MY SUITCASE IS RETURNED TO ME, GOVERNMENT-FUNDED HEALTHCARE WILL SUPPORT TRANSITION-RELATED CARE, AND MARRIAGE EQUALITY IS THE LAW OF THE LAND, O FRABJOUS DAY. ... yeah, I know one of those things is not like the others, but I really missed my house sandals. /o\

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TODAY HAS BEEN BLESSED BY A PLETHORA OF DOLPHINS. ♥ An entire pod - at least eight and maybe a dozen or so - showed up in the water right in front of our house and hung around for ages, playing and eating fish and showing off. I saw flukes a few times, and at least once one of the smaller ones (BABY DOLPHINS, THERE WERE BABY DOLPHINS!) jumped ( Read more... )

So, yesterday we had an eclipse! Which, in my infinite obliviousness, I did not actually realize until I was out the door and thinking huh, it seems darker out here than it should, even with the light cloud cover, and there sure are a lot of people taking pictures of the sky. Fortunately once I got to King's Manor, one of the other grad students ( Read more... )

I survived my trip home! I heard "My Immortal" playing in the airport during the second gate change (which - really, Philadelphia? That's the song you want playing in the terminals during the holiday season? REALLY?) and my family treated me to tasty sushi at my favorite sushi place and then I drove three hours to the mountains with my mother. ( Read more... )

omg I met Neil Gaiman today omg omg I WILL PROVIDE DETAILS TOMORROW BUT OMG I MET NEIL GAIMAN

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In other wonderful news (besides OMG FUCK YEAH VISA), Kitarou-doll finally arrived at the dealer and should be on his way home to me soon, and Beelzebub 170 is FAAAAAAAABULOUS.

( No, like UNBELIEVABLY FABULOUS. )

OH SWEET MERCIFUL NINJA JESUS MY VISA APPLICATION WAS APPROVED

THANK FUCK

NO LIE, if it had gotten denied this time I was just going to say fuck it and put my Ph.D off for several years and just work because I cannot handle paperwork with deadlines for shit, so THANK YOU UK VISA BUREAU

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GUESS WHO HAS TWO THUMBS AND IS GOING TO YORK FOR HER PH.D IF SHE HAS TO SELL A KIDNEY TO PAY FOR IT*

*I hope it will not come to that, as I applied for a scholarship, but well - we'll see.

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If this cat keeps sleeping on my bed and crawling into my lap at every available opportunity, I'm going to start thinking she really did miss me. XD She is SO UNBEARABLY CUTE but sometimes, cat, I would like to have my laptop in my lap! Or be able to stretch my legs out! Goofy thing ( Read more... )

Oh, well, things have been slightly eventful around here since Friday! Well actually, not that eventful, in the sense that I spent today reading hilarious recaps of terrible yaoi that made me wheeze with laughter, but yesterday I went to Oxford! And that was REALLY AWESOME. I still know my way around the city centre there, that makes me SO HAPPY ( Read more... )