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Wow. What a fantastically interesting evening. Went to the Mercury with revseandoe, Stax, and Jason M., and it was an interesting way for 9:00 to become 4:00 the next morning, including spending rather a good bit of time talking etc. with a Basque-born first-grade teacher, who was, to put it succinctly, nummilicious.
All sorts of interesting people were seen, some talked with, one or two drooled upon ;-)
Yummy.
Got home at 7:30, and after about an hour and a half of trying to nap while the rest of the household seemed determined to keep me awake, i'm ready to face the day. It's grey and rainy, or otherwise, it'd be really tempting to go down to Folklife. Instead, i'll take alexander for a walk.
Tomorrow's alexander's birthday- he'll be four, and everyday seems to be more and more ahead of where a kid his age would be expected to be. He's even getting his own e-mail account- ya gotta start turning them into geeks early :-)

Still processing...

all the sensory data from Saturday night. Life gets, um, interesting at times. Guess it has to to keep those of us with short attention spans from getting bored with it.
This whole "being social" thing is really getting interesting, and the exercise in doing so seems to have been good for my social skills in general, and that i'm actually making good impressions with some of those i meet *quelle surprise, n'est-ce pas?*. We'll see where things lead.
I'm finding that i really appreciate being involved in a community that doesn't seem to have a set expectation of what its members are, aside from being themselves. For those of us who have never been round pegs, it's really nice to not have to try to fit into the round peg-hole.
Not to mention i've met some really amazingly interesting people in the process, and for the first time in a long time- possibly forever, i have something approaching a social circle with which i feel really comfortable. Maybe i'm not as anti-social as i used to think. ;-)