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cimoreneA couple of weeks ago my parents mentioned some hometown gossip about people I knew growing up and since then I've had a few dreams where my childhood best friend showed up:
When my brain starts chewing over someone I've lost contact with (usually in a series of dreams), I start to wonder if I should make an effort to reach out to them, but I usually wind up at no since I'm the one who chose to delete Facebook in the first place and it's probably kind of weird, and not like I'm likely to succeed at keeping up the contact anyway (and in the case of my cousins, or my Japanese exchange student, they were even worse at email than I was). I'm pretty bad at these social contacts where you have to try to maintain a relationship with someone who isn't on the social media I use; even before I deleted Facebook I had too much aversion to it to make use of it properly (and also it's designed to prevent you from actually using it to keep up with people since it algorithmically censors out their posts), and I have too much email anxiety to keep up email exchanges consistently.
But maybe I should try with my childhood best friend again. I'm slightly better with inboxes now, if nothing else.
And also related to that last dream, I should rewatch The Brittas Empire. I've never seen another show handle that type of caper/farce so successfully in every episode.
- Discovering, along with my childhood best friend, that her parents had been immortal fae undercover from the future all along and had another, secret basement beyond their basement with a portal to the future office building where their past-spying agency was based, and then being forced to break the secrecy to get my favorite aunt and uncle's help to remove the time-travel artifacts when they were stranded in the future and someone was coming to demolish their house.
- A caper plot involving my (deceased) paternal grandfather the park ranger and nature/wildlife specialist, a bunch of lesbians on the way back from a pride parade, one of them coming out as trans and needing help dyeing her hair, my childhood best friend looking for a place to study for a quiz bowl competition but being harassed by a Straight White Boy, my two bunnies, and a giant Invisible Crab, a fictional and really annoying species of aggressive crustacean who are only occasionally visible from the corner of your eye, for an instant, and from certain angles, which makes them really hard to catch. (It's good that invisible crabs aren't a real thing, but they're also pretty cool: like ghost crabs if the transparent bits were actually invisible, only more the size of a rabbit.)
When my brain starts chewing over someone I've lost contact with (usually in a series of dreams), I start to wonder if I should make an effort to reach out to them, but I usually wind up at no since I'm the one who chose to delete Facebook in the first place and it's probably kind of weird, and not like I'm likely to succeed at keeping up the contact anyway (and in the case of my cousins, or my Japanese exchange student, they were even worse at email than I was). I'm pretty bad at these social contacts where you have to try to maintain a relationship with someone who isn't on the social media I use; even before I deleted Facebook I had too much aversion to it to make use of it properly (and also it's designed to prevent you from actually using it to keep up with people since it algorithmically censors out their posts), and I have too much email anxiety to keep up email exchanges consistently.
But maybe I should try with my childhood best friend again. I'm slightly better with inboxes now, if nothing else.
And also related to that last dream, I should rewatch The Brittas Empire. I've never seen another show handle that type of caper/farce so successfully in every episode.
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Date: 14 May 2020 12:27 pm (UTC)What a great story. I don't get into time travel but even I could go for that.
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Date: 14 May 2020 05:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 14 May 2020 10:44 pm (UTC)