"meet" each other before they actually meet each other, posting short videos of themselves saying certain words and answering certain questions to reveal and discuss regional differences in accents and word choice. That...sounds very dull, the way I've explained it, but I've been captivated by these videos, perhaps because I spend so much time reading my fellow online writers' words and have so few opportunities to hear their spoken voices. I am not going to the Blathering myself, though I had hoped to (Airfare + Hotel = Poorhouse, alas), but after watching a few of these videos I decided to make my own. So I did! On Saturday! And then I actually watched the thing, and while I'd been able to view the videos of others without ruminating upon their subjects' weight or features or physical trappings in general, when I watched mine these things were all I could see, and I quickly nixed the idea of sharing them with the Internet. And then, almost as quickly, I became massively cross with myself for being such an insufferable ninny and was overcome by the urge to post it after all, just to spite me. I generally go out of my way to avoid discomfort or embarrassment, regardless of whether said embarrassment or discomfort is justified -- there is no special award ceremony or Enlightenment Guarantee reserved for those who go on rollercoasters or eat maybe-deadly puffer fish, after all -- but I've noticed, since attaining my Highest Ever Weight (