[214/366] debridement
Aug. 1st, 2020 11:29 pmI had a tough day, banging my head against the wall of my essay. Some anxiety-inducing things happened too. But then tonight I had a nice dinner of pizza and garlic bread and salad, and a couple of drinks, as I attended ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
strange_complex's Zoom birthday party. I hadn't had much luck with zoomy socializing before but this worked really well, partly because of good real-life company and partly because of the excellent idea to start the evening by playing a game of Balderdash. This game, which I don't think I've played since college but I loved it and was really good at it then (it's about two of my best things: thinking about words and telling plausible lies) and I had a lot of fun with it tonight. No one was keeping score and it dissolved into general chat but not before everyone got their turn at telling us their obscure word. Having a bit of a Thing to do rather than just starting with general chatter worked really well for me and my anxiety-brain, and it was nice to see some faces I haven't seen in a long time.
Now the sensible thing to do after all that, and after walking the dog who didn't understand why his traditional after-dinner walk had to wait until two hours after dinner, would have been to go to bed because Gary has been waking me up early in the mornings again. But I've been so sensible all through lockdown, so I'm having a whiskey and Coke before I go to bed and it's great.
strange_complex's Zoom birthday party. I hadn't had much luck with zoomy socializing before but this worked really well, partly because of good real-life company and partly because of the excellent idea to start the evening by playing a game of Balderdash. This game, which I don't think I've played since college but I loved it and was really good at it then (it's about two of my best things: thinking about words and telling plausible lies) and I had a lot of fun with it tonight. No one was keeping score and it dissolved into general chat but not before everyone got their turn at telling us their obscure word. Having a bit of a Thing to do rather than just starting with general chatter worked really well for me and my anxiety-brain, and it was nice to see some faces I haven't seen in a long time. Now the sensible thing to do after all that, and after walking the dog who didn't understand why his traditional after-dinner walk had to wait until two hours after dinner, would have been to go to bed because Gary has been waking me up early in the mornings again. But I've been so sensible all through lockdown, so I'm having a whiskey and Coke before I go to bed and it's great.