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cattitude about my most recent trip: some of the conversation, some of the food, some of the general Montreal stuff. One thing that this brought to my attention is that before this past week, I hadn't really had time to talk seriously with papersky since last Easter: she was away in Britain when I visited in the summer, and she had a lot of other people to talk to during the Farthing Party.
This visit, we got plenty of time to talk, including but not limited to time by ourselves in the mornings, at home and out shopping, especially the last morning I was there, and I feel more solidly connected again. Nine months isn't long enough for me to have been strongly aware of what I was missing, but it was enough time for us both to have be missing it. We talked about writing, about other kinds of work, about people we love, about Montreal, about tea, all sorts of things. It wasn't just time for the two of us: three or four or five people feels different from forty or fifty, or even from smaller groups within a party of 20 or 30 attendees. When Papersky,rysmiel, hobbitbabe, and I spent a day together eating dim sum, going to the Biodome, then tea at Cha Noir and dinner at the Peruvian restaurant, it was the same four of us all day, and we knew it would be. That's a lot less hurried, without the sense of trying to talk to lots of cool people in a short period.
Also, I was sleep-deprived at the Farthing Party, and thus less focused on the conversation than I'd have liked, and don't remember it that well.
cattitude about my most recent trip: some of the conversation, some of the food, some of the general Montreal stuff. One thing that this brought to my attention is that before this past week, I hadn't really had time to talk seriously with papersky since last Easter: she was away in Britain when I visited in the summer, and she had a lot of other people to talk to during the Farthing Party.This visit, we got plenty of time to talk, including but not limited to time by ourselves in the mornings, at home and out shopping, especially the last morning I was there, and I feel more solidly connected again. Nine months isn't long enough for me to have been strongly aware of what I was missing, but it was enough time for us both to have be missing it. We talked about writing, about other kinds of work, about people we love, about Montreal, about tea, all sorts of things. It wasn't just time for the two of us: three or four or five people feels different from forty or fifty, or even from smaller groups within a party of 20 or 30 attendees. When Papersky,
rysmiel, hobbitbabe, and I spent a day together eating dim sum, going to the Biodome, then tea at Cha Noir and dinner at the Peruvian restaurant, it was the same four of us all day, and we knew it would be. That's a lot less hurried, without the sense of trying to talk to lots of cool people in a short period.Also, I was sleep-deprived at the Farthing Party, and thus less focused on the conversation than I'd have liked, and don't remember it that well.
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