Chosen Environment

[greenstorm]

One of the interesting things about the more permanent internet media like webpages is that people are more likely to post unhappy things there than happy things. I don't think that's necessarily because their lives are unhappier, but because joy is a thing that happens when you're involved in the world and caught up in something, while unhappiess tends to happen when you're not otherwise occupied.

(Don't believe me? Run a test for a couple of days on yourself. Let me know how it turns out).

Anyhow, this seems to be a particularly hard time for most of the people I have friended over here on LJ. *Manyrandomhugs* to all of you.

For the last two or three days livejournal's been the major source of social interaction for me. That is, I've been spending time on livejournal slightly more than I've been interacting with the SO, and interacting with other peopel a fair bit less than that.

It's interesting to me that I'm not getting swept away, but am instead holding my equilibrium just fine. I think I should choose a little less of it, or a little more of a different kind of interaction, soon though.

This is a good week. I think I really needed the time to myself (time with the SO is time with myself :) to just let stuff filter through my head instead of having it constantly happen to me, instead of constantly being on the move from house to house and person to person. I'd thought of doing it before, on my own (please don't call me or come over, I need a week off you people who I'm closest to) but had never found thr willpower to do it. Convenient that it came along on its own.

I'm looking forward to seeing them again, of course, but I don't feel bad about not doing it now. And ...yeah, I think I have some talking to do with the Juggler. That relationship's been very strange for the last little while, like a pot that's losing its centre on th ewheel and is about to go flying off but never does. It used to be so peaceful, and without acquiring disharmony it's lost that. I'm not sure why, but we'll see.

The garbage is taken out at TOH. If I can remember, I need to head back there today and plant the basil seeds. Sure, it's too early for basil that will go in the ground, but it's good to have around.

Pottery tonight. Should be lots of time on the wheel, and I can see how my pots fired up. I glazed them last time, and glazing is one thing I know nothing about. Can't wait to get on the wheel.

Did some shopping yesterday and got a bunch of stuff. I've been having problems with white pasta, it makes me feel hyper and sluggish at the same time, so I'm trying out some potato gnocci and some polenta this week to see how those go. I'm also doing up a stirfry and some roast chicken, all for appropriate meals. :) It's nice to be cooking. It's nice to be cooking, to have other people appreciate the cooking, and not to feel bad because I'm making food and some people around me are going without.

I think I need to do some thinking about doing this more. I wonder if there are any half-price cookbook stores? :>

That's the end of the long ramble for now. Take care.

Oh, and mysticalseeker: Thursday middle-to-early afternoon on Prexus, or really anywhere, serverwide channel dramatis, password dramatis. I'm meeting with a roleplay guild leader to interview her. ;) She says Xegony has the most roleplayers, followed by Erollisi Marr.

Comments

[darthmaus.livejournal.com]

The garbage is taken out at TOH.

Thanks, sweetie :)

[seeker9.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. For some reason.. EQIM isn't working for me... I may not be able to use EQIM anymore at work... *sigh*

[reepicheep.livejournal.com]

I find the internet to be (well, contain would be more precise) a fantastic half-priced cookbook store. ie, whenever I think to myself "I wonder what the recipe is for foo" or "I wonder how to make foo without wheat/dairy/sugar/poison/etc" I turn to the internet and without too much trouble I find an answer complete with comments.

:)