London Town

Another chapter in my globe-trotting adventures begins today! I'm sitting in the airport lounge, soaking up the free wireless and unlimited coffee (thanks for the pass, Dad) and hoping for a good seat-neighbour on the red-eye to Heathrow. It'll be three days in London with Priscilla, Becca, and Alex, and then off to Northern Ireland to hang out with Grannie and Auntie Moyra. It's going to be planes, trains, and automobiles. I haven't the foggiest what we're going to do in London, but I am prepared to be dazzled and delighted.

It has been lovely to be home. Got to see nearly everyone and have been eating far too many desserts.

Yule Be Sorry

Home for Christmas! It's been pretty relaxed, lots of reading and hanging out with friends and family. We went out carolling in the neighbourhood on Christmas Eve with a few of the gang (viz. Diane and her brother, Alex, Becca), which was lovely. Most people had never had carollers at the door before, but everyone was appreciative. Even the lady who answered the bell in her bathrobe seemed moderately happy to see us, if a bit discombobulated.

Today, Boopsie and I went skating and out to see Sherlock Holmes. It is not Holmes as we have thought of him, the ascetic and nerdy logician, but a Holmes who is all into fightin' and drinkin' and not so much womanizing as unrequitin'.

The next few days I'm planning on doing some concentrated relaxation before flying to London for New Year's. Currently I'm doing a re-read of Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Phillips' extremely funny bit of "where are they now" fiction, wherein the Greek pantheon is low on power and sharing a moldy house in New York. Eros as a born-again Christian is especially good - "I wish the Virgin Mary was my mother!"

Whoa

Vampires probably don't sneeze, do they? They don't need to breathe, so they have no reason to ever sneeze. For some reason this is blowing my mind.

I'm Home?

I think Jaime and I have found our apartment. Looking to hand in the application tomorrow and we'll see how it goes. If we get it, it would be my first time living in a brick building, which would be lovely. It's got really nice classic features and the layout is excellent - it's a long apartment, so everyone feels s/he has his/her own space. I also feel like I ought to live with a human being again soon, before it is too late. Having swine flu or whatever it was earlier this year was an excellent reminder of how unpleasant it can be to be on your own, particularly for days upon days. And I think Jaime and I will be good roommates. We are both out a lot, for one thing, but when we are around we get along well. We also have a lot of friends in common, so it will be very nice to have a place where we can host people! There's enough space for a keyboard and a guitar... I predict sing-alongs! Will also have to test out the living room to see whether it is big enough to train capoeira. I suspect it is. Hooray!