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Aug. 25th, 2003 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helviragoSo. Freaking. Jealous. (Pictures of Pennsic, so you know.)
Really miss the drinking, the lack of scheduled activity, the lazing, the... did I mention drinking? Okay, yes, and the flattery. It's one of the very few times when I can take compliments from strangers without feeling uncomfortable. Yes, it's true, I'm a compliment-phobe. There's some weird social transaction issue going on where I never know what the going rate for the compliment is expected to be (and don't tell me there isn't one, because there is), and at Pennsic it feels a lot more like the reward for the compliment is just in the giving it, and in the being heard to give it. There are peripheral effects.
On the other hand, the heat, the driving, the minutiae, and the officious assholes? Not so much missing.
God, I hate most people.
Really miss the drinking, the lack of scheduled activity, the lazing, the... did I mention drinking? Okay, yes, and the flattery. It's one of the very few times when I can take compliments from strangers without feeling uncomfortable. Yes, it's true, I'm a compliment-phobe. There's some weird social transaction issue going on where I never know what the going rate for the compliment is expected to be (and don't tell me there isn't one, because there is), and at Pennsic it feels a lot more like the reward for the compliment is just in the giving it, and in the being heard to give it. There are peripheral effects.
On the other hand, the heat, the driving, the minutiae, and the officious assholes? Not so much missing.
God, I hate most people.
