another summer friday

it just occurred to me how nice an old folks' home might be, minus the "old" part. I was turning over in my mind for the forty bizillionth time how to start up a standing games night when it hit me-- man, if I just lived in an old folks home, well, there's always an agenda of activities and even a room devoted to people sitting around playing dominoes and spite and malice. and it struck me how nice that would be. cool glasses of iced tea. if only you all weren't just waiting around to *die* or for something to break. a friend of mine whose grandmother just fell and broke her back was talking about that yesterday-- how the places she's been in are swank, like prep schools with salons and big squishy furniture, but with an evil-smelling fissure down the middle of disappointment and death. ick. that's not really what I want. but just everyone kind of around-- less of this busy-busy hyper-scheduledness. to be able to wander (*wander*! what a concept) around the corner and maybe pick up a game of ping pong. that would be cool.