Hi there....
Forgive me Live Journal for I have sinned,
It's been over a month since my last confession.
So much has happened this year, and I have been woefully inadequate to the task of recording the story I have been living. Since my last update, I did get a new room mate, both of my best friends moved thousands of miles away, I figured out that I'm going to stay in my job for at least another three years (so I'd better start figuring out how to like being there), I went for coffee with my ex, I had the most amazing Pride Weekend, a fun time at Lazy Bear, awesome celebrity houseguests for Dore Alley weekend, and now, I'm starting the prep work for Burning Man. The man burns in 28 Days. Each of those events could fill multiple long winded postings.
A lot of the details of the fun I had at Pride and Lazy Bear, most of you read in the journals of nakednsf and smiley_kiley. They, along with my world renown Dore Alley special guest stars jeffla and likethecandybar did a pretty good job of reflecting what happened over Dore Alley weekend. I'll try to fill in a few of the gaps, and post musings on some of the other topics I've listed above over the next short period. When I do catch up on posting about the big parties... I've got a few pictures I can add that I think people would enjoy seeing. This posting is really just to end the silence.
In between the events, I've come to a revelation about myself and my obsession with media. I think that I hide in the fantasy worlds of comic books and sci fi television,(not to mention the Wizarding world of Harry Potter, or the fictional friends that I hang out with on The West Wing) when I don't want to deal with the world around me. I reached a point this summer where I couldn't tell you one story that appeared in the Chronicle, but I can quote Jed Bartlet's speech the night that terrorists planted 4 pipe bombs underneath the stadium at Kennison State College, or Matt Santos speech to the Democratic National Convention. I can tell you everything you need to know to conjur a patronus charm, and I know what Sybill Trewlany prophecied all those years ago at the Hog's Head. I can also give you a point-by-point argument on why the House of M is a crock of shit, while DC's Infinite Crisis is going to be the biggest thing since the Second Genesis of the X-Men.
There's something wrong there. I've never been the most well informed person on the planet, but I have usually stayed a little better tuned in than I am right now. It can be disorienting. In a way, I've become isolated. Partly by choice, I think of it as a defense mechanism. And frankly, I do need a block of downtime for myself every few days or I go crazy. Still, even in my solitude, I've always kept better informed on world and local news events. I fear that I am, as I get older, developing one of the characteristics which I found pervasive in my home state of Rhode Island the last few times I visited. Am I willfully starting to live in a smaller world? ignoring the masses because I have no interest in world politics or the current social order? God I hope that's not the case.
It's been over a month since my last confession.
So much has happened this year, and I have been woefully inadequate to the task of recording the story I have been living. Since my last update, I did get a new room mate, both of my best friends moved thousands of miles away, I figured out that I'm going to stay in my job for at least another three years (so I'd better start figuring out how to like being there), I went for coffee with my ex, I had the most amazing Pride Weekend, a fun time at Lazy Bear, awesome celebrity houseguests for Dore Alley weekend, and now, I'm starting the prep work for Burning Man. The man burns in 28 Days. Each of those events could fill multiple long winded postings.
A lot of the details of the fun I had at Pride and Lazy Bear, most of you read in the journals of nakednsf and smiley_kiley. They, along with my world renown Dore Alley special guest stars jeffla and likethecandybar did a pretty good job of reflecting what happened over Dore Alley weekend. I'll try to fill in a few of the gaps, and post musings on some of the other topics I've listed above over the next short period. When I do catch up on posting about the big parties... I've got a few pictures I can add that I think people would enjoy seeing. This posting is really just to end the silence.
In between the events, I've come to a revelation about myself and my obsession with media. I think that I hide in the fantasy worlds of comic books and sci fi television,(not to mention the Wizarding world of Harry Potter, or the fictional friends that I hang out with on The West Wing) when I don't want to deal with the world around me. I reached a point this summer where I couldn't tell you one story that appeared in the Chronicle, but I can quote Jed Bartlet's speech the night that terrorists planted 4 pipe bombs underneath the stadium at Kennison State College, or Matt Santos speech to the Democratic National Convention. I can tell you everything you need to know to conjur a patronus charm, and I know what Sybill Trewlany prophecied all those years ago at the Hog's Head. I can also give you a point-by-point argument on why the House of M is a crock of shit, while DC's Infinite Crisis is going to be the biggest thing since the Second Genesis of the X-Men.
There's something wrong there. I've never been the most well informed person on the planet, but I have usually stayed a little better tuned in than I am right now. It can be disorienting. In a way, I've become isolated. Partly by choice, I think of it as a defense mechanism. And frankly, I do need a block of downtime for myself every few days or I go crazy. Still, even in my solitude, I've always kept better informed on world and local news events. I fear that I am, as I get older, developing one of the characteristics which I found pervasive in my home state of Rhode Island the last few times I visited. Am I willfully starting to live in a smaller world? ignoring the masses because I have no interest in world politics or the current social order? God I hope that's not the case.