A Break in the Clouds

I actually saw sunlight for a moment a minute ago. Very impressive. I can still see two very small patches of blue sky peaking out from the white and grey. Exciting.

I realized I hadn't yet mentioned my reasons for naming my very first blog "Adventures of a Soaked Kitten." It's simple really: impulse of the moment. My two best friends at UCSC and I were known collectively as "the three kittens" and this has led to many many side jokes. So this is yet another one. Here I am back in Glasgow, an incredibly rainy city, and one rainy day I finally got around to starting this blog (an idea given to me by one of the other kittens) and so as I sat in an iCafe soaking wet trying to name my new blog, well, what else would I call it?

Yesterday was fun, although I finally overloaded on social interaction. This past year I've spent most of my time buried in books and laptop finishing my thesis. Even my procrastination usually took book or computer form. Then, for the final stages, I moved "home" out to speck-ville, GA where for two months social interaction involved occasional insane but fascinating conversations with my step-father (What? It's true!) and weekly trips to the next county over to go to the live music at the farmer's market. (I'm not sure that's the really-o, truly-o farmer's market website but I found it by googling for "Everything's for Sale, except the Market Dog!" --hello, Hannah!!).

So, suddenly, from thesis-writing-world and rural South I find myself not only living in a big city again but talking to lots of people. First it was volunteering to work the Fresher's Fair. Then it was going to the GUGS Fresher's Meet in a local bar. Then it was catching up with all sorts of people including Janet (named because I've spent the most time at once catching up with her) and then getting to know a new friend better, once again by talking most of a day away (yesterday). Then, still yesterday, after talking for hours I grabbed a quick dinner before heading off to talk for hours more. Volunteering at the International Cafe at Sandyford Church was the final overload. Dozens of people. All from different parts of the globe. Almost none of them at all familiar. I don't do well in crowds anyway. Not that I actually had any problems last night. It was just exhausting. Sociability overload. Still, it was very fun meeting people from Australia, Germany, France, India, Japan, Poland, and some other places I can't recall just now.

And in twenty minutes I'll go to GUGS and meet and talk to yet more people...

Ah! More people!!

(Don't mind me. I'll just be over here hiding in the corner.)