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Here's me, with the updatiness...
I'm afraid I'm hopelessly behind on LJ. A week-long vacation and so much stuff has already blipped past. I did try to at least skim my flist every day, but I'm sure I missed a ton anyway... not to mention the two day drive home with VERY limited access, only to get here and have our internet connection completely flake out for a day. Talk about withdrawal!!!
I can say, with a certainty, that I really envy those people who are capable of doing regular updates even while on vacation! I found I was just too exhausted by the end of the day to even think coherently, much less come up with some sort of comprehensible narrative about the fun that was had. :-p
So, until I get around to downloading photos off our camera... there's that letter thingy going around:
This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
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gwyn_r gave me the letter I, which I thought would be a lot more difficult than it was. I did cheat a bit, going with some multiword options that just happen to have the first word start with the letter in question.
1) Indigo -- My favorite color! Not exactly purple, not exactly blue... deep and rich. What's not to love?
2) Idaho -- I have family there, I have friends there, and it's got such a wide range of terrain! So much to see and do: the sand dunes, Craters of the Moon, Lake Coeur d'Alene, Malad Gorge, the Route of Hiawatha Bike Trail (which I've never been on, but really want to try) and, of course, Aussie Eats!
3) In the Country of the Blind by Michael Flynn. It's the story I always wanted to read, and someone actually wrote it! The original version hardly feels like science fiction anymore (after all, back in the day, the idea of having high speed net connections in every home WAS fiction), but I love the intricacies of the plot and the ideas behind it all. I actually have three copies of the first printing, simply because I was convinced it was the sort of book that would disappear quickly from shelves, never to be seen again... and I wanted to be sure I always had one I could read.
4) "Invaders from Mars" -- 1950s-communism-paranoia-disguised-as-alien-invasion at its best! This was a favorite of mine when I was a kid... my mom and I would always anxiously wait for it to come around on the Friday Night Creature Feature every year. (Do NOT bother watching the 1980s remake. Ick.)
5) imagination -- something I've always relied on and something I couldn't live without, either my own or the bits I get to borrow from other people... it's what makes life interesting.
6) Ireland -- I've never been there, but would love to go sometime. One branch of my ancestors called it home (the ones not from Scotland or Arizona), so I've always had a bit of a fondness for it (I even had a penpal from Ireland, back in elementary school... in the days when letters were still the primary means of international communication).
7) impetuous -- my parents were always the sort to just go do things... My dad gets off work at 2:00am after an extra long day? They'd wake me up, we'd get in the car and drive into Agaña to the only McDonald's on the island (at the time it was also the largest in the world... and open 24/7, which was practically unheard of back then) for McChili & Rice and milkshakes. I think it's carried over quite a bit into my own adulthood, thankfully. Life should be an adventure.
8) internet -- see above re: withdrawal. I *live* on the internet. I've had internet access since 1990, when I firstconned social-engineered my way into an account through the local university, and I can't even imagine life without it anymore.
9) Island of Guam -- I spent four years there as a child and loved every bit of it. I hear it's turned into even more of a tourist trap for people visiting from Japan, but I'd still really like to go back to see it... especially if I could find some way to visit the Air Force Base where I lived.
10) ichthyology: It's just so much fun to say!!</lj-cut
I can say, with a certainty, that I really envy those people who are capable of doing regular updates even while on vacation! I found I was just too exhausted by the end of the day to even think coherently, much less come up with some sort of comprehensible narrative about the fun that was had. :-p
So, until I get around to downloading photos off our camera... there's that letter thingy going around:
This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why, and then pass out letters to those who want to play along.
gwyn_r gave me the letter I, which I thought would be a lot more difficult than it was. I did cheat a bit, going with some multiword options that just happen to have the first word start with the letter in question.1) Indigo -- My favorite color! Not exactly purple, not exactly blue... deep and rich. What's not to love?
2) Idaho -- I have family there, I have friends there, and it's got such a wide range of terrain! So much to see and do: the sand dunes, Craters of the Moon, Lake Coeur d'Alene, Malad Gorge, the Route of Hiawatha Bike Trail (which I've never been on, but really want to try) and, of course, Aussie Eats!
3) In the Country of the Blind by Michael Flynn. It's the story I always wanted to read, and someone actually wrote it! The original version hardly feels like science fiction anymore (after all, back in the day, the idea of having high speed net connections in every home WAS fiction), but I love the intricacies of the plot and the ideas behind it all. I actually have three copies of the first printing, simply because I was convinced it was the sort of book that would disappear quickly from shelves, never to be seen again... and I wanted to be sure I always had one I could read.
4) "Invaders from Mars" -- 1950s-communism-paranoia-disguised-as-alien-invasion at its best! This was a favorite of mine when I was a kid... my mom and I would always anxiously wait for it to come around on the Friday Night Creature Feature every year. (Do NOT bother watching the 1980s remake. Ick.)
5) imagination -- something I've always relied on and something I couldn't live without, either my own or the bits I get to borrow from other people... it's what makes life interesting.
6) Ireland -- I've never been there, but would love to go sometime. One branch of my ancestors called it home (the ones not from Scotland or Arizona), so I've always had a bit of a fondness for it (I even had a penpal from Ireland, back in elementary school... in the days when letters were still the primary means of international communication).
7) impetuous -- my parents were always the sort to just go do things... My dad gets off work at 2:00am after an extra long day? They'd wake me up, we'd get in the car and drive into Agaña to the only McDonald's on the island (at the time it was also the largest in the world... and open 24/7, which was practically unheard of back then) for McChili & Rice and milkshakes. I think it's carried over quite a bit into my own adulthood, thankfully. Life should be an adventure.
8) internet -- see above re: withdrawal. I *live* on the internet. I've had internet access since 1990, when I first
9) Island of Guam -- I spent four years there as a child and loved every bit of it. I hear it's turned into even more of a tourist trap for people visiting from Japan, but I'd still really like to go back to see it... especially if I could find some way to visit the Air Force Base where I lived.
10) ichthyology: It's just so much fun to say!!</lj-cut
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Me too. I'm usually too tired even if there is a computer easily available.
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As far as Guam goes? My co-worker is their project officer on their bioterrorism grant. He says that it's really gorgeous, but has developed entirely too much civilization, these days. But he still loves going.
And I liked your description of impetus. I would love more impetus in my life. I'm not nearly adventurous enough.
I'll take a letter, if you're handing them out.
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2. Visualize Ballard! Wheeee! Except the good burger place with the 1956 Belaire on the roof is gone, darn! And I think they've closed the good Scandanavian import store.
Julia, welcome home, and hope you're not dealing with any horrible smells from things that went wrong while you were gone
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I was only able to update on vacation because Barb bought a laptop and there's WiFi in Vegas. Otherwise, I would have been gone for a week, myself.
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Aussie food? I'm thinking road trip.
(Your name is Julia, too? So is mine...strange how much we have in common)
Oh, and I'll do the letter thing.