wispfox

Look. Trees!

Happy dog. :) Even if she does keep trying to lick my face!

I date some very silly people!

deyo has good taste in women. and I got to have a pre-nye party last night! I am _so_ on west coast time. soon I fly back to boston, spend nye w/metahacker & galaneia, go home on ny day, see jasra at some point, and see australian_joe thurs night. many nifty people in a very short time! yay. :)

I have absolutely no clue how to play with dogs, and just keep confusing these two. heh. shall ask their people once they return!

plane should be leaving for SF in about two hours. no lines at _all_ for check-in or security. hate how lightly I sleep before getting on a plane; was tired enough to not realize till this morning that I failed to be between the sheets. sigh!

So... a week w/deyo & mactavish, new years eve & day w/metahacker & galeina (whose lj name I probably totally mangled), then australian_joe arrives in three days after that.

shall see if a week away is enough to miss metahacker intensely (probably), even though I have over three years of practice w/ldr w/joe. but then, I always miss joe most strongly immediately after we part (ok, and at about 4.5 months). so.

sleepy. and should stop & be nice to my wrist!

Whoever ate the sun needs to give it back.

Also, I'm offline after work today until the 2nd of Jan.

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!

(it amused me entirely too much to have had to switch the time from 01 to 10. My computer still thinks it's on the east coast, and I see no good reason to tell it otherwise. My Palm also is not changed, which means that I have to adjust the time in my head for everything I schedule. And I forgot my Palm charger! I hope it survives the week...)

Been here for about 48 hours at this point, and have completely lost track of the days (I don't normally _have_ this many days off in a row!). Was awake this morning at 6am local time. Was _really_ disconcerting to be wide awake when it was pitch black outside, even though I did not actually get out of bed until around 8:15. I saw no point, and it was comfy under the covers.

Been raining more or less the entire time I've been here. Stupid rain. Should make not having my light box interesting. Yay for SAM-e!

I was thoroughly amused today to have helped mactavish move, as I figured it'd be the easiest method of meeting her while I'm here. Yes, I'm strange and actually enjoyed moving people who I'd never met before. There were enough people for the moving needed! And they are nifty and entertaining! (look! I am randomly outgoing when on vacation, even in winter!)

And god_damn_ my legs are protesting right now. I don't walk enough at home, and getting around is mostly via walking (and BART) here. Adding in helping with moving, and my legs _hate_ me.

On the plus side, unlike yesterday, I did not manage to demonstrate my lack of coordination in any spectacular manner. (yesterday involved spraining my ankle, which I _usually_ manage to avoid doing, klutzy though I am. Wet sidewalk and unfamiliar surroundings meant I should have been paying more attention to walking than I was. Something I am now being more careful about! My ankle is mostly fine, as it tends to be - walking it out is generally enough, with some stiffness for a few days afterwards)

So punchy. Shall sleep soon!

It's wet out. And everything is green. And there are flowers on lots of trees! My brain is so confused. Also. Pastel houses are evil, and apparently are both a Florida thing _and_ a California thing. Along with Palm trees. Which always look really strange to me.

Tomorrow, and Weds, lunch with random people whose LJs I read. And I must visit the Exploratorium. MUST! But first I need to figure out where it is. :)

(As you all may have guessed, I am not regularly reading y'all's LJs. Why did I just decide to use both 'you all' _and_ "y'all"?)

I miss my kitty. The kitty here, while black and fuzzy, does not attempt to get under the covers with me. Nor does he demand pettins. Nor does he flop down next to me.

"Vitamins are _gooood_! MMmmmmm."

Yep. Punchy. Tired. It's actually 11:03pm local time, now, but I'm too amused by my initial parenthetical to change the time accordingly. I get offline and sleep now.