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[serene]

Numbered lists are about the extent of my brainpower today:

1) Missed many fine parties the last few weeks, which I regret (tenacious_snail, babyfly, etc., I love and missed you!). Did make it to two lovely ones, though, and it was so good seeing klwalton and mackenzie get a fraction of the attention and adoration they deserve.

2) sogwife is really cute when she's all giggly.

3) The Month O'Solitude has begun, and when I think about having no open-door dinner policy, it makes me sad, so I take that part back. If you wanna drop in for dinner, you should do so, especially if you're fine with whatever silly vegan thing I happen to throw together. Dinner's at 7 every night except Saturday.

4) I think I'm going to do a science-fiction novel for NaNoWriMo. I've never written a word of science fiction before.

5) OKCupid is still fun. I'm enjoying chatting and flirting with people. Also, the more neat people I meet, the happier I am with my current situation, which I admit is a bit paradoxical, but there it is.

6) It is deeply satisfying to me that when we're out of bread, someotherguy doesn't run out to the store -- he asks me if I would mind making us some bread. He's all apologetic about it, but I don't know if he gets how happy it makes me that I make almost all of our bread.

7) Finances being what they are, I may not make it to alt.polycon in February. I mean, I'm still planning on going if we can afford it, but between the room ($421.83 plus tips), the plane or car (in excess of $300 either way), and spending money, we're talking about a month's pay for me, and I'm just not sure it's responsible of me to be doing that. Current plan is to see if I can amass enough extra income to make it less of a hit for us. Stay tuned.

Comments

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

i'm still looking for roommates. fyi. :)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thanks, honey, but someotherguy will be with me if I go, and we'll wanna have lots of loud, sloppy, hotel sex. ;-)

[okoshun.livejournal.com]

I may be able to cover up to 2 nights of your hotel stay with my built-up Hilton points if you'd like. I'll have to check out that I can for sure, but I don't see why not.

The other thing to consider is that there is a helpfund if you need some help with getting there. You just need to ask. :)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweet person. We'll keep it in mind. Right now, I'm trying to tease out my feelings about going vs. going. I'll let you know.

[violet-tigress1.livejournal.com]

You've had luck with OKCupid? I haven't had all that much.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Guess it depends on what you call luck. :-) I haven't dated anyone from there or anything, but I've been using it kind of like LiveJournal -- reading people's blogs, having good conversations, and moving to IM/email with some of the interesting people.

I met textivore on there, and tutordennis, who are now on my LJ friends list, and a few other nice people. textivore and I may take his kid and go to an amusement park (Oh, that reminds me to post about the amusement-park thing!). Stuff like that. If I were eager to be dating someone right now, I think I would already have gone on a couple of dates, because I've met some really fine people there.

So yeah, unless actually having had dates that went somewhere is your definition of "lucky", I guess so. :-)

[lcohen]

tutordennis gave me a Chelsea Morning earworm

and you just had to share ;-) !

how about dreadgeekgirl--didn't you meet her on okcupid?
i've met at least three people i've become good friends with off the site. i've also dated people--nothing stuck, but one of those people is now one of the good friends.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Yes, I met dreadgeekgirl there. I don't hear from her much any more. She seems happy enough to hear from me when I ping her, but when we both got busy around the time stonebender was in the hospital, our communication fell way off and hasn't picked back up again. I haven't heard from her in a couple of weeks.

I may end up spending some time with some of the OKC folks, but I'm not sure I'll actually dating any of them.