What a day

[debka_notion]

Class today was great. I'm getting good feelings abotu both these classes, although both will be good, solid work. But the Ritual class is still very small, which I'll enjoy.

Outside of that, this evening I dinnered with Orin (you can say lunched, so why does dinnered sound stupid? I don't think it's a verb. Whereas in Arabic, the verbs made from the same roots as the nouns for morning, afternoon and evening all mean "to become". Strange.), ran an errand or two, and helped

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Class today was great. I'm getting good feelings abotu both these classes, although both will be good, solid work. But the Ritual class is still very small, which I'll enjoy.

Outside of that, this evening I dinnered with Orin (you can say lunched, so why does dinnered sound stupid? I don't think it's a verb. Whereas in Arabic, the verbs made from the same roots as the nouns for morning, afternoon and evening all mean "to become". Strange.), ran an errand or two, and helped <ljuser="shorr"> move his stuff. THere was a huge (by my standards) crowd there to help, which we couldn't all at once, but the job did pretty much get done. There's nothing that temporarily boosts my feelings of usefulness than being useful like that.

Of course, in everyone splintering to return to our rooms (or Orin's room, but I know my limits), and everyone seemed to peel off in pairs, except me, of course. I'd been promised a walk back to my room (the whole pair thing was getting to me- darn, I need a thicker hide right now), and so Daniel and Tova walked me back, which I felt kind of guilty about, what with the cold, and them going back to Arnon's to grab something and then to Orin's. I should have just sent them back. Oh well, what's done is done. At least I lent out a scarf, so I felt like it was at least semi-constructive, hauling them all the way over here. Well, I can pretend to myself, at least. I don't know why I'm finding this all so lonely- people have been asking me to have dinner with them, people in general have been really friendly. (I've also been getting a lot of peoples' problems, but that's another story.) So why the heck don't I feel like part of anything so often? This is ridiculous.

Comments

thank you

[shorr.livejournal.com]

You helped enormously with the move. It would have taken me a month otherwise. No joke. Thank you
-AzS

Re: thank you

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

My pleasure. Really. It made be feel useful, and I needed that myself.

[tirerim.livejournal.com]

Well, 'dinner' is a verb, according to the OED anyway, which even cites an example in the past tense. But I suspect it's a bit obsolete that way; you'd be more likely to say 'dined', which has the same origin, although that sounds a bit.pretentious, I think. Actually, come to think of it, 'lunched' sounds a bit pretentious, too, though perhaps not quite as much.

hmm

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

A good point. I wasn't thinking of dined, for some reason- and any meal which contains something referred to as "glop" just can't be that pretentious. (I couldn't see the different between glop and an ice cream-less sundae, but oh well.) Lunched does have a business-y feel to it, now that I think about it.

Brevity in musing

[tovaks.livejournal.com]

Maya,
I can't speak for Daniel, but I know that I wouldn't have trekked through the cold if I weren't enjoying your company enough to make it worth it (I also really needed a walk at that point anyway). :) It's great that I'm getting more of an opportunity to spend time with you this semester, and I hope I don't mess it up by getting too wrapped up in academics (again). Also, from my perspective, just because Daniel and I are a couple doesn't mean we need or even *want* to be "alone together" all the time. I couldn't be happy in any relationship if it were to the exclusion of all other interaction with friends. Anyway, I hope that helps make you feel less weird about the whole thing last night.
--Tova