On homesickness and fic...
I don't really get homesick as such. When I'm at home it's just me and my TV and my PC so really there's not much to miss. Yes there's my sister and family but it's not like I see her all that often, I see my parents even less.
As far as friends go, work friends are here, best friends don't live too near me anyway (hour or more drive) so we go months without being in the same room. But there's always the opportunity to just 'pop by' like Hev often does, just to watch a dvd or go to the cinema. Plu I have almost constant communication with at least one of them via the net. I talk more to Kirsten than people who live in my town. Nearly every night back and forth via msn, normally betaing, writing, handholding for each other through fics. Reading and reccing, discussing spn, amongst actual normal chats about our days.
Sad? Geeky? Almost definitely, and I miss it so much.
I have email, but I can't really read fic, especially the type we like, at work. Not even in the hotel either really as the business centre is both expensive and not exactly a cosy environment!
As far as writing goes, I brought my notebook of course, I take that everywhere. But I've not had the chance to put pen to paper to write the story thts been buzzing round my head for months, that I have a decent chunk of written. Or the one I have a vague outline of and a little bit of written. I'm not really left alone. Im either at work or with workmates, whether having dinner, touristing, pubbing, travelling or just hanging about by the pool or in our rooms. If we go off to our rooms alone, its to sleep or change etc.
Driving me crazy! Kirsten is writing and I can't beta properly, I have stuff by other people to beta and I dread to think how much other stuff there is out there that Ive missed reading wise!!
What I have read of kirtens is giving me MORE bunnies that spin off from my monster fic, because she's writing prequels and sequels to it.
16 days to go until I'm back to normality, and my girlies come up for a weekend :) That's if they get their buts into gear and actually make the dates solid!
Sorry for the ramble, felt like a blurt!!
Mumbai is humid and smelly but pretty cool by the way :P
Oh and they want to know if I want to come back out until July....
As far as friends go, work friends are here, best friends don't live too near me anyway (hour or more drive) so we go months without being in the same room. But there's always the opportunity to just 'pop by' like Hev often does, just to watch a dvd or go to the cinema. Plu I have almost constant communication with at least one of them via the net. I talk more to Kirsten than people who live in my town. Nearly every night back and forth via msn, normally betaing, writing, handholding for each other through fics. Reading and reccing, discussing spn, amongst actual normal chats about our days.
Sad? Geeky? Almost definitely, and I miss it so much.
I have email, but I can't really read fic, especially the type we like, at work. Not even in the hotel either really as the business centre is both expensive and not exactly a cosy environment!
As far as writing goes, I brought my notebook of course, I take that everywhere. But I've not had the chance to put pen to paper to write the story thts been buzzing round my head for months, that I have a decent chunk of written. Or the one I have a vague outline of and a little bit of written. I'm not really left alone. Im either at work or with workmates, whether having dinner, touristing, pubbing, travelling or just hanging about by the pool or in our rooms. If we go off to our rooms alone, its to sleep or change etc.
Driving me crazy! Kirsten is writing and I can't beta properly, I have stuff by other people to beta and I dread to think how much other stuff there is out there that Ive missed reading wise!!
What I have read of kirtens is giving me MORE bunnies that spin off from my monster fic, because she's writing prequels and sequels to it.
16 days to go until I'm back to normality, and my girlies come up for a weekend :) That's if they get their buts into gear and actually make the dates solid!
Sorry for the ramble, felt like a blurt!!
Mumbai is humid and smelly but pretty cool by the way :P
Oh and they want to know if I want to come back out until July....