I'm back from London, and honestly, wishing I were going back. We had an amazing time doing every single geeky thing we could think of ( Read more... )

This was written within a day or two of my visit to the Sistine Chapel, because my experience was odd enough to be worth recording. Not edited, because that's not the point, so please forgive the roughness.She'd been looking forward to seeing it, of course, but in more of a tick-box fashion. She respected Michaelangelo, but he wasn't a favourite, ( Read more... )

Got back in yesterday afternoon, and then made the cardinal unforgivable mistake of allowing a nap at six pm to shade into actual sleep, which meant I woke up bright and early at midnight and haven't been able to get back to sleep. Considering that I'm jet-lagged because I just spent two weeks in Italy I'm willing to tag this #firstworldproblems, ( Read more... )

My abstract was accepted to the Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present conference at the University of London!

From the CFP:
This conference offers a serious opportunity to bring together academics, enthusiasts, creative practitioners and popular writers in a shared discussion about the cultural legacy of Sherlock Holmes. The Strand Magazine and the ( Read more... )

And we're off!

Okay, so I doubt anyone actually cares all that much, but hey, for the .25 people that do...

For actual pictures and more detail, see stupid_drawings account here: http://stupid-drawings.livejournal.com/373963.html

So... went to FL with stupid_drawings.  It was awesome.

We flew out of (cold, grey, mucky) Chicago on a Thursday evening, and took a shuttle to our hotel.  One of our ( Read more... )

So, Winter, you've survived Series Two of Sherlock and the Reichenbach Fall.  What are you going to do now?

I'm going to Disneyworld!

(and Harry Potter World)

Back in a few days, LJ.

Finally got to see this exhibit at the Smithsonian, as part of a larger (fascinating) exhibit on forensics.

(The short version:  A professor of osteology donated his skeleton and those of his Irish wolfhounds to the Smithsonian in hopes they'd be put on display.  They finally were.)

We should all be so lucky to have our wishes followed after our