Good weekend
Jul. 6th, 2003 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetLots of socializing, thanks to (I'm not going to use tags or links, so there) madphysicist and [everyone I saw in his company, a list of whose names might be tedious for the reader, except for those who get a thrill of seeing their own username in print in other people's journals], mistresshellena, xanyboi, futurenurselady, sarcy, khourytamarisk, and the mighty DiPesa. To wit: a fun cookout, pleasant conversation and nail-painting, strawberry-picking, and cheesy but entertaining movies about horrible fish people who kill non-fish-people, except for this one guy turns out, after all (to his chagrin) to be a horrible fish person himself, except that they don't kill him, making my original description still valid.
(I stole that last bit from myself, originally in an e-mail to J. I'm so damn clever, and I want everyone to know it.)
Somewhere in there I managed to clean the kitchen. I even mopped the mud room which was still largely in its winter-induced state. Go me!
Now, it is still the weekend, of course, and there is still much to be done. At some point before I leave Wednesday I should really do a bit of mowing, for instance. And then there is the dissertation...
I leave on Wednesday for vacation, and other than going to work I doubt I'll be going out again at all before then: certainly not to anything that requires the expenditure of money, as I have barely enough left to buy French food in the quantities I really need to.
It has been pleasant to remember how much I enjoy hanging out with people outside the LARP environment. (I was going to say, "outside the club or LARP," but I go to clubs less often now than I engage other kinds of social activities anyway, so really it is the monthly game that is my consistent "see people" situation.) I shall have to make an effort to continue to do so when J. and I get back from vacation -- although at that point panic will kick in about money and how little of the summer is left and how much work there is to do on my dissertation. And when she is around it's hard to motivate myself to get out and about, not because she is a "ball and chain," but simply because, if you'll excuse my sentiment, she is all the company I need.
And as those of you who are in domesticated settings probably know, there can be a sort of feedback loop of hermit-like behavior (I was going to say, "hermeticism," but that's not really the word I want), especially when you're in the 'burbs.
Anyway. All this is to say that I've really enjoyed seeing all y'all, and I won't be a stranger. And maybe you'll even get to see J.
(I stole that last bit from myself, originally in an e-mail to J. I'm so damn clever, and I want everyone to know it.)
Somewhere in there I managed to clean the kitchen. I even mopped the mud room which was still largely in its winter-induced state. Go me!
Now, it is still the weekend, of course, and there is still much to be done. At some point before I leave Wednesday I should really do a bit of mowing, for instance. And then there is the dissertation...
I leave on Wednesday for vacation, and other than going to work I doubt I'll be going out again at all before then: certainly not to anything that requires the expenditure of money, as I have barely enough left to buy French food in the quantities I really need to.
It has been pleasant to remember how much I enjoy hanging out with people outside the LARP environment. (I was going to say, "outside the club or LARP," but I go to clubs less often now than I engage other kinds of social activities anyway, so really it is the monthly game that is my consistent "see people" situation.) I shall have to make an effort to continue to do so when J. and I get back from vacation -- although at that point panic will kick in about money and how little of the summer is left and how much work there is to do on my dissertation. And when she is around it's hard to motivate myself to get out and about, not because she is a "ball and chain," but simply because, if you'll excuse my sentiment, she is all the company I need.
And as those of you who are in domesticated settings probably know, there can be a sort of feedback loop of hermit-like behavior (I was going to say, "hermeticism," but that's not really the word I want), especially when you're in the 'burbs.
Anyway. All this is to say that I've really enjoyed seeing all y'all, and I won't be a stranger. And maybe you'll even get to see J.
