long time no whatever
Apr. 17th, 2003 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
glauconok, so I haven't written here in like a bazillion years.
brief summary: I left for cambodia and made it as far as delaware. delaware was weird. I haven't lived there since 1994 and have only visited a few times since 1996. I felt like a strange sort of pederastic revenant. everyone at the school looked really young. I wasn't that young even when I was that young. some old friends were still around and it was really great spending time with them again, but the geography of memory and the memory of the geography really gave me the screeming heebie-jeebies.
anyway, long story short: I couldn't find a good job in delaware and if I stayed there more than 6 months, I'd have started drinking at 22-year-old levels again and would probably never have emerged.
so...it was back to seattle. I wasn't sure it was a good idea, but it seems to have turned out to be. I have a new job, I'm living with becca again (and sorta brian) which is really great, and life is so much more interesting here. also, the dating pool is much larger and more appealing so that I can choose not to date, rather than having no good prospects.
in two specific contexts (dating and "what to do" on saturday night), I like having lots of options so that I can choose to do none of them. selecting just one would collapse the waveform, whereas staying home and simply considering the possibilities leaves all of the options in a half-realized quantum flux that is almost as if I'm simultaneously doing all of them. and I don't even have to leave my living room.
that's me. schroedinger's hipster.
anyway, a lot of other stuff has happened which I will try to cover in short entries over the next few days.
brief summary: I left for cambodia and made it as far as delaware. delaware was weird. I haven't lived there since 1994 and have only visited a few times since 1996. I felt like a strange sort of pederastic revenant. everyone at the school looked really young. I wasn't that young even when I was that young. some old friends were still around and it was really great spending time with them again, but the geography of memory and the memory of the geography really gave me the screeming heebie-jeebies.
anyway, long story short: I couldn't find a good job in delaware and if I stayed there more than 6 months, I'd have started drinking at 22-year-old levels again and would probably never have emerged.
so...it was back to seattle. I wasn't sure it was a good idea, but it seems to have turned out to be. I have a new job, I'm living with becca again (and sorta brian) which is really great, and life is so much more interesting here. also, the dating pool is much larger and more appealing so that I can choose not to date, rather than having no good prospects.
in two specific contexts (dating and "what to do" on saturday night), I like having lots of options so that I can choose to do none of them. selecting just one would collapse the waveform, whereas staying home and simply considering the possibilities leaves all of the options in a half-realized quantum flux that is almost as if I'm simultaneously doing all of them. and I don't even have to leave my living room.
that's me. schroedinger's hipster.
anyway, a lot of other stuff has happened which I will try to cover in short entries over the next few days.
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Date: 2003-04-17 11:36 am (UTC)Welcome back, then.
thanks!
Date: 2003-04-17 12:09 pm (UTC)you going to norwestcon this weekend?
Re: thanks!
Date: 2003-04-17 12:11 pm (UTC)I'm gonna try to make WesterCon, though. And if you go to any One Reel-produced event this summer, chances are I'll be at it doing something vaguely official.