Comfortable socializing

[redbird]

Now (we're talking a scale of months, I think), I'm much more interested in spending time with people I already know and like than in getting to know new people. Odd, considering how well being introduced to adrian_turtle half a year ago worked: but friends and loved ones are restorative, and take less energy than getting to know people in clusters. That may be part of it: when I met Adrian, there were all of five of us there, and both Adrian and I already knew the other three.

Thus, I called L to arrange to hang out on Friday, and I'm not even a little tempted to go to a barbecue today, and wasn't even before yesterday's unplanned errandry made my need for a day off more intense.

I'm still thinking about the extent to which I have the desire and energy to get in touch with people I haven't seen in several years, but was on friendly terms with before geography got in the way (before half the world was online). Seeing alanro again after five years proved that time isn't always an impediment--but we'd at least been talking on the phone now and again. It feels as though the people I've really been out of touch with will take more energy, and more explanations. I googled Lisa Coulter, and found only job/academic information, nothing whatever personal. Her right, of course, but it leaves me less to connect to, or base a decision on.

There's no urgency here, fortunately.

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[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

Yesh, I know the feeling.