If I’m going to communicate, I guess I need to stop filtering my output and just go. I don’t like repeating myself or using the same phrases repeatedly. I do it anyway. I think in short bursts, and the resulting text is scattered and hard to follow. My feelings and beliefs can depend on all [...]
I found the place easily enough. I didn’t freak out about all the people. I skated! Poorly. But I skated! And didn’t land on my ass! …and then Donna broke her arm. I rode along as Beth drove her to the hospital. I wanted to help, but there wasn’t anything I could do. She’s tough [...]
Might go ice skating tomorrow. Never done it before. People I don’t know are going to be there–possibly very many of them. Mentioning it here might force me to go, but forcing me to go might not be helpful. I dunno. Setting myself up for failure?
I really enjoy sitting in a restaurant with a book. Some combination of being able to escape via fiction and still be aware of other people is very soothing. That’s not something one can do all weekend, though. At best, it’s fattening. (Especially considering I’m a carrier of the CHP-48/OZ-379 genes.) My DVD player is [...]
I’ve been thinking about writing on this for the last week, and have been avoided doing so. It’s one of those things that I want to have done, but don’t necessarily want to do. Like dieting, or exercise; it feels good when it’s underway and when it’s finished, but concentrating and getting over the initial [...]
Still alive. Agreed to shut off cable December 18th so the new neighbors could transfer their existing package over. A couple very long weeks, followed by a final-straw complication involving a nutty landlord and a washing machine, and I am now in my new apartment.