ironymaiden: (red hat)
there's Larry Niven story about how the appearance of thick fog is not suspended water droplets in the air, but a confluence of worldlines. step into the fog from your reality, and step out in another where no one's invented the stapler.

super early this morning was that kind of fog, where you find yourself suspended in your own pocket of reality, and the edges of the rest of the world don't exist. i love the fog almost as much as the rain, except for the scary scary driving. i shall hand off my designated driver keys for a while, i think.

last night was the last last goodbye, and it was fittingly magical and sweet. [livejournal.com profile] frabjousdave kissed the girls (but they managed not to cry), there was beer and bourbon, and [livejournal.com profile] the_monkey_king describes the evening of brilliant music at the Tractor better than i might. Jim White is funny and self-deprecating and deserves a larger audience, but i am in love with the unclassifiable melancholy party sound of Devotchka. i know too well the fussiness of a theremin on stage, and to play one against a tuba is brilliant idiocy. Jim White spoke to and signed for everyone who wanted to see him (despite professed sleep deprivation and a mixing session to follow the show), and our own M&C walked away with a signed guitar, used in that very performance.

i don't get to have late-night breakfast with three bourbon-touched men nearly often enough. i resolve to buy a round of drinks more often.

many have recognized the passing of [livejournal.com profile] frabjousdave into the distance, but i would like to say a word for Fred, who has poor keyboarding skills and therefore is unlikely to IM me or call. he loves all the ladies, and i'm sure i was just another warm body who occasionally threw the treats, but i shall miss his butterfly head on my leg and finding his hair in random places. i hope M&C remembers to get you some catnip after all the trauma. safe journey, boys.
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C said something to me early in our relationship that periodically surfaces and sustains me. "I was looking for a woman that didn't need me."

and i don't, you know. i'd be a somewhat different person, but i'd be shouldering my way through the world all the same if he had never crossed my path. but there's something that rocks about being loved for that very thing. thinking about the thoughts flying on the friends list about gender roles, i'm very happy to have a boon companion and coequal who happens to have a Tab A to fit Slot B. and i get to wear cotton undies and comfortable shoes.

we had a rambly chat with [livejournal.com profile] frabjousdave the other day about which characters from Buffy we are (or wish we were). part of me certainly is Willow in high school, crying in the bathroom because she saw Xander kissing Cordelia. Willow, for all her other faults, found Oz and Tara, who loved her for her brains and geekiness and goofy sexiness. if i was a bit younger, i think that would have been hope for me in a dark world filled with cheerleaders and sorority girls. as it is, i worked it out on my own, and i look upon the early Ms Rosenberg with a poignant sort of nostalgia. sometimes the Cordelias of the world still get me down, be they the "attractive" or just the well-connected. i'll never be one of the popular kids, but i suspect that i'll always be happier, and with less effort. i like that.

in practice i'm pretty much Anya.

the weather is perfect for hot tea and all the indoor pursuits i love, as well as brisk walks. i'm making serious progress on the current quilt. more than two thirds along i think. i have two projects ahead with a Yule deadline, so i've got to kick some ass. that's okay. it feels quite good to cover my lap with a blanket and sew on it while singing with the television.

the birds are singing too.

*this is a quote from Romancing the Stone, which C and i spoke simultaneously yesterday. yay for geek love.
ironymaiden: (red hat)
i had a great evening last night, which reminds me that alcohol is not required for good times, even in a bar. nor do i require caffeine to stay awake into the small hours. i did discover that around 2am, there is no traffic problem in the Seattle metro area. i'd happily do it all again for, oh, maybe five weeks.

bounced awake at 6am today, apparently unaffected by lack of sleep. C and i shared our stories of the evening (he was triumphant) got some coffee, wandered down to the Five Point (where the jukebox was kicking out Paradise City) and finally the t-shirts were in stock. my brother-in-law has been begging for an "alcoholics serving alcoholics since 1929" shirt for over a year, and today there was one for him and one for me. on the front: The liver is evil and must be punished. yay!

C is upping the word count, and i shall putter until it's time for Lohengrin tonight.

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