Since last we spoke

[coffee_lifeform]

I've mostly been getting drunk and posting inappropriate things on teh internetz. I've also been: attending a Polish Medieval Fair; planning a Syria/Jordan/Lebanon/Israel trip to see Teh Australian in July; playing in a Vampire LARP where I didn't want to kill anyone; FINISHING TWH!; listening to too much Jonathan Coulton; reclaiming my super;

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[fluffworld]

*wantses to go to Isreal and Jordan too, dammit* Sounds like an awesome idea.

[mr_orgue]

It is an awesome idea. Really cool places.

Just make sure you do it in the right order - Israel comes last.

[coffee_lifeform]

Yup. Very, very provisionally thinking of flying into Damascus, overland to Beirut maybe, then around to Aleppo and - depending on time - day trips to Palmyra and Krak des Chevaliers, then head into Jordan (I really, really want to see Petra), and from there into Israel. I'll only have three weeks tops, though, and spending time with Teh Australian is something of a priority.

[damien_wise]

Ooh, the Krak des Chevaliers and Petra are on my "must-see" list.
This latest holiday of yours sounds absolutely awesome! :)

[Pardon my earlier inability to reply in thread]

[heyokish]

hang on...you're going in July?
Are you VERY good at heat?

[skullculture]

!Z0mG!!!1!!!eleven!!

I tell my students they are allowed one exclamation mark per story. Otherwise I get things which read like the thrilled puppy dog which repeatedly leapt on me last night, biting and slavering.

On the other hand, I find your use of the semicolon quite soothing.

[coffee_lifeform]

I am quite partial to a nice semicolon, actually. They take the edge off the edge of sentences; a stop, without a stop, but more determined and active than the petty pause of the comma.

I need to get over my ellipses addiction, though. I've never thought of them as adding weight so much as indecision, and representing the speech patterns of a focus-challenged person such as myself that does tend to trail off mid-...

[sasori]

Ok, so I have to go visit Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha! now. Even though it's waaaay out in the middle of nowhere.