Let me say that I have a passion for Second Life dancing, an activity that can keep me up late into the night. For a while I gave it up for less strenuous activities like sleeping, but, once I got another little taste, I got hooked again, and I found that I absolutely cannot go without. I'll shake my ass to almost anything: Hi-NRG, house, techno, Chicago, progressive, salsa, or whatever.
Please take note of my club dancing behaviors: (1) I tend to dance alone; (2) I usually dance right in front of the DJ and pay little attention to the rest of the venue; (3) if you come up to me and tell me I'm cute or that I'm a good dancer, I will simply take it as a bad pickup line or as sarcasm (it's SL, you know, and everyone is a cute star dancer); and (4) if you say hi to me, I probably won't remember you unless we're both regulars and I see you all the time.
I'm telling you this to put my remarkable first encounter with Michele in perspective.
I met her at Cirque Mystique, a Second Life hotspot of days gone by. It was Lingerie Night. As I danced alone, I could not help but notice this quietly lovely creature off to my left, studious-looking in her glasses, but exuding a soft sensuality that leapt out at me in a way I can't quite describe even to this day. She seemed to be friends with the hostess.
I watched her for a while. She appeared to be in her 30s, and she moved with a careless grace that betrayed her athleticism. Closer inspection revealed a tautness uncommon in girls of any age, and I suppressed an image that leapt into my mind, one of her sinewy legs wrapped around me in a deadly (for me) embrace. Thinking such thoughts, a casual hello would have been difficult to muster.