Salon post:

[jenett]

Wander in, invite a friend to come along, and chat! (Not sure what's going on? Here, have a brief FAQ.) You can find previous ones in my salon tag. Please take a quick look at the reminders at the bottom of this post, too.

Today is the first day of classes at my place of work, and I'm still a little startled, somehow, about the transition from the laziness of August (when there's almost no one on campus except those of us who have 12 month contracts) to the bustle of the school year. (I have also hit my seasonal "my lungs hate September" moment, so I am not at my best, which is not exactly helping. It's been a very damp summer, and my mold allergies, they are complaining.)

Because of how I spent Saturday, I think this week, I'm going to snag an idea jjhunter brought up a month or so ago, of wanting to talk about relationships, and how to go about finding them or making the most of them.

Not just the romantic ones, but mentoring ones, friendships, teacher and student, parent and child, siblings, colleagues, and all the things that make communities and connections and the families we choose and the ones we don't and connections we make and the ones we don't.

(Why this week? Because I spent Saturday out with some awesome women, met via striking up a conversation in a restaurant in February. We all had a blast, but one of the things we've talked about a lot is how rare those kinds of friendships are in their lives. I have a *lot more* of that kind of interaction than the other four, but most of it is online and separated by distance.)

A few final notes
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Comments

[alexseanchai]

I clicked over to your journal and you look like a fascinating person. I don't know much about you except that you read and edit, but anybody with a to-read pile that size has got to have a humongous has-read pile, right? Which in itself.

So I subscribed. No obligation to subscribe in return. And I'll keep you in mind for when the novel I'm working on has gotten past writing and draft editing into copy editing (your site is absolutely right about sometimes all you need is a fresh pair of eyeballs). Progress updates on the novel are on alexconall, if you're curious; I'm doing NaNoWriMo in September this year, though I'm giving serious thought to ratcheting down the word count goal from 50K to the much more achievable 30K and living with the fact that I won't have a draft yet when fall term starts.

[calissa]

Thank you! That's very kind :)

I love the writing masterlist on your writing page. Such a good idea. I might have to do something similar, I suspect.

I also have an interest in the Tarot so it made me smile to see you offer the occasional Tarot reading.

If you don't mind, I think I'll take a bit more of a poke around your journals. I do enjoy getting to know people.

[alexseanchai]

:) :)