what am i doing?

the weekend in summary:

the weather was perfect. the desert was beautiful. the driving was long time-wise, but short and interesting experience-wise. the festival's "system" was well thought out, everything was controlled and the vast majority of the people there were great.

for me, festivals are first and foremost about the music - not this one. my usual trick is to sleep during the night and wake up for the morning set, because i'm a day person. on friday morning, at 7am, the music was turned off. that was upsetting. there was little music played during the day, and only some of it was good (although what was good was REALLY good).

i hadn't brought anything to read because i didn't think i'd get a chance. what that means is that i was forced to spend my friday doing absolutely nothing; pg and i just hung around, talked, ate every now and again... it was perfect. i may not have wanted it, but it was probably the most relaxing day i've had in - i don't know, even the one or two great weekends i've had during the past year haven't been so utterly disconnected, and i really needed that.

the music that started last night's party was nice, but not very bouncy, and i went to bed early already disappointed by my suspicion that there wouldn't be a morning set. i slept beautifully (i'd done a lot of that since thursday, at least), and i lay in my sleeping bag listening to deep, groovy beats for an hour or two convinced that if i got up to dance the music would end.

eventually, i had to get up to pee. i milled around to the dance floor, and for the most part didn't get off it until we left, and that was long before the music stopped. this morning, especially after yesterday, was just awesome. everything was just right, there was no space for worries or responsibilities.

my only complaint, really, is about the sound system. it was too damned loud, and without earplugs we would have done our hearing a serious disservice. that's totally unnecessary, and rather sad.

bottom line: a wonderful weekend away with my girlfriend and her brother that happened to include a fantastic party.

after getting home and showering, we went to pg's sister's to record a conversation for her studies. my canadian aunt called me up when we got there to do some planning ^_^

we came home afterwards to eat dinner before i sat down at the pc. my mother called me when we got here to do some other planning :) [hers involves something tougher to deal with than mine, so this conversation only rates a :)]

i've been studying technology related to tuesday's interview, and now that i've gone past bedtime i need to skim through a few pages of one of lacan's seminars before class tomorrow... hooray.