{"id":15539,"date":"2017-06-14T10:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T17:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2017\/06\/14\/15539.html"},"modified":"2017-06-14T10:49:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T17:49:30","slug":"many-socials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2017\/06\/14\/many-socials\/","title":{"rendered":"Many socials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I guess the sequence started in April? Mary Anne visited the weekend of the 7th and we went to Speakeasy. The 15th was Hamilton<\/cite> in San Francisco. KTO visited the weekend of the 22nd (and we stopped by Stanford for parts of a one-day symposium on sf and gender and such, featuring Chip Delany et alia).<\/p>\n

Then my own travel began: I visited family in Southern California the weekend of the 29th. The weekend of May 5, I had no big plans, but the weekend of the 12th I was off to Portland, for the Write the Docs tech-writing conference. That lasted 'til Tuesday the 16th; I flew home, then flew to Chicago on Wednesday the 17th. Helped prepare for, and then attended, Mary Anne and Kevin's anniversary party (Saturday the 20th of May); stayed in Oak Park until Thursday the 25th, when it was time to drive to Madison for WisCon. Briefly back to Oak Park post-WisCon, then flew home on Tuesday the 30th.<\/p>\n

By which point I was exhausted and wanted to never leave home again, but it was clear that I wasn't going to get to see Kam much for a while, so I went up to her place for the weekend, and while I was there I attended two talks at the East Bay Book Festival (Roxane Gay and Lindy West) and then stopped briefly by a friend's party.<\/p>\n

The following week, which was last week, Kam stayed at my place for a couple days 'cause she was on the Peninsula for work, and then I hid at home for most of the weekend.<\/p>\n

Then on Monday I flew up here to Seattle for a three-day work thing. I'm heading home on Saturday.<\/p>\n

(Today is the group fun day for the work thing. Part of it did sound like fun to me: floating down a river, or riding a gentle horse. But it's at Suncadia, east of the Cascades. So I would've had to be at the office at 8 am, then would've spent two hours on a bus filled mostly with people I don't know, then spent a couple hours doing a team-building exercise (I hate those), then had a group lunch with mostly people I don't know. Then the relaxing fun part, then a group barbecue dinner with the people I don't know, then another two-hour bus ride back to the office. It would've been stressful and exhausting at the best of times, and I've been low on social energy for weeks now. So I decided to instead spend the day ensconced in my hotel room, working.)<\/p>\n

After I get home on Saturday, I'll have a blissful week and a half at home, before heading off to Chicago again for the SLF writing workshop. And I'll stay there for a week after the workshop. The Fourth of July will be the 20th anniversary of the day I met Mary Anne<\/a>. I had been thinking of attending NASFiC in Puerto Rico but just learned that it's that same week, and I don't think I'm up to another convention so soon.<\/p>\n

After that, home again, and then I have no specific plans for at least a couple of months. (I still haven't decided whether I'm attending Worldcon in August; I'd better decide soon.)<\/p>\n

So that all adds up to about three months of either having visitors or traveling, with a week or so on my own here and there in between.<\/p>\n

It's all been good; I've enjoyed all of it, and it's been great to see everyone I've managed to see. (And apologies to all those I haven't managed to see.) But it adds up, and I could definitely use some downtime.<\/p>\n

(And I've barely blogged at all in the past month-plus. As usual, there are plenty of things I want to write about, but as usual, I haven't been making the time to do so.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess the sequence started in April? Mary Anne visited the weekend of the 7th and we went to Speakeasy….<\/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":[5,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socializing","category-travel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539","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=15539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}