A few people have asked me recently why I’ve added new writers to Metaversally Speaking.
Truth be told, it’s because I’m finding it harder to sustain regular writing. It takes a lot of work to post an article daily, and to maintain being amusing/informative/insightful (pick none).
So for the past month or two, I’ve gone periods of days, and even weeks when I’ve not been able to post articles, engage is social media or even to log into Second Life.
Why?
That blessed curse known as Real Life of course. There’s been a major change in my real world circumstances, which I’m now feeling ready to divulge.
The first one is that in the real world I am actually female – I’m a twenty something rocker chick who loves salads and ice creams, but not together. It’s something that has been very difficult to keep under the wraps, and over the past couple of years, I’ve enjoyed playing a male avatar. When I first joined SL, I based my avatar on a guy who’s picture I found on Facebook, and proceeded to *borrow* the pics to maintain my cover.
Why did I do this? Well I never realised the advantages of being a male in Second Life – there are certainly several advantages to playing the opposite sex, including the different sorts of attention you garner. I could never bring myself to get a freenis though – that much is true!
The biggest challenges were when I was asked to start DJing about 2 years ago, and I had to claim my microphone was broken/I’d chewed on the mic by accident and it was distorting my voice. In reality, I was just using voice manipulation software, which I’d not managed to perfect yet and was making me sound rather odd.
People often ask me how I do everything I do – well us women have the knack of being able to multitask! You just don’t expect it from a guy av..!
So the real world circumstance that has been affecting my time recently? Well I’m expecting my first baby, and aside of all the moodswings and need to run to the bathroom and then nap all the time, I’m just finding that I’m doing a lot more in FL to prepare for the arrival of the baby.
I don’t know the gender yet, but I’m due to give birth on 31st June, and I can’t wait! Until then, and for a while after, I doubt I’ll be back to regular blogging, hence the hiring of new and talented writers to continue Metaversally Speaking to be the edgy, funny blog you’ve all come to love!
I guess there’s nowhere else for me to run after coming clean about this, but I hope y’all don’t think any different about me – I’m still Prad Prathivi 
POST-SCRIPT: Yes, it was an April Fool’s Gag – I’m fully male in the First Life as well as Second, although many may question my masculinity! Also, I’d never get any work done if I had a pair of breasts of play with.. 
Ana Lutetia on April 1, 2009
Bom dia, Prad!
Milla Michinaga on April 1, 2009
ahahhaha! you go girlfriend!
Maryna Wind on April 1, 2009
I can wait till June 31st to see your baby
Katoria on April 1, 2009
/me snorts
Quaintly on April 1, 2009
Yeah, riiiiiight. Of course you’re a woman. That totally explains EVERYTHING.
Ganymedes Costagravas on April 1, 2009
And I’m the father!
Who wants to be godfather or -mother of what will undoubtedly be a very cute redhaired bundle of joy?
Paisley Beebe on April 1, 2009
ok so this could be an April Fools joke…or Prad could have decided to tell us all of this on April Fools just to really F……K with our heads cause He/She is really a girl…I can attest I have never heard him/her speak. Which means he/she is probably his sister as well…..or …..not….which ever sex he/she is he/she is damn funny too funny for a 22 year old if anything I recon he is hiding his/her age! he/she is probably 50!!!! and this is just a Red Herring to put us off the track. From the look of the pic Prad I’d say a little waxing might be in order…and those titties won’t feed a duck let alone a babe…
Vaughan Vendetta on April 1, 2009
Oh, this breaks so many laws of nature…
~V.
Pan Aeon on April 1, 2009
June the 31st you say???
ROFL
Landsend Korobase on April 1, 2009
Suddenly you make sense to me – how you sound on voice, your rather feminine legs, your pink tiara…
Also, I now find myself attracted to you.
I want your baby.
Ryker Beck on April 1, 2009
All I really have to say is PLEASE tell me that picture up there is you, because I will just sit and giggle for a bit.
Ana Lutetia on April 2, 2009
(lmao) The PS is even better than the post itself