In bed at 9. Still seething.
Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Blacksmithing and glass blowing both sound awesome. I suddenly realize that the boring trip with my grandparents to the craft booths at Silver Dollar City when I was a tween would be fantastic now.
I would go to a glass-blowing bar.
In New Orleans, in the Warehouse district, there's a big glass arts building with multiple furnaces going and you can stand in the mezzanine and watch them work. It's fascinating.
FaceTimed with Matilda today. (Technically she was speaking from tomorrow.). She managed to handle her own difficult scheduling situation (they had shifted her classes so she was completely isolated from everybody in her program, and all of her friends at the language school), so that's a big adulting win for her, and a helicopter parent email I don't have to write.
Tomorrow she is going with friends to Nara which has the famous deer park.
She mentioned that she and her friends were talking about doing a weekend trip to Tokyo (of their own accord - not a school side trip) and I was totally down with it. She's 18. She's got the money. They know how to use the trains. They just have to find a hotel. And she won't be traveling alone.
I've been busy with various social schedules and have a few pending RSVPs to consider. So I've been fine without Matilda here. (And in truth, I barely saw her when she was here since she was downstairs with her friends in the Garden Apartment most of the time.).
I've been on a really good streak of striking up conversations with people at the bar lately. Being the gregarious bastard that I am, that's like bonus points socializing.
Last week I had a friend visiting from Rochester, NY so I cleaned the house rather thoroughly (which it needed). Also got to do Happy Hour with JenK which is always a treat.
Right now, aside from some onerous tasks, I just need to plan my trip to LA for my friend Josh's Celebration of Life.