Lip faeries?

I'm imagining a crew of mechanics lurking in the shadows of the gate, waiting for the crew for the arriving plane to just turn their backs for a moment while the first crew makes their raid.

That is exactly how I imagined it happening too.

I would be insane by now were I you.

Mostly it helped that we had Captain Overshare who explained everything in detail - and about every ten minutes - until they knew how long the delay was going to be.

I was chill throughout the whole thing until the bus to my car was a clusterfuck. That was easily the worst part of the day. Luckily that ended with me and my iPod blaring so I could sing my way home.

So ready for bed now.

I went to the doctor, yet again. This time, I got a steroid inhaler.

Yeesh, Hil, hope this works.

I hate it when it's like that. I have a local BFF, but we used to work together and see each other every day in the trenches. But then she quit and my corp stopped working with that corp anyway. So now we're all, let's get together! Awesome! And we do, and we really enjoy each other's company. And then we don't get together for another three months. It's crazymaking.

I loved it when my friend Lauren lived two blocks away. We'd just trot down to the 101 Cafe on Saturdays and get a scone and talk. Also, it was nice having Emily S. in the city, because I could just call her up when I was in the Mission and we could get a beer.

Proximity: it matters more than you think.

I'm really cranky and not that good at socialising right now, but for some reason on Sunday I texted Polgara and told her she was coming makeup shopping with me. Not like she wears makeup, but whatever. But she's just down the street, you know? And it got me out of the house at short notice after an awful week, and we did lunch, and it didn't take much organising, and it was a great simple mood-lifter. I do like living in LA for that, especially being kinda close to Burrell and bon and Polgara. *Really* close to Polgara.

I love having Nora and Tom and DJ's cousins just a couple of blocks away. For a while, a friend and I would get together for cheap drinks on a weekly basis and gripe about not being able to find jobs... But then we found jobs and now we're too busy.

smonster...I miss youuuuuuu

My iPhone autocorrected for youuuuuuu.

Proximity: it matters more than you think.

There are two women that live in my neighborhood that I recruited (they already go to my church) for my womens' bible study group just on the premise that I wanted to get to know people who were physically closer to me. Even as little as my town is, I'm pretty seriously rural from it, so the people that I hang out with from town don't really want to come all the way out here. And as winter happens, it will get worse.

Of course, I am a hermit, so I also like cloistering in during winter storms, but it's nice to know there's someone within reasonable range who, like, knows your name.

smonster, I know how you feel...well, not exactly, because so far, I'm mostly I Don't Think About You Like That Girl. Was just thinking I don't make BFFs anymore, either.