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Home again!
Feb. 19th, 2008 10:21 pmThe Symposium was a blast, per usual. It was great spending time with so many old friends after all this time, and I really missed seeing ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kenrand this year (get feeling better soon!!!!). I finally met up with agilebrit at the banquet on Saturday (pretty much the LAST event of the Symposium, other than filking). It's funny, too, because we'd both been looking for each other, we've actually *met* in person before and it turned out we'd been bumping into each other all weekend without realizing it and yet we still didn't recognize each other. I recall seeing her and thinking she looked familiar, but nearly everyone does at this event. The best part was that earlier in the evening, we'd even spoken to each other about the Firefly themed t-shirts we were each wearing, without realizing who we were talking to. *facepalm*
Being back at my former university this time was odd in another way... for the first time, it made me feel *old*. I was looking at all the students milling about and they were all *children*. No, really! Okay, maybe not children, but oh so young. Did I look that young when I was there? Probably. Wow.
And then there's another experience that only comes with the realization of age. There was someone at the Symposium this year who has been, as best as I can put it, a casual acquaintance. This time though, we had a few chances to really chat and I would now classify him as a friend... someone I'll probably email from time to time, that sort of thing. The weirdness comes from the fact that I remember when he was born. I babysat him when he was a few months old. I've been friends with his parents, J & L, since before he was born. J was the best man at our wedding and L actually went to high school withrackham... I believe they even dated a time or two back then. I have lived long enough to start becoming friends with the *children* of my old friends. Weird. Really weird.
( A few comments about The Diet under the cut. )
Unfortunately, I managed to pick up a nice case of bronchitis while I was in Utah. I'd really been hoping to avoid it, but I just don't deal well with the cold air and the inversions that hold the pollution down in the valleys in that state. I had chronic bronchitis when we lived there and have loved being free of it since we left... I'm hoping this bout doesn't stick around very long. Bleh.
All in all, it was a fun trip, but it's wonderful to be home again.
kenrand this year (get feeling better soon!!!!). I finally met up with agilebrit at the banquet on Saturday (pretty much the LAST event of the Symposium, other than filking). It's funny, too, because we'd both been looking for each other, we've actually *met* in person before and it turned out we'd been bumping into each other all weekend without realizing it and yet we still didn't recognize each other. I recall seeing her and thinking she looked familiar, but nearly everyone does at this event. The best part was that earlier in the evening, we'd even spoken to each other about the Firefly themed t-shirts we were each wearing, without realizing who we were talking to. *facepalm*Being back at my former university this time was odd in another way... for the first time, it made me feel *old*. I was looking at all the students milling about and they were all *children*. No, really! Okay, maybe not children, but oh so young. Did I look that young when I was there? Probably. Wow.
And then there's another experience that only comes with the realization of age. There was someone at the Symposium this year who has been, as best as I can put it, a casual acquaintance. This time though, we had a few chances to really chat and I would now classify him as a friend... someone I'll probably email from time to time, that sort of thing. The weirdness comes from the fact that I remember when he was born. I babysat him when he was a few months old. I've been friends with his parents, J & L, since before he was born. J was the best man at our wedding and L actually went to high school with
rackham... I believe they even dated a time or two back then. I have lived long enough to start becoming friends with the *children* of my old friends. Weird. Really weird.( A few comments about The Diet under the cut. )
Unfortunately, I managed to pick up a nice case of bronchitis while I was in Utah. I'd really been hoping to avoid it, but I just don't deal well with the cold air and the inversions that hold the pollution down in the valleys in that state. I had chronic bronchitis when we lived there and have loved being free of it since we left... I'm hoping this bout doesn't stick around very long. Bleh.
All in all, it was a fun trip, but it's wonderful to be home again.
