Sleepy Weekend

[bigsleytheoaf]

I slept nine and a half hours last night.  
I am alone in this large house. 
I have no plans for the weekend besides showering and food preparation.

I think that I've become quite poor at figuring out how to spend time alone. Every idea that comes to mind as to what I could do this weekend involves me sitting here in this room:

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[kmai]

You know, I hate the cultural perception that going out to dinner alone is bad. I love going out to dinner alone. I don't do it often (expensive alone thing to do), but it is one of my favorite things. I guess I also like traveling alone, which inevitably leads to dining alone.

[bigsleytheoaf]

I don't think that I am not going out to dinner alone because of cultural perception.

I'm just saying that it feels strange, since I so rarely do it.

Part of the reason for this is that a meal out with another person is not simply (eating + person). Eating with someone is a fairly intimate thing, combines pleasures, etc. SYNERGY. I hate that word, but it applies.

Eating alone, for me, would simply be about the experience of the food which, honestly, I can't care about that much unless it is quite expensive/amazing. There are just so many other things that I'd rather be doing while alone that going out to eat (which would involve 20-30 minutes of travel, at least) seems like a waste of my time.

[zarvoczarvoc]

I crave alone-time. Just recently I planned out an October five-day one-man trip to northeastern Montana and northern North Dakota, off of the interstates, down-home cooking, farms, small motels, new people, watching the leaves change, going on walks alone, thinking, sitting quietly and staring, et al.

I have a hard time living if I don't have this kind of time. It's great for "keeping my thoughts straight", and reflecting on my past life, organizing it, wondering, in awe, humbled.

[kmai]

yes, this.