Hi!
I hope you'll manage to find and make some new friends here.
I've been around for a long while myself, and yet I feel like I'm in the same boat. I know a lot of people here, sure, but friends?
I, too, am a lurker at heart so most of the time I just sit in my dark corner scribbling my stories and only occasionally open my mouth on the forums. ^^;
But though I am an introvert I'm also a quite friendly so I'm up for a chat or whatever.
And please don't feel bad if I don't respond quickly to any messages, that could be because I'm 7-10 hours ahead of the U.S. timezones...
(really it's two AM and I should be asleep already..)