Antisocial Avrelia amazingly annihilates angst.

[avrelia]

Or not.

It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted here last. Sorry about that. I was nether to busy nor too angsty to post, I just… was lazy, I guess.

The life is going on and some stuff is happening, but it’s not too distracting, really – so far. I keep making LJ posts in my head, but by now I hardly remember what I wanted to say. Probably nothing of importance.

The spring is gone, and I am looking into the summer that greets me with the wicked heat. I was looking forward to summer, but now I am not that sure. Where is the nice mild weather? Or yes, not there. Anyway, watching the spring jumping over Toronto in May was a treat to eyes - I love all the May blossoming – tulips and daffodils, lilac and chestnuts… I wouldn’t mind it kept like for longer that one month. Except that last week I caught some nasty cold or something and was hiding at home and playing dead at work.

By now it almost disappeared. But during the “hiding at home phase I found an interesting place – 76_82 - Russian Lj community about our childhood – our generation’s weird childhood. It’s not blithely nostalgic –“look how good everything was” – it’s more of collecting the memories of that strange time – things, customs, rules of the games we played, movies and books, our fantasies and perceptions. Or course, for many the childhood was good just because it was childhood, never mind that we didn’t have a lot of things we can’t live without now.

What else I was wasting my time on:

1) Playing World of the Warcraft (too often)
2) Playing golf (twice)
3) Walking around
4) Reading
5) Watching movies and (occasionally) TV
6) seeing friends
7) thinking about Writercon a lot

Comments

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

OMG!eleventy11one!!! I know where I'm going to spend all my free time today. Oh, memories. The good, the bad, the ugly.

I have a similar story about sitting in the front. Only we never got to the mutual antagonism stage. The boy was transferred to the parallel class and then out of the school.

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

I can't look at this at work! I almost jumped off my chair (thankfully I was alone) and some obscene noises may or not have been made. I'm reading about things I forgot I remembered. Oh dear.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

hee! exactly. I found it accidentally and the more I read, the more I remember strange details. My first post there -http://community.livejournal.com/76_82/2074055.html and there are links in the comments if you need them. :)

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

look at their info page - there are a lot of in the memories and they have a good search through posts and comments.

[missmurchison.livejournal.com]

It's good to hear from you. I missed you. And that sounds like a fascinating community.

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

I did check the info page and spent the whole evening catching up on posts. Of course I'm not done yet. I'm so glad I finished one big work project yesterday and had some free time this evening.

It was such a weird time, wasn't it? Every generation looks back and says, "Those were the times. Things are not the same anymore," but damn it, the country/society/culture was going through something too, and it's like we have one foot in one time vortex and another foot in another time vortex. And to look back at all that... priceless.

About Alisa. Thanks so much for the link! I can't wait to listen to it all again. I forgot a lot of things... hey, it'll be like new.

[avrelia.livejournal.com]

thanks ;) I missed you, too.

and that community really is fascinating - to many thing are being remembered together! and comparing the memories are fun. There are so many times when my f-list talk about something - common in their childhood, and I feel lost, because I have no idea what is it. and here I just enjoy thinking that memories of my childhood and adolescence will be understood, and shared.