Sheyn vi toyznt zunen

[sovay]

I am no longer in D.C. I am no longer even on a train, which is the really important part. This was a rather fraught weekend going in and there were some epic complications along the way (meaning their stories will be told and retold endlessly at all appropriate occasions), but the short form is that it turned out to be a good trip and I am very glad, for a number of reasons, that I went. Further bulletins as sleep warrants. There hasn't exactly been a lot of that these last few days.

cucumberseed's review of A Mayse-Bikhl is now online at Versification. That wasn't a bad thing to come home to, either.

Comments

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

A well-deserved review. That comment on the poems changing their shape must, I hope, please you very much.

I look forward to reading your adventures, as and when. Sleep well.

[sovay]

A well-deserved review. That comment on the poems changing their shape must, I hope, please you very much.

Thank you. It does. And the line about dybbuks.

I look forward to reading your adventures, as and when. Sleep well.

I had very strange dreams about ordering curry sandwiches and my left arm going numb (which was unsurprising, because when I woke up it was in one of those positions not exactly conducive to bloodflow), but I didn't get up until after noon. This is ahead of the curve on the entire weekend.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Welcome home!

[sovay]

Welcome home!

Thank you!

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it went... better than it could have gone? And wish you excellent sleep!

[sovay]

I'm glad it went... better than it could have gone?

It did! The bits around the wedding were lovely: Kramerbooks and Afterwords, strange_selkie and darthrami and my goddaughter, walking around the embassies on Sunday afternoon and finding a little park with tiger lilies and bumblebees and some kind of weird ornamental cherry or miniature horse chestnut. And I will take away good memories from the wedding itself, which was more than I was hoping for. fleurdelis28 and shirei_shibolim were there (the latter was the officiating cantor). I am very glad so was derspatchel. I don't mean it still wasn't strange, especially when the groom's family kept coming over to me and asking how I was doing, or that Rob won't tell you I tightened my grip at certain points in the ceremony or the speeches. But I kept my promise, and I think my presence there did what it was supposed to do. It wasn't the worst-case scenario. And if Amtrak had not been made of molasses and bust switches, the traveling itself would have been fine.

[gaudior.livejournal.com]

*nod* Good for you for enjoying the enjoyable bits of it, and (I'm guessing) getting through the less-enjoyable bits with grace.

[sovay]

Good for you for enjoying the enjoyable bits of it, and (I'm guessing) getting through the less-enjoyable bits with grace.

I was surprised how well the afternoon went; Rob said I made all the right choices about how to handle the situation. He's the outside observer, so I'm trusting him on this one. I guess I'm glad to know it can be done.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

When you wake up, I wish you to have this piece of life advice: take the pain meds. I feel it applies in many situations, and I am advising myself the same.

Also, Noel was really, really pissed off at you and Spatch when she woke up on Sunday. "Where my two friends? Where my singing? I NEED HAVE MORE SINGING!"

You are cruel deserters and will probably perish at the end of fondue forks.

[sovay]

I feel it applies in many situations, and I am advising myself the same.

I try to remember myself. Glad you have them.

Also, Noel was really, really pissed off at you and Spatch when she woke up on Sunday. "Where my two friends? Where my singing? I NEED HAVE MORE SINGING!"

Aw. (derspatchel: "We've created a monster.") Well, it probably won't be soon enough for her, but we have decided that we need to come back in the early fall, since we didn't actually make it to any of the museums on this trip; we could sing to her in September.

You are cruel deserters and will probably perish at the end of fondue forks.

At least it's a classy way to go. Getting gutted with the shrimp fork is just disheartening.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

We will all be happy to see you, and you should get speakeasy reservations.

It'll give you time to perfect your toddler vaudeville and maybe a Cookie Monster voice. Suckerrrrrrrrs.

[sovay]

It'll give you time to perfect your toddler vaudeville and maybe a Cookie Monster voice.

Template for Socko. That one is guaranteed.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're safely home, and that it turned out to be a good trip.

Hope there's sleep to be had for you.

[sovay]

Hope there's sleep to be had for you.

Thanks. There was.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thanks. There was.

You're welcome. I'm pleased to hear that.

*hugs*, if you'd not mind having them.

[sovay]

*hugs*, if you'd not mind having them.

I don't think they're really needed at the moment . . .

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I don't think they're really needed at the moment . . .

Ah, okay. Sorry.

It was a grey day here, and seemed to be one of those afternoons when everyone I had anything to do with was feeling very glum, which misled me into hearing your words in a tone which you weren't writing them in, if that makes any sense.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Welcome home!

I take it Socko was socko?

Nine

[sovay]

I take it Socko was socko?

Socko stayed home in his pot, but his roommate was wonderful.