no point, just rambly
Nov. 30th, 2012 12:09 amAs previously mentioned, Thursday I met up with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jpenamelist at Great Falls, where we walked and talked for three and a half hours, and then had lunch and conversation over the next couple of hours. This... is not entirely without precedent but is very much worth noting.
I like talking to people, but not that much. I tend to get twitchy after a couple of hours, tops, and ready to go introvert for a bit. I can think of very few times since college that I've talked for hours with someone I didn't know well.
How I know Jenn, briefly: we were friends in high school, and then we reconnected a couple of years ago. This is accurate, barely, as far as it goes, and it doesn't even go that far.
Friends, yeah, but I wouldn't say we were close friends at all. We had a couple of classes together, moved in some of the same circles. After graduation we more or less lost touch; ran into each other a few times at Ren Faire and similar large gatherings, that sort of thing. When I moved back to DC I gradually became aware of a social group, including Jenn, that I orbited at a distance and felt not-quite-right in getting closer to. She invited me to her New Years Eve 2009 party, to which I went with my ex and at which I started getting a sense of what it is I'm missing from other people in general.
Then at Ren Faire '10, a week or so after getting dumped, I ran into Jenn and her partner Todd. She suggested meeting for lunch sometime next week, and I was too shell-shocked to weasel my way out of it.
I'm rather glad I didn't. Lunch was enjoyable enough that we repeated it several more times before I wound up out here, a little further away than Tysons. After the move she anddarkfyre_muse flew out with the cats and stayed for a day or two, and that was very good as well. And since then, because I never got used to the idea of "talking to Jenn" the way I did with a couple of other people, I've been crap at staying in touch.
Which is why I'm grateful that she poked me about getting together when I was in DC. And why I'm writing this: so maybe I won't forget again.
There's really no question that I needed to move when I did. Change of scene, change of weather, change of lifestyle. I still deeply regret the people I left behind me. Everything else is replaceable, eventually.
Clearly you should all move out west.
jpenamelist at Great Falls, where we walked and talked for three and a half hours, and then had lunch and conversation over the next couple of hours. This... is not entirely without precedent but is very much worth noting.I like talking to people, but not that much. I tend to get twitchy after a couple of hours, tops, and ready to go introvert for a bit. I can think of very few times since college that I've talked for hours with someone I didn't know well.
How I know Jenn, briefly: we were friends in high school, and then we reconnected a couple of years ago. This is accurate, barely, as far as it goes, and it doesn't even go that far.
Friends, yeah, but I wouldn't say we were close friends at all. We had a couple of classes together, moved in some of the same circles. After graduation we more or less lost touch; ran into each other a few times at Ren Faire and similar large gatherings, that sort of thing. When I moved back to DC I gradually became aware of a social group, including Jenn, that I orbited at a distance and felt not-quite-right in getting closer to. She invited me to her New Years Eve 2009 party, to which I went with my ex and at which I started getting a sense of what it is I'm missing from other people in general.
Then at Ren Faire '10, a week or so after getting dumped, I ran into Jenn and her partner Todd. She suggested meeting for lunch sometime next week, and I was too shell-shocked to weasel my way out of it.
I'm rather glad I didn't. Lunch was enjoyable enough that we repeated it several more times before I wound up out here, a little further away than Tysons. After the move she and
darkfyre_muse flew out with the cats and stayed for a day or two, and that was very good as well. And since then, because I never got used to the idea of "talking to Jenn" the way I did with a couple of other people, I've been crap at staying in touch.Which is why I'm grateful that she poked me about getting together when I was in DC. And why I'm writing this: so maybe I won't forget again.
There's really no question that I needed to move when I did. Change of scene, change of weather, change of lifestyle. I still deeply regret the people I left behind me. Everything else is replaceable, eventually.
Clearly you should all move out west.