I begin to think that I should expect travel-related posts to be random, and stop putting that in my category descriptor!

It's very strange to be in a hottub and get _cold_ while sitting in it. Especially when the rain that was falling was _rain_, and not snow, much as my brain wanted to convince me otherwise. I was startled by how _wrong_ it felt to have cold rain instead of snow. I blame the wind for the hottub getting cold, as well as the fact that it seemed initially to be set cooler than that to which I am accustomed.

It's also very strange to have as a view from a hottub a whole lot of city lights. Being on a hill near a city makes for an interesting view! Even if people _did_ keep telling me that it wasn't really a city. ;)

As rosefox said, I have now been in a hottub in California. (She also added 'naked!', but that seems obvious in my head)

I was up _way_ too late last night. And it was a very... broken sleep, much as it was about 9 hours. Kitty wanted to go outside very badly. And, being as I'm in the living room and went to bed stupidly late, people moving around happened _way_ earlier than I wanted to be awake. But I slept in _anyway_!

Many people, most of whom I did not know, and yet I still managed to not be utterly overwhelmed once I stopped having my 'ah! Lots of people I don't know!' initial reaction (which, as usual, involved me hovering, looking around the surroundings and petting any animals nearby). It is definitely the case that my social energy is low. But thankfully, once I chilled out, last night's group of people did not seem to require very much social energy. I was amused to run into someone who I probably met at last year's Arisia.

Music. I realized this morning that, aside from hearing people singing because they can (or because I asked), I have had very little music here. The other exception was when rosefox's computer was playing music. So, now, my computer is playing mp3s at me, making my ears happy.

It's fascinating to me that I can have fairly complex and speaking-intensive conversations, but have _wildly_ different energy requirements for them. But then, people I already have spent time in-person with are much less energy intensive for me than people I just met. And chatting in semi-dark while being all comfy is just less energy-requiring, I think.

I wonder how many of the people I met last night I will recognize later? I'm not entirely certain that I would have recognized the two people I helped move on Monday if they had not obviously recognized me first. I _think_ I would have, since moving appears to have had enough repeated exposures to people's visual appearance, with some time between them. But I'm not sure.

I really would like to have a decent memory for faces and names! (It does amuse me that I tell people to not bother to tell me their names, if in a crowd. Probably takes people aback, but I don't remember names unless a) they are written down, or b) I actually have a sense of the person to attach the name _to_)

There have been a lot of 'so, when will we see you next?' questions. People's reactions to 'I have no idea; I live on the other coast' are amusing.

It amuses me to remember someone's name because of a webcomic. Especially when it's one I don't actually read with any regularity! I have to now wonder if it'll be mildly surreal when I do actually read it.

There's sun out again today!