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Hello all! I have returned from my travels. Don't worry--I won't bore you with every last detail of my journey--suffice to say that there were some downs as well as many ups. (*cough* missed flight *cough*--those are actual coughs, btw--I caught the most persistent flu bug four days into my trip and still have it!)
The punchy touristy highlights were:
- my grandmother being alive and well and munching cheezels like they were going out of fashion...
- indulging my nostalgic taste for stodgy Scottish pub food (skirlie! mmmm)
- visiting the town where cult 80s film Local Hero was filmed (anyone with me on this? The telephone box is still there on the shore front! I ate dinner at the pub!)
- tour of Glenfiddich distillery (whisky smells really gooood when it's being brewed!)
- a lovely walk over the cliffs to Dunnottar Castle, marred only by my mothers plaintive moaning in the background
- watching my boy go all squee-y over aircraft museums that I thankfully didn't have to accompany him to (very amusing)
- daffodils, punting and libraries-to-die-for in Cambridge
- a beautiful wedding at posh English country hotel--best of all was having my four lovely cousins in the same room for the first time in twenty years! *loves them*
- visiting the Globe with my friend Sarah, followed by a wonderfully overpriced 'flight' on the London Eye
- watching MTVAsia for two days with a fever (mmm, interesting experience!) in a Kuala Lumpur guesthouse
- finally venturing further than the pharmacy and getting in some great shopping and yummy food eating
- visiting the slick Petronas twin towers in a brief burst of sunlight between tropical storms so we could kind of see something
- trekking across Malaysia to Kota Bahru ('The Islamic City'), on route to the idyllic Perhentian islands
- beachside chalet on said islands, complete with deckchair beneath palm tree, fresh bbq fish at night, mango smoothies and snorkelling
Fangirly highlights were (there actually were some!):
- getting to watch Cheaper by the Dozen 2 on the plane (mm, yummy Tommy!), as well as a couple of House and Justice League eps
- visiting the wonderful![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mskatej in London with toadstoolsmiles (whee! fangirl fun!)
- posing at Platform Nine and Three Quarters at Liverpool St Station (my boyfriend and friend were very tolerant of me embarrassing them)
- bargaining in the KL Chinatown markets for dvds (sadly the 'Good Sex Bad Lex' dvd set they tried to convince me contained the season finale, did not, but it's still a good souvenir for the small amount of $ I spent on it, and does contain most of Season 5).
And yes, now home and still sick, but despite me rushing straight to work from the airport, apparently my projects are not in the crisis I imagined they would be, so I can breathe a little and ease back into things here.
Now. How is fandom? Awesome SV finale, yeah?! I will write on it later. I dl'd the last three eps I missed and watched them in a rush. But what else is news? Who has made things? What Mike or Tommy goss did I miss? How is everyone? I look forward to catching up with you all, but there's no way I'm going to get through three week's of flist backlog so you should just jump up and down and point me in the right direction... ;-)
Oh, and yes, I am glad to be home, despite the excitement of travel. Melbourne is a lovely city to come home to--especially with the autumn leaves out and the clear crisp sunny days and OMG GOOD COFFEE AT LAST!
The punchy touristy highlights were:
- my grandmother being alive and well and munching cheezels like they were going out of fashion...
- indulging my nostalgic taste for stodgy Scottish pub food (skirlie! mmmm)
- visiting the town where cult 80s film Local Hero was filmed (anyone with me on this? The telephone box is still there on the shore front! I ate dinner at the pub!)
- tour of Glenfiddich distillery (whisky smells really gooood when it's being brewed!)
