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Socializing, books, and trying to balance energy
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cattitude and I had a very pleasant sushi dinner with elisem and roadnotes. They kindly invited us to join them after Elise and Roadnotes ran into each other on the street Sunday and agreed to get together.
The fish was good, and the conversation excellent. Unsurprisingly, we talked a bunch about Mike Ford, because Elise misses him intensely and because New York was his city, so being here reminds her of him.
As it happens, I'd just picked up The Princes of the Air, which I'd not read before. (I'm still only halfway through the book, so will save any significant discussion.) The day after that conversation, I happened on a bit of scene description, set in a palace on a human colony world around another star, but between what's in the book and the reminder of Mike's connection to this city, I suddenly had a detailed and specific sense of place. A reader who didn't make that connection, or didn't know the place in question, wouldn't be lost, but it was a fine extra.
Because energy is finite, and because we'd had Adrian here on the weekend and then I'd been to the gym Monday night, both of which are worthwhile but both of which had used energy, I declined to join Elise and Roadnotes at the piano bar. It would have been fun, but as it was, I was leaning on the subway station pillars for support while we waited for an uptown A train. (And then I didn't get to bed until almost midnight, instead talking to Adrian and futzing around online--but I was home, not dealing with travel or people I didn't know.)
cattitude and I had a very pleasant sushi dinner with elisem and roadnotes. They kindly invited us to join them after Elise and Roadnotes ran into each other on the street Sunday and agreed to get together.The fish was good, and the conversation excellent. Unsurprisingly, we talked a bunch about Mike Ford, because Elise misses him intensely and because New York was his city, so being here reminds her of him.
As it happens, I'd just picked up The Princes of the Air, which I'd not read before. (I'm still only halfway through the book, so will save any significant discussion.) The day after that conversation, I happened on a bit of scene description, set in a palace on a human colony world around another star, but between what's in the book and the reminder of Mike's connection to this city, I suddenly had a detailed and specific sense of place. A reader who didn't make that connection, or didn't know the place in question, wouldn't be lost, but it was a fine extra.
Because energy is finite, and because we'd had Adrian here on the weekend and then I'd been to the gym Monday night, both of which are worthwhile but both of which had used energy, I declined to join Elise and Roadnotes at the piano bar. It would have been fun, but as it was, I was leaning on the subway station pillars for support while we waited for an uptown A train. (And then I didn't get to bed until almost midnight, instead talking to Adrian and futzing around online--but I was home, not dealing with travel or people I didn't know.)