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Wet weekend
Mar. 7th, 2012 01:16 pmThere has been plenty of rain. Parts of Sydney and Canberra flooded, my burns are being cancelled, and it was a wet day for the Mardi Gras parade, though it dried up by the time we got going as we were near the end.
I spent a fair amount of the parade shirtless, and a girl I met described me as being "body arrogant" in part because I was doing pushups during the parade and continued to do so after she sat on my back, and because I demonstrated wife carrying techniques. (She was part Estonian and I had to demonstrate the Estonian Carry.) She also used the same term to refer to her. There are currently pictures of me tagged on Facebook that I am thinking of untagging. I was in a really good mood that night, and my actions suited that, but I am not sure if I want hundreds of people seeing them. Then again, once a few hours pass, comment tends to die off so there is probably not much more interest to be had.
There was also a birthday for Italian Sushi where I dozed off on Sunday night, and a sense that I may have been making my relationship with another friend all about me. In my recent state I have been more self-involved than I would normally be, and the asperger's often means I miss cues from other people or simply forget to ask how they are when I have my own things going on. Nobody is upset, but the people I let into my circle are important to me and I want them to be aware of it. I just don't always know how.
My plan was to stay in Sydney all week as I have another engagement on Saturday, but I got a message on Monday offering me trivia gigs on Wednesday and Thursday, so I drove back. Tonight I am going to Queanbeyan, having spent the morning working out my sound equipment and reading through the quiz to work out any problems that may crop up.
I've also got an interview with another agency, though to be honest, I am becoming pretty jaded with the whole thing. I don't expect to work in the public service this financial year. I am, however, going to apply for a private sector job doing media work for a charity. It would be a permanent job which is different from most of the work I've been looking for, but I think it's worthwhile to look at something else.
I spent a fair amount of the parade shirtless, and a girl I met described me as being "body arrogant" in part because I was doing pushups during the parade and continued to do so after she sat on my back, and because I demonstrated wife carrying techniques. (She was part Estonian and I had to demonstrate the Estonian Carry.) She also used the same term to refer to her. There are currently pictures of me tagged on Facebook that I am thinking of untagging. I was in a really good mood that night, and my actions suited that, but I am not sure if I want hundreds of people seeing them. Then again, once a few hours pass, comment tends to die off so there is probably not much more interest to be had.
There was also a birthday for Italian Sushi where I dozed off on Sunday night, and a sense that I may have been making my relationship with another friend all about me. In my recent state I have been more self-involved than I would normally be, and the asperger's often means I miss cues from other people or simply forget to ask how they are when I have my own things going on. Nobody is upset, but the people I let into my circle are important to me and I want them to be aware of it. I just don't always know how.
My plan was to stay in Sydney all week as I have another engagement on Saturday, but I got a message on Monday offering me trivia gigs on Wednesday and Thursday, so I drove back. Tonight I am going to Queanbeyan, having spent the morning working out my sound equipment and reading through the quiz to work out any problems that may crop up.
I've also got an interview with another agency, though to be honest, I am becoming pretty jaded with the whole thing. I don't expect to work in the public service this financial year. I am, however, going to apply for a private sector job doing media work for a charity. It would be a permanent job which is different from most of the work I've been looking for, but I think it's worthwhile to look at something else.
