Back safe, with pictures
Had an amazing weekend. Words cannot even. A plot summary: flights all went well, got to see ignazwisdom for a couple of hours, stayed in a beautiful house on a beautiful island with seven remarkable people, went kayaking and swimming in the ocean, hiked a bit, played badminton against good opponents, lazed about reading (I brought Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, figuring it would last all four flights, but it turned out to be a quick read, so then today I picked up a $1 copy of Lillian Hellman's memoirs and am halfway through), stargazed on the one clear night and saw the Milky Way for the first time in about fifteen years, and ate way too much excellent food. Then last night I stayed at my friend S's in Cambridge, which went swimmingly despite the fact that he forgot I was coming over because he found a bug in the code that's key to his dissertation and was in a panic; we caught up, his boyfriend cooked us a delicious dinner, and we watched a couple of Bashir-centric DS9 episodes and found in an impromptu YouTube search a clip of Casey Biggs (Damar) tied to a bed shirtless. If there's anything more to ask from a weekend, I can't think of it.
Some pictures:
And an angel "statue" in Brattle Square yesterday:
It has not escaped my notice that while I would have needed this kind of getaway desperately at my old job, this time I didn't have a driving need to relax; I was already relaxed. And I'm not dreading returning to work tomorrow.
ETA: Oh, duh, and Remix went live while I was gone, and someone remixed my SGA story "Professional Jealousy" into Professional Jealousy (The Special Delivery Remix). I am so surprised and pleased that that was the one chosen. As I said in comments, now there are at least two Tyson fics out there, mwahaha. It's a sweet retelling that strikes an excellent balance of keeping some of what was there while adding more and twisting things around, and does a great job of canon...izing what was originally pitched as a continuation of someone else's AU.
Some pictures:
And an angel "statue" in Brattle Square yesterday:
It has not escaped my notice that while I would have needed this kind of getaway desperately at my old job, this time I didn't have a driving need to relax; I was already relaxed. And I'm not dreading returning to work tomorrow.
ETA: Oh, duh, and Remix went live while I was gone, and someone remixed my SGA story "Professional Jealousy" into Professional Jealousy (The Special Delivery Remix). I am so surprised and pleased that that was the one chosen. As I said in comments, now there are at least two Tyson fics out there, mwahaha. It's a sweet retelling that strikes an excellent balance of keeping some of what was there while adding more and twisting things around, and does a great job of canon...izing what was originally pitched as a continuation of someone else's AU.