I'm home! It was arduous, and next time I fly internationally I'd like to be wealthy enough to fly first class. Now on to the post, in which there will be ( Welcome Rests, Forgotten Sandwiches, Gay Scotland Yard Detectives, Unattended Luggage, Angry Seatmates, Dubious Immigration Inspectors, Imaginary Friends, Smuggled Biological Imports, and other Sundries of International Travel )

It's my last day in the UK. It was sunny today, and beautiful, so I went for a walk around Huddersfield while DK worked. I wandered all over, and saw lots of bobbies in tall hats about in pairs, as there was a football (or possibly rugby, I wasn't quite sure) match in town today.


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Pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been?
I've been to London to visit the Queen.
Pussy cat, pussy cat, what did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under her chair.


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I might be the world's most sad tourist. When I went to Japan a few years ago, I was sick for most of the trip and did a lot of just hanging around in bed with media and friends. Here I am in the UK, and I had all these plans to do walking tours of Huddersfield while darksideofstorm was at work, and instead I've been sick, hanging around in bed reading and ( Read more... )

Bronchitis while on vacation is lame. Fortunately darksideofstorm has been completely understanding and kind about it, and given me some cough syrup called "Chesty Cough" which makes my inner ten-year-old boy snigger. I think it should be a drag name. I've actually been sick pretty much since I got here, and yes, I'm on antibiotics already. Good thing I brought ( Read more... )

Call it peer pressure if you want, but I've jumped into the pool with jbmcdragon and darksideofstorm and created a blog on wordpress to explore sexual and gender identity. It's here: Somewhere in the Middle. I decided that I do have enough to say to make it worth the effort, especially because writing is how I get my own head around things ( Read more... )

There are M&Ms in my car, in the garage under my building. For those that have visited, you know that it is not a completely trivial trip down to my car from my apartment. In fact, it's enough of a hassle that I'm writing about how I wish the M&Ms were up here, rather than going down and getting them. Partly that's because it's chilly and night, so ( Read more... )

Friday night Momo arrived. Yay! We went and got pie at Heidi's Pies in San Mateo (she had pumpkin cream cheese, I had chocolate meringue) then we came home, played with baby rats, and watched Project Runway ( Read more... )

So much stuff happened in the week I skipped. Here it is, cut into bite-sized chunks.

( My sister visits, we have fun, she is awesome )

I was a proxy cupid today, getting Dark's gift to JB for her. Pink potted calla lillies! Dark had asked me to help with the task, since JB is visiting me right now and Dark's in the UK. She said roses were too cliché but she couldn't think of a good JB flower. I suggested callas, Dark googled them and declared them perfect. Found two florists ( Read more... )