29 June 2002: The Bestest People

Three o’clock Sunday morning, after a long and wonderful day of reconnecting with friends. Woke up twenty hours ago, at seven o’clock Saturday morning. At ten, Lexicat showed up. We hiked up to the big monument at the top of Piedmont Cemetary, currently my favorite place to be. Beautiful day. Got massive neck-and-shoulder sunburn; talked; enjoyed a magnificent view. Lexicat moves back here for good in September. I am happy. I didn’t start getting to know her until after she went off to school, so I’ve never had the experience of enjoying her in a Weekly Edition; she’s always been a Semiannual Event. Although of course I’m an avid reader of her journal; it’s one of the ones that I check obsessively for updates, often several times a day.

We hiked back down to my house, and then strolled over to Aleph’s house (about five blocks away). I learned how to play Settlers of Catan; now I know why so many of my friends are addicted to that game. Played a long game of it with Aleph, Lexicat, Da Rong Jo, and two friends of Lexicat’s I’d just met for the first time. Lilim was also there, hanging out. Good to see them all. After everyone went their separate ways (Lexicat off to the Dyke March), I hung out and spent an hour or so talking with Aleph. Haven’t done that in a long time. Almost forgot how much I love that guy.

Went to Wolf Gal’s for dinner. Went dancing, then Wolf Gal dropped me off at home. I’d go into more detail about all of this, but hey, come on, it’s three in the morning.

Once home, changed into a less sweat-soaked shirt and immediately walked over to Aleph’s again, because Geminica had arrived in town and it was time to see Geminica. Found her at Aleph’s along with a tired and cozily basking Lexicat. Lilim was also there again. Moly showed up soon after I got there, and soon after that, Moonspice, Titan, and Opsimath showed up. And that’s where I’ve been, hanging out with some of the bestest people in the universe, until we all got too sleepy and I came home to write this.

There’s so much emotional content to all this, that I don’t have time to write about. It was a day of reconnecting with Pack - and in doing so, reconnecting with parts of myself that I haven’t taken the time to explore in a while. I’ve grown and changed so much in the past year, that for a while now I’ve had no idea who I am. Some of that stuff, I can only know through my interactions with Pack. I learned a lot today about who I am now. And some of it’s pretty good. Though of course, there’s still an awful lot of work to be done. But that’s all right – I’ll do it. After all, that’s why I’m here.