{"id":13777,"date":"2011-07-23T23:36:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T06:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2011\/07\/23\/13777.html"},"modified":"2011-07-23T23:36:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T06:36:10","slug":"ny-reunion-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2011\/07\/23\/ny-reunion-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"NY, reunion, sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Would like to blog about the New York trip I just returned from, but that's not gonna happen tonight. Maybe sometime soon, maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Arrived home around 4:30 this afternoon; headed off to 25th high school reunion two hours later.<\/p>\n<p>I was kinda apprehensive about it. I had looked at the list of attendees, and had looked them up in my yearbook, and had noticed a few things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>Most of the women had apparently changed their last names, so I wasn't sure who they were.<\/li>\n  <li>Many people in high school didn't put their actual names in their little rectangle of yearbook space.<\/li>\n  <li>Of those that I could find in the yearbook, only about twenty of the names (out of around 75 attendees) even sounded familiar.<\/li>\n  <li>Of those, no more than ten were people I had been on even vaguely friendly terms with in high school; the rest were names I'd heard but not people I knew.<\/li>\n  <li>A lot of the attendees appeared to have been in social circles that I didn't interact with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But there were a few people I wanted to see, and I figured if all else failed I could just leave early.<\/p>\n<p>And it turned out to be fun. I spent most of the four hours I was there talking with Kim S and her husband, who were the people I'd most wanted to see, having not seen Kim since high school.<\/p>\n<p>I also chatted a bit with Abi, Michelle, Cary, Ziem, and Kristen T (all of whom, I think, I had chatted with at previous reunions), and said hi in passing to John C, Carlos, Peter K, Liz P, and Elan. And I may be forgetting some people.<\/p>\n<p>(Hey! I just noticed that Rafa was on the attendee list, but I didn't see him all evening.)<\/p>\n<p>I'm sorry not to've chatted more with various people. I had intended to, but around 10:30 p.m., I realized I was losing the ability to come up with words, and that perhaps having been up since 4 a.m. (CA time) this morning, I ought to drive home while I still could. So I left abruptly, and it wasn't &#8217;til I got home that I realized I'd neglected to talk with various folks.<\/p>\n<p>There may be another chance tomorrow: I think the plan is to meet at Mitchell Park at 1 p.m. But I'm not sure I'm going to make it.<\/p>\n<p>I'm at home, the first time I'll have more than an hour or so alone since last Sunday. As soon as I finish this post, I'm gonna go to sleep. I may well end up deciding not to leave the house tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I was gonna go to the grocery store, and Mitchell Park is between here and there. So maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Liz for organizing the reunion! I was disappointed that more people I knew didn't attend, but I enjoyed talking with those who were there.<\/p>\n<p>OK, me for sleep.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would like to blog about the New York trip I just returned from, but that&#8217;s not gonna happen tonight. Maybe&#8230;<\/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-13777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socializing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13777","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=13777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}