Thursday night
Jun. 20th, 2003 06:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidI had lots of things I thought I might get off my to-do list last night (not the least of which was use up the enormous Chinese cabbage in a huge salad that I would foist onto p'luckers, with the added benefit of actually seeing said p'luckers). None of those things happened. Happily, none of the things were time sensitive (well, except for the Thursday night gathering and proposed foisting of farm bounty).
Instead, I got to hang out with some friends and help with a project. I had a good time with it. And an added benefit was getting to talk with people I feel like I haven't had time with in far too long. (I'm now anticipating the narration of a cookie :-).
There were some other interesting moments. Yet again I appreciated the welcoming feel of the MIT campus. Meandering in and using space is fine, as long as you're flexible about it. So we got to see a wonderful ballroom dancer practicing with a phantom partner, for instance. It reminded me of how wonderful good ballroom dance can be; perhaps I'll go back to the MIT dance club (I wonder if it runs through the summer?).
(This is a contrast to Harvard, where things just aren't as friendly, somehow. Yes, I've used their buildings sometimes, usually with an official Harvard person of some stripe or another, but the feel was more forbearance than live and let live.)
What I find interesting is how in the middle of making something, you can see all the little imperfections, but when it's done, the whole asserts itself somehow, and it becomes a fully complete thing that doesn't seem to hold on to those imperfections. For instance, when I make a crocheted piece, I can point to a stich gone wrong, but in the end, I can focus on the whole piece (bag, kippah, whatever), and no one else notices the bit gone wrong at all (maker's privilege to notice the mistakes, I guess).
A good night.
Instead, I got to hang out with some friends and help with a project. I had a good time with it. And an added benefit was getting to talk with people I feel like I haven't had time with in far too long. (I'm now anticipating the narration of a cookie :-).
There were some other interesting moments. Yet again I appreciated the welcoming feel of the MIT campus. Meandering in and using space is fine, as long as you're flexible about it. So we got to see a wonderful ballroom dancer practicing with a phantom partner, for instance. It reminded me of how wonderful good ballroom dance can be; perhaps I'll go back to the MIT dance club (I wonder if it runs through the summer?).
(This is a contrast to Harvard, where things just aren't as friendly, somehow. Yes, I've used their buildings sometimes, usually with an official Harvard person of some stripe or another, but the feel was more forbearance than live and let live.)
What I find interesting is how in the middle of making something, you can see all the little imperfections, but when it's done, the whole asserts itself somehow, and it becomes a fully complete thing that doesn't seem to hold on to those imperfections. For instance, when I make a crocheted piece, I can point to a stich gone wrong, but in the end, I can focus on the whole piece (bag, kippah, whatever), and no one else notices the bit gone wrong at all (maker's privilege to notice the mistakes, I guess).
A good night.