Getting a word in edgewise
So, there seem to be many loose screws out there trying twenty billion different types of eco-tech-save-the-world-wonders. I want the job of being the screwdriver (okay, really, I just wanted to say that phrase). But I would like the job of coordinating, evaluating, and promoting (or not, for the unworthy) such efforts. I’d get to deal with hippy nerds all day, that’d be rockin’.
Surely there are people who do that out & about in the real world. Hmmmm.
Lawful good, eh? I was feeling pretty grudging about those “pro-government” options I clicked, but I clicked them anyway. *shrug*
Policy school must be affecting my brain.
I clearly need to reprioritize my time, if I have enough of it free to find this
Minneapolis (MSP) Jan 06 5:10 pm to Washington (IAD) Jan 06 8:37 pm
Washington (IAD) Jan 13 6:18 pm to Minneapolis (MSP) Jan 13 8:14 pm
Heading out to DC for the Annual TRB Meeting. Making hostel reservations pronto, just to be sure. But if any kind dc souls would like to relieve my pocketbook for an evening or two, and bask in the joy of my presence on their couch, I’d be delighted to (be) accomodate(d). =) The conference doesn’t start until the 9th, so I’ll have some extra time to tool around before things start happening.
Currently planning on staying at the Washington International Student Center. It’s tres close to the Hilton that is one of the three hotels in the conference. Hopefully, there will also be a wireless-enabled coffeeshop somewhere around there. =)
So this one strikes me as pretty realistic. It calls me an INTP (and I think the balance does tip more T than F for me) but an ENFP wannabe. INFP for who I’d want to date, I’m a bit more skeptical on. I’ve noticed that I tend to go for the quiet ones, or sometimes the private ones. I also tend to prefer abstract thinkers. But I do so like rationals (even if we are occasionally a bit dull.) I also like people with a gentle organizing hand (the light J’s, as it were).
Enh. Yay for time-wasty-ness. =)
I always get the blues at the end of a semester. Blues mixed with relief, but blues nonetheless. I think it’s mostly about losing the structure. I have no idea what to do with myself. Blah!
I want to go out & do something social. Where do quiet, still-waters-running-deep, intellectual-type homos hang out? Hmph. Or even friendly, progressive, and sane; straight, bi, or lesbian people. Meeting introverts is always a pain. Even, and perhaps especially, for other introverts.
Giving up on the conundrum, I could head to dreamhaven or play a game of San Juan with
Dreamhaven would have been cool last night, since I’m on the Bujold kick lately. She was reading there. Two blocks from my house. Oh well. I really did need to go to that econ review session.
I am feeling so restless and stir crazy, I don’t want to wait until next week to get the heck out of dodge. Fortunately, there is travelzoo.com 😉
$120 roundtrip to denver
$135 roundtrip to chicago
$149 roundtrip to dallas
hmmmm, maybe….
Then again, thursday evening party, saturday evening party, and friday evening concert thing. Maybe I should just practice being still this weekend. Find myself a yoga class or something. =)
Veggie dinner, Some bar hopping, some final fantasy xi, some cleaning the place, some hitting the gym.
Veggie dinner: Compassionate action for animals had a holiday potluck. I enjoyed it. I found it remarkable just how low the waistlines of young ladies’ jeans have fallen. I was also bemused to see a britney spears wannabe corner at a veggie potluck. Bemusing. The food was good, and the company not bad.
Bar hopping: Bolt Underground shirtless night wasn’t that exciting or populated. But it was good to meet
Gym: Got up too late for swim team, but I did go into the gym in the afternoon. Upper body, woo. =) I freely admit to vanity over the definition I get while I’m actually lifting the weights. Plus it feels good, in the end. And via the sauna, I have a date at a nearby coffeeshop in a couple hours.
ffxi: Mesharr began her bardtastic and rangerriffic careers over the weekend. Gobbie bag size was also increased to 40. And I discovered that my uncooperative moogle still hasn’t decided to grant me the mog safe increasing quest, despite having a nice bronze bed to sleep in. grrrr. That fuzzy little punk doesn’t know how good he has it. I took away his bed and will put it back after the next region update, but before the next one I’m around for after that. Goldsmithing up to 3. Will likely do more mining runs after classes are over.
cleaning: I finally put all the excess paper that grad school generates into a little recycling bag. I feel I ought to do a summary post on topics of interest from my classes, for my own memory, if nothing else. But that will be later. I’ve done half the dishes, but of course, it’s the older half that remains (it was on the bottom after all). Some laundry catching up. And I’ve finally purchased some hangers to help organize my room. Slowly but surely.
It’s good to see that my socialization is far from suffering from my abdication of gay.com etc. Bars seem not quite right. I may shoot for the gay men’s chorus (and the like) instead.
Plans for the holidays proceed apace, all stops have confirmed hostliness waiting for me. Now I just need to buy tickets, and advertise my impending arrivals more broadly. =)