Good things from today and tonight
May. 26th, 2010 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonWork is getting a bit crushing and I'm glad there's a 3-day weekend coming up, even though it means a Friday deadline on something where there's usually a Monday deadline.
Today, after having swapped some emails with people, I walked over and gave two large framed photographs to MIT's Mech E Undergrad office. They were presents from my dad, which gave me some pause, but they were also mementos of college graduation, which happened in freaking 1999. I have several other mementos of the same event (including, you know, my diplomas); the things were large, and made me think of my dad, and I'd had them for several years, and anyway it's freaking 2010. Why be reminded every day of 11 years ago? In proportion to my initial hesitation, that's how glad I was this afternoon that they've gone on to a new life. I got that sort of shivery feeling you get when you've escaped something, or when you're done peeing after really having to go, or when you've dropped a critical letter into the mailbox.
Tonight, I met with close to 20 other people on the commons to practice building our human tower. I admit that I started out a bit annoyed, as I was missing acroyoga for it and so many people were late that I was afraid we wouldn't be able to practice for real. But people kept showing up, and suddenly it was great -- we SUCCEEDED in our major hurdle of getting a circle of three people standing on a circle of three people standing on a circle of three people. I saw pictures/video after we did it and was surprised how tall the structure was. I'm in the middle, which meant (tra la!) that I was basing AND flying. As I posted on Facebook, it's great sometimes to be appreciated (and appreciate others) for the simple things: stay there. don't let me fall.
Today, after having swapped some emails with people, I walked over and gave two large framed photographs to MIT's Mech E Undergrad office. They were presents from my dad, which gave me some pause, but they were also mementos of college graduation, which happened in freaking 1999. I have several other mementos of the same event (including, you know, my diplomas); the things were large, and made me think of my dad, and I'd had them for several years, and anyway it's freaking 2010. Why be reminded every day of 11 years ago? In proportion to my initial hesitation, that's how glad I was this afternoon that they've gone on to a new life. I got that sort of shivery feeling you get when you've escaped something, or when you're done peeing after really having to go, or when you've dropped a critical letter into the mailbox.
Tonight, I met with close to 20 other people on the commons to practice building our human tower. I admit that I started out a bit annoyed, as I was missing acroyoga for it and so many people were late that I was afraid we wouldn't be able to practice for real. But people kept showing up, and suddenly it was great -- we SUCCEEDED in our major hurdle of getting a circle of three people standing on a circle of three people standing on a circle of three people. I saw pictures/video after we did it and was surprised how tall the structure was. I'm in the middle, which meant (tra la!) that I was basing AND flying. As I posted on Facebook, it's great sometimes to be appreciated (and appreciate others) for the simple things: stay there. don't let me fall.
