Old School

[mlerules]

A Quieter LJ. Yeah, well, I also listen to vinyl and play cassette tapes. ;-P

As someone (I've forgotten who) noted, the PacNW's about to undergo a beta test of Summer. Forecasted temps for today and tomorrow: mid-upper 80s. Then things'll return to the more trad'l Spring of 60s and 70s. If memory services, Supper proper'll kick in on July 5, although there'll be several more teaser bouts 'tween now and then.

In anticipation of more heat, I went out yesterday to research and procure (and then install w/the help of a Dear Friend) a window AC unit for the dorm (large attic bedroom at Hive Magnum). So far it's making do w/cross-ventilation and box fans, but I want the option of cooling it way down if/when folks visit.

Hopefully folks will return. Feels like I've been living a fairly insular life lately, not getting out and about much, barely maintaining my social connections (much less expanding my social circles). Yet it also feels good getting stuff done at and around mi casa, so it'll be more pleasant when folks DO visit. (And yeah, I've had some folks over and around, so don't quite know what's up. Hmm, mebbe I do. There're certain folks who I don't see so much anymore, mainly b'c of geography and time, but also b'c things shift, such as attention, focus, direction. Once again time to revisit the first of my Life Mottos: Nothing Last Forever.)

SO glad I hit Blue Monk last night for the last free Tuesday night Pagan Jug Band show there. A couple Dear Friends joined me and we had a fab time. (Next week's free Tuesday show'll take place at Ford Food & Drink, even closer to HM.)

Feeling like I've got nada to say these days (or at least nada that folks wanna hear), like I've lost myself somewhere, like I put myself down on a table and've forgotten to pick myself back up. Odd, and disconcerting. And yeah, I DO realize that the fact that I'm feeling this way after writing probably the longest - and certainly most personal - LJ entry in ages makes it/me sound/seem a bit silly ;-)

Comments

[fjorlief.livejournal.com]

good to "hear" from you, and I for one would love to find a chance to get together in realtime, (preferrable when the temperature is not oven-like...); still haven't seen your new digs, and also just found an old mending project of yours that will probably be wanted for the warmer weather, so meeting would be not only good but useful?

I rather lost my writing mojo for a whole passel of reasons, need to get back on the horse, as my being isolated is not improved by my backing away from whatever incremental contact with folks I do have, that is a spiral that ends in a very Not Good Place...

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

Yes, it'd be good to reconnect. And along w/the warm-weather mending project you have for me, I recently surfaced a small clear plastic container w/a lid that contains notions/oddments/whatnots that seems most likely to belong to you. The first half of May's all booked w/travel & care-taking, and the week surrounding Mem'l Day's full o' Toad Rip gone-ness. So, either pre-leaving town for wedding over Mem'l Day or once I'm back, do let's reconnect at least briefly, ideally for several hours.

Do get back on that horse and de-isolate yourself. Just Say No to downward spirals!

[stacymckenna.livejournal.com]

Not at all silly. I relate a great deal.

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

Great minds... ;-)

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one struggling with isolation. And we're still listening.

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :-)

May you work successfully on overcoming your struggles such that you get you out and about s'more as well.

[evilgerbil.livejournal.com]

I feel like this was a safe space for people to talk about what was really going on with them. Most of the people I know don't do that anymore, and maybe never really did it in meat space. Everyone's so busy, it's hard to get one on one time to get a real answer to "hey, how are you doing?"

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

Well, that's how I'm using it, once again, even if/though now apparently it's for a far-smaller audience.