And now everything smells like fiberglass, mm

[cosmolinguist]

Friend: "How are you doing?"
Me: "Bad. [details]
Friend: "Aw. Is there anything I can do to help?"

This has been a really common scenario for me lately.

Usually at this point I say "No, but thanks."

But when Stuart and I had this conversation last week, I said, "can I help you build Daleks again?"

He seemed to think it was a really random thing to do, but honestly I can think of few better things for me than hanging out in a shed learning how to make fiberglass.

Stuart's a great person to learn things from too. He's very specific when explaining how to do something (especially welcome since I'm blind and all), but otherwise really expansive, saying "we're doing it this way but you could also do it this way" and "after this, the next step you won't be here for is this." I like that he's not just so knowledgeable but also so generous with what he knows, without ever being self-aggrandizing or tedious about it. I know the best people.

Comments

[magister]

That sounds very cool. :)

[bunnypip.livejournal.com]

HURRAY!

:D

[doctorstewie.livejournal.com]

You just made me cry a bit, because : a/ I am all the mentals at the moment and therefore have low tear threshhold and b/ I am not used to people being so nice about me. Thank you :-)
FWIW you are a pleasure to teach :-)

[cosmolinguist]

Aw. :hugs for mentalism and tears:

I'm kind of glad you read this; I meant to tell you these things because I don't expect you to be reading my LJ, but I forgot so I'm glad you found them on your own.

If I had anything to say about it, you'd be used to people being nice about you cos you'd have lots of practice. :)

FWIW you are a pleasure to teach :-)

I'm delighted you think so, thanks for the compliment (well, I think it's a compliment anyway) :)