Brain hazy, try again later
Been a rough week. Ended up flying out here to Swarthmore yesterday, a day earlier than planned.
Last night was good, though. Talking with old friends, eating comfort food at Renato's, walking in the woods, plenty of hugs and snuggling and general friendly casual comfortable touch.
Sadly, stayed up way way too late talking in the dorm lounge. Stayed at a hotel nearby, but only got about four and a half hours' sleep. Have been groggy and off-kilter all day today, and the overcast skies and rain haven't improved my mood. Still, really nice to see people, and there's been the special bonus of a couple of friends whom I hadn't known were going to be here.
I thought about stopping by various offices today to see the few faculty and staff I've kinda sorta kept in touch with over the years, but couldn't quite face the prospect of catching them up on my recent life in person. I'll send email later, especially since I owe a couple of them email dating back, oh, two years or so.
Not sure whether I'm staying in the dorm tonight or getting another hotel room. The idea of the hotel room was to give me someplace separate to retreat to if I needed it; also to give me a private bathroom. I don't seem to be needing the totally-separate retreat space right now, but I still don't like hall bathrooms, and the dorm beds are small and not terribly comfortable. Hard to decide.
Anyway. Friends are gathering in the lounge across the hall; I'll go join them soon. Gonna try to do a little catchup on long-overdue magazine stuff first, though.