- a lovely walk over the cliffs to Dunnottar Castle, marred only by my mothers plaintive moaning in the background
- watching my boy go all squee-y over aircraft museums that I thankfully didn't have to accompany him to (very amusing)
- daffodils, punting and libraries-to-die-for in Cambridge
- a beautiful wedding at posh English country hotel--best of all was having my four lovely cousins in the same room for the first time in twenty years! *loves them*
- visiting the Globe with my friend Sarah, followed by a wonderfully overpriced 'flight' on the London Eye
- watching MTVAsia for two days with a fever (mmm, interesting experience!) in a Kuala Lumpur guesthouse
- finally venturing further than the pharmacy and getting in some great shopping and yummy food eating
- visiting the slick Petronas twin towers in a brief burst of sunlight between tropical storms so we could kind of see something
- trekking across Malaysia to Kota Bahru ('The Islamic City'), on route to the idyllic Perhentian islands
- beachside chalet on said islands, complete with deckchair beneath palm tree, fresh bbq fish at night, mango smoothies and snorkelling
Fangirly highlights were (there actually were some!):
- getting to watch Cheaper by the Dozen 2 on the plane (mm, yummy Tommy!), as well as a couple of House and Justice League eps
- visiting the wonderful
mskatej in London with toadstoolsmiles (whee! fangirl fun!)- posing at Platform Nine and Three Quarters at Liverpool St Station (my boyfriend and friend were very tolerant of me embarrassing them)
- bargaining in the KL Chinatown markets for dvds (sadly the 'Good Sex Bad Lex' dvd set they tried to convince me contained the season finale, did not, but it's still a good souvenir for the small amount of $ I spent on it, and does contain most of Season 5).
And yes, now home and still sick, but despite me rushing straight to work from the airport, apparently my projects are not in the crisis I imagined they would be, so I can breathe a little and ease back into things here.
Now. How is fandom? Awesome SV finale, yeah?! I will write on it later. I dl'd the last three eps I missed and watched them in a rush. But what else is news? Who has made things? What Mike or Tommy goss did I miss? How is everyone? I look forward to catching up with you all, but there's no way I'm going to get through three week's of flist backlog so you should just jump up and down and point me in the right direction... ;-)
Oh, and yes, I am glad to be home, despite the excitement of travel. Melbourne is a lovely city to come home to--especially with the autumn leaves out and the clear crisp sunny days and OMG GOOD COFFEE AT LAST!
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Glad, so glad to have you back! *Dances*
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YAY!
Jumping up and down! Yay! You're back! Yay! You were missed.
I'm glad you had fun--it sounds like an amazing, amazing trip despite the sickness. You should tell us more details at some point.
Um. Lots of things have happened. There are many, many reviews of the last three episodes compiled for your reading pleasure at
Oh, and while you left I decided to run this huge SV project during my busiest week of the year, because I am insane, and you can read all about it here (http://norwich36.livejournal.com/42282.html).
And umm, you have about 3 hours left or so to pop over to Television Without Pity and post a question which may be answered by Steven DeKnight, one of the SV producers.
Umm. Let's see what else. Kate and I have both done so pretty fun, silly polls since you've been gone, and I think they're mostly linked at
I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE BACK! YAY!!!!! Yay to the 40th power!
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Hooray! Yes, I am back, and I missed you SO MUCH! It feels lovely to be 'home' on LJ. And I still can't believe I missed the season finale fun, although I became very zen about it while away... I saw posters for it in Malaysia and had only a momentary pang! It was good to know that I am, despite all evidence to the contrary, a sane person and able to live without my show for a few weeks. But it's also good to be back in the squee zone too! ;-)
Yay for you and
I've seen your Feedbackathon thing all over my favourite peep's LJs! This is yayness! It's so cool that you're so active these days. But isn't it the end of semester? Aren't you going crazy???
ZOD HOTNESS! Yes! Obviously this is the biggest and best thing to happen while I was gone. Because Lex clearly needed ANOTHER hot alter-ego version of himself! I'm so glad they realised this. ;-)
Whee! Back! I will no doubt be littering your old posts with comments over the next couple of days. ;-)
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But yeah, it's finals and grading and insanity here. Not too much longer, though.
