A convergence of many threads

Yesterday -

I drove on busy streets for the first time. My grandma got us to 52nd and Division, after which I drove down 52nd, right onto Woodstock, left onto 46th, right again on Glenwood down to 41st. It wasn't very far but it had a few good turns. I enjoyed making the left turn off Woodstock because it combined a few more-difficult things (left turns and busy streets and timing) but I didn't have a lot of trouble with it.

I think I got a much better feel for the physics and strategy of driving this time. I sort of thought of all busy streets as the same thing before, but driving on 52nd really wasn't complicated. I also can see the ways in which the car moves like a bike. It seems like a big automated thing with very little intuitive movement, but it still responds to gravity!

I went to hang out with Senor Evergreen, and we invited LS over and went to a movie. It was pretty funny because this followed a couple days of Senor Evergreen and I, in the process of trying to make a camping trip happen, waffling over whether we wanted to stick the three of us together again without someone else as a buffer. Each combination of two of us had already hung out and been fine, but we have some weird collective history.

Everything was chill and I think we all had fun together (and I don't think that will necessarily change) but I know there's more entropy left to happen, especially with LS. There's still plenty of interpersonal photons bouncing around this group, and we're not at a stable state to count on yet.

LS left school and will be looking for a job soon, wants to move out eventually, but of course this economy won't be kind to an 18-year-old college dropout. Senor Evergreen is still in school but is not very happy with it and glad to be on break. I'm having a fine time on break, but I'm really looking forward to next term. LS is back home, I've visiting from home, and Senor Evergreen isn't sure if he has a home. It's an interesting combination of perspectives to bring together, almost a year after spraying out from the same high school.

The movie we saw was Watchmen. This is a movie that someone from my writing class was writing his final paper about. Someone from that class was also writing his paper on Star Wars and was so excited about it, he said "if I don't get an A on this paper I'm giving up on ever writing an A paper." I hated that class but it's providing a surprising number of humorous tie-ins to my life after the fact.