Floods in the most unlikely of places

My mom's room, on the second floor of the house, just got flooded. I am not sure how bad it is; just that some of the papers are damaged. But I don't know which (whether it's for work, or whether it was personal papers).

The ironic thing is that my room, which was usually the first to flood, just recently got fixed so it's nice and safe and dry. (Though, maybe that is not so ironic. Maybe the fact that my room didn't flood meant that the water had nowhere to go but my mom's room, making things much worse than usual. Yeesh).

Right now I'm at my grandpa's place; need to wait for the rains to subside before I can go home and help or... whatever.

Ugh! Stupid monsoon rains!

Floods of a more pleasant kind

On the subject of floods of a more pleasant kind, the past two weeks I've been flooded with human interaction.

To wit:

* cousin got married; spent one entire Sunday with extended family at the wedding and reception

* auntie and auntie's friend came home from the US, for the first time in decades(!), to attend the wedding. They stayed with me in my room. They're both very funny and adorable (except when auntie is trying to matchmake me with some random guy, agh!); tremendous fun to have as roommates. On the minus side, two roommates! Tired!!

* for Dreamwidth, been contacting people left, right, and center, and talking styles. So many great people, and so many pretty styles OMG. I was nervous at first because some of my shyness still clings to me and I've never been very good at approaching people I don't know, but the responses have been fantastic.

(I mean as long as I need to talk to people anyway, I am incredibly lucky that the people I get to talk to are smart, passionate, creative folks.)

* for work, been doing less code and more coordinating with people about our contributing code, etc, etc, etc, and talking to teammates instead of working alone

It's been a whirlwind two weeks: lots of socializing, lots of getting in touch with people. Very rewarding, but at the same time, I think I'm somewhat peopled out and likely won't be going out to watch movies or eat dinner with friends or family (other than Sundays, which are family days) for a few weeks, at least.

(I want to spend an evening doing just code! Lock myself in my room, forget the world exists, come out with something great. Alas, so much to do elsewhere, there's no time to be selfish. But one of these days...!)

A day's worth of Twitter ($2.00)

19:11:58	—	@Starshadow nice!
19:13:22	—	@Starshadow Am worried but have to wait for the flooding in the streets to subside before I can go home to help with the damage

Total: 2 tweets

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A day's worth of Twitter (7)

( 7 babbly tweets for 2009-07-26 )