Summer Festival
Jun. 29th, 2009 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zana16I did it! I finally bought my tickets to London!
I've been putting that off for months. Every time I thought about it, I started panicking. It took me two hours to get to the office today (stoopid Metro, either the damn rail is safe or it isn't; if it isn't you shouldn't have trains on it at all, going one mile an hour is not going to make the thing safe!! grr) but it was entirely worth it because now I have tickets, I am registered for Festival, and it did not cost as much as I had feared.
This weekend I took Refuge Vows for the first time, so I can now say I'm really a Buddhist. Which is... scary (aah! commitment!) but also incredibly, surprisingly comforting.
Now my only nervousness is 6000+ Kadampas in a small town, let alone the part where we'll all try to crowd into the temple. I don't do well with crowds.
I stuck two days on after Festival ends to do... something. I dunno. Anyone want me to come visit them? I'll be near Manchester for Festival, then in London as that's where I'm flying out.
I've been putting that off for months. Every time I thought about it, I started panicking. It took me two hours to get to the office today (stoopid Metro, either the damn rail is safe or it isn't; if it isn't you shouldn't have trains on it at all, going one mile an hour is not going to make the thing safe!! grr) but it was entirely worth it because now I have tickets, I am registered for Festival, and it did not cost as much as I had feared.
This weekend I took Refuge Vows for the first time, so I can now say I'm really a Buddhist. Which is... scary (aah! commitment!) but also incredibly, surprisingly comforting.
Now my only nervousness is 6000+ Kadampas in a small town, let alone the part where we'll all try to crowd into the temple. I don't do well with crowds.
I stuck two days on after Festival ends to do... something. I dunno. Anyone want me to come visit them? I'll be near Manchester for Festival, then in London as that's where I'm flying out.
