Welp, that's it.
With the end of III this month, I'm officially all out of DJ residencies... which seems to me awfully weird, since I've had at least one going since probably 2002. It's sort of bittersweet on my end - I do like DJing a heck of a lot... and I'll be spinning in Philly and at Freaks United in only a few short weeks. After that, it's Eclipse in Baltimore on the 9th...
Still, it's strange...
Of course, now I have more time for my own projects, but on the other hand, when the majority of people I know around DC are involved in some way in the whole club night life thing due largely to the above. It was annoying as it was to lose touch with people due to my termination at Spellbound, but me utter frustration that lead to leaving Midnight leaves me feeling just a touch distant from my local social network. Sure, Facebook and such helps, but now that I have 'free weekends', it seems even less likely now I'll be catching up with friends on those two non-work days.
It is rather a lame complaint in some lights, but I do feel off and on largely reduced to a MMORPG lifestyle where 90% of my social interaction is online. Am I happier? Do I feel more fulfilled? Generally, yes, by a long shot. Still, it's weird to suddenly after all these years have 'free time', and realize pretty much everyone's still busy doing the things I took a break from and that I'd join in on it as it's still my field of interest except... Ah well. I expect at least once I get the chance to get up to B'more some more, it will at least be a change of pace, and it's a luxury sometimes not knowing how things go behind the curtains...
Still, it's strange...
Of course, now I have more time for my own projects, but on the other hand, when the majority of people I know around DC are involved in some way in the whole club night life thing due largely to the above. It was annoying as it was to lose touch with people due to my termination at Spellbound, but me utter frustration that lead to leaving Midnight leaves me feeling just a touch distant from my local social network. Sure, Facebook and such helps, but now that I have 'free weekends', it seems even less likely now I'll be catching up with friends on those two non-work days.
It is rather a lame complaint in some lights, but I do feel off and on largely reduced to a MMORPG lifestyle where 90% of my social interaction is online. Am I happier? Do I feel more fulfilled? Generally, yes, by a long shot. Still, it's weird to suddenly after all these years have 'free time', and realize pretty much everyone's still busy doing the things I took a break from and that I'd join in on it as it's still my field of interest except... Ah well. I expect at least once I get the chance to get up to B'more some more, it will at least be a change of pace, and it's a luxury sometimes not knowing how things go behind the curtains...