A General Shout

[tealin]

To everyone who has emailed me in the last month or will do so in the next week:

I AM REALLY BUSY. For once, this is not to do with work (well, not entirely). My friend is getting married this weekend and I'm a bridesmaid so I have to help with all the preparations and there are a lot. When I'm not at work or in transit I am either working on wedding stuff or wiped out and not wanting to do anything that requires active thought. I hope things settle down after they move away and I'll be able to catch up on email, updates, and other stuff ... until then, please grant me a little leeway in reply time.

Thank you...

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I think the whole bridesmaid philosophy is that one is the friend of the bride and therefore must help out with her Special Day ... I'm not sure there's any sort of 'honour' involved, just friendly obligation. Hah, I'll be exempt from the streamer-hanging because I'll be folding napkins! Huzzah for a childhood spent obsessively making oragami! That will actually be fun. And the location is nice. (Positive thinking, see?)

On the other hand, this is exactly the sort of crowd who will be making 'honeymoon night' jokes the whole weekend long – one half of the wedding party are the people whose crass company I find hard to tolerate for one evening when they're sober and with no obvious context for tasteless humour, so it will be ... interesting. And I will be stuck at the head table so I won't be able to duck into Sketchbook Land, alas.

But it's a lovely location. It's got trees and everything. And interesting moths. And stars, if it's clear. I really have been complaining far too much.