social and catch-up
Well, it's been an interesting time. With the death of a student at school the evening of the first day, it's been rough on many, many people--including me. There was a resurgence of the friend issue recently, and I don't know how it will turn out. In other things involving people, though, this is one of my (few) social times of year. I've seen a bunch of people I enjoy before they go back to college, although rarely for as long as I'd like because of other commitments on either their or my parts.
I have made a new net acquaintance--I hesitate to call him a friend because he has high expectations of and standards for friends. And it's hard to develop the trust that (to both our minds) really distinguishes friends from friendly acquaintances over the internet. After all, if you don't know people in real life, they don't have as much opportunity to screw you (usually), so you don't know whether there's real trust or just lack of interest/opportunity. But he's a very interesting guy, a writer about ten years younger than I, so not of an age wherein I have many people with whom I correspond or visit. He is, as he puts it, "President of the Bitter and Cynical Club." And while I certainly have times I feel I could join whole-heartedly, most of the time I really don't. But I'm really enjoying our every-few-days exchanges.
Katie came over for dinner last night, and I might see Shane for lunch friday. I had lunch with JP, Pham, Vivian, and Steffen last week, and I've seen Emory, Paul B, Noah, Thomas, Kevin, and Alex A recently as well as spending several enjoyable evenings with Brantley in the past few weeks. Evan even stopped by one night to visit Andrew (and possibly me), which was fun. And Patrick even stopped by advisory the other day, which was a shock (that he was up that early) but a pleasant one. Had my first English dinner of the term last wednesday as well, which seemed to go ok. Have missed seeing some people I'd like to have seen, but that seems to be life, unfortunately. They're either not around, they/I get busy, or things happen.
Went to the alumni VB game a saturday or so ago and saw a bunch of people, including some parents, I haven't seen in awhile--some, in a very long while. Noah was a damn good player! Not that I didn't know that, but he's gotten even better at college.
The new math 3 class seems to be going well, which is nice. I think I mentioned last year's AP results were fine, so that was a bit of a relief. The math 5 classes are going a bit better this year since they're split, for scheduling reasons, into multiple sections. I bored my english class yesterday but made up for it today, so maybe that's ok. As I may have said, a *very* interesting mix of personalities. I think it may be another class (as I have periodically) that has little in common but me. There seem to be more ISPs this year than in a long time, which is probably good--and some of the projects seem really cool.
I'm sure I've not written down other things/people I've enjoyed recently, so if so I have, I hope they're not readers of this journal and hence going to be annoyed with me.
The results of a couple of sleep studies indicate that I have sleep apnea, so I've now gotten a breathing machine to help with that at night. It seems to be helping--I definitely wake up with more energy than I've had in longer than I can remember, though I'm not quite used to using it yet, so I'm (ironically) waking up several times a night still.
Revels rehearsals start in a couple of weeks, and I'm not sure how that will go for me without Darcy in the group this year, but we'll see. Time to go work on math, so I'll close now.
I have made a new net acquaintance--I hesitate to call him a friend because he has high expectations of and standards for friends. And it's hard to develop the trust that (to both our minds) really distinguishes friends from friendly acquaintances over the internet. After all, if you don't know people in real life, they don't have as much opportunity to screw you (usually), so you don't know whether there's real trust or just lack of interest/opportunity. But he's a very interesting guy, a writer about ten years younger than I, so not of an age wherein I have many people with whom I correspond or visit. He is, as he puts it, "President of the Bitter and Cynical Club." And while I certainly have times I feel I could join whole-heartedly, most of the time I really don't. But I'm really enjoying our every-few-days exchanges.
Katie came over for dinner last night, and I might see Shane for lunch friday. I had lunch with JP, Pham, Vivian, and Steffen last week, and I've seen Emory, Paul B, Noah, Thomas, Kevin, and Alex A recently as well as spending several enjoyable evenings with Brantley in the past few weeks. Evan even stopped by one night to visit Andrew (and possibly me), which was fun. And Patrick even stopped by advisory the other day, which was a shock (that he was up that early) but a pleasant one. Had my first English dinner of the term last wednesday as well, which seemed to go ok. Have missed seeing some people I'd like to have seen, but that seems to be life, unfortunately. They're either not around, they/I get busy, or things happen.
Went to the alumni VB game a saturday or so ago and saw a bunch of people, including some parents, I haven't seen in awhile--some, in a very long while. Noah was a damn good player! Not that I didn't know that, but he's gotten even better at college.
The new math 3 class seems to be going well, which is nice. I think I mentioned last year's AP results were fine, so that was a bit of a relief. The math 5 classes are going a bit better this year since they're split, for scheduling reasons, into multiple sections. I bored my english class yesterday but made up for it today, so maybe that's ok. As I may have said, a *very* interesting mix of personalities. I think it may be another class (as I have periodically) that has little in common but me. There seem to be more ISPs this year than in a long time, which is probably good--and some of the projects seem really cool.
I'm sure I've not written down other things/people I've enjoyed recently, so if so I have, I hope they're not readers of this journal and hence going to be annoyed with me.
The results of a couple of sleep studies indicate that I have sleep apnea, so I've now gotten a breathing machine to help with that at night. It seems to be helping--I definitely wake up with more energy than I've had in longer than I can remember, though I'm not quite used to using it yet, so I'm (ironically) waking up several times a night still.
Revels rehearsals start in a couple of weeks, and I'm not sure how that will go for me without Darcy in the group this year, but we'll see. Time to go work on math, so I'll close now.