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Jan. 8th, 2002 01:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vyvyanxWent to geek pizza; it was quite good. People seemed quite surprised at my new haircut, but several asked where I had it done, said it suited me, and so on, so I guess it can't be that terrible :-) Or maybe they're just being nice. After pizza, O and I got a lift with ST to Relativity for post-pizza. Listened to D's irc-to-speech software - very amusing. Hearing things like "lucifer has joined channel chiark. This is the voice of lucifer" in an echoing sepulchral tone were quite hilarious.
Chatted to M a bit (he's ill, and hadn't been at pizza itself). He was the one person (apart from A last night) who realised the significance of my haircut, and asked if I was ok. So I told about stuff, and he seemed sympathetic. He's got a new game, which I looked at and fancy playing some time, called "Munchkin". It looks really funny - a Steve Jackson game, based on stereotypical table-top role-playing. The goal is to get your character to level 10 as fast as possible. There are cards for weapons, armour, races, classes, monsters, and other special things like "Bribe the GM with food. Gain one level" :-) I can't remember enough details to do justice to the amusement of this game, but I must get our roleplaying group to play it some time!
M went to bed to recover a bit after a while. I was very good and only drank one glass of wine tonight. The evening became increasingly dull, with techy and then cycle-lane-related conversations. Since I can't even ride a bike, these were even less interesting than the discussions of the DNS. I picked a Frederik Pohl book off I's shelf and read it for a bit, then came home when the others were leaving. This is more like old times.
Saw D wandering around Relativity. He seems moderately cheerful atm, which I'm glad of. I still think he's incredibly beautiful, and a lovely person, but then I think back to the last few months of our relationship, and remind myself that it really didn't work between us.
Got back and found reply from GT. He seems not a bit offended, but unfortunately not a bit put off either. His reply was really quite amusing and tongue-in-cheek - he urged me to reconsider, since he was the world's greatest lover. I have to smile. But really, though I like GT well enough to talk to, I really don't think a relationship with him would work. Besides, my mother approves of him - that would never do :-)
Have been thinking about how I relate to people. I really am quite bad at working out what people want and how they feel. My social group of geeks contains many people like that, but it doesn't mean we necessarily relate particularly well to each other! At least I don't stand out as particularly odd, which I think I did at school and when I worked at Instron. I wonder if I will ever meet someone who seems to be really on my wavelength?
Chatted to M a bit (he's ill, and hadn't been at pizza itself). He was the one person (apart from A last night) who realised the significance of my haircut, and asked if I was ok. So I told about stuff, and he seemed sympathetic. He's got a new game, which I looked at and fancy playing some time, called "Munchkin". It looks really funny - a Steve Jackson game, based on stereotypical table-top role-playing. The goal is to get your character to level 10 as fast as possible. There are cards for weapons, armour, races, classes, monsters, and other special things like "Bribe the GM with food. Gain one level" :-) I can't remember enough details to do justice to the amusement of this game, but I must get our roleplaying group to play it some time!
M went to bed to recover a bit after a while. I was very good and only drank one glass of wine tonight. The evening became increasingly dull, with techy and then cycle-lane-related conversations. Since I can't even ride a bike, these were even less interesting than the discussions of the DNS. I picked a Frederik Pohl book off I's shelf and read it for a bit, then came home when the others were leaving. This is more like old times.
Saw D wandering around Relativity. He seems moderately cheerful atm, which I'm glad of. I still think he's incredibly beautiful, and a lovely person, but then I think back to the last few months of our relationship, and remind myself that it really didn't work between us.
Got back and found reply from GT. He seems not a bit offended, but unfortunately not a bit put off either. His reply was really quite amusing and tongue-in-cheek - he urged me to reconsider, since he was the world's greatest lover. I have to smile. But really, though I like GT well enough to talk to, I really don't think a relationship with him would work. Besides, my mother approves of him - that would never do :-)
Have been thinking about how I relate to people. I really am quite bad at working out what people want and how they feel. My social group of geeks contains many people like that, but it doesn't mean we necessarily relate particularly well to each other! At least I don't stand out as particularly odd, which I think I did at school and when I worked at Instron. I wonder if I will ever meet someone who seems to be really on my wavelength?
