Friendsmaking in the new city

So friendsmaking in the new city, aka how am I doing friendships-wise in Seattle...That's the question everybody (read: literally nobody ever, maybe my parents once or twice, until I asked them to stop annoying me by talking to me like a child) keeps asking me. Here's the dealio.

Before A left, I was here to be out and about. He'll be back, and we'll be getting back to being out and about. In the intervening months, it's been tough, when parents were here I literally stopped going out of the house or seeing friends at all pretty much. And then where do you even go to make new friends, meet new people? Like online is like uuugh, though I have made a few friends that way. Bars and clubs were easy place to meet fun people but I don't want to go out myself, not yet, though there's no real reason not to. In the funhaving I need a partner, by myself I'd rather me a homebody. However,

I did join a bunch of meetup groups and joined clubs (and still am angling joining a few more) to expand my social circle and my universe of consciousness on the type of people that exist. People in Seattle are...different from the sort of people you see in Boston, but you have to make an effort to reach out otherwise you're insulated in your social circle. Which is why in this entire conversation I haven't mentioned my existing circle of people, because they haven't made an effort to reach out and it's kinda boring. Also they don't invite people individually, there's a facebook group that everybody replies to, and it's a bit to sad and pathetic for me.

So anyway. TW has been back to Seattle for 2 months and didn't reach out to me, I texted her the other day, but she has plans, but we'll eventually reconnect and get that ball rolling. WC keeps inviting me for dinner or whatever, but only on weekends that I'm not around. Gotta take care of that as well. And P.K is perennially busy for one reason or another, unrelated to me entirely, and we'll be working on that as well. My close friends and sb are of course my core group right now. I'm happy about that, see them a few times a week at least if not more.

New friends have been made, I've been cooking with BC on a weekly basis. S I'd like to hang out with more but the timings never work out and I don't want to go allll the way to the North, but if I want friends I gotta ride the train, so that's coming too. And it's gonna be effing fantastic.

Sometimes it feels like I have little to show for what I have achieved in Seattle but that's being unnecessarily gloomy, I've been doing cool shit and meeting cool people, and it's gonna suddenly turn around, I'm confident.

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