to combat the lapse that explains why all of this simply collapsed
So. Fall Break. Before I left school, I talked to Ann, and actually a) kept my voice in a calm and logical range and b) didn't burst into tears. She's officially sorry. Which doesn't really solve things, but is better than if she was not-sorry. I talked to her while skipping Solar. Bad, bad Allison decided to skip the class that Carr said wouldn't cover anything anyway. Still worried about both Engin classes. But it's much calmer now.
Friday morning I went to morning practice, a first for this year, and Charlie was quite understanding of the fact that I never seemed to wake up - until I got out of practice (at 7:30 in the morning) and was super-bouncy. Go figure. Jean and Sarah wanted to go up to the Springfield mall Friday night, so we did; I hit the delirious stage of not-having-enough-sleep before 10 pm. I probably shouldn't find that as amusing as I do. Woke up after about 10 hours of sleep on Saturday feeling much better, and attempted to go paint my tree in the rain. Though oil paint is not water-soluble, it wasn't particularly comfortable to sit under a tree on the wet ground, mist and water droplets splatting on my head and my canvas, and trying to mix colors without getting water in my turp or on my palette. Got a little bit done; it could still use a few hours to be anything close to 'finished'.
Sat, Sun, & Mon were family days. Meant to get in touch with Sam... and failed. I seem to have a random haze of my brain trying to recoup from lack-of-sleep, stress, & failing when I got home; I did nothing and it was kind of spectacular. Well, ok. Monday I made spaghetti sauce out of tomato paste and everything else I could find (onions, peppers, the ENTIRE SPICE CABINET, olives) that was good, though I may have added a tad bit too much red pepper; and picked Robert up from his swim practice (his coach, Mark, being one of the people who I swam with at one point, but graduated a couple of years before I got to EHS) and watched Mark convince the 10-14 yr olds to dance on the deck, because "only swimmers with rhythm out of the water can have rhythm in the water". It was rather hilarious.
Yesterday I had lunch with a Katie-kat, which was quite nice, and went dancing with Sloan in Philly. They double-booked the Ethical society, so we were someplace different. Pretty, but a smaller space and a not-as-nice neighborhood. But parking was free! And somehow we missed the Ben Franklin Parkway? So it was an adventure to get there. But it was quite fun. Had one really nice Lindy with Sloan - we didn't run into (many) people, it had a good speed, and I could follow almost everything he led... there's one of the turns in that I end up with the wrong arm on top?
I had a couple of awesome blues dances -- one with Robert, which was AWESOME despite me hitting him in the face with my elbow. And one with Bruce, which was just fun. Only a couple of the really awkward 'this is my first time, and I don't know what I'm doing, and this is a Lindy but I only know blues so I'll dance it blues' leads, and one of them was really musical, so it didn't feel ridiculous, anyway. Got to have a couple of really nice chats with people who show up at LaB, too - with Zebi, with Alex - so I feel like I'm actually starting to have friendships with some of these people. Means I'm moving beyond my 'hey, you are a random lead and I want to dance, so dance with me please I don't care who you are!' phase. Which is exciting.
Friday morning I went to morning practice, a first for this year, and Charlie was quite understanding of the fact that I never seemed to wake up - until I got out of practice (at 7:30 in the morning) and was super-bouncy. Go figure. Jean and Sarah wanted to go up to the Springfield mall Friday night, so we did; I hit the delirious stage of not-having-enough-sleep before 10 pm. I probably shouldn't find that as amusing as I do. Woke up after about 10 hours of sleep on Saturday feeling much better, and attempted to go paint my tree in the rain. Though oil paint is not water-soluble, it wasn't particularly comfortable to sit under a tree on the wet ground, mist and water droplets splatting on my head and my canvas, and trying to mix colors without getting water in my turp or on my palette. Got a little bit done; it could still use a few hours to be anything close to 'finished'.
Sat, Sun, & Mon were family days. Meant to get in touch with Sam... and failed. I seem to have a random haze of my brain trying to recoup from lack-of-sleep, stress, & failing when I got home; I did nothing and it was kind of spectacular. Well, ok. Monday I made spaghetti sauce out of tomato paste and everything else I could find (onions, peppers, the ENTIRE SPICE CABINET, olives) that was good, though I may have added a tad bit too much red pepper; and picked Robert up from his swim practice (his coach, Mark, being one of the people who I swam with at one point, but graduated a couple of years before I got to EHS) and watched Mark convince the 10-14 yr olds to dance on the deck, because "only swimmers with rhythm out of the water can have rhythm in the water". It was rather hilarious.
Yesterday I had lunch with a Katie-kat, which was quite nice, and went dancing with Sloan in Philly. They double-booked the Ethical society, so we were someplace different. Pretty, but a smaller space and a not-as-nice neighborhood. But parking was free! And somehow we missed the Ben Franklin Parkway? So it was an adventure to get there. But it was quite fun. Had one really nice Lindy with Sloan - we didn't run into (many) people, it had a good speed, and I could follow almost everything he led... there's one of the turns in that I end up with the wrong arm on top?
I had a couple of awesome blues dances -- one with Robert, which was AWESOME despite me hitting him in the face with my elbow. And one with Bruce, which was just fun. Only a couple of the really awkward 'this is my first time, and I don't know what I'm doing, and this is a Lindy but I only know blues so I'll dance it blues' leads, and one of them was really musical, so it didn't feel ridiculous, anyway. Got to have a couple of really nice chats with people who show up at LaB, too - with Zebi, with Alex - so I feel like I'm actually starting to have friendships with some of these people. Means I'm moving beyond my 'hey, you are a random lead and I want to dance, so dance with me please I don't care who you are!' phase. Which is exciting.