i'm back from greece

[lobelia321]

Hi, everyone.

I am not scrolling back through zillions of posts so, tell me, anything I Need To Know? Any good new fics? Any scandals? Any challenges? Any funny things to report? Any Friends that have mysteriously dropped off the face of LJ? Or, indeed, reappeared thereon?

Any new and sexy pics? (I just saw the Billy ones, ;-)



More detail on all of this later, possibly.

I took ten books and read 1 1/2 (predictably). They were Neil Gaiman's American Gods whose prose reminded me of azewewish and which I liked a lot but with reservations.

I'm als 1/4 of the way through the Iliad (*waves at orlisbunny*). More on which anon. It started slow but is now picking up. I read out a chapter of it to the family and it really does read better when read out loud: oral tradition, eh! It's got a great reading-out-loud rhythm, and can be hammed up or made solemn.

I got brown as a nut and learned to flee the sun.

The demon rode me, but only once.

The children were sweet as sweet.

The sun was hot, the food was good, the sea was salty, the pool was blue.

England is kind of moist. But it's going to be enjoyable to turn the brain back onto the 'on' position.

Package holiday is what it says: it turns you into a package and delivers you from place to place.

My leave will be over in under 2 months' time. My timetable for next semester is hell. On Mondays I will teach non-stop for 4 hours through lunch, then 1 hour break, then another 2 hours. AAAAACK.

EDITED TO ADD: Oh yes, and I had a plot bunny. Karl/Dom! I don't believe it. Wrote the first half in Zakynthos. And it's not even angsty!

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[the-oscar-cat.livejournal.com]

My news: Tour de France rps has me in a death grip.

"It's the newest craze. All the cool kids are doing it!" ::smirk::

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*smites bicycle with golf club*

[the-oscar-cat.livejournal.com]

::is scared::

::hugs cute cyclist boy and feels better::

:P

[badgermonkey.livejournal.com]

Of course cannot comment much on fandom news (some bibbling over Dom/Elijah con pics or something, spats, etc) but IRL, I finally moved house and Cameron won Big Brother, which I'm sure you were just dying to know.

We are timetable twins; I have 3 full days a week and all my free periods on a Thursday, which is nuts.

And I read a little, unilluminating, article in the paper about Tonsilboy the other day, and thought of you (accompanying photo less than impressive, though, but then I would say that.)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Domlijah conpix bibble? (Can anyone actually *understand* the shorthand pseudo-language we use here??) Would that be Comicon? As far as *I* was aware, that was all about Dom snuggling up to Andy. Was it not???

Timetable! Nightmare! I can't even think about it. Am too horrified. I have since found out that I have even *more* teaching than I had originally thought, including a *double-booked* session. This is what happens when one is not on hand to supervise these matters. They bugger you up the bum behind your back.

Tonsilboy! In the paper! As in, a *real* newspaper? Broadsheet format? Well, my intense lust of 2 weeks ago has abated somewhat and is back to manageable levels. Still, it's nice to be thought of, no matter what the trigger. I did think of you in Greece, heh, because of the seaside connection, *g*. 'tis, however, a rather different sort of seaside, methinks.

[badgermonkey.livejournal.com]

T'BF and I were both freaking out over going back to school last night (while we were, needless to say, in the pub, playing Quizgo - a genius-like combination of a pub quiz and bingo and therefore the greatest game known to humankind. With diversions like that available to us, how can you even think that Bridlington is not Greek-island-esque?). However he has managed to wrangle the inclusion of four periods of GIRL'S HOCKEY into his timetable, which is not the usual thing you'd expect a Physics teacher to be doing. So while normal people are teaching, he'll be running round a field shouting "stop bunching!".

[eyebrowofdoom.livejournal.com]

Welcome back. Plotbunnies, whoo!

Freyafloyd has disappeared off the face of lj but apparently Laz knows why. Er, I personally have done virtually nothing.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I personally have done virtually nothing Well, you posted the link to the Billy pix. Heh. And had me intrigued with revelation of secret Billy fantasy life. *boggles* Now there's someone I wouldn't choose for a secret fantasy life. He's all yours, then.

I, too, know about Freyafloyd but I guess my lips have to be sewn together with hemp or some such. So that's okay then.

[eyebrowofdoom.livejournal.com]

Billeh! The jokes, the way he still looks like a small woodland creature at his age, the accent, the full face of adult stubble, the suggestions of lefty politics. My ovaries want him: they want to breed scruffy little blonde socialist young. Of course, both Billy and breeding are equally of no forseeable prospect to me, but that's of no matter when one is drifting in and out of sleep...

