Home Alone
I just dropped Danae off at O'Hare airport for her flight to Oregon. She's attending CSCW, and was also accepted to a pre-conference doctoral colloquium where she is presenting on her work so far and will get feedback from other doctoral candidates at the same stage as well as some researchers in the field. I'm so happy she was accepted to the colloquium, and glad that she's attending a conference she's wanted to get to for several years.
For my part, I'm likely home alone most or all of the weekend (Nathan is usually at his boyfriend's place on weekends) and it's just him and me until Thursday when I pick Danae up again. I'm going to bike over to Lisa's place at some point this weekend to pick up the pink triangle necklace I commissioned from her (and drop off the La Croix I picked up on sale at twenty cents a can for her in partial payment). I'm going to get everything in the common space looking really nice, and then...I dunno. Relax. Listen to music and play with the new equalizer (it's pretty!). Play with the dog. Look at dog-walking jobs. Go for some bike rides. Maybe finally write something about therapy.
I guess I'm a little concerned. Having things to do for Danae often gives me some beneficial structure. Will I know what to do with myself when I'm alone? I've been meaning to get back to Spanish practice and do more reading. I also brought my (musical) keyboard with me from Kenosha when I went on Wednesday to do laundry and shopping. I think I'll work with that some. I have all these instruments (keyboard, classical guitar, theramin) but don't know how to play much of note (no pun intended) on any of them.
Danae's been pretty stressed about her presentations and things; wish her success!
For my part, I'm likely home alone most or all of the weekend (Nathan is usually at his boyfriend's place on weekends) and it's just him and me until Thursday when I pick Danae up again. I'm going to bike over to Lisa's place at some point this weekend to pick up the pink triangle necklace I commissioned from her (and drop off the La Croix I picked up on sale at twenty cents a can for her in partial payment). I'm going to get everything in the common space looking really nice, and then...I dunno. Relax. Listen to music and play with the new equalizer (it's pretty!). Play with the dog. Look at dog-walking jobs. Go for some bike rides. Maybe finally write something about therapy.
I guess I'm a little concerned. Having things to do for Danae often gives me some beneficial structure. Will I know what to do with myself when I'm alone? I've been meaning to get back to Spanish practice and do more reading. I also brought my (musical) keyboard with me from Kenosha when I went on Wednesday to do laundry and shopping. I think I'll work with that some. I have all these instruments (keyboard, classical guitar, theramin) but don't know how to play much of note (no pun intended) on any of them.
Danae's been pretty stressed about her presentations and things; wish her success!