Behind the curve

Every now and again it becomes abundantly clear to me that I've been in deconditioning since leaving high school, and that there's still a long way to go on that front.

I got an email this morning from Kryn, vintage friend and ex-sometime-girlfriend. She is moving to Washington from California. The last time I saw her was some years ago, and she and her husband were moving to California from Florida. She wanted to know if I would go, at one point, and be their girlfriend. I declined, largely on the grounds of "people don't do that". (Not solely on those grounds, but largely.) Anyway. Things change, apparently. Now she is leaving the husband, and I am in a situation not entirely unlike the one I chose not to enter back in the day.

If you think it unlikely that I would avoid a relationship because it was nontraditional, consider this: Once upon a time, I broke up with D. primarily because he preferred not to get an 8-5 Corporate America job, and would rather earn his money in a more modular and fliexible fashion. Not only that, he was anti-capitalist in general. *Shock*

I think I've moved quite a bit since then. But still, always behind the curve. And it doesn't end. There's more ahead than there is behind.

Behind the curve

Every now and again it becomes abundantly clear to me that I've been in deconditioning since leaving high school, and that there's still a long way to go on that front.

I got an email this morning from Kryn, vintage friend and ex-sometime-girlfriend. She is moving to Washington from California. The last time I saw her was some years ago, and she and her husband were moving to California from Florida. She wanted to know if I would go, at one point, and be their girlfriend. I declined, largely on the grounds of "people don't do that". (Not solely on those grounds, but largely.) Anyway. Things change, apparently. Now she is leaving the husband, and I am in a situation not entirely unlike the one I chose not to enter back in the day.

If you think it unlikely that I would avoid a relationship because it was nontraditional, consider this: Once upon a time, I broke up with D. primarily because he preferred not to get an 8-5 Corporate America job, and would rather earn his money in a more modular and fliexible fashion. Not only that, he was anti-capitalist in general. *Shock*

I think I've moved quite a bit since then. But still, always behind the curve. And it doesn't end. There's more ahead than there is behind.

Incidentally

zylch discovered the Headwaters of the River of Basement Flooding and Angst the other day. There's a small crack in the concrete in the basement wall, right in the corner near the Hob Hole, that is admitting water.

We still don't know how to make it better, but at least we now know what it is.

Incidentally

zylch discovered the Headwaters of the River of Basement Flooding and Angst the other day. There's a small crack in the concrete in the basement wall, right in the corner near the Hob Hole, that is admitting water.

We still don't know how to make it better, but at least we now know what it is.