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I got through work on Monday after Christmas and headed right back to Kenosha. I didn't even have to pack much because I'd left most of it up there.
I had from Monday night through to Saturday morning to goof off. And goof off I did.
I visited No-LJ-James and Lara at Big Brother House to play a five player game of Arkham Horror.
I played an eight player game of Arkham Horror with my parents and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
akreaveter and his friends.
I played a two player game of it with just Ak at some point. (Yeah, there was a lot of Arkham Horror happening. It's my new toy!)
I drove out to visitposicat and allysinnia. I hung out with her for a while until Posi got home, then the three of us met up with more folks for awesome sushi at Sushi Para. That was a good evening and it was so great to see folks again!
I visited Michelle, who had bought this super-cute little Doug the Dog plushie for me, who is now living next to my computer monitors. I love Doug. So much. She also gave me a comforter, just because as we were chatting, I mentioned that I have new bed clothes but I miss my comforter. She had an extra comforter she was going to Goodwill, and gave it to me. Yay!
I spent some time over atserinthia and todd_riverden's place where we watched a bunch of episodes of Clone Wars, as well as one episode of The Smoking Gun's dumbest criminals show. I don't see them enough either, so it was great to spend some time with them.
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So, after a week spent gaming, visiting friends, and otherwise being a layabout, we got up to New Year's Eve. I helped my mom do some cleaning and organizing in the living room to make room for people and my dad made food. Oh was there ever food! For the game, we had six players. My dad sat out, as he's not into Civ 4; he watched New Year's stuff happening on live feed various places on the internet and kept up with food in the kitchen. The group of us played 'till about three in the morning if I remember right. That was awesome. I wish things like that happened more often. I'm going to try to arrange some when I'm living in Wisconsin again.
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The next day, I got up and showered and on the road only ten minutes or so past my goal of noon. I drove back out to O'Hare to pick up my sweetie from the airport, and the two of us went back to Sushi Para for lunch on the way to Rogers Park. She thought of trying to connect with more friends for lunch, but it didn't work out. Oh well.
The rest of that day and the next were spent in her very enjoyable company. We got some dinner fixings at Dominick's and watched more Numb3rs over mac n' cheese. The next day involved a trip to the Fluevog store where I looked at cool shoes and she bought a pair of boots that look way cute on her. Dinner was a place called Takashi where we ate upstairs in a cozy converted house. Over dinner and the car ride to the train station to drop me off, I asked her about, among other things, her experiences teaching classes and presenting and what that's like.
I used to think that I'd never make a good teacher. I had to give a speech for one of my classes in high school and I was terrified of the idea of getting up in front of a group of people. But these days...if I can work around my problems with not recognizing people, I think I could really enjoy teaching. Especially if it's something that I really enjoy and know well and am passionate about. I think of opportunities I've had to explain things like technical aspects of photography, or the way an overhead rigging system works, and I realize that I really love sharing understanding with other people.
And, that aside, it was wonderful, as always, to have some time with Danae, who I like rather a lot. You may have noticed that.
Well, that gets me about up to the present. Which means I can stop writing and start working on editing and posting some pictures! Tomorrow, it's back to work.
I had from Monday night through to Saturday morning to goof off. And goof off I did.
I visited No-LJ-James and Lara at Big Brother House to play a five player game of Arkham Horror.
I played an eight player game of Arkham Horror with my parents and
akreaveter and his friends. I played a two player game of it with just Ak at some point. (Yeah, there was a lot of Arkham Horror happening. It's my new toy!)
I drove out to visit
posicat and allysinnia. I hung out with her for a while until Posi got home, then the three of us met up with more folks for awesome sushi at Sushi Para. That was a good evening and it was so great to see folks again!I visited Michelle, who had bought this super-cute little Doug the Dog plushie for me, who is now living next to my computer monitors. I love Doug. So much. She also gave me a comforter, just because as we were chatting, I mentioned that I have new bed clothes but I miss my comforter. She had an extra comforter she was going to Goodwill, and gave it to me. Yay!
I spent some time over at
serinthia and todd_riverden's place where we watched a bunch of episodes of Clone Wars, as well as one episode of The Smoking Gun's dumbest criminals show. I don't see them enough either, so it was great to spend some time with them. ---
So, after a week spent gaming, visiting friends, and otherwise being a layabout, we got up to New Year's Eve. I helped my mom do some cleaning and organizing in the living room to make room for people and my dad made food. Oh was there ever food! For the game, we had six players. My dad sat out, as he's not into Civ 4; he watched New Year's stuff happening on live feed various places on the internet and kept up with food in the kitchen. The group of us played 'till about three in the morning if I remember right. That was awesome. I wish things like that happened more often. I'm going to try to arrange some when I'm living in Wisconsin again.
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The next day, I got up and showered and on the road only ten minutes or so past my goal of noon. I drove back out to O'Hare to pick up my sweetie from the airport, and the two of us went back to Sushi Para for lunch on the way to Rogers Park. She thought of trying to connect with more friends for lunch, but it didn't work out. Oh well.
The rest of that day and the next were spent in her very enjoyable company. We got some dinner fixings at Dominick's and watched more Numb3rs over mac n' cheese. The next day involved a trip to the Fluevog store where I looked at cool shoes and she bought a pair of boots that look way cute on her. Dinner was a place called Takashi where we ate upstairs in a cozy converted house. Over dinner and the car ride to the train station to drop me off, I asked her about, among other things, her experiences teaching classes and presenting and what that's like.
I used to think that I'd never make a good teacher. I had to give a speech for one of my classes in high school and I was terrified of the idea of getting up in front of a group of people. But these days...if I can work around my problems with not recognizing people, I think I could really enjoy teaching. Especially if it's something that I really enjoy and know well and am passionate about. I think of opportunities I've had to explain things like technical aspects of photography, or the way an overhead rigging system works, and I realize that I really love sharing understanding with other people.
And, that aside, it was wonderful, as always, to have some time with Danae, who I like rather a lot. You may have noticed that.
Well, that gets me about up to the present. Which means I can stop writing and start working on editing and posting some pictures! Tomorrow, it's back to work.