And now I'm invited to another meeting I don't want to go to.

You need a place where you can hide from the meetings. And the meeting requests.

msbelle, I second the rec for joining Meetup groups. I've joined three since I moved to C'ville. One didn't work out, two did, and I've made a few friends out of them. Plus every two weeks I go to the board game group and have fun with people I know and people I don't know, and that's a huge positive for my anti-social anxiety-ridden self. In short, like Pix said, just go, and see what happens! After all, you already know what happens if you stay home.

I've made most of my friends in Baltimore either through patronizing their shops or through the volunteer stuff I do for Moveable Feast. It took a good long while to start building that social circle but, once started, it has grown exponentially. I've actually made very few friends through work, which is one of the reasons my job depresses me. I'm friendly with people at work but it's been really rare that that has led to outside work ongoing friendships. One notable exception is someone who is now one of my closest friends and we started relating to one another on more than a work level once we identified each other as sort of weirdos in our work world.

I have been waiting for my doctor's office to fax the paperwork for transfusion labs for 3 hours. Send snacks. And alibis.

It's 72 and there might be thunderstorms tonight and a chance of snow on Saturday. Out like a lamb, my ass.

Work is insane. There is a racoon den outside my window and I've seen it twice now. Unrelated.

Today is unpleasantly hot and it's giving me a headache. Luckily OTCs have dulled it even if they haven't made it go away completely.

Also I'd totally fail at this eat-vegetarian-more-often plan if it weren't for pre made TJs salads for lunch.

So on the insomnia front: finally was sleeping through the night last night only to have it interrupted by my son coming in the room and trying to get in our bed. sigh. But at least I fell back asleep eventually.

You need a place where you can hide from the meetings. And the meeting requests.

One of the reasons why I meditate is so I can leave my phone and computer at my desk and be all "yo, dawg, I'd really love to help you out but the do not disturb sign is up."

Young raccoons are surprisingly cute. And they coo!

At six months or so they become Devil-beasts.

I should do Meetups. One thing I'm trying to do is organizing some alumni networking for my grad school. That seems fairly likely to attract the right kind of people. (Grownups, at least.)