Joie de vivre

If I had to sum up the Norfolk2010 trip in one picture, it would probably be this one:

From Norfolk2010

First of all I must note that it seems that if you are male and attending a Blitzen Trapper show, in order to fit in you must sport either a messy overgrown mop of hair a la Neil Gaiman, an impressive set of sideburns, a mustache of some type, or a very healthy beard. Or all of the above.

Ya'll, I have never seen so much facial hair in one place in my life.

Also I saw a dead ringer for patrick___ and also a lovable-teddy-bear version of David Duchovny, who I covertly watched throughout the evening (he was with a woman he obviously ADORED and therefore it was adorable d'aaw).

And ... And ... oh my gosh you guys I have never been to a show before where you just pack the house (or dimly lit and slightly smokey music hall, whatever) full of people who stand shoulder-to-shoulder in front of the (small, crowded) stage for 2 1/2 hours and listen to music so heart-stoppingly loud you walk out with aching eardrums also I got a purple lip-print stamped on the back of my hand that proved I was over 21. This seems important to note for some reason.

Also now that I have seen them, I like Venture Brothers and Batman Begins (Christian Bale FTW).

ALSO we went to a huge and rambling (and ramshackle) antique mall which was apparently the hangout for local teens. I find this an interesting social commentary on the town.

Oh and hey I took these pictures of, well, in Missouri apparently people have Mergencies. Also low-budget movies for kids don't seem to spend money on proofreaders.

( MERGENCY! MERGENCY! )

Also here have a link, it made me laugh and laugh.

The End. :)

First, the important news: I've added three new people to my "LJers I've met" list: thetsuruchi, helenmelon, and, at long last, wistfulmaid!

And here is a picture to prove that I met two of them, at least -

( Day 193, with Geoff, Catherine, and Jordan, and Day 194, with nobody at all )

Lots of adventures and LOTS of pictures coming as I have time. :)

This picture is particularly for butterbobbin, who has bequethed me her fedora, Sonni!

Sonni made mango crepes for brunch with me this morning and hid the fact that I haven't brushed my hair.

( Day 121: Sonni's first appearance )

Tonight is the night of Random. I have been eating random food and reading and writing random emails (*waves to ransomedsea *) and randomly cracking up about random stuff (like a random story involving a random man and six McDonald's hamburgers [*waves at kiwiria *])

Speaking of kiwiria , I have these three things to say:

1. She is made of awesome
2. Lately I seem to always mistype her name on the first go 'round as wikiria, probably because I have been playing with our work wiki for weeks on end, and
3. Whenever I go to my userinfo to find her among my friends, I always look for her in the list of "Ljers I've met" even though CLEARLY I've never been to Denmark.

There is nothing lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

I will never read the book The Underneath because it contains (perhaps starts with?) the above sentence, which I somehow find too sad to be born.

/ random

( Danielle asked me some questions! )

When I return, readers, it should be with PICTURES OF THE GREAT PAR-TAY OF DOOM. Because when you get four such awesome people as windandtherain , ransomedsea , main_hoon_emily  and myself together ... well ... strange things will happen. Stay tuned.

Because I am on my way to/at/on my way home from equuschick 's wedding!

Back on Monday, everyone.

I've been so busy this week I've forgotten to be excited about my vacation, and here it is the night before and I'm just realizing that I'm leaving tomorrow and seeing equuschick and attending weddings and having massive thriftstore shopping sprees with the Alliteration Princess to see who can find the best vintage clothing, yay!

... I'm going to need some of that excitement when I drag myself out of bed tomorrow at three in the morning. And some coffee.

The good news is that it is almost precisely ten o'clock, and if I go to bed now, I'll get as much sleep as I've gotten every night this week anyway. You can look at this several ways; none of them are very good. Did I ever mention how much I dislike the way my body eventually demands sleep? Silly mortal shell.

I'll be back Wednesday - don't anybody get engaged or have babies or anything while I'm gone, okay?

* equuschick and elanortheeldest are awesome, as is the rest of their family. < -- I shall expand on this later, when I can be coherient and expand my vocabulary.

* krikketgirl is awesome for giving up part of her morning and braving the traffic to have coffee with us. (She's fun!)

* Remington Steele is awesome, which means that fogwood214 and hddnis are awesome for loaning them to us to Further The Cause.

* Detroit is awesome, although I didn't exactly intend to go there today.

* The underground tunnel at the Detroit airport is awesome because the walls glow pink and blue and green and yellow.

* I am awesome because I am going to bed early.

- It's been a week since I've been at work. That feels really weird to think about. The time to recharge has been such a blessing ... but I do miss it.

- I'm holding off on posting pictures until I get home, but I have some good ones. :)

- This week has gone entirely too quickly.

- My mom misses me, and so do my cats. The male members of the family just say "no comment." Typical.

- I have not been entirely lazy. So far I've read four books, edited a portion of windandtherain 's novella (Wow, Lizzi, I absolutely loved it and please send me more I am dying to know what happens next), and am in the middle of the book that jennymae loaned me (I'm really enjoying it,, thank you, Jenny!) I've also been attending savetheolives 's Doctrine classes, catching up on sleep, and working out for an hour every day. Woohoo.

- Tonight we go to the symphony!

- ps: the weather has finally turned fallish. That always messes with my brain, but mostly in a good way. It makes me think more about nearly everything. It also makes me feel more ambitious .... uh oh. I'll probably be making detailed and exhausting To Do lists all the way home.