Friday the 25th, afternoon: Played Carcassonne with Laura, Kam, and Naomi. Evening: Dinner at newish upscale Indian place in Mountain View with Bruce and Sarah and Simon. (I think I've known Bruce and Sarah for over 25 years now.)<\/p>\n
Saturday the 26th: Lunch with Mary Anne; afternoon playing boardgames with her and assorted friends of hers (was surprised to see a colleague of mine there; small world). Evening: hanging out with Kat et alia at Kam's.<\/p>\n
Sunday the 27th: Dinner party for Mary Anne at my place. Potluck, so M didn't have to spend all day cooking; and the cleaners had cleaned my place a few days earlier, so I didn't have to spend all day cleaning. But still took quite a bit of social energy.<\/p>\n
Monday the 28th: After work, hung out with David M. Mary Anne recently recommended Pamela Dean's book The Secret Country<\/cite> to me (I haven't yet read any Dean, not even Tam Lin<\/cite>), and it appears to be out of print, so David and I stopped by the used bookstore in downtown MV after dinner—and ran into Diana S and Simran. So we wandered back to my house and chatted for the next few hours.<\/p>\n (This morning, I considered starting this entry with \"David and I met two cute girls at the bookstore last night and convinced them to come back to my place with us,\" but in the sober light of evening I see that perhaps that wasn't the best possible way to put it.)<\/p>\n Today: Slept poorly, woke up groggy, dozed for a couple hours, turned on phone, immediately got call from Mary Anne inviting David and me to join her for lunch and reading\/writing\/working in a cafe in Los Gatos. Which we did; I would've been twitchy about doing day-job work in a public space, but I had stuff to do that mostly involved reading public web pages, so that was fine.<\/p>\n Was going to go see Jay & Holly this evening, but Jay's fighting off a cold and I'm exhausted anyway. So a quiet evening at home alone for me, after five days of more or less nonstop socializing.<\/p>\n As usual, it's been great to see everyone, but as usual, I really need some non-social downtime.<\/p>\n Tomorrow evening: Possibly seeing Jay & Holly. Thursday: New Year's Eve party. Friday: Possibly attending New Year's Day party in East Bay. Though by that point I may need to just hide in my room all day.<\/p>\n (Added later: It may be simpler than usual to hide at home, given that I have enough leftovers at this point for about a week's worth of meals.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday the 25th, afternoon: Played Carcassonne with Laura, Kam, and Naomi. Evening: Dinner at newish upscale Indian place in Mountain…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socializing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}