WITH GLOWING HEARTS WE SEE THEE RISE
Okay, so I'm finally home, safe and sound. The flight back was suck to the max; delays up the wazoo, and I had to get up pretty damn early to boot - quarter after 5, ugh. Dad drove me, and he ended up taking me down Millennium Drive. I have no idea why he had that idea, because we got stuck in traffic. Everyone knows you don't go down that road in the mornings 'cause then you have to deal with Fort Mac traffic, ughhhh. Oh, well. I left Fort Mac okay, and got back to Stoon in one piece.
It was pretty weird to be outside at 4:30 and not have the sun setting on me. After less than a week in Fort Mac I found myself back in that mode, getting used to the dark and the valley rising up all around, aaaa. Well, I'll miss that, but I won't be missing being around my parents constantly. My dad is all right, but my mum doesn't seem to realize that after being around people for hours, I need some alone time, and I get very non-social. :| Oh, well. On the upside, she did give me taxi money - but I didn't use it for the taxi from the airport. I took the bus back instead, because it isn't a big deal especially when the day is nice as this one was. So, this means I have a bit of money for groceries, and a bit to put away for travel.
The next few days will consist of me recovering from my "vacation", doing homework, hopefully doing some editing on old fic so I can post it up in the next week, aaaaand also bumming around watching the Olympics.
I ended up getting home just in time to make supper, find out that we won a second gold medal (yessss) and then watch the Canada VS Norway men's hockey. We totally won, yesssss, with 8-0. Though I had hoped it wouldn't be such a clean sweep. I prefer it when the games are closer, especially if both teams score. When we mop the floor with 'em, it isn't as exciting. Better when they give us a run for the money. The other team did play well, though.
Tomorrow will be Canada VS Sweden women's match, which I'm also pretty excited to watch. To be honest, I prefer watching women's hockey rather than men's, even though some people (like my mother, ugh) say that it isn't "real" hockey. Fuck that. Hockey is hockey. I find that the women's games tend to be visually slower, and I like that, because then I can actually keep up with what's going on. There also tends to be less body contact. I like that. Just play the damn game, don't beat up on each other. And women's hockey seems to be less sensationalized, and I like that - men's games, even stuff that is not NHL, seems to be half about showiness and sensation. Not necessarily talking about the players and the game here, but everything that surrounds it, the commentary and such. Blah, no thank you. I want a hockey match, not a show. :|
Anyway. ~We shall see~ how everything else pans out. I'm mostly going to be flapping hands about hockey and... uh... anything else that Canada does well in. But I'm also going to be keeping my eye on the things that Estonia has competitors in, watching it when I can. I just can't help it - I have such a soft spot for Estonia. I was watching the Estonian duo in the pairs figure skating last night. They were just so cute ahhhh and I thought they did pretty well, even if they didn't place very highly at all... Oh, well, I don't know anything about figure skating aside from MUSIC and SPINNING and PRETTY COSTUMES and MORE SPINNING.
It was pretty weird to be outside at 4:30 and not have the sun setting on me. After less than a week in Fort Mac I found myself back in that mode, getting used to the dark and the valley rising up all around, aaaa. Well, I'll miss that, but I won't be missing being around my parents constantly. My dad is all right, but my mum doesn't seem to realize that after being around people for hours, I need some alone time, and I get very non-social. :| Oh, well. On the upside, she did give me taxi money - but I didn't use it for the taxi from the airport. I took the bus back instead, because it isn't a big deal especially when the day is nice as this one was. So, this means I have a bit of money for groceries, and a bit to put away for travel.
The next few days will consist of me recovering from my "vacation", doing homework, hopefully doing some editing on old fic so I can post it up in the next week, aaaaand also bumming around watching the Olympics.
I ended up getting home just in time to make supper, find out that we won a second gold medal (yessss) and then watch the Canada VS Norway men's hockey. We totally won, yesssss, with 8-0. Though I had hoped it wouldn't be such a clean sweep. I prefer it when the games are closer, especially if both teams score. When we mop the floor with 'em, it isn't as exciting. Better when they give us a run for the money. The other team did play well, though.
Tomorrow will be Canada VS Sweden women's match, which I'm also pretty excited to watch. To be honest, I prefer watching women's hockey rather than men's, even though some people (like my mother, ugh) say that it isn't "real" hockey. Fuck that. Hockey is hockey. I find that the women's games tend to be visually slower, and I like that, because then I can actually keep up with what's going on. There also tends to be less body contact. I like that. Just play the damn game, don't beat up on each other. And women's hockey seems to be less sensationalized, and I like that - men's games, even stuff that is not NHL, seems to be half about showiness and sensation. Not necessarily talking about the players and the game here, but everything that surrounds it, the commentary and such. Blah, no thank you. I want a hockey match, not a show. :|
Anyway. ~We shall see~ how everything else pans out. I'm mostly going to be flapping hands about hockey and... uh... anything else that Canada does well in. But I'm also going to be keeping my eye on the things that Estonia has competitors in, watching it when I can. I just can't help it - I have such a soft spot for Estonia. I was watching the Estonian duo in the pairs figure skating last night. They were just so cute ahhhh and I thought they did pretty well, even if they didn't place very highly at all... Oh, well, I don't know anything about figure skating aside from MUSIC and SPINNING and PRETTY COSTUMES and MORE SPINNING.