Entries with tag "friends"

Liz arrives today, and will be visiting for a week. Andrés arrives tomorrow, and he will be here for two and a half weeks. I've accumulated four vacation days from working weekend shifts over the last month or two, so I'm taking Thursday, Friday, Monday, and Tuesday off. That means today is effectively my Friday, which is awesome.

After Liz regrettably leaves, Andrés and I are going to see if we can make a weekend trip to St. Thomas to visit Rose. A few weeks after that, I'm going to Cedar Point with Bryan and Cat. Around then, Michelle and Andrea get down here for the summer, and they'll be here for 4 months. So for the next few months, at least, my solitude seems to be in a temporary reprieve.

Liz's plane gets in around 6pm, so the plan is to call her when I get off work at 8. Just have to make it until then and I'm home free.

Interestingly enough, being stuck down here all alone has actually helped increase the number of friends I consider close. In Clemson, I kind of focused all my social energies on the select few friends that occupy the "Govies & more" group on my buddy list, to the exclusion of most of my other existing friendships.

Being down here and unable to spend every minute of every day hanging out with Meg et al. has forced me out of the comfortable hiding hole into which habit had driven me, and caused me to broaden my net and reestablish contact with all the friends I had fallen out of contact with, or that I'd never really gotten to know well.

While my life is still very lacking in physical interaction, socially I've actually improved, and I'm now good friends with a much larger group of people than the small circle I was limiting myself to before. I hate having to grudgingly admit that something you'd cursed and despised has actually been beneficial to you.