It's been fun guys...
Welp.. with the exception of Rene, who is leaving next friday, every single member of my inner circle of friends is now gone. The worst was probably Alex on wednesday, because he was the first one to really LEAVE leave and break the team apart.. it was hard. Josh and I seemed to take it the worst when it actually came time to say goodbye.. what with the sobbing and the clinging.. but I think that a lot of that was because everyone else was emotionally exhausted by that point and not able to really show their emotions as much. We were both leaky and unstable for the rest of the day.
It wasn't as bad the next day dropping Josh off at the airport because we'd gotten most of the tears out of the way when Alex left. I rode the two hours out to Narita with him and left him there.. Not so many tears, but I felt pretty dead inside for the rest of the day after watching him go through the ticket gates at Narita station. I think I slept most of the 2 hour train ride back, and was in a haze for hours after that. I transfered at Ueno and somehow everything seemed very.. odd to me. Like it was the first time I'd been there and everything was new and foreign to me.. despite the fact that I'm so familiar with the place that I could navigate my way around the transfer without thinking and all.. it was very... surreal.
I ran into Funi and his entire family on the platform at Ueno Station. They're apparently visiting Tokyo for a week or so before he goes back to Oregon. Talked with them for a while on the train before getting off and running a few errands (*cough* picking up another shippment of designer yarn from the post office.. [Lorna's Laces Shepard sock in Ice House and Daffodil, Jun ^_~]) before meeting up with Spooner and couple of his friends for some much needed comfort and dinner.
Felt better yesterday, and spent most of the day with Spooner again.. shopping in Asakusa (I got a new bag/purse thingie that's awesome.. and thank you for insisting on the red and black, by the way.. it was a good call) before having to say goodbye to him as well.. He should be hanging in the air somewhere above the pacific as I write this. *sigh*
Last night we met up with Jessica for dinner and two Sugi shows.. which were odd but fun and interesting. I managed to whip out my camera this time and get a few shots of him with his violin up close and personal.. not as close and personal as at the SHAG show, but cameras weren't allowed at that one, so oh well. We had to say goodbye to her after that all finished as well, since she flies out on Monday.
Shonda's still in the country.. Wakayama by now, probably.. but we won't see her before she leaves, so had to say goodbye on Tuesday after dinner and coffee with her and her folks. It was surreal and didn't feel like a goodbye at all.
My brain hurts.. I want to go hang out at Starbucks and knit with Jun to decompress, but she left last Sunday.. and they got new couches this week that aren't as loungable as the old ugly ones, so it wouldn't even be the same... so I guess I'll just have to knit here instead.. =P
Don't expect anything of substance or coherence out of me for a while.
This week sucked...
It wasn't as bad the next day dropping Josh off at the airport because we'd gotten most of the tears out of the way when Alex left. I rode the two hours out to Narita with him and left him there.. Not so many tears, but I felt pretty dead inside for the rest of the day after watching him go through the ticket gates at Narita station. I think I slept most of the 2 hour train ride back, and was in a haze for hours after that. I transfered at Ueno and somehow everything seemed very.. odd to me. Like it was the first time I'd been there and everything was new and foreign to me.. despite the fact that I'm so familiar with the place that I could navigate my way around the transfer without thinking and all.. it was very... surreal.
I ran into Funi and his entire family on the platform at Ueno Station. They're apparently visiting Tokyo for a week or so before he goes back to Oregon. Talked with them for a while on the train before getting off and running a few errands (*cough* picking up another shippment of designer yarn from the post office.. [Lorna's Laces Shepard sock in Ice House and Daffodil, Jun ^_~]) before meeting up with Spooner and couple of his friends for some much needed comfort and dinner.
Felt better yesterday, and spent most of the day with Spooner again.. shopping in Asakusa (I got a new bag/purse thingie that's awesome.. and thank you for insisting on the red and black, by the way.. it was a good call) before having to say goodbye to him as well.. He should be hanging in the air somewhere above the pacific as I write this. *sigh*
Last night we met up with Jessica for dinner and two Sugi shows.. which were odd but fun and interesting. I managed to whip out my camera this time and get a few shots of him with his violin up close and personal.. not as close and personal as at the SHAG show, but cameras weren't allowed at that one, so oh well. We had to say goodbye to her after that all finished as well, since she flies out on Monday.
Shonda's still in the country.. Wakayama by now, probably.. but we won't see her before she leaves, so had to say goodbye on Tuesday after dinner and coffee with her and her folks. It was surreal and didn't feel like a goodbye at all.
My brain hurts.. I want to go hang out at Starbucks and knit with Jun to decompress, but she left last Sunday.. and they got new couches this week that aren't as loungable as the old ugly ones, so it wouldn't even be the same... so I guess I'll just have to knit here instead.. =P
Don't expect anything of substance or coherence out of me for a while.
This week sucked...