Remind me that I exist.

[hawkwing_lb]

It hasn't been a good week. I'm paying through the nose for internet in Reading on this, my day off, and just about to post some more postcards. But someone needs to remind me that I exist, because I feel like the very ghost of myself out here.

Silchester-the-site is physically isolated. And alone among Englishpeoples, most of whom are far closer to home than I am, I'm starting to feel rather emotionally isolated as well.

They're perfectly nice people. But they're not my people. And I begin to detest grubbing in the muck looking for the edge of an Iron Age track, or wheelrut, in a patch of dirt out of which nothing interesting, not even potsherds, has come for days. It is a mindnumbing task.

It may yet improve. But seriously, I need to be reminded that I am not always this isolate.

Comments

[clarentine]

We hear you, even if we cannot touch you or be there with you in person. We hear.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

I haven't forgotten you.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

You are remembered, and also liked.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I appreciate that. :)

[etumukutenyak.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, innit? What was your name again?

All kidding aside, you're right: it's very difficult to keep your spirits up when you're isolated. That's probably one reason why humans like to clump together all over this planet. Also, music.

Hope your time-in-exile ends well!

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Ten days left! :)

[wyvernfriend.livejournal.com]

There are times that it feels like I'm only around to make sure himself indoors is fed and dressed. It goes after a while thankfully.

[spartezda.livejournal.com]

Aw. But your people are, indeed, still out here.

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

*peers*

Oh, right. Thanks for pointing that out. :)

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

You're remembered (and, in my case, admired for doing that grubby, thankless fieldwork). (And we're here, waiting for you to come back. Was at Bear's reading on Tuesday evening, she read the beginning of the next SU episode, and now we have to wait until August for the rest of it. *whimper*)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

You have read "Wind Up Boogeyman." I have to wait until I get home. So my envy knows no bounds. :)

[katallen.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday... and you're missed

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[davefreer.livejournal.com]

Isolation is nicer when you have someone else whose company you enjoy in it. And like most things you get quite used to it. I actually resent being disturbed in it sometimes these days. I'm pretty sure you exist... or you're merely a pigment of my imagination coloured 'Irish' ;-)

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

I am a figment of my own imagination most days. I'm sure this doesn't clash with being a pigment of yours. :)