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Feb. 2nd, 2004 03:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeYes, Virginia, there *is* such a thing as being oversocialised, if you're me.
Had a nice weekend, but too much social contact makes Phnee eventually want to curl up in a corner and snarl and bite the hands that try to pet her. Not a good thing.
Spent Friday frantically finishing up the Translation of Doom. It went okay, nothing terrible. Then Resident Evil game, also okay, though one of the players wasn't feeling well by the end. I'm beginning to think that gaming is a sport for people under the age of 25, as I was keeling over by the end too. Will have to think about that.
Am worried, in random paranoid secondary news, that someone (no one any of you knows, don't worry) is upset with me and not telling me why and because I'm not a mind reader I can't figure it out and it's driving me batty.
Spent Saturday with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lux80 and Prospero's Daughter, who introduced me to the fun world of Dance Dance Revolution after we had breakfast together. They call it DDR, but because I received such a Eurocentric education, to me it just means Deutsche Democratische Republik, so I have to think of it as Dance Dance Revolution. ;) Then we went bowling, I for the second time in my life. The first time I went was November or December of 2001. It was fun. I like bowling. I want to do it again. I suck at Dance Dance Revolution, but apparently that's normal for a beginner.
We dropped by Mélange Magique where I introducedfirewillow to Prospero's Daughter, although they already knew each other vaguely. They just didn't know that I knew them, and they didn't know each other's moniker's in this LJ, which they both read. *waves cheerfully to both of them* So now they know who I'm talking about. Also introduced lux80, who wasn't feeling at all well, poor thing, so we took her home.
I drove Prospero's Daughter home after that, then hied myself home and did massive amounts of cleaning. Vacuumed, which sent the cats into fits of hysterics, and then they all got grumpy and cranky and took it out on each other.
I read SO much this weekend. I don't know how I did it, but it was allfirewillow's fault. She gave me these fantastic children's books to read, and I glomped all four about two days. Now I'm reading Wicked which is fantastic, which Prospero's Daughter lent me, about the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. Brilliant stuff.
Went out with my mother yesterday afternoon to see Girl With A Pearl Earring which is visually absolutely one of the most beautiful films I have seen all year bar none. The storyline is simple enough, but the film is like a fluid series of seventeenth century portraits one after the other, and it made me want to go out and paint. I, the talentless hack if you put anything like an artist's implement in my hands. So, yeah. Go see it.
Watched Brokedown Palace with Prospero's Daughter andlux80, which was pretty good too. I like Claire Danes a lot, so that helped, although compared to Girl With A Pearl Earring it lacked depth and sensitivity, I thought. But maybe I just wasn't in the right mindspace. Poor lux80 mangled her back on Saturday and was not in good shape, but we managed to have a lot of fun anyway. We had milkshakes.
However, it was a *lot* of socialising for one weekend. Am now feeling raw and jangled and very very edgy. I'm going to go finish Wicked and maybe try to make my brain stop spinning by watching television.
Had a nice weekend, but too much social contact makes Phnee eventually want to curl up in a corner and snarl and bite the hands that try to pet her. Not a good thing.
Spent Friday frantically finishing up the Translation of Doom. It went okay, nothing terrible. Then Resident Evil game, also okay, though one of the players wasn't feeling well by the end. I'm beginning to think that gaming is a sport for people under the age of 25, as I was keeling over by the end too. Will have to think about that.
Am worried, in random paranoid secondary news, that someone (no one any of you knows, don't worry) is upset with me and not telling me why and because I'm not a mind reader I can't figure it out and it's driving me batty.
Spent Saturday with
lux80 and Prospero's Daughter, who introduced me to the fun world of Dance Dance Revolution after we had breakfast together. They call it DDR, but because I received such a Eurocentric education, to me it just means Deutsche Democratische Republik, so I have to think of it as Dance Dance Revolution. ;) Then we went bowling, I for the second time in my life. The first time I went was November or December of 2001. It was fun. I like bowling. I want to do it again. I suck at Dance Dance Revolution, but apparently that's normal for a beginner.We dropped by Mélange Magique where I introduced
firewillow to Prospero's Daughter, although they already knew each other vaguely. They just didn't know that I knew them, and they didn't know each other's moniker's in this LJ, which they both read. *waves cheerfully to both of them* So now they know who I'm talking about. Also introduced lux80, who wasn't feeling at all well, poor thing, so we took her home.I drove Prospero's Daughter home after that, then hied myself home and did massive amounts of cleaning. Vacuumed, which sent the cats into fits of hysterics, and then they all got grumpy and cranky and took it out on each other.
I read SO much this weekend. I don't know how I did it, but it was all
firewillow's fault. She gave me these fantastic children's books to read, and I glomped all four about two days. Now I'm reading Wicked which is fantastic, which Prospero's Daughter lent me, about the Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. Brilliant stuff.Went out with my mother yesterday afternoon to see Girl With A Pearl Earring which is visually absolutely one of the most beautiful films I have seen all year bar none. The storyline is simple enough, but the film is like a fluid series of seventeenth century portraits one after the other, and it made me want to go out and paint. I, the talentless hack if you put anything like an artist's implement in my hands. So, yeah. Go see it.
Watched Brokedown Palace with Prospero's Daughter and
lux80, which was pretty good too. I like Claire Danes a lot, so that helped, although compared to Girl With A Pearl Earring it lacked depth and sensitivity, I thought. But maybe I just wasn't in the right mindspace. Poor lux80 mangled her back on Saturday and was not in good shape, but we managed to have a lot of fun anyway. We had milkshakes.However, it was a *lot* of socialising for one weekend. Am now feeling raw and jangled and very very edgy. I'm going to go finish Wicked and maybe try to make my brain stop spinning by watching television.