Oh, well! Last night I went to a shindig at my friend's house, because my brother and several other friends were also there, and even though I only meant to stay an hour or so, I ended up leaving well after 11, oops ( Read more... )

I went to another shindig last night! Wow, that's two in less than a week! And they weren't even held in my house! They were both held in the same house, though. At last week's Halloween party, Dawn and I found out that we both love Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and Dawn revealed that she had a DVD of the Globe Theatre's production (here is an ( Read more... )

I didn't update yesterday evening because I went to a Halloween party instead. Before leaving, I looked around my room and thought, Well I will probably be back here by 10, 10:30, so it's okay to not put this extra stuff away. Then, later, at the party, I happened to glance at the clock and realized it was almost midnight ( Read more... )

Hello hello I am in New York! I am in New York! Granted most of what I've seen so far have been subway stations and train tunnels, but I'm here ( Read more... )

I spent my day driving around the city running errands with Peter. We left the house a little after 10 this morning, returned briefly at about 1 to pick up Kathy & Rezhiar, and didn't return again until 11 tonight. That was a day! I'm glad I could mostly spend it with Peter, or the whole thing would've been much more stressful. In related news, I ( Read more... )

It is good to be living with friends again. As a solitary sort of person, it can be very easy for me to hole up, go days and days without actually talking with anyone (besides my mom), and feel generally depleted without being quite sure why. Or, how to fix it ( Read more... )

Our neighbor Ray was finally granted citizenship this week, so he and his husband Wil had a party tonight to celebrate. When I heard that announcement last week I thought, Oh good I can say goodbye to everyone there. I really didn't want to throw a goodbye party for myself, because parties in my own house stress me out even when they're not about ( Read more... )

Today was a very February day, both outside my window and inside my head. There are reasons, and more reasons, but this evening Peter and I went downtown for dinner and then to a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper, and that helped. And because I had been feeling low, I ordered food I knew would taste good (spring rolls and pierogies) (there is one place ( Read more... )

Today I managed rather better, because fortunately my headache had petered out by early afternoon. Whew. I went on a walk to pick up some library books, and later I made dinner (red lentils with roasted sweet potatoes and carrots, regular potatoes, chopped spinach, and barley. it was healthy.), and chatted with my housemate Esther for over an hour ( Read more... )

Peter, Ken, and I satisfied a late-night snack craving yesterday evening, the sort you go for when you've had some kind of dinner long enough ago that without a bite to eat, you'd be going to bed uncomfortably un-full. I selected buttered toast with Nutella, since Ken had made decaf coffee. (Ken and Peter have lately developed the habit of drinking ( Read more... )