they say it may rain today
Jul. 21st, 2009 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateWe spent the weekend in the near end of Ohio visiting large numbers of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
grauwulf's relations (including a whole side of his family I hadn't met before) and my attempts to sort out all the names flying past my head lead to coaxing his grandmother to share some of her childhood history, which was absolutely fascinating, and a little geneological research to start from, if we care to look into such things. Aside from that, there was much driving, a bunch of sitting around casting on and abandoning the knitting project I was poking at, and some attempting not to run screaming away from everyone. As I told grauwulf afterwards, my family reunions are generally larger and throwing everyone together all weekend, so if you sneak off for a few hours of brain recharge time it's not nearly so obvious.
I dreamed that I was wandering around in a library and every time I picked up an interesting-looking YA book or two to check out I'd discover that two minutes later some girl had stolen it from the stack of books I was carrying it around. Around when I went to get in line to check out, there was one teenager who had zipped two of them up inside her hoodie so I couldn't tell she had stolen them. Apparently even my subconscious was full of people who wouldn't let me sit down and read a book. Frustrating.
(and nobody else has suggestions of "if you haven't read this yet, why not??" books? I am saddened.)
At any rate, today I attempt to play with super sculpey, the results of which (should the actually work out) will not be available to be shared for some time. La, la, la...
grauwulf's relations (including a whole side of his family I hadn't met before) and my attempts to sort out all the names flying past my head lead to coaxing his grandmother to share some of her childhood history, which was absolutely fascinating, and a little geneological research to start from, if we care to look into such things. Aside from that, there was much driving, a bunch of sitting around casting on and abandoning the knitting project I was poking at, and some attempting not to run screaming away from everyone. As I told grauwulf afterwards, my family reunions are generally larger and throwing everyone together all weekend, so if you sneak off for a few hours of brain recharge time it's not nearly so obvious. I dreamed that I was wandering around in a library and every time I picked up an interesting-looking YA book or two to check out I'd discover that two minutes later some girl had stolen it from the stack of books I was carrying it around. Around when I went to get in line to check out, there was one teenager who had zipped two of them up inside her hoodie so I couldn't tell she had stolen them. Apparently even my subconscious was full of people who wouldn't let me sit down and read a book. Frustrating.
(and nobody else has suggestions of "if you haven't read this yet, why not??" books? I am saddened.)
At any rate, today I attempt to play with super sculpey, the results of which (should the actually work out) will not be available to be shared for some time. La, la, la...