 5’9” white girl. Something had given him the impression that I was short. And Asian.

Five years ago. Wild.

I spy Andrew! Can you find him??