Raring to go!

[rebcake]

I finished my rarewomen assignment! Woo! It will be unveiled with the others sometime this weekend over on AO3.

I wrote a drabble to celebrate. That hasn't happened in a while.

Title: Conundrum
Characters: William & Drusilla in 1880
Prompt: What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

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[eilowyn]

Well, I'm one person who is properly impressed at CalArts! Go McDiva! She's near Magic Mountain, isn't she?

Oh. And I missed you.

[rebcake]

¡Yay! I'm not the only one who's impressed! A friend of hers who didn't get in to her high school DID get in to the CalArts Graphic Design program, and they are going to be roommates. The future looks snug and bright, a winning combination. It's right across the freeway from Magic Mountain, but she keeps talking about Disneyland. Since she doesn't drive, that might turn out to be more of a pain than she thinks.

I missed you, too! I've tried to keep up, but it's been wildly scattershot. All of this other stuff was on top of my busiest work year in quite some time. I should count my blessings, though.

[shapinglight]

You sound like you've been insanely busy. I thought it had to be the college thing mostly. Many, many congrats to McDiva. Where is this college? Right down in the south of California? I know it's a big place, but five hours is a very long drive.

So the minivan is no more? I will always have fond memories of it. Thank you once again for driving us around SF. Very fond memories of that too.

As for BtVS season 1, last time I watched it, I loved it all, apart from the pilot episode (hokey vampires were irritating, Angel's cryptic guy act even more so, and Teacher's Pet, which is a pretty terrible episode. All the others were much better than I remembered).

Enjoy your last family re-watch, and great to have you back.

[rebcake]

I also remember the van with fondness. Not least for getting to show you my fair city in it!

Oh! Forgot to mention that I went to thedeadlyhook's birthday party/picnic last weekend! We saw many wonderful waterfowl and thought of you. I think she might reappear in a few weeks, as well. *fingers crossed*

But the first episode has Darla! Mmmmmm, Darla.

The school is about 30 miles north of Los Angeles. When you drove up to Yosemite, do you remember heading up into the hills while fleeing LA and coming across an enormous amusement park (and probably a traffic jam) after not very long? That's where it is. It feels very middle of nowhere, but apparently 250,000 people live around there. Weird.

We Westerners scoff at vast distances! If you can get there in less than a day without wanting to die, it's "close". Heh.

[shapinglight]

I also remember the van with fondness. Not least for getting to show you my fair city in it!

:)

I think she might reappear in a few weeks, as well. *fingers crossed*

:):)

When you drove up to Yosemite, do you remember heading up into the hills while fleeing LA and coming across an enormous amusement park (and probably a traffic jam) after not very long?

Actually, no, but we turned off at Bakersfield. Would it be after that? My memory of the road before that was of a lot of dust and huge trucks and a sort of mountain pass down into a very hot dusty valley. Sound familiar at all?

[rebcake]

Oh yeah, you're remembering it very accurately. The amusement park is in the mountain pass, well before Bakersfield and the San Joaquin valley. It's much closer to the LA end of the pass. Fun fact: that descent into the the SJ valley is called "The Grapevine". No idea why.

The school is also directly east of Oxnard, which I'm sure you remember. ;-) A bunch of McDiva's aunts, uncles, siblings, nieces, and even a grandmothers are there. If she needs a dose of family it's less than an hour away.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

\o/ Yay McDiva and you for being back, hurrah!

And also yay carlessness because I demand that more of the world live the way I do. Even though it's far more inconvenient for them, so... *coughs*

[rebcake]

It's not terribly inconvenient to be carless at this point, which I suppose detracts a bit from my moral superiority. If my commute took me out of town, I'd probably cave.

However, like you, I am a bit smitten with trains. They aren't nearly as ubiquitous here, because of the great distances, but I've found ways to make use of them nevertheless. I've already figured out a way for McDiva to get home on the train, which was a relief. She hasn't learned to drive yet. We'll see how some time in SoCal makes her feel about that. Her older brother didn't learn until he moved out of San Francisco at 25.

[thedeadlyhook]

Woo! Yay for CalArts! I know what a fraught choice that must've been, given McDiva's talent and all those opportunities... but at least now, it's over to her to make the most of it, so you can sit back and relax a little.

And thanks so much for coming to the birthday picnic! I hadn't realized that your car had died; I remember you saying that you took BART to get there, but for some reason, the penny didn't drop for me why you'd do that. So you guys really went out of your way to get there!

And on the reappearing front, oh yes, I'm counting the days until I'll have a bit more free time. Less than a week to go, not counting what's looking like a full weekend and next week's jury duty. And then... summer fun!

[rebcake]

Hey! You and MiAmor might've been in the jury room at the same time! He pushed his date back to the first week of June, though, to make way for all the graduation stuff and related out-of-town visitors. I must say I like the new "check the website" method of serving. I get called more often, but almost never have to go in.

See you in the sunshine!