I missed youuuuuuu.
So I'm back from my stint off the grid! It was very relaxing and awesome, once I stopped twitching for internet access, haha. It's really crazy how far out of touch that place is -- like, here are directions to my family's cottage, leaving from Kentucky. First, drive north until you are in the middle of nowhere -- until you're off major highways and there are no more rest stops and the forest has turned to birch and pine and there's not much else besides forest. Then keep driving north for SEVEN OR EIGHT MORE HOURS. TRUE STORY.
Both my brothers could come this year, which was awesome, and the fam all watched the entire second season of Mad Men in preparation for tonight, and we played fetch with the dog in the lake, and I read really vacuous books. It rained for the first half of the time we were there, so we also played a lot of Clue and other board games in the cottage. The great thing about family cottages is that everything there ends up being super ancient, so we have this game of Careers that is definitely from the early '60s, if not before. All the little forms you fill out to play had been used I think before I was born, and then erased and re-used over and over again. And let me tell you, it's really weird to watch Mad Men and then play a game from the same era, because the game was all, "Your wife goes on a shopping spree! Lose 1/4 your cash." And "Gorgeous secretary gives you four happiness points!" It's fun, playing in character as Don Draper. And also how you can become the first human on the moon.
God, I am never going to catch up on the internet, though -- I had forgotten how exhausting RPF fandoms are, what with the constant canon and all. PLUS new episodes of JONAS, PLUS RLiv in Space. Since when did summer get so busy, television?
Also I watched almost all of Generation Kill on the car ride back, and auuuuuuuugh, IT IS SO AWESOME. Why do I like war miniseries so much? Why do I keep picking up shows? Because believe me, some watching of The Bones also went on over these last few weeks.
(Speaking of Gen Kill -- I did a brief delicious search for fic really quickly, and it looks like Nate/Brad is the big ship? Which is cool and all, but... is there much Brad/Ray? Uhhhh if anyone has recs I would not be averse.)
I've been teaching myself guitar since I moved to Kentucky and borrowed one of my brother's acoustic guitars, but I didn't take it to Canada with me and so lost all my callouses. Which means that now my hand is killing me. BUMMER. But I can still play S.O.S. even with two weeks off, so there you go, haha.
Haha, this is the lamest post -- sorry, I'm really sleep-deprived from the drive back.
Oh, and I forgot to post a bunch of easy_academy fic from the last however long (yeah, that Band of Jonas Brothers high school AU is... still going on, I don't know what to tell you), so for completeness, here's the stuff I wrote lately: Outtake #11: If It Kills Me (Dick/Helen, Winters/Nixon; 2904 words); Summer after Junior Year, part 1 (Winters) (Winters/Nixon, Winters/Nick; 11,882 words), part 2 (10,286 words), and part 3 (11,171 words).
Both my brothers could come this year, which was awesome, and the fam all watched the entire second season of Mad Men in preparation for tonight, and we played fetch with the dog in the lake, and I read really vacuous books. It rained for the first half of the time we were there, so we also played a lot of Clue and other board games in the cottage. The great thing about family cottages is that everything there ends up being super ancient, so we have this game of Careers that is definitely from the early '60s, if not before. All the little forms you fill out to play had been used I think before I was born, and then erased and re-used over and over again. And let me tell you, it's really weird to watch Mad Men and then play a game from the same era, because the game was all, "Your wife goes on a shopping spree! Lose 1/4 your cash." And "Gorgeous secretary gives you four happiness points!" It's fun, playing in character as Don Draper. And also how you can become the first human on the moon.
God, I am never going to catch up on the internet, though -- I had forgotten how exhausting RPF fandoms are, what with the constant canon and all. PLUS new episodes of JONAS, PLUS RLiv in Space. Since when did summer get so busy, television?
Also I watched almost all of Generation Kill on the car ride back, and auuuuuuuugh, IT IS SO AWESOME. Why do I like war miniseries so much? Why do I keep picking up shows? Because believe me, some watching of The Bones also went on over these last few weeks.
(Speaking of Gen Kill -- I did a brief delicious search for fic really quickly, and it looks like Nate/Brad is the big ship? Which is cool and all, but... is there much Brad/Ray? Uhhhh if anyone has recs I would not be averse.)
I've been teaching myself guitar since I moved to Kentucky and borrowed one of my brother's acoustic guitars, but I didn't take it to Canada with me and so lost all my callouses. Which means that now my hand is killing me. BUMMER. But I can still play S.O.S. even with two weeks off, so there you go, haha.
Haha, this is the lamest post -- sorry, I'm really sleep-deprived from the drive back.
Oh, and I forgot to post a bunch of easy_academy fic from the last however long (yeah, that Band of Jonas Brothers high school AU is... still going on, I don't know what to tell you), so for completeness, here's the stuff I wrote lately: Outtake #11: If It Kills Me (Dick/Helen, Winters/Nixon; 2904 words); Summer after Junior Year, part 1 (Winters) (Winters/Nixon, Winters/Nick; 11,882 words), part 2 (10,286 words), and part 3 (11,171 words).