I can't wait to read all your comments on my old posts! LaT and Aelora and I had some fun conversations, but it wasn't the same without you. And I'm really glad you're back, because I was on the verge of marathoning the whole season and writing more essays, because there's been an essay void, when what I'd really like to do this week is watch BSG, since I know possess (courtesy of
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And yes, I'm so with the whole 'celebrate those that are still in SV' thing. Fandom is for fun, not whining!
DAMN though! I could have got more essays out of you if I'd stayed away longer?! Damn! ;-)
But so SUPER YAY! about BSG. I was going to ask if you'd got them yet, but didn't want to seem too insanely eager. But I am SO excited you'll be catching up... Really, I've been dying for weeks to discuss them with you. Although, you are going to have a weird time reading my old BSG posts. *cough* You will hit the one where I ... ahem ... completely lost it. Like completely. It looms embarrassingly in my memory... *blush* But I look forward greatly to metaing with you.
I'm off to dinner for my mum's birthday now, so may be tomorrow before I hit the ep reviews in depth!
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I'm sure I'll write the essays eventually this summer--it's going to be a long hiatus.
Well, it's almost 2 in the morning so I am off to bed, and I have to attend many graduation ceremonies this weekend, but I'll be around off and on.
BTW, I was really glad to hear that your grandmother is doing better! Have fun at your mother's party. I'm so happy that you're home.
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WE MISSED YOU. (no *really*, we were just talking about it yesterday).
Yay for coffee! Yay for home! YAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!
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Thank you for missing me! *g*
It was so good to see you over there--a trip highlight! But you know what we didn't do? Get a photo of us all together! We suck. Ah well.
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Glad you had a great trip and I hear you about the coffee.
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*zooms out the door for more Melb coffee with her breakfast*
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oh, Local Hero! peter capaldi and the mermaid, the watch left in the little tidepool, peter riegert looking amazingly young and luscious, oh yes. the color of the sky... my father's mother was a campbell, and i've long had this atavistic yen for things Scottish. (if it isn't Scottish, it's crrrrrrap.)
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You will have to tell me more about the food! That's one of the most important parts of a trip is what wonderful things you get to eat. ;)
Hee! I would have totally spazzed about the Platform Nine and Three Quarters. Awesome. And even more awesome, Tommy! I could buy the Cheaper by the Dozen 2 dvd and watch just his scenes. Yes.
Hmmm... what did I do while you were gone? Well, my trip home was good (as was the food *g*), and I did a poll about "the kiss", and OoO, I wrote RPS. That was different! And now, I'm having an awesome time with the feedbackathon. So, it's been a fun few weeks, but I missed you lots.
YAY!
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Food! Very important! Yes, in the UK I got to have my old favourites--scampi (north sea prawns) and chips, yorkshire pudding (in Yorkshire), buttries (yummy pastry things), tablet (sweet made from sugar and condensed milk), and skirlie and mealie pudding (oatmeal and suet stuff). Oh, and Jaffa Cakes (choccie biscuits of goodness). In Malaysia, the highlight was fresh red snapper bbqed on the beach, but also all the great fruit smoothies. Unfortunately with my tummy not so great, I couldn't eat quite so much spicy stuff as I would have liked, but the food was generally very good, yes. Oh, and special mention to
You wrote RPS! Whee! That is fun. And yay for good food. I think the feedbackathohn is awesome--I'm glad I'm catching the tail end of it! Hooray!
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Red snapper bbqued on a Malaysian beach sounds like the best thing ever. When I'm in Florida for Christmas, there's usually a New Year's Eve cookout on the beach (at midnight, no less!), and no matter what it is, being on the beach makes the food ten times better.
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Food on a beach definitely adds a little glamour. I was a big fan of the fruit smoothies as well, and that was one of the few places with half-decent (if overly sweetened) coffee, so I could have happily stayed there longer.
Still, Melbourne's a real foodie city, so it's also good to be home!
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*hugs you*
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*hugs*
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