Spent the afternoon (after a fairly pointless morning of wandering through a town where every single thing was closed) watching Joyeux Noël, starring--briefly and in true BoB secondary-character-played-by-somewhat-obscure-actor fashion--Robin Laing. He is the first person onscreen, rushing adorkably into church to find his brother and announce to ( Read more... )

Hi all. Here I am, live from my sister's house in a rare moment of near solitude. Must be brief as everyone must be up and showered and fed and dressed by 11 so we can head out on today's adventure ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm so detatched from my LJ anymore that I totally forgot that tonight is the last time I'll be able to post from home for a couple of weeks. And that would be because I am going on vacation, thank whatever powers influence this universe.

So. Since ramalama reminded me, yes, vacation is for yay! It should be a little bit crazy what with the ( Read more... )

Well I'm back. Chicago seems lonlier than ever now, except that I'll be able to check LJ compulsively as I will have access to a computer pretty much any time I want it. And I have lots of things to do to keep me busy and not thinking about how nearly all of the people I love live far, far away from me. Not all. But most of them ( Read more... )

Well. I was going to post pictures tonight, but it turns out to be much more gargantuan a task than I had anticipated. It will have to wait til I get several nights at my home computer. In the meantime, I will spill out narrative details of my trip, with just a few visual aides ( Read more... )

I'm here, really. I just have very little alone-time with the computer. Last night I waited til everyone had gone to bed and then spent three hours catching up on my flist. Comments are sparse, for which I apologize, but I think I have an idea of what's been going on in your lives. Have noted several entries I need to go back and read in detail and ( Read more... )

Just a quick note to say I'm back from the Great Western Trek. Many adventures were had, and only one minor sunburn. Otherwise, I'm really clean for the first time in more than a week, I smell wonderful, and I'm off to what promises to be a peaceful night's sleep in a room all my own in a bed with a real mattress I don't have to share with any ( Read more... )

Half an hour til Debbie comes to take me to the airport. What is it about the last day before a vacation? Why must ALL the shit hit the fan on that one day? On a brighter note, the author I'd been nastily referring to as Evil Author had dinner with my manager last night and emailed me today to tell me what a "beautiful" job I'd done managing the ( Read more... )

Ah, the Midwest, how I missed you. But you welcomed me back last night with your 25 degree weather (and I, showing off my mental capacities and packing skills, left my winter coat in my mother's hall closet ( Read more... )

Ah... California! It is gorgeous here. Sunny, warm, green ( Read more... )