Naturally I am unreasonably curious about freyafloyd but since I don't really even know her that well, I shall button my lip and merely hope for her triumphant return.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Jokes? Don't tell me there's some sort of article to go with these pics!

[vasiliki.livejournal.com]

Karl/Dom! I don't believe it. Wrote the first half in Zakynthos. And it's not even angsty!

Ah, the inspiring Greek climate and landscapes and seascapes and locals and food! :D

I hope you had a nice time, and I'm looking forward to reading the fic!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Heh, well this particular plot bunny grabbed me before I ever set foot in Greece and while I was still taxiing down the runway at Stansted! In fact, after a few days in the heat and the inertia, my brain turned to moosh and refused to do any more plot hatching. But yes, the simple fact of shifting places and the lovely lambent sunsets, they certainly had their input.

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

*waves back*

pictures! i want to see pictures of you all brown and frolicking on beaches and sightseeing and gorging on food and drinking! did you do any dancing?

wow. 2 more months of leave. well, you better get up to loads of debauchery then.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*is temporarily undone by your icon*

I did do some dancing, in a line with a whole lot of other people at a 'Greek Evening' in our hotel. Heh. If that counts.

Going back to work depresses me endlessly so I prefer not to talk about it.

I have no digital camera and no scanner so no way of turning my pics into web-able objects.

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

*uses icon again*

you MUST visit leggyslove's lj - there are LOADS of new Orli pix!

i'm in the same boat as you, but i don't know if they do it in the u.k. but loads of places which develop photos usually can digitise your pix for you.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

*is again undone by icon, to the extent that is unable actually to process the text accompanying it*

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

go HERE.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_elfy/]

Eeek! You're back! I was wondering just yesterday where you had been. I forgot you were on vacation! *am lame*

I'm a few chapters into American Gods, but still only through the inro to the Iliad. I really need to stop reading porn. :D

I'm glad to hear you had a nice time, and YAY for plot yetis!

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

what's inro, precioussss? what's inro?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_elfy/]

DART! ARFG!

I would kick you, but you'd like it.

It's the thing that Hogo writes before the beginning of a book.

Yeha?

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

*crying with laughter*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

You two at the back of the class there: stop chattering in someone else's LJ!

*thwacks table with ruler*

[azewewish.livejournal.com]

I write like Neil?? *boggles*

Erm, personally just went to Comic Con & frolicked with Wendy & Jo...oh, and groped on Sala a lot. But that's not news, exactly, since I did the same thing last year. *grins*

Haven't posted any new fics. But I did update my site finally.

And, um, Karl/Dom!?!?!!? Gimme!!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Do you have pics of Sala gropage??? Need to see, need to see.

I like that new unusual pairings site, btw; you've got a *lot* of fics on there. Hooray! I miss having a long series of yours to look forward to, though. *winks*

Welcome Back!!

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Especially if you come bearing Karl/Dom. *g* Sounds like you had a wonderful vacation.

Re: Welcome Back!!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sweetie! Hope you're doing okay yourself. Unfortunately, even constant sunshine, good food and no prospects of being contacted by the Dreaded Family can stop me getting low at least once but it was a short bout, luckily.

Re: Welcome Back!!

[brightest-blue.livejournal.com]

Hey, once in ten days is really pretty good, I think. Too bad there isn't some kind of "family filter" we can set up in everyday life!

[msilverstar]

It's lovely to have you back! Though Greece sounds mostly very fine.

Comic-Con was apparently great, there are some online snippets of video and great pictures, including the funniest ones of Dom and Elijah dancing on stage. And there's a personal report by the woman who got dressed as a hobbit, wyvernwell. There was also one by her friend and glasses-holder who stayed backstage, fascinating from a different perspective.

I've been reccing a little in my journal, hope you like some of those.

[msilverstar]

Oh darn, I forgot, look in gabbyhope's journal for the first part of her Ancient Greece collaboration with shaenie!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this! I always follow your recs! Thanks for them, too. I don't always say that I have followed them. I was still here for the dancing comicon men but could not download the movie, don't have the software or something.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Hello, nice to see you back. While you were away, I did the following:

* Looked at some Anglo Saxon burial mounds
* Ignored responsibilities
* Did not write anything
* Ate quite a lot of fish
* Drank some vodka
* Rolled eyes at fandom fracas
* Found new house to move into
* Felt a bit down
* Had some tea

Also, office-fic become the new lotrips trend, see here and here. And I second msilverstar's recommendation of the hobbit lady's report. If you go here you can see some nice candid shots of Duck, Andy et al.

There. Not bad considering I've been ignoring LJ for days.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I have also been buggering up HTML.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oooh, getting some rl research in. Did HTML mind being buggered? Or would HTML have preferred being top?