The Dragon Traykor

I've been watching this all month. I'm now on ep 30. I heart Ryu most of all I think, though Philip is awesome. and a researcher. But Ryu wears leather pants! And angsts.
This show is awesome. I've also be watching Kamen Rider OOOs, which is awesome in different ways.(and a certain someone needs to get online sometime soon so I flail at someone who has seen these things)

I have fallen in love with Glee

facebook is a tentacle monster, complete with hentai noncon implications.

The flight:
I sleep poorly on planes, but at least I paid for the upgrade so I got some sleep. Watched movies I'd already seen and listened to music mostly.
London, Sunday:
Jet lag. sleeeeeppppp. Alda arrived late, I got dinner at the hotel and tea and a pint at the bar later.

London, Monday:
We set off early for the Victoria and Albert Museum. Saw lots of cool stuff, and ate lunch (I had pie). We then walked for a bit until coming to Harrods, which is kinda like New York Macy's. We had tea--real proper tea with scones and sandwitches and cake. We then did a whirlwind tour of landmarks, seeing Westminster Abbey, parliment, Big Ben, the river, some parks, Trafalger Square, and finally ending at the Sherlock Holmes Pub for dinner. I had roast beef and port. It was really good port.

Transit and Cardiff, Tuesday:
We took the train to Cardiff and checked into the Ty Rosa B&B, which is a cute little row house B&B run by a gay couple. It's very nice, in a quiet neigborhood. We then walked to Cardiff Bay, where I took a pic in Roald Dahl Plass and went to the Dr. Who experience. We wandered a bit more before getting Fish & Chips takeaway.

Cardiff, Wednesday:
Had a traditional Welsh breakfast of laverbread, cockles, bacon, and eggs. We then set out for Cardiff Castle, which was wonderful but lots of stairs. We had tea and I had a sandwitch (good lord the variety of sandwitches....). We went shopping a lot of places, most notably I got bras from Bravissimo, and some presents for people.
We had tandoori takeout for dinner.

And now we are having cider and chocolate.

Got heat exhaustion yesterday. Fun times. Pro tip: do not go on field trips in 115 degree heat.

Went to look at the weather in places I'll be in two weeks. The temp in Scotland in F isn't that far off the temp here in C. Oi.
So much for thinking I'd need shorts for the UK trip. Pants, pants it is. (nobody make a humidity comment. I don't care how humid it is at 59 degrees F. That's *cold*.

Thus begins my annual 5 days of books, books, more books, and tens of thousands of fellow librarians. Wheeeeee

Checked into hotel. Had a nice dinner. The hotel (the Mandarin Oriental) is very nice--turn down service level of nice. Bathrobes, free shoe shine type of place.

I'm going to relax in that king bed and plot my events for the conference. Though I already know tomorrow's---ISS tour of other school libraries, ISS dinner, and Open Gaming Night, where I will be hosting the handheld games area.

So far I've managed to turn out 16 costume pieces for the school's musical. Left to do:
Glue the velcro to the enchanted object pieces that need it
finish making the 6 silly girl flower circlets
make an extra flower circlet for Terri
sew the cover piece for the whisk
finish the paint job on the spatula and the pie server, put fleur-de-lis on the pie server
sew tails, leggings, and arm pieces for the wolves
bloody the butcher's apron
dirty Maurice's apron
probably sew a lot of buttons
...and anything else from the master list that gets added to me tomorrow at the meeting

I'm going to need a spa day when the musical is over.

For a vid project, my friends, if you watch fanvids, what are some of the angst shots that you find show up all the time? Shots like "buffy stabs angel in front of the vortex", and 'dead Blair in the fountain' and 'Methos up against the car with Mac all angry face at him'. Shots that make you go 'oh, that clip again'. Any fandom, but preference given to SF/F. Especially Supernatural and Angel/Buffy.

Who hid all my spoons? I seem to be out.

Thanks for the well wishes all. Haku is pretty banged up--new hatch door and bumper at least. I'm all stiff and achy today. Nick brought me booze. At least they had insurance, but now I've got to deal with getting the car fixed.

I wrote one story this year, a Wizard of Oz books story. At first I'd been a little *doh*, as 14 books by Baum alone meant a lot of canon to wade back into, and the recipient hadn't picked any characters. Thankfully said person not only had a yuletide letter, but was using the name Hungry Tiger as their user name. So I knew I had to write a hungry tiger story. So far the comments have all mentioned I got the style right, so.
Fat Babies, or The Temptation of the Hungry Tiger

Did anyone see the latest episode of Law & Order? EDS made an appearance. A very odd one--they used what sounded like Dermatosparaxis.....yeah, the one that's only got about a 12 cases, cause they were only talking about fragile skin . And they made it sound like aborting someone with EDS was a good choice, cause they just called it EDS, but said it caused skin to tear at the slightest touch...well, later on they admit that there's a normal life expectancy, but still all about the fragile skin. Nevermind that EDS isn't something they tend to test for....
I'm feeling kinda 'grrr, arrrggghh' about it.