Try Again

I attempted to post this yesterday, but Blogger will, on occasion, suck, so I wasn't able to post it until today. Enjoy...

Between cooking, eye appointments, and training, this past week has been unusually busy for me, and now it’s winding to a close as I prepare to start my work week.
I know it’s going to be harder than usual to roll my lazy ass out of the bed at 4:15 tomorrow morning in order to work out, as I only did so once last week, and when it comes to that sort of thing it doesn’t take much for me to break a habit.
I really don’t have time for much of an entry now, as I only recently got home from a departmental training. I had gone to it expecting the usual hour or so of some person getting up and explaining some new process. Instead, this was designed to run, at a minimum, three hours, and multiple people got up to speak.
I wasn’t at all prepared for that. While some food was provided for us, it was mostly only snacks, and not any sort of substantial meal, so now, since I don’t like to eat so close to bed time, I’ll be going to bed without having had much in the way of food for the day.
The training took place in a very small room. With ten of us in there it was already fairly cramped, and it only got worse when five more people came in to join us.
When it comes to small, confined spaces in and of themselves I’m not at all claustrophobic. When you add a bunch of people to that space, however, I start to feel some anxiety.
I’m really not a fan of crowds. I can handle them for things like concerts, or in packed movie theaters, where there is some overriding reason for me to be there that allows me to overcome my anxiety, but in situations like the one today I come pretty close to panicking.
Still, I did manage to hold it together.
I was there for around four and a half hours before I finally cut out, and it was still going on when I left. I really had to get out of there, though, as I needed to be able to get some laundry done before retiring for the evening.
Next week should be considerably less hectic, so I should be able to have more substantial entries.
By the way, I do realize just how long a typical Threshold entry is, especially compared to other blogs and online journals, but I like to think that there’s at least some amount of value (whether in the form of entertainment, information, or even as some kind of cautionary example about how not to live your life so that you can avoid writing overly-long blog entries about your trite and mundane existence).
Anyway, before I end this unusually short entry, I wanted to point out that I’ve added an “External Links” area to the sidebar over on the right. Currently you can find links to Brian and Kathleen’s respective journals and to the official site of “Geekapalooza,” the convention that Wendy is organizing.
I haven’t yet decided whether or not I’m going to, but I have actually been considering attending Geekapalooza. I’ve never been to a convention, or even had any desire to go to one, honestly, simply because as geeky as I am, I’m not demonstrably geeky in that I don’t dress up, I don’t get into things like Role-Playing Games, and I don’t actively seek out other people who share my interests.
That last point is probably due to my anti-social nature, but the point is that despite it all, I am honestly considering attending, and it’s pretty amazing. After all, as I told Wendy, my natural inclination is not to go towards large gatherings of people.
In any case, I will add more links as I think of them, or as faithful Threshold reader suggest them, but in the meantime check out the three that are already in place.
And while you’re at it, have a good weekend.