@Sappho
I know this was something that happened a while back but... Yeah, this place can be kind of cliquish, I personally have made efforts to make people feel included in the past and I try to respond to people that other people aren't responding to, but they're kind of limited by A) limited amount of time and effort I'm willing to dedicate to posting, and B) the fact that some posts make me feel more like talking than others.
Also I'm genuinely happy for you on the whole play front. I've often felt like a lot of things I've worked on that previously I felt were bad were actually pretty good in retrospect. Though also things I thought were really good I wind up thinking less of later on. I also tend to feel a little like I was a better poet in the olden days than I am now, though I think in a large part that's just due to changes in my tastes and style. Like I used to use a lot of imagery that was like...
It was a light that cast a shadow twisting through my glass heart,
The shadow spread and touched a thousand other people's eyes,
Placing the colour of the thousand worlds within them, within me.
This sort of thing tends to feel to flowery and melodramatic for me, but it makes for potent imagery, I feel.
I think art is also generally a very different experience when you're creating it or you've just finished creating it, than when you're on a more outside perspective looking in, and you don't have the experiences you had creating it colouring your perception.
That was sort of a irrelevant tangent, but whatever.
I'm happy because I actually had a family outing that was pretty pleasant... this was accomplished by interacting with my family very little. We went to this whole recreational meeting that was being paid for by my dad's company, we played this really crazy game that was basically like lacrosse in bumper carts. With my fathers very multinational coworkers.
I also chatted with some programmers and such (the event was part of a course where they're training these programmers to work with some of the company's equipment), mostly about cultural issues and things. It was pretty cool.
EDIT: And cricket, we talked about lots and lots of cricket.