Why is it so hard for me to write about a trip right when I get back?  Maybe it's the exhaustion, and feeling low, but I always tell myself I'll wait a few days, and then the days pass ... and suddenly it's weeks later and I feel stupid posting about a vacation that was so long ago!

But this trip to London with shayheyred and przed was so spectacular that even ( Read more... )

( More about London - Musings on Ray Doyle, Martin Shaw, A Man for All Seasons, spirituality, despair, and this mortal coil.... )

I am home from the UK and - finally - recovered, mentally and physically (but primarily mentally), enough to actually write about it. Part of me so envies people who are able to write regular, short LJ posts describing their trips and things; I never am, though, because it has to percolate in my mind before I'm able to put it into words. So I ( Read more... )

Two quick things - and I actually am going to be quick!  (Our wireless internet is a bit dodgy here, and the only way I can get a strong enough signal is to sit on the toilet with the computer on the sink!!)

First - what more wonderful thing than to be in London, and be saturated with Pros?  Last week I was at connotations, in Tynemouth, near Newcastle, and ( Read more... )

There have been a plethora of really interesting posts recently on various issues relating to a greater or lesser extent to "realism" in fanfic - an issue that I've touched on in my own posts many times, including very recently. I have a crazy desire to make a post that does nothing more than quote my favorite parts, with occasional insertions of ( Read more... )

I am in the Land of Pros - London, of course.  I've been offline for the past few days, because I was in Milton Keynes at Nattercon - a NBP (nothin' but Pros *g*) weekend, and it was beyond wonderful (more about the con next post, but right now I'm fighting post-con blues and want to write about something else).  I've been here since Thursday ( Read more... )

When I was a few years out of college, I remember envying terribly my college boyfriend (who was still my boyfriend at the time) - after he graduated (he was a year behind me), he traveled through Australia and southeast Asia, and then later through the U.S., and everywhere he went in the world he had a place to stay - a friend, a friend's family, ( Read more... )