Beowabbit

Kala arrived Saturday evening, and it's been wonderful having her here. Unfortunately she's been getting over an illness (which she thinks is sinusitis at this point :-( ), and between that and the timing of her arrival we didn't make it to a Solstice party we'd talked about going to. But we've been having a great time; it's so good to have her here!

On Sunday, I made it to the Flea for a bit, and then went out to a yummy dinner. Didn't get much at the Flea; I kept looking at stuff and thinking, well, this is nice, but I already have one. :-) It was a great time, though, and dinner afterwards was lovely.

I forget whether it was Sunday or Monday that Kala and I watched Drowning Mona, one of my favourite comedies.

On Tuesday, we went to the Diesel and ended up going to Martsa's on Elm for dinner with cathijosephine, ragingamazon, and rosif3r. Yay for sweeties meeting each other and liking each other. (Also yay for amazing yummy food!)

On Wednesday I got together with cathijosephine, and we had a very fun philosophical discussion (inspired by a phone conversation she was having with quinnclub), and she showed me Harvey (which we didn't quite finish because we got a late start, but she lent it to me to finish on my own).

I'm not sure what the plan is for tonight, but tomorrow (Thursday) Kala and I are going to the MFA (using my membership for the first time since I got it more than six months ago). I'm looking forward to that. Maybe I'll show her my office, too, since it's just across the street.

Life is good.

Last night (my last full day here) we had a bunch of Tom and Tigris' friends over for games. At peak, I think there were about 15 or 16 people here.

Unfortunately, I was very tired -- partly due to staying up very late the night before and being awoken by the dogs across the street early that morning, and partly (I think) due to allergies -- so I didn't actually learn any new games. We started off (when there weren't a whole lot of people there yet) with Smart Mouth, which zzbottom and missdimple had introduced me to and I had gotten for Tom and Tigris. Then I watched a game of Frag for a while. Frag is a board game based on first-person shooters like Quake or Doom or Ultima -- complete with cards like "System Upgrade: New Joystick" that improve your ability to turn the other players into red-ink-on-cardboard chunks. It's very silly, and it looked fun. Then I joined a game of Frank's Zoo, a card game based loosely on the food chain where the cards are animals. (Little fish are eaten by big fish, which are eaten by seals, which are eaten by polar bears, and so on. Only the wily fox can eat the prickly hedgehog, and nobody beats an orca except for two orcas.)

It was a lot of fun, and it was neat to see lots of people I'd already met, to sort of get a feeling of community and continuity to my trips here. Tigris was still up and playing games with the last few people here when I went to bed. (Tom had gone to bed, because he works today at 6:00am.)

I'm not quite sure what the plans for today are, but possibilities include an Arabian Night's Entertainment (a fundraiser for someone's medical bills) with storytelling, tea, and belly dancing, and a HawaiiPAL barbecue. Then I need to get to the airport for my 10:00pm flight. (A very civilized hour to get on a plane, although I worry what I'm going to feel like when I get back in Boston.)

Looking forward to seeing my Boston friends and community again. Not looking forward to leaving here. You know, it would make my life simpler if y'all would just up and move here all together! But some people just can't be bothered to think of others, I suppose. :-)