I have just spent fifteen minutes trying to upload photos to Facebook. Between the slow internet and the apparent issue between Ivy's Linux and Facebook Flash I have uploaded a grand total of zero photos. Which means the rest of the photos will have to wait until I get my hands on Zen again. Mail me if you want photos before them. I have them from the 18th (Lucy's), 22nd (the get together), 24th (Anna's) and 27th (Valleyfair). Or if you have a specific photo request, like Annie does, I can do that too.
Hmm let's see.... Life has been rather good so far. I have been sleeping for ten hours each day, which feels wonderful and will be a luxury that I miss the rest of the year. Last post where I mentioned what I was doing appears to be the 21st. (In case if anyone's curious -- I'm 95% sure it's the battery circuit that's messed up on the Roomba now, but since it really isn't mine and my parents are the ones who need to deal with it, I didn't dare to try the...more scrappy methods of fixing it.) So, holiday thus far: 18th at Lucy's, 19th driving, 20th recovering & exchanging a lot of text with people about Anna (lol Anna yes there was a lot of texting those two days), 21st was library, 22nd was our get-together. My memory of it consists of Kate asking us to wait for her in a corner in Costco in a very parental way and the rest of us plotting while we waited (dear parents, never leave a group of children unattended for over ten minutes when they have access to the internet) and watching the BBC version of Sherlock (Sherlock looks like Merlin and Watson reminds me of Sam Tylor, it was all very strange) and, you know, gift exchange. We have tried the Brain Wash soda. It tastes vaguely of fruit punch (the soda flavor, which may or may not bear actual resemblance to real fruit punch), except with jalapeno. I have the bottle, which is my primary aim. I am never buying that soda again.
Speaking of which. I have spell-check. It is British. The installation is USA. ...I still have no explanations.
23rd was library again, to return books and get more books. I started on ATLAS SHRUGGED, which is so far very depressing. I picked up a romance novel to make my annual attempt (though I think I forgot to make an attempt last year...oh well). The book is picked by finding the first book that didn't have partially dressed people necking on the front cover but there is a rather vampyric looking lady there, in front of a suitably dramatic corridor. (I think I should perhaps stick to thrillers. They a lot of them have a strong romantic subplot as well, right? They should be easier to get through for me.) I'm not sure if I'll get to it before this weekend, or if I'm brave enough to actually read more than the back cover which, yes, did make me wince.
On the 24th Victoria and I went over to Anna's, where she plied us with tea and cookies and sandwiches and much fun was had with playdoh by all (the next time someone touches that pile will most likely be a year from now). We tried to introduce Victoria to Due South (didn't take, ah well), and was imperially ignored by Isis. At this point everyone's presents has been delivered before Christmas and I am feeling very pleased with myself. Went over to meet with the person who turned out to be my dad's cousin from his mother's side. We were not really sure what I should call him, or his son.
25th: opened the last of the presents -- Lucy managed to completely fool me by putting the book she got for me in a box, so I wouldn't guess what it was. We sorted out the Amazon cards so I got a bunch of giftcards from my parents, and soap. And I suppose the jeans mom got me from Costco should count too. Generally spent the did sitting around and reading stuff.
Went for a very long walk on the 26th, including a detour to the elementary school I attended in 6th grade. (Not 5th grade, De Vargas is too far for even me, on foot.) The weather was excellent. Dad remembered that I liked juice and got me Caprisun, which still brings back memories of junior high and high school. Between that and the walk I spent most of the day drowning slowly and exquisitely in nostalgia. Then I started plotting The Roadtrip that I will take at the end of grad school, since it's going to be going from coast to coast and I need to figure out the logistics in advance. I kept forgetting West Virginia is a state. It was vaguely embarrassing. Anyone has ideas for sights worth seeing? Right now it looks like the trip is mostly national park themed.
The weird Malaysian place that served food in hollowed out fruits was closed yesterday, so Anna, Victoria, and I went to Cicero's instead (it was greasy), before heading over to Valleyfair. The mall was still insanely full of people, and parking was more painful than I want to remember. Victoria was shopping for prom dresses, and Anna steered me around Macy's until we found a black turtle neck sweater that I was looking for. The Sanrio store looked like it got raided (it was disturbing, because I wasn't expecting that store to look so...wrung out), but Anna managed to find enough items to complete the prank she will be pulling on her labmate, to drive him insane. Anna got a fancy pen at the stationary store in Santana Row, and promptly got power-drunk on it. Victoria claimed it was "the most intense clicky pen" she'd ever seen. I don't pretend to understand, but you can ask Anna for a photo, I'm sure.
Today was hanging out with parents day, or something. We went shopping earlier this morning. Now I have random urges to clean things. (Yeah I don't know either.)
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