tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-05:2867713Drunken Owls and Other DelightsWho am I, and what have I done with me?jon_chaisson2018-12-01T16:45:18Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-05:2867713:955366Weekend Update Plays While the Cat's Away2018-12-01T16:45:18Z2018-12-01T16:45:18Zawakepublic0I will be driving A to SFO in a few hours so she can skitter off to London for a week, leaving me to my own devices. Not that I'm going to be doing much of anything exciting, of course. I'll do some errands later on today and...yeah, that's about it. No big plans other than on Thursday evening down the other end of Clement for the neighborhood's annual holiday 'Clementime' street celebration. (Free beer at Green Apple, woo!) Other than that? Yeah, I'm a pretty boring person.<br /><br />In other news, I've been thinking a lot about the 90s lately, which I find interesting. Most of you know me as someone who'd been obsessed with the 80s for years, blogging about it, going on about the music, and so on. I haven't so much dried out on that decade, I think that I've said enough on it for now. But the 90s? Why the decade when I was the most bitter and miserable I'd ever been in my life? To be honest, I think that's *precisely* why I've been thinking about it lately. I've been doing a lot of thinking about life and I've pretty much blocked most of that decade for multiple reasons. It was more than just bad relationships, bad friendships, and bad financial decisions. But I don't think I've ever completely made peace with that time...I had to get my head straight with other things first. I think I'm able to revisit that time now, and make a little more sense of it. I know there's a lot in there that I can parse that'll make more sense to me in the present tense. [I do sense a 90s-themed blog series starting in the near future over at Walk in Silence. Heh.]<br /><br />So why would I want to do this? Well, the simple answer is this: I ignored a hell of a lot of personal and emotional stuff that I should have been processing then. I was far too passive, far too reactive. I know I hid a lot of things from myself out of fear or embarrassment. So yeah. Time to come to terms with a few things.<br /><br />ANYWAY! Yes, it will be a quiet week here with A off gallivanting in London. I'll probably stay up too late doing revision work, but I'll try to hit the gym at least a few times! It's business as usual here at the apartment.<br /><br /><br />Hope everyone has a good weekend!<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jon_chaisson&ditemid=955366" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments