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[victorianist]

So! I posted my ballot on Saturday morning, before a pilgrimmage to IKEA. I got big pillows so I can read on my bed comfortably (we have the world's most uncomfortable sofas). Yesterday, I hemmed curtains and put them up. My room is developing a jewel-toned colour theme.

The weather has been gorgeously autumnal the past week or so. The trees are

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finding kindred

[brideofbeowulf]

Yes, I think a lot of it is luck. I've travelled to so many different places, and generally put forth the same amount of effort for finding friends, yet there is no pattern at all for how many I will find or how close they will be. It makes me intensely grateful when I do find people I truly connect with -- and it makes me write lots of letters to good friends past!

However, I think it is even harder in England. Most Americans I know who studied there had the same experience you are having -- it's easy to connect with fellow emigrants, but those private, repressed English are hard to crack!

Re: finding kindred

[victorianist]

Indeed - the reticent English, which I once so closely associated with (reticent, but oh! How can the passion of the Brontes be surpassed? Where is that passion that creates such fine literature, etc.?! - in my mind, such a nut would be worth the effort to crack; in reality, perhaps not so), have in some ways encouraged the reserve that I made such efforts to lose in High School and College.
I shall count my blessings in the form of kindred more often, be they near or far. Thank you for your soundings!