I can't get no ... satisfaction

[dragonladyflame]

This song makes me feel joyful.

...

foxfour (by email): I had a dream last night, in which you sheepishly admitted that you were behind all yeti and sasquatch myths, and showed us your extensive collection of cryptid costumes. Hope you're well!

me: That is now my favorite dream ever, and I didn't even have it myself.

kit: And you don't deny the truth

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[pklemica]

Livejournal is the main way I keep track of people! Facebook and the like are just too overwhelming, but the co-stalking approach seems to work better for me (and in particular, me and people I got along with in high school) than actual regular specific interactions.

I am up to: teaching! and learning! I am a graduate student at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, USA, trying to convince (a bunch of 18-year-old math majors? myself? my peers? a bunch of tenured professors?) that I know everything ever. Teaching math majors is pretty much the coolest thing ever, but I take pretty much every point lost on a quiz like a personal failing.

So - this past weekend, a lot of my students made a very strange mistake on the quiz, which had the worst average yet. And I have a cold. And my cancer-riddled childhood pet (Missy, a white-charcoal-and-orange splattered cat) passed away. So, at the moment I'm still kinda feeling like everything sucks, and will be awful forever.

But today is better than yesterday, which in turn was better than the day before. And I'm living with my awesome boyfriend of nearly 4 years now (Stephen, aka The Boy), in an apartment I really like, with holy above holies: a really cool landlord. Stephen's gotten - pretty much first try straight out of college - a really good job helping edit math textbooks. He's starting to settle into Boston and make friends. And I have friends: I joined the crew of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, about 6 months back, and it is silly and dramatic and very familial except that everyone feels me up if they get the chance. They are wonderful. Objectively, actually, all of my life - except the one small, finite thing above - kinda rocks. And I'll get back to enjoying it in a week or so.

For what it's worth: I really enjoy your writing. I guess we didn't know each other very well in Hyde Park; I ventured very rarely outside the dorms. So perhaps we're not friends for-real... I'm never really certain where that line is beyond acquaintanceship. But your posts here have always been well-composed and insightful, and I've really enjoyed co-stalking you the past 4-5 years.

[dragonladyflame]

I would think of us as friends for real! You should send me at email. dragonladyflame at livejournal dot com

Also the Rocky show in Boston is really awesome.