bop_radar: Boppy default (Default)
bop_radar ([personal profile] bop_radar) wrote2010-08-23 09:49 am
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry
  • Current Mood: confused
  • Current Location: sofa of comfiness
  • Current Music: disconcerting ringing in my ears
Entry tags:

Home sweet? home

Yesterday I got home from a three-week holiday in the States to find my country had a hung parliament and my electorate was the first in Australia ever to elect a Greens MP. My feelings are currently as conflicted as all Australians, I suspect. It was quite hard news to process at the end of 31.5 hour trip home. (LAX is my new Heathrow! If I never fly through there again it will not be soon enough--though I did have a blast hating on it with my fellow Aussies stranded in the check-in queue for 2.5 hours.)

In happier news I have a new little baby cousin Aeryn, and tickets to both Adam Lambert and Shukwinder Singh (my favourite Bollywood singer) in October. \\\o///

I'm sure I'll feel even happier as soon as the room stops rotating around me. Ah, jetlag! :)
Threaded | Flat

[identity profile] anoel.livejournal.com 2010-08-22 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry about your LAX experience, I've never had any problems there but it's a big airport so I suppose shit happens.

Yay Adam Lambert concert! I'm going to mine tomorrow and I'm super excited. Anytime you're able, if you can send me that picture of me I'd really appreciate it :)

[identity profile] cinderella81.livejournal.com 2010-08-23 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
Adam Lambert? Lucky!!!!!

I have never flown out of LAX (I live closer to John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana) and I hope I never do ...

[identity profile] queenofthorns.livejournal.com 2010-08-23 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
I had no idea you were a big Sukhwinder Singh fan - I have tons of his CDs!!! YAY! He's awesome!

And welcome back to Australia. I'm sorry you had such hassles getting home, but I hope you will come back to the US soonest!! It was so lovely to get to meet you :D I felt like we'd known each other for ages, which is a lovely feeling.

[identity profile] laurashapiro.livejournal.com 2010-08-23 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome home! I am once again so glad we got to meet! ::hugs::
ext_30194: Katie McGrath as Morgana on BBC's 'Merlin', smiling with flowers (BSG - [K/A] I made a vow before the gods)

[identity profile] shopfront.livejournal.com 2010-08-23 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Welcome home! I suspect the least conflicted Australians at the moment are the major parties, who seem intent on sticking their heads in the sand and claiming the election results were a negative result against the other, rather than apathy with either of them. Urgh. I hope your jetlag eases up quickly!

[identity profile] kuwdora.livejournal.com 2010-08-23 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
boppyyyyyyyyy *HUGS YOU HARD*

[identity profile] norwich36.livejournal.com 2010-08-23 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yay! I'm glad you made it.

[identity profile] svgurl.livejournal.com 2010-08-23 08:56 am (UTC)(link)
*hugs* I'm glad that you made it back home though that sucks about the horrible experience in LAX. 31 1/2 hours? Wow, and I thought my trips to India was bad! I used to have to deal with that airport all the time (because I was flying from San Jose to LA while was still in school there) but fortunately, I was able to avoid the international terminal, lol. My side was smaller. :D

Ooh, I love Sukhwinder Singh! Though I've only heard him in Bollywood songs, he has a great voice. And that's awesome you're going to see Adam Lambert too! He was in SF but the first show got sold out and the second show was on the day I was to traveling (ironically enough, to Australia!). But I hope you have a blast and I can't wait to hear all about both of them! :)

[identity profile] amnisias.livejournal.com 2010-08-23 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Glad to see you back, I was worried we'd lost you in transit!
As far as airports go, I've given up all my prejudices, I hate all of them in equal meassure. And air-travel in general. If it wasn't a necessity, in order to get to places, I could do with never flying again, ever.

Ah, hung parliaments. We ended up with a coalition between Conservatives and Lib Dems (spineless creatures, they toppled over at the smell of power). Not sure, I think I might have preferred a Green Prime Minister. But the Green Party in the UK only serves decoration purposes.

Congrats to the niece, and such a lovely name. Is Aeryn actually a proper Australian name - I mean predating Farscape? Or has it just made it's way from the show into RL?

[identity profile] brokenmnemonic.livejournal.com 2010-08-23 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome back to Aus :) Were cats, dogs and the bf glad to see you return? I'm sorry you had such a hard time at LAX. Was it one of those strange full-moon events, or just th euniverse conspiring against you?

The Aus election result was both interesting and worrying - I'd been hoping for a Labour majority, but the idea of Abbott running a coalition where the veto power is in the hands of the ultra-conservative minority party is downright scary.

I hope you're going to get plenty of rest after all the jetlag, and spend a few days enjoying the sofa of comfiness and devoted attention from those who missed you...
Threaded | Flat