Much tricky social

Today was the NSFG summer picnic, behind the pub, so it turned into the regular NSFG in the pub at the usual time.

I took a bunch of stuff to give away if people wanted it but only one book was wanted. The thing with trying to share with people who like same things is they already have same things. Is cool though. I'll just send them to the charity shop after all.

I forgot the 'bring food' part of the picnic. Except for two bags of hula hoops and a fortune cookie. :eyeroll: But the other two brought many plenty foods. Just nothing I can actually eat? So I had a nice bit of bread and a blueberry. Just the one. The texture is offputting and I don't recall the taste because unusual. I am really embarrassingly not good at new foods. *sigh*

I did much talking. MUCH talking. Talked comics and movies and TV and books and history books and the things I found out about anglo saxons and we discussed how to add dragons. Many different sorts of dragons could be added.

It was more difficult than usual though because more busy. The picnic place was... not best. There were many people and they were drinking alcohols and doing cartwheels and being unpredictable. A homeless person asked for some of our picnic, which was duly shared, along with the much more useful telling them where there's free meals and shelter, which I did not know but the Norwich locals did. Another person on a bicycle randomly stopped to talk to us. This is not my preferred mode of interaction. And then in the pub there were MANY humans, which is good for teh pub, but they go through the middle of the room and sit outside and keep the doors open and make much noises, which are hard to hear through. And then one drunk guy in a green shirt - VERY drunk, incoherently drunk - invited himself into our conversation repeatedly. And then one of the NSFG decided to be really very blunt and told him to F off. Which worked poorly because he got rude. But then the landlord came and asked if he was a problem? But he apologised so the guys were too polite and said not a problem. I think he was a problem. But then it was ten minutes to taxi so I went and waited instead of sitting with the group for the last ten minutes. Well, I say group, only two people, but that's two more than I've had a conversation with since last month.

Taxi was calm and quiet and helpful this time. Rather a relief.

So now I am home and it is 2322 and the picnic started at 1800 and that's quite a lot of hours of social.

I am now fine for at least another two weeks. Possibly another month. Very possibly.





Also today I went to the library and put books back and got some out. I didn't make much detailed notes from the second volume of the nice history books I had, but I can do that another time if I want. I was more interested in anglo saxon stuff so I have three books about that out now.

Then I went to Waterstones and finally picked up the last Fraction Hawkeye volume :-)
I'm not reading it tonight because huge tired, but, that's pretty cool.



I'm just really full up of noise and the thing where there were many humans and mostly alcohol and noise and did I mention noise?

Nice flat that is mine, I like much better right now.