chess | Christmastime and LJ

...and now we're snowed in.

It's possible we could get out, but if we don't we will probably manage to strand our car with all our stuff in somewhere in the middle of the various snowdrifts, and it's still snowing so it will be a complete faff retrieving the stuff. Also neither of us have driven in snow before, so a 3-hr drive partly on uncleared 1-track roads is probably not the best place to start.

We are in Lincolnshire with Nicholas' parents. Nicholas' parents are very nice, very polite people, and claim to enjoy my company. I'm not sure why, as I have spent most of the time cowering upstairs with my computer, and I've generally avoided talking too much. I hadn't realised how politically correct I had become; they occasionally make me flinch. I managed to avoid going to see the people who made me twitch for the entire conversation last year, though.

There has been lots of nice food and very little activity, which probably means I now fit into my latest purchases of trousers better and my old ones not so well.

I haven't been updating this very often. This is probably because I have been spending a lot of time talking on IRC and over MSN instead. On one hand this is a good thing - it's more like actual social interaction than LJ, and for some reason I seem to feel that 'actual social interaction' is a positive end in itself, possibly due to upbringing. On the other hand, it does mean that I don't have so much of a coherant permanent record of my life to look back on, which is bad, because I like looking back on past ones.