Introversion

My sister graduated from college (yay!) so travelling with my family to visit her. They had a baccalaureate ceremony which was pretty good, including this amazing hymn (set to the melodic/slow part of "Jupiter"). And, staying with my aunt and uncle, who are great.

I just needed the reminder, via my dad, that it's okay to nope out of conversations sometimes, because many of my relatives can get...intense. Like, when they're agreeing with each other, and just doubling down on how hilarious/terrible/whatever something is.

Felt pretty socially drained today when I was out canoeing with them at a lagoon. We're all terrible canoers but that's fine, that's not the point. Just my mom and my aunt going "WE ARE SO AMAZINGLY TERRIBLE, LOL." Just, do you have to be play-by-play and color commentary? It didn't help that we were three to a canoe so if we all row at once it's asymmetric and bad, if I skip I feel like dead weight. Ugh. The canoeing was pretty fun other than that though.

Anyway I have complicated thoughts about my own baccalaureate and...performative outrage and stuff, but I don't know how to put it here. It's all kind of a "wall of text or nothing" with me, so I can't really just go with quick back-and-forths in conversation with "yeah that speaker was weird."

(I also had some academic milestones of my own which I was going to post about, but maybe later. Still on the road.)