where the party ends
May. 8th, 2011 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfish21 days for Dreamwidth, #14:
Did you have a gateway fandom? Still in it? Why or why not? Is there a community for it on DW?
Um, no? I mean, I was a major Tolkien geek in elementary school, I guess that could count, but it's hard to have a "fandom" consisting of you and nobody else. I've never really glommed onto a fandom the way one does. Media consumption's typically a solitary thing for me.
The goodbyes are starting to really sink in now. We had dinner on Friday night at Zengo with a dozen or so people, and then several of them and a bunch of others came over for our housecooling yesterday. Which was exceedingly pleasant, and involved people I've not seen in some time, and a great deal of Stuff was carted away. Then today we took yet more Stuff down to the thrift store where I'll not have to see it again, and took most of the art down off the walls, and generally started feeling like we're going to be moving soon.
I think it's started to wear on me. Not consciously, not in an "omg moving" sense, but nagging at the back of my mind. Giving every action, every delay, more weight than it deserves.
I could do with more than three weeks off from work; I could do with having an actual entire week in Vancouver to get used to being there before I have to start earning my keep again.
Oh well.
Did you have a gateway fandom? Still in it? Why or why not? Is there a community for it on DW?
Um, no? I mean, I was a major Tolkien geek in elementary school, I guess that could count, but it's hard to have a "fandom" consisting of you and nobody else. I've never really glommed onto a fandom the way one does. Media consumption's typically a solitary thing for me.
The goodbyes are starting to really sink in now. We had dinner on Friday night at Zengo with a dozen or so people, and then several of them and a bunch of others came over for our housecooling yesterday. Which was exceedingly pleasant, and involved people I've not seen in some time, and a great deal of Stuff was carted away. Then today we took yet more Stuff down to the thrift store where I'll not have to see it again, and took most of the art down off the walls, and generally started feeling like we're going to be moving soon.
I think it's started to wear on me. Not consciously, not in an "omg moving" sense, but nagging at the back of my mind. Giving every action, every delay, more weight than it deserves.
I could do with more than three weeks off from work; I could do with having an actual entire week in Vancouver to get used to being there before I have to start earning my keep again.
Oh well.
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Date: 2011-05-12 12:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-05-12 03:47 am (UTC)SERIOUSLY. I have this ideal of wanting to work for 8-9 months of the year and just take off the other 3-4 and do Whatever: write, travel, backpack, what have you. My boss seems (surprisingly enough) more or less cool with the concept; her boss is likely to freak out and decide that I'm Insufficiently Dedicated. Bleh.