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heiligekuhI heartily recommend lazy trips to London as a means of resetting your internal clock. Jodi had the good sense of never calibrating her system to London time, which meant that no matter what sensible hour we went to bed at, she was up ungoldly late every night. This let to mornings where we would get up, stumble down to breakfast and then trudge back to bed for 4 hours before taking on the city. It probably goes without saying that I scored on both ends of this deal - in bed by 11, asleep till noon. And now, back on the 4:50 wake up calls for my commute, I'm incredibly well-rested and somehow always ready to hit the sack at 9:30. So on my new schedule I have no real evenings to speak of, but I'm awake enough on the train to ramble on LJ.
If I haven't said it to you personally yet, THANK YOU for everyone who came out to the big day on the 20th. There's a lot that Jodi and I missed on that day (I saw a few pictures of the cookie/punch table and realized that I never even made it over that far), and so many people that we wanted to spend hours with but had to settle for minutes. But every moment of that day was fantastic for us (Jodi's doubly so once she swapped the big dress for her dancing clothes). My parents and family, who it should be said are not known for their outgoing and gregarious personalities, came up to me several times during the day with some variation on "You sure have a lot of friends." And, yeah, we do. From our peer/family group to colleagues from previous schools and students(!), we're blessed enough to sit at the intersections of so many clusters of people who make me happy with the species. Which is a rare and pleasant thing these days. It makes the thought of leaving the Bay Area deeply traumatizing though.
NaNoWriMo is officially done as of midnight, which means I get wambulus back for video game dorking. Congrats to all the folk in our vqarious circles who tackled that this year (platapyus, faerymomma, wambulus, amand_r, Mitch, Jen...uhh anyone else? And if so, how did you keep that a secret?) And a shout-out to Fiona Elliot-Mcrea (who's full name I use here in the hopes that she'll ego search and get in touch) who must be a freshman by now and was the first person to introduce me to NanNoWriMo when she finished her second round as a 7th grader. She also was rocking the Edwardian era HP-Muds and would install telnet clients on all the lab machines. Which brings the cred, as far as I'm concerned.
In dorky news, I'm back on the Gamefly which means I'll have yet more entertainment options that sit on shelves and don't get touched. But it also means that I don't have to suffer hvyhvymonster's scorn for missing something like Kathchami Dy-rollstuffupintohugeballs. Or whatever. First up: DoA:U (for some Xbox Live cheese fests) and the aforementioned start creation simulator.
If I haven't said it to you personally yet, THANK YOU for everyone who came out to the big day on the 20th. There's a lot that Jodi and I missed on that day (I saw a few pictures of the cookie/punch table and realized that I never even made it over that far), and so many people that we wanted to spend hours with but had to settle for minutes. But every moment of that day was fantastic for us (Jodi's doubly so once she swapped the big dress for her dancing clothes). My parents and family, who it should be said are not known for their outgoing and gregarious personalities, came up to me several times during the day with some variation on "You sure have a lot of friends." And, yeah, we do. From our peer/family group to colleagues from previous schools and students(!), we're blessed enough to sit at the intersections of so many clusters of people who make me happy with the species. Which is a rare and pleasant thing these days. It makes the thought of leaving the Bay Area deeply traumatizing though.
NaNoWriMo is officially done as of midnight, which means I get wambulus back for video game dorking. Congrats to all the folk in our vqarious circles who tackled that this year (platapyus, faerymomma, wambulus, amand_r, Mitch, Jen...uhh anyone else? And if so, how did you keep that a secret?) And a shout-out to Fiona Elliot-Mcrea (who's full name I use here in the hopes that she'll ego search and get in touch) who must be a freshman by now and was the first person to introduce me to NanNoWriMo when she finished her second round as a 7th grader. She also was rocking the Edwardian era HP-Muds and would install telnet clients on all the lab machines. Which brings the cred, as far as I'm concerned.
In dorky news, I'm back on the Gamefly which means I'll have yet more entertainment options that sit on shelves and don't get touched. But it also means that I don't have to suffer hvyhvymonster's scorn for missing something like Kathchami Dy-rollstuffupintohugeballs. Or whatever. First up: DoA:U (for some Xbox Live cheese fests) and the aforementioned start creation simulator.
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Date: 2004-12-03 12:00 am (UTC)...which reminds me, did you ever get the pictures put up? =:)
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