So looking forward to WisCon.

I'm taking a red-eye out Wednesday night/Thursday wee hours (why doesn't English have a proper name for that time of night? Spanish does: madrugada, which are the hours between midnight and dawn), and should arrive in the late morning. I'll be coming back on Tuesday afternoon ( Read more... )

1. I completely fell in love with New York City. I had the same feeling of "I could live here very happily" as I did in Paris. I had a stronger feeling of that for New York than I did for San Francisco, and I've been in SF for over five years now. That said, there's no way in hell that I'd want to be anything less than comfortably middle class in ( Read more... )

In about 36 hours, I'll be aboard my red-eye flight to New York City.

I mentioned the trip a while ago, and y'all came up with some very good suggestions on where to go, what to see, and where to eat. Thank you ( Read more... )

"List the towns or cities where you spent at least one night away from home during 2009. Mark with an asterisk if you had multiple, non-consecutive stays."Lesser Outer Heck ( Read more... )

Hadn't mentioned this before, but I'll be in New York in January. My dear, dear friend, Ch. and I will be going on shopping safari and running about town. It's my first trip to New York ( Read more... )

Metric buttloads of pics are up, and I haven't come 'round here lately to mention it.

Well, that or much of anything else, either.

Eh.

Here are some pics for your viewing pleasure:

In St-Germain, in Paris:

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Going to the Eiffel Tower was one of those quintessentially "I am a tourist in Paris" moments. Part of you is like, "oh god, it's going to be a dreadful tourist trap and I'm going to have to wait in line for ages and ages and I'm going to have to deal with all the frigging tourists"--but another part of you is going, "Oh my god! It's the frigging ( Read more... )

In the ongoing effort to badger you all with my vacation photos, there's a new set up.


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Hiya, folks.

More pics are up. These sets are from Madrid, from the open air flea market, el Rastro


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More pics are up. Selected shots from Toledo and Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.