Just a personal update

[flexagon]

So, I had a great 3-day weekend with a nice birthday dinner (two new words were introduced to the English language: incourteous and epithetic, which turns out to be a real word after all but it isn't quite what hiddenbear meant). I also painted one of my kitchen walls a deep peacock blue, with apfelsingail's help, and did a whole lot of chillin'. Oh, and I do owe you all a product review, when I find time to write one up. ;)

This week seems evenly divided between a schizophrenic work schedule (go away, bug reports, and let me finish up the new features) and trying to plan this weekend's trip to NYC. So far there's a lot of annoyance and money involved, because I'd already bought a nonrefundable Greyhound ticket (and a copy of Practical Common Lisp to read on the bus) when suddenly room opened up in someone's car. Then it turns out we have to wear the same thing to a fairly nice dinner and for clubbing, which precipitated a somewhat panicked trip to Wet Seal... sigh. All this and I still have no bachelorette-ish party favors. Ideas? Help me if you've got 'em. Otherwise everyone's getting a page worth of dirty limericks and that'll be that.

Tonight's condo meeting reflected a similar lack of togetherness and abundance of stupid little disconnected detail. Short story: we can't quite afford all the work we'd hoped to do on the exterior, so odds are good we'll have to do most of the work now and the rest next year. Everyone but us seems nervous about scraping up about $6K per condo this fall... which I can totally understand from the couple downstairs, but the woman upstairs who's in her 60s and has been in real estate for most of her career? It's a little odd. Maybe she, too, bought too many tickets and books and beaded shrugs every time she went to NYC. And yet even that wouldn't quite explain it.

Comments

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

Yeah, only for a select few would I go through with this weekend in NYC. It was already more money than I wanted to spend, but with fewer people it's getting painful. (And what was that snarky drill sergeant comment?!)

[flexagon]

Is the cost going up with fewer people? Actually, yeah, the hotel will. Good call. Though so far I've brought this on myself by trying to schedule things early.

I love NYC (and get to see Avenue Q with HLM on Sunday), so I'm still feeling like it will be a lot of fun once we get there. The important thing will be to let go of any particular expectation of sleep, things happening on time etc, and for you and me that probably means packing some Clif bars. :)

I think JM is probably a bit overwhelmed with scheduling stuff - I don't think she means badly. Sorry to hear you've been annoyed too.

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know she doesn't mean badly; I'm just compulsively organized. :-)

It will be a blast... it just doesn't help that I was already feeling queasy about the cost before the cancellations. When I originally RSVP'd to JM, she said it should come it at about $50/person, which I figured meant $100. Now it's looking like $200, not including clothes.

[flexagon]

Just for the hotel, you mean? Hmm... depends on whether we still need 2 rooms for the number of people we have now.

This is, in general, a problem for friendships between people with different amounts of money (or just who are willing to spend different amounts). The rich friends don't MEAN to make the poor people feel uncomfortable or spend more than they can afford, but it happens all the time.

I'm gonna re-recommend Tello's in Central Square to solve the clothing dilemma as cheaply as possible. :)

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to remember the conversation regarding epithetic and I'm coming up blank...

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

Did it come after that scary shot you guys were doing? :-)

[hiddenbear.livejournal.com]

For someone who has sworn off shots, I sure do a whole lot of them.

[apfelsingail.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

Yeah, well, I'm not allowed to do shots. Can we say zero alcohol tolerance?

[flexagon]

"Zero alcohol tolerance."

[flexagon]

Haha, we talked about it for like 5 minutes... trying to figure out how come you were teaching me a new word, confirming that you meant to say empathetic, wondering if it in fact meant "of or like a swear word"... you must've been drunker than I thought. :)