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mistressofmuses) wrote2022-08-05 09:32 pm
mistressofmuses) wrote2022-08-05 09:32 pm
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Oh no, social engagements.
Somewhat to my own surprise, I discovered I have a handful of social events coming up in the next few months, which is... quite weird to me.
The first one is tomorrow. D: It's a CD release for a friend of ours... we haven't seen him or any of the rest of our scene friends since before Covid.
(Alex and I went to ONE mediocre goth night that felt too much like a bar as opposed to a club, and haven't been out since, largely because JUST as I started to feel like I could comfortably go to a masked event, mask mandates were lifted, and every big night that we've sadly watched pass us by has also come with a wave of covid infections after.)
So... CD release show/party for our friend tomorrow. Excited but mildly anxious, just because it has been so long since I've seen anyone or really socialized with many people outside of work. Alex is anxious about it because he's SUPER self-conscious about having gained weight. (I think it's more obvious that I've gained weight actually, so... yeah, stick that one in the anxiety column, too.)
In a few weeks I'm going as Taylor's +1 to a baseball game for a work event. Apparently they've rented a box and there will be food.
In September there's a model show we're going to.
Then a few days later a concert we want to go to. Kind of ironically it's at that same mediocre bar venue I just complained about, but it's a semi-obscure German band that I've only ever seen open for bigger acts, so I'm hype to see them headlining, even if it's a tiny venue.
Then in October, another concert that Alex is ADAMANT that we are going to. (Which I ALSO want to go to.) That one makes me a bit more nervous again, due to the fact it'll likely be more crowded than any of the other events, and I have no idea what Covid numbers will look like.
Oof. That feels like too much, even if it is pretty spread out!
The first one is tomorrow. D: It's a CD release for a friend of ours... we haven't seen him or any of the rest of our scene friends since before Covid.
(Alex and I went to ONE mediocre goth night that felt too much like a bar as opposed to a club, and haven't been out since, largely because JUST as I started to feel like I could comfortably go to a masked event, mask mandates were lifted, and every big night that we've sadly watched pass us by has also come with a wave of covid infections after.)
So... CD release show/party for our friend tomorrow. Excited but mildly anxious, just because it has been so long since I've seen anyone or really socialized with many people outside of work. Alex is anxious about it because he's SUPER self-conscious about having gained weight. (I think it's more obvious that I've gained weight actually, so... yeah, stick that one in the anxiety column, too.)
In a few weeks I'm going as Taylor's +1 to a baseball game for a work event. Apparently they've rented a box and there will be food.
In September there's a model show we're going to.
Then a few days later a concert we want to go to. Kind of ironically it's at that same mediocre bar venue I just complained about, but it's a semi-obscure German band that I've only ever seen open for bigger acts, so I'm hype to see them headlining, even if it's a tiny venue.
Then in October, another concert that Alex is ADAMANT that we are going to. (Which I ALSO want to go to.) That one makes me a bit more nervous again, due to the fact it'll likely be more crowded than any of the other events, and I have no idea what Covid numbers will look like.
Oof. That feels like too much, even if it is pretty spread out!
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The baseball game sounds like fun! We had seats in a box once for a football game (my sister was dating a guy in management at a local pharmacy store and he got the tickets from their corporate or whatever and gave them to Pip as a Christmas present. Best Christmas present ever, lol!) and it was an amazing experience. Also nice not to be freezing your ass off.
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It's been a LONG time since I went to a baseball game - my dad had season tickets when I was a kid, but I usually got bored trying to sit through a whole game, lol. (I wish now I'd gone to more of them, or tried a little harder to be engaged, but I was pretty little.) I've never attended a sporting event with space in a box, haha, so this will be a new experience for me! And yes - temperature controlled is quite the draw!
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Yeah, it's hard to know what October is going to be like right now.
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But yeah, September and October and beyond definitely feel like unknowns. Fall is always when crud picks up, and we have a lot of teenagers come through work, so if things go around the schools we always get them in the office, too. I'm hopeful that we're over the worst of the surges, but I know better than to count on that.
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We had a good time last night, and while it was crowded, it was like a normal bar's worth of people, not super sweaty crowds of people or anything, so it didn't make me as nervous as I thought it would. We'll see how any of the other things go!