Comfier than I thought.
Jun. 24th, 2012 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sacredchaoI've had time and opportunity to think further on things, although I"m not going to post about that for now. Suffice it to say that my inner misanthrope and my desire to continue to think well of people are going at it hammer and tongs.
I gave up training to NSO (Non_Skating Official - does get used as a verb in this context) a bout yesterday. Plenty of people put a lot of time and effort in to allow me to skate so reciprocation is in order sometimes. It's not a chore though. I get to see the bout, learn lots and socialise. Derby seems to be dropping me in the path of some remarkable people on a regular basis and this Saturday was no exception to that. I had a great time and wound up crashing on a really very comfy and graciously offered couch at about 4am.
Today was a gentle trip out to Daylesford with a few very good friends from GQA. I did a bit of servicing my sleep debt in the car but very much enjoyed ambling around Daylesford poking through antique shops. Hunting through the bookshop there yielded a copy of The Mabinogion which appears to be a direct transcription of Charlotte Guest's 1906 translation. How well I'll absorb it remains to be seen but I think it'll be a good thing to have in my head.
I seem to have a lot banging about in my head at the moment. Most of it is abstract, even if it does in some cases have direct application to myself. So my headspace is busy and occasionally more excited than it needs to be but mostly really quite positive. I have another month of secondment at work, ongoing plans with transition and continuing fleshing out of my social life. The outcome of some of this is a case of wait and see but none of it is entirely out of my control. This is all promising, I think.
I gave up training to NSO (Non_Skating Official - does get used as a verb in this context) a bout yesterday. Plenty of people put a lot of time and effort in to allow me to skate so reciprocation is in order sometimes. It's not a chore though. I get to see the bout, learn lots and socialise. Derby seems to be dropping me in the path of some remarkable people on a regular basis and this Saturday was no exception to that. I had a great time and wound up crashing on a really very comfy and graciously offered couch at about 4am.
Today was a gentle trip out to Daylesford with a few very good friends from GQA. I did a bit of servicing my sleep debt in the car but very much enjoyed ambling around Daylesford poking through antique shops. Hunting through the bookshop there yielded a copy of The Mabinogion which appears to be a direct transcription of Charlotte Guest's 1906 translation. How well I'll absorb it remains to be seen but I think it'll be a good thing to have in my head.
I seem to have a lot banging about in my head at the moment. Most of it is abstract, even if it does in some cases have direct application to myself. So my headspace is busy and occasionally more excited than it needs to be but mostly really quite positive. I have another month of secondment at work, ongoing plans with transition and continuing fleshing out of my social life. The outcome of some of this is a case of wait and see but none of it is entirely out of my control. This is all promising, I think.
