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Long time, again, since I last posted here. Even though I have the time to sit down and write, I'm having a hard time finding the energy to scrape together the events of the last week or so and wrap them in pretty words like gifts. I probably should go set some coffee brewing while I work on this.

.... Okay, I'm back. I'm slowly coming to grips with the fact that caffeine alone doesn't seem to do anything for me; I can drink can after can of caffeinated sodas and still feel like a zombie. It's coffee specifically that sets my mind in motion. I don't know why that's so, but it's so. Anyway:

treebyleaf and I went to Ursulmas last Saturday. It's the first SCA event she and I have attended alone together. (I already started to write about this a few days ago, late at night, and I thought I'd saved what I'd written so far, but it apparently didn't work. Oh, well.)

I have to confess that I'm not deeply into the SCA, but treebyleaf is. I'm interested largely because she's interested, and partly because I do like to have the opportunity to roleplay, even if I'm not particularly enamored of the medieval setting. But treebyleaf is interested enough for the both of us; she's put together a character for me, complete with a name, a background, a complete set of medieval garb for me to wear, and she's even written some fiction with our characters. She seems to me to sometimes feel a little apologetically weird and obsessive over all this, but it makes me happy. It's another outlet for creativity, another expression of our relationship.

Our visit to Ursulmas was a short one; treebyleaf was badly disappointed that a particular vendor we'd been planning on purchasing books from wasn't there, and on top of that, it started snowing, so we needed to head back to Seattle while we still could. I was sorry not to see more of the event and spend more time with our friends, but it was still worth going. It was neat to take a little daytrip somewhere together, even if it was a short one.

Driving in snow was kind of fun, if a little scary; I'd never done it before and we had quite a way to go. treebyleaf wanted to be taken straight home, and I wanted to go to my place first to get some actual non-medieval clothing if there was any chance I was going to be stranded away from home, but the snow starting coming down hard enough that we did end up skipping the stop at my place.

I went home to get real clothes the next day, and feed the cat, and came back to spend the night again at retcon and treebyleaf's apartment so the three of us could go down together in the morning to treebyleaf's pre-operation counseling.

She's going in on Thursday, February 7th, to have an eight-centimeter cyst removed from her abdomen. They should be able to do it with three small incisions and have her out of there in a day, if all goes well. If the cyst has grown much larger and it doesn't go well -- well, it'll be a more complicated procedure and she'll be there for days. The counseling was to answer any questions or concerns we might have. The doctors seemed kind and competent, and if they thought it at all unusual for both Riff and I to be there for her, they didn't seem at all disapproving.

We went to see the new anime Metropolis that night -- we'd managed to run out and score free passes for us and a couple friends. It was really visually stunning. Worth seeing.

Hmmm. Computer's acting weird. I'm going to cut this short before it crashes.