Between roughly March and mid-October, I was shuffling from the homes of friends* to relatives' and back again, spending half a week in either so as not to wear out my welcome, and heading out to Leavenworth (location of free housing, far from doctors & therapists) when I couldn't manage one of the transitions. It was exhausting and left me in a constant state of social overextension.

I am presently approaching the end of week 4 of 5 on a sublease and am finally, every so often, starting to have a spoon to spare. Of course, after this, I'll be right back to what's become the ordinary grind. That will last for a week and a half, then at the end of the month I'm off to visit premchaia_pre4 for a couple of weeks. That will be nice.




* 95% kistaro, to whom I remain endlessly grateful.

This afternoon, zeightyfiv and I had lunch with goldkin and blackvoiddragon at Solsticio, which was fun. The restaurant is worth going back to, as well.

I developed a migraine on the way home and have spent pretty much all of the evening trying to wait it out. (I suspect that traffic blinkenlights were the trigger, but can't be certain.) The discovery of the day has been that, at least in the later stages, I can drown out the skull-splitting headache with a sufficiently warm hot pack. It's still uncomfortable, but a qualitatively more tolerable kind of discomfort.

Now that the semester is done with, I find myself in a recovery state. Spent at least half of yesterday asleep - quite possibly more. If nothing else, it's a nice change from this semester's insomnia.

Expect me to be scarce here and in real-time communication media until earlyish January. I'll most likely be spending all of my social energy with zeightyfiv.

Also. In a previous entry, I mentioned having an abnormal EKG. It's been deemed not medically relevant, and explained to me that "abnormal" but harmless results are actually pretty common for women. (To the extent that some people want distinct male and female norming groups for EKG results. We'll see if that ever happens.)

I realized just now that in December of 2009, I'll have known the core of my current group of friends for 10 years.

Over the course of my life, I average just over two years living in any particular location. The pattern hasn't exactly been broken in recent years - one year in Ohio, one in my grandmother's house, one in my own apartment, and now one + epsilon in campus housing. In the midst of all that, internet access has meant that I'm able to have friends for more than a year or two at a time (in the dark days of high school, it meant that I had friends, period), and am never rebuilding my social networks from scratch. Since I don't get close to people quickly, that kind of continuity makes all the difference.

And those of you I haven't known for so long? I hope to be able to make the same realization about in however-many years.

Just wanted to let you guys know that you're appreciated. :)

zeightyfiv's housemates are a bunch of foodies. Somehow he didn't see fit to mention this before I arrived, but it's been a lovely surprise.