I've played this song 146 times in two days....
So the online train ticketing system here does this thing where the great majority of train tickets are reserved for people who are planning to get on at or near the originating station for a train. And then a day or two before the departure date, the leftovers are released to everyone else. I can totally understand why they do it this way-to guarantee passengers upstream a spot on the train (yes, we still have standing/non-seating tickets for trains...). But for someone like me who likes to plan trips a month in advance, this is just torture. Just the thought that there won't be any tickets left by the time they are released.... (Though at least with a non-seating ticket, I can just go to the restaurant car, buy some food, and then sit/sleep in there...overnight...because I am not gonna waste something like 8 hours of my day on a train, lol.)
But yeah, I'm planning to go to Chengdu around the 20th to meet up with R., a very good friend whom I haven't seen since we met up in the UK four years ago. Hopefully things work out. O_O (And we'll see if I can be arsed to post photos afterward...because lol I never did finish posting my photos from Scotland and Germany...and never even started to post photos from my ~Celtic Tour~ or the annual company meeting trip. And of course my stupid computer ate all my wedding trip photos. One day I might not be so lazy....~_~)
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So...on Sunday we put The Avengers on in the background...and I have to say, I honestly wasn't really interested in anything that didn't contain Loki and/or Thor. Um.... idk what I'm supposed to do when I finally have to watch canon for the purposes of writing fic.... (Especially all the Thor/Jane....)
(I'll confess now...I generally have little interest in superhero stuff. Which makes Loki/Thor being my newest pairing of choice a bit annoying....)
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I did a photo meme ages ago, and both not_vacillating and kehleyr wanted to see my oil paper umbrella (which, most literal translation ever, lol).
So this is the one I got last December. It's pretty big (100 cm in diameter!).
And then things happened to it and I got a new one about two weeks ago. This one is smaller at 84 cm in diameter, but it still works.
Yes, I totally have a thing for plum blossoms, which are a pretty big deal in Han culture. I can't help it, I'm just drawn to the way they bloom in winter, proud against the winter cold.
Also, yes, I use/have used these umbrellas in the rain (the oil in the name should give it away - these aren't flimsy paper umbrellas!). They work fine (albeit with differences from umbrellas made with metal & materials that are not paper or silk), although of course I've also learnt a lot about them, particularly how to use and care for one, over the course of my ownership of two. So feel free to ask if you have questions :)
But yeah, I'm planning to go to Chengdu around the 20th to meet up with R., a very good friend whom I haven't seen since we met up in the UK four years ago. Hopefully things work out. O_O (And we'll see if I can be arsed to post photos afterward...because lol I never did finish posting my photos from Scotland and Germany...and never even started to post photos from my ~Celtic Tour~ or the annual company meeting trip. And of course my stupid computer ate all my wedding trip photos. One day I might not be so lazy....~_~)
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So...on Sunday we put The Avengers on in the background...and I have to say, I honestly wasn't really interested in anything that didn't contain Loki and/or Thor. Um.... idk what I'm supposed to do when I finally have to watch canon for the purposes of writing fic.... (Especially all the Thor/Jane....)
(I'll confess now...I generally have little interest in superhero stuff. Which makes Loki/Thor being my newest pairing of choice a bit annoying....)
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I did a photo meme ages ago, and both not_vacillating and kehleyr wanted to see my oil paper umbrella (which, most literal translation ever, lol).
So this is the one I got last December. It's pretty big (100 cm in diameter!).
And then things happened to it and I got a new one about two weeks ago. This one is smaller at 84 cm in diameter, but it still works.
Yes, I totally have a thing for plum blossoms, which are a pretty big deal in Han culture. I can't help it, I'm just drawn to the way they bloom in winter, proud against the winter cold.
Also, yes, I use/have used these umbrellas in the rain (the oil in the name should give it away - these aren't flimsy paper umbrellas!). They work fine (albeit with differences from umbrellas made with metal & materials that are not paper or silk), although of course I've also learnt a lot about them, particularly how to use and care for one, over the course of my ownership of two. So feel free to ask if you have questions :)