No Silver Lining Without a Cloud

[strina]

Bad news: Juggled my schedule today and I am now working SEVEN days in a row instead of six.

Good news: Being off next Saturday instead of next Thursday means I get to go to SoonerCon - 2010: A Bubba Odyssey. Confession: I totally decided to go when I saw all the Trek panels. Okay, and also "Redneck Hall of Fame: Great Bubbas in SF/F" and "Zombies vs. Bubbas"; I am sensing the influence of Yard Dog Press and I heart it. I'm actually disappointed not to see "The Merlene Show" on the program; that shit is hilarious.

I just really hope it's better/more fun than Conestoga was last year, and that I can maintain this "I WANT to socialize!" mood that long. I want more meatspace friends (I am kind of baffled as to how adults usually make new friends? Like, the one person at work with vaguely similar interests is a raging homophobe, so, NO).

Anybody else gonna be there?

Comments

[the_wanlorn]

I am consistently mystified by how people make friends in the real world. Back when I was in therapy, my therapist was always all "You need to make more friends who live near you!" And I'd be like "...how?" and she'd be like "Go to a bar! Or a club! Get involved in the SCA! Book clubs are also pretty great!"

Which are all excellent ideas! Sometimes I even manage to overcome my terror of meeting new people face to face and... well, not do any of those specific ones, but go to similar-type gatherings of strangers.

And then they inevitably say something and I realize how incredibly low my tolerance for *ist shit is, and realize that I could never be friends with any of them without constantly wanting to punch them in the face. Which... is not very conducive to making friends.

[strina]

I can manage about a day socializing before I a) curl into a ball of embarrassment over a real or imagined faux pas that will then go into heavy rotation in my mental slideshow-of-regret or b) resume advocating the cultural acceptance of wearing a literal FUCK OFF sign in public. Also, I spend a significant amount of thought on the fact that I didn't do enough crime when I was young, and unlikely to be prosecuted for assault (I was only ever in one non-familial fight as a kid and it was AMAZINGLY CATHARTIC and my parents took me out to my favorite restaraunt for winning).

[ineptshieldmaid]

I am kind of baffled as to how adults usually make new friends?

Me too! We should form some kind of club for People Who Don't Understand Adulthood.

[strina]

I feel There Should Be a Manual.