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[brains] PSA, travel and timing
Finding (and finding my way back from!) new (or insufficiently familiar) places is stressful for me. I can accommodate for it by having extra time available, and having maps, so I can (possibly) get lost and have time to recover from it. It's also greatly eased if I have sufficient familiarity with driving in that particular area, even if not to the specific location (I don't have much familiarity with Boston proper, because I avoid driving in Boston, and I need to have done specific routes multiple times before they stick in my head. I have reasonable amounts of familiarity with driving in Somerville, due to lots of social stuff there over the past few years. I don't even have much T experience in Boston, since I tend to have little reason to go there).
Planning more than one thing in an evening is stressful for me. I tend to avoid it unless I know that a) there are no time limits for one or both events, b) I know that someone else can physically guide me to one or both events, and/or c) they are _really_ close together. Weeknights are, in my head, automatically time-limited, because of leaving work and work the next morning.
Planning things involving more than one time-limited thing in the same evening, presuming sufficiently different locations, especially if at least one of the locations is somewhere I don't have enough (or any) familiarity with, is amazingly difficult for me. Apparently, to the point of panic and loss of ability to think of really obvious things. As I just determined. (which, well, I think loss of ability to think is part of panic, so duh... ;)
Yeah. I tend normally to avoid multiple things on a weeknight. I also tend to avoid trying to find new places on a weeknight. So I'm not sure I've ever run into this particular unfortunate combination before. Thus the PSA. :)
And, while it's true that waiting until later to figure things out would likely have reduced the time of night/sleepy issue, it would _not_ have removed the more major pieces of never having been somewhere before and trying to get to two places in the same evening. (I don't count going home in the number of places count because that's more or less a given) Neither would asking someone who knows the area better as far as traveling, because they would not be the one _doing_ the traveling.
But, thankfully, the complication got reduced such that there's only one (albeit unfamiliar) place to get to, and very little time restriction. Stupid panicky reaction...
Note: most of my (driving) traveling experience is in Greater Boston, since I wasn't doing much traveling on my own before the last couple years. All of it is in New England.
[edit: and I suspect the time of year/tired/low energy thing isn't helping, because it makes it more difficult to handle difficult things]
Planning more than one thing in an evening is stressful for me. I tend to avoid it unless I know that a) there are no time limits for one or both events, b) I know that someone else can physically guide me to one or both events, and/or c) they are _really_ close together. Weeknights are, in my head, automatically time-limited, because of leaving work and work the next morning.
Planning things involving more than one time-limited thing in the same evening, presuming sufficiently different locations, especially if at least one of the locations is somewhere I don't have enough (or any) familiarity with, is amazingly difficult for me. Apparently, to the point of panic and loss of ability to think of really obvious things. As I just determined. (which, well, I think loss of ability to think is part of panic, so duh... ;)
Yeah. I tend normally to avoid multiple things on a weeknight. I also tend to avoid trying to find new places on a weeknight. So I'm not sure I've ever run into this particular unfortunate combination before. Thus the PSA. :)
And, while it's true that waiting until later to figure things out would likely have reduced the time of night/sleepy issue, it would _not_ have removed the more major pieces of never having been somewhere before and trying to get to two places in the same evening. (I don't count going home in the number of places count because that's more or less a given) Neither would asking someone who knows the area better as far as traveling, because they would not be the one _doing_ the traveling.
But, thankfully, the complication got reduced such that there's only one (albeit unfamiliar) place to get to, and very little time restriction. Stupid panicky reaction...
Note: most of my (driving) traveling experience is in Greater Boston, since I wasn't doing much traveling on my own before the last couple years. All of it is in New England.
[edit: and I suspect the time of year/tired/low energy thing isn't helping, because it makes it more difficult to handle difficult things]
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This is so me. I usually end up convincing myself that I've missed my turn when it's actually a little further ahead and that kind of thing. And it definitely takes me a few times driving somewhere to be comfortable driving there without directions.
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I also tend to try to write down the distance information that mapquest and similar provide. It helps!
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However, I'm with you on the multiple things per night thing. I rarely do that nowadays, because then I can't focus on the event I'm at - I'm too busy checking the time, to make sure I won't be late. At best, I'll do multiple events iff (sic) there are roughly two hours between 'em.