I AM HOME! (What I Did, Who I Met, Recs and Assorted Lunacy)

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I'M HOME! Honestly, it's somewhat depressing cus now I'm exhausted and jetlagged and have to go to work tomorrow. BUT, I had a fantastic time on holiday and while I was away, while things did not go as awesome as they might have, nothing exploded which given the state of some things when I left them, was a minor miracle

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Nah, I think you were one of those rare few who didn't comment either way, though god knows what low res webcam did to my "youthful looks" :p Honestly the accent thing was mentioned by fewer of my LJ friends and mostly was my mom's friends being all, "OMG SHE SOUNDS SO BRITISH!" because, well, my Mom totally doesn't (which entertainingly threw Julie when she spoke to her briefly on the phone), even though they've known me my whole life, I guess to them, I'm the weird british-sounding kid their friend has so it's more of a subconscious throw for them.

The age thing is just weird though. I mean, okay, I don't really look older than I am. I get a bit of the "Huh, I don't think you look 26," think the UK too, though mostly I put it down to the fact that I dress casual and don't really bother with make-up unless I'm at an EVENT or something. And I'm sure that's a big part of it in the US too, but...in the UK it's occasional and they think I'm maybe 22. In the US...more than half the people I met (flist-friends and family-friends) AND A RANDOM STORE CLERK thought I looked like a teenager. (Mind you, this is the country that ID'd me, at 21 to see an R-rated movie *facepalm*).

At which point, I actually asked my aunt, uncle and grandpa about this and they were like, "Yeah, you totally look like a kid," and even my Mom was like, "Srsly?"

So...I have no idea. It's like some weird north-american age-distortion mirror or something. I'm not...upset about it or anything. If I thought it were true, it could even be hilarious and kind of neat, but...I think it's some weird cultural perceptive difference that it frustrates me I can't put my finger on.

AND "BLUEBERRIES" IS NOT A WORD THAT SHOULD RHYME WITH "HUBRIS".

"I swear I never thought I'd want to vlarp so much but Becka is just so awesome I couldn't STOP talking to her" which um, should be noted since I was the distracted one >.>

Awwww! *snuggles you* Getting to chat with you in real time was a total highlight for me too. :D

that said, I am entirely confused as to how our vry srs romance was hilarious.

In this context hilarious and adorkable are interchangable. ;) Suffice to say, I think the way we finally summed it up is that neither of us had ever seen so much epic glee!angst. It was like a therapy-literate hyperactive tornado of angstily gleeful confusion! But we love you both. :*

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AHAHA! Yes! They must think I'm young because I'm short! :p But really, people think you're older cus you're tall? Weirdness. For the record, I think we both look about how old we are, but I certainly wouldn't have guessed you to be much older than me. *hits weird age stuff*

You translate to real life very, very well. <#

Awww. Dude. That's just about the nicest thing anyone's said to me in a really long time, and quite frankly I wish I'd thought of it first so I could have said it to you.

Vegas isn't scary! *challenges your laptop to a duel*

It's terrifying! It crashes on my poor laptop. Which...I think means by default you win the duel... :(

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heee ok first - i totally forgot some textual marker that noted I was being mock indignant. I know all too well how we are hilarious. But I'm glad I didn't because OMGYES therapy-literate hyperactive tornado of angstily gleeful confusion is the most perfect relationship tagline (for us) evaaaaaah.

AND "BLUEBERRIES" IS NOT A WORD THAT SHOULD RHYME WITH "HUBRIS".

TRUFAX. but... um.... can we make an exception for Joss Whedon characters since the non-Brit characters are campy too? *cannot find clip of Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) telling Wesley (not a Brit but speaking in a stereotypical prissy British accent) that he has the "emotional maturity of a blueberry scone" and iz now sad*

I am also puzzled by the North American magic-youth-mirror, but now even more disturbed that you got carded at a movie theatre. WHO DOES THAT?!

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Hee, don't worry, I knew you were being mock indignant but...coming up with hilarious yet accurate descriptions of your entire relationship was too good an opportunity to pass up... :p

And...I hate to tell you this, but something else Joss Whedon lied about is, well, in britain we don't HAVE blueberry scones. Well, okay, probably someone somewhere has made one by now but it's hardly a traditional scone. We don't have blueberries here and until a few years ago it was kind of hard to find them and expensive to buy them when you did. They are a weird American Thing!

WHO DOES THAT?!

You weird Americans do that! It wasn't even for a horror film or something with graphic sex! It was for freaking "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"! *tears out hair*