rax | It is 80 degrees in Texas. (Reply)

Or maybe only like 77, but I have that feeling on my face of "I have been walking in the sun for too long" and it was too hot for jeans and a light shirt really, but that was all I had. Relatedly, I am in Texas, spending a long weekend with gaudior and weirdquark . It's been wonderful. Texas is kind of terrifyingly Texas, but we have done things like go to a gay bar and find nutritional yeast at the grocery store, both of which went better than attempts to do the same in Indiana, so that's pretty awesome. (Heck, it's harder to find nutritional yeast in Cambridge, MA.)
Oh and the whole thing where my mood is all crazy, which it has been recently? I can't tell if it's "my mood gets way better when I am with an SO" or "my mood gets better when there are people I have known for many years around" or "my mood gets way better when the weather is less terrible" but either way or all of them, the last few trips have been great for me.
Of course, flights home tomorrow may end up being held up by bad weather, which would be exciting. Hopefully I will not miss class on Tuesday morning for the second time because of delays in Chicago. I'm going to have to travel for work in February; please remind me that I should not travel anywhere else in February, even if it seems like a good idea at the time, even if there's a sale. I need to spend some weekends at home... so I can get some work done. If I need more social, I can find people to hang out with in Bloomington, or worst case import them. This is not to say being here is not incredibly awesome and calming and good. But it is not a good I can do every weekend.
I'm doing that thing where I get ahead on homework and it is awesome. I need to get more ahead, but I am ahead and that is good, and in one class I am even two weeks ahead. One of them I'm only up to this Thursday, but I can fix that on Tuesday, or maybe tomorrow if I'm feeling productive on the plane.
For people who like to plan in advance, I will be in Seattle from March 11th to the 16th and Boston from the 17th to the 20th. I will spend a lot of the Seattle time with Rik, but there will be other time too and I'd love to see friends! Boston, uh, Thursday night will be Poker and Friday (or maybe Thursday?) lunch will probably be with former coworkers and the 20th I will be going down to RI to see family, and other than that, maybe there will be a party? I dunno?
A bunch of other things happened but I am at a place with people and also have a bunch of work to do so that's all you get this week.