Ending up places for a reason?
There were a lot of frustrating things yesterday, with all manner of craziness especially around plans. Plus my phone being my phone and my having forgotten to bring my power banks with me when I left for the day.
I may paste a chatlog into the comments re what it means for plans to change over and over and again but right now I need to handle a couple errands.
But what I'm struck by is that my saying no to plans and later several people either canceling plans or flaking on plans . . . gave me opportunities to do something good:
I met up with G (from San Fran) and L for a little lunchtime acro near the convention center, and planned to handle some post office chores on the way to an appointment. Saw Miraya had pinged about going out on a walk and lunch and especially since I thought I was committed to meeting up with Rapha at 6 in VA just balked. Nominally I could have gone to the post office near l'enfant and then metroed to my appointment but I'd already had the devil's time figuring out where I was to be when for the acro and thought maybe I'd have some extra time to think/write and no.
When I'd nearly made it to the post office I saw a bank debit card on the ground, picked it up, and it was an unusual enough name I figured I might be able to track the owner down.
And indeed there were only two of that name on all of Facebook, and I thibnk they might have been the same person, and I sent fb messages and made a comment in a public post and yes indeed she did work near union station and omg yes she was missing her bank card. And it took me long enough addressing stuff at the post office that she caught up with me when I was checking out, and I handed her her card and she gave me a hug
And then right around then Rapha canceled for last night and suggested this morning (and there were some comedy of errors from my poor parking choices) which meant I was free to join G and L at L's office near Metro Center, where they'd been talking about getting together at 6.
Which I mentioned in the chat around 2.
4:30 L said that actually she was working til 7.
6ish G was done at the conference and still interested in touring her office and willing to wait. Turned out that oh, also she was going to do something with her daughter's cel provider.
By around 6:30 it was decided that trying to do standing acro in my pool was a great idea and that I should post on the big dc acro yogis group. And that L might bring daughter.
And so I rushed home to make it home by the expected 7:15.
At which point G turned out to still be at the convention center and hadn't gone back to the ab&b for his swim suit and pushed to meet instead on the Mall.
And L said she was nearly done and would catch up with us soon.
Caught up with G around 8 and posted location, then posted when we moved to more light around 9 and to grab food around 9:30.
L responded at 1015 that she'd stayed out with her daughter and hoped we'd had fun.
We /did/ have fun, because he's big and tall and strong and experienced, so there was a lot available to do that didn't require a spot for safety.
After we noticed L's comment we talked a little about how yeah it was fine for the two of us without a spot but more difficult were it a different two of us.
And that reminded me of someone I hadn't seen anything of in ages, Ashley, whose first time doing acro with a spot was with me, after 3 years of doing acro off youtube with her recent ex boyfriend. I told G a bit about how she and I had had an hour or two at a union station jam before anybody else showed up and how there were things we were easily able to handle as it turned out, but having a spot was imperative.
And that she'd not been much around because of keeping very early hours as a high end fitness instructor with her own studio and hiking most weekends.
I messaged her last night on the way home, and then looked up her page to see if she even was still in DC.
She's not. She's currently living in New Jersey with her mother, continuingThis entry was originally posted at https://vvalkyri.dreamwidth.org/1700003.html. You can add to the
comments there using OpenID, or here is okay too.
I may paste a chatlog into the comments re what it means for plans to change over and over and again but right now I need to handle a couple errands.
But what I'm struck by is that my saying no to plans and later several people either canceling plans or flaking on plans . . . gave me opportunities to do something good:
I met up with G (from San Fran) and L for a little lunchtime acro near the convention center, and planned to handle some post office chores on the way to an appointment. Saw Miraya had pinged about going out on a walk and lunch and especially since I thought I was committed to meeting up with Rapha at 6 in VA just balked. Nominally I could have gone to the post office near l'enfant and then metroed to my appointment but I'd already had the devil's time figuring out where I was to be when for the acro and thought maybe I'd have some extra time to think/write and no.
When I'd nearly made it to the post office I saw a bank debit card on the ground, picked it up, and it was an unusual enough name I figured I might be able to track the owner down.
And indeed there were only two of that name on all of Facebook, and I thibnk they might have been the same person, and I sent fb messages and made a comment in a public post and yes indeed she did work near union station and omg yes she was missing her bank card. And it took me long enough addressing stuff at the post office that she caught up with me when I was checking out, and I handed her her card and she gave me a hug
And then right around then Rapha canceled for last night and suggested this morning (and there were some comedy of errors from my poor parking choices) which meant I was free to join G and L at L's office near Metro Center, where they'd been talking about getting together at 6.
Which I mentioned in the chat around 2.
4:30 L said that actually she was working til 7.
6ish G was done at the conference and still interested in touring her office and willing to wait. Turned out that oh, also she was going to do something with her daughter's cel provider.
By around 6:30 it was decided that trying to do standing acro in my pool was a great idea and that I should post on the big dc acro yogis group. And that L might bring daughter.
And so I rushed home to make it home by the expected 7:15.
At which point G turned out to still be at the convention center and hadn't gone back to the ab&b for his swim suit and pushed to meet instead on the Mall.
And L said she was nearly done and would catch up with us soon.
Caught up with G around 8 and posted location, then posted when we moved to more light around 9 and to grab food around 9:30.
L responded at 1015 that she'd stayed out with her daughter and hoped we'd had fun.
We /did/ have fun, because he's big and tall and strong and experienced, so there was a lot available to do that didn't require a spot for safety.
After we noticed L's comment we talked a little about how yeah it was fine for the two of us without a spot but more difficult were it a different two of us.
And that reminded me of someone I hadn't seen anything of in ages, Ashley, whose first time doing acro with a spot was with me, after 3 years of doing acro off youtube with her recent ex boyfriend. I told G a bit about how she and I had had an hour or two at a union station jam before anybody else showed up and how there were things we were easily able to handle as it turned out, but having a spot was imperative.
And that she'd not been much around because of keeping very early hours as a high end fitness instructor with her own studio and hiking most weekends.
I messaged her last night on the way home, and then looked up her page to see if she even was still in DC.
She's not. She's currently living in New Jersey with her mother, continuingThis entry was originally posted at https://vvalkyri.dreamwidth.org/1700003.html. You can add to the
comments there using OpenID, or here is okay too.