I'm Baaaack!
Oct. 7th, 2002 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sesanaWell, I survived the trip, and the walk as well! I've slept on a couch for the past three nights (the house was *full*) so my back and shoulders are a bit out of sorts, and it's been a very, very long day... But I'm alive, and in relatively good shape.
The walk went very well, I thought. They said before we started out that there was a record number of participants, 1500, which is very good. Oh, for those that don't know, I went on a Light the Night Walk while in Indianapolis to benefit the Lukemia and Lymphoma Society. My father died of lymphoma, so it was naturally both something that I really wanted to do and something I was kind of dreading. But I not only made it through it, I think I did pretty well. I only cried once, and even that wasn't a complete breakdown.
Other than that, it's been a very, very long day. We left Indy at nine am, drove seven hours, and arrived just in time for me to leave for my two evening classes tonight, one of which had an essay due. Then I find that I have 116 e-mails, 98 of which are just junk mail. Frigging spam. And it was also close encounters with animals day for me, apparently. First the dog puked on me in the back seat of the car, which is the one and only time he's ever been carsick. But I had to change in a surprisingly clean rest area bathroom, into my sister's old gym t-shirt. Then, on the way to class, this cat runs out into the middle of the road, sits down, and starts washing its face. In the middle of the road. I had to go around it, because apparently my car barreling down on it didn't faze it in the slightest. Then, on the way home, the car in front of me swerved to go around some unidentified creature that ran across the road. And *then*, when I was driving through a state park in the pitch black (part of my route home) I drove (veeeeery slowly) past a doe and two fawns. That was pretty darn cool. It's the second time I've seen those three on that stretch of road, about that time of night, so I might see them again this semester.
To sum up the weekend: My mother is a bigot. This saddens me terribly, and makes me very uncomfortable, since I've sort of given up on ever changing her. On the bright side, I managed to get a copy of A Place of Greater Safety for four bucks. Thank God for Half Price Books. I also got a great Picard bookmark for a quarter. All hail the god of sexy bald men!
And to get to what I actually read while I was gone... I polished off the entire Q Continuum Trilogy. Have I ever mentioned how much I adore Q? I need some Q/Picard slash, stat. Great series, I must say. The author even managed to make the female Q, a character I once loathed, into a fairly interesting character whose scenes I rather enjoyed. And damn, subtle cameo alert. I didn't entirely get all of the cameos, but I know when I reference is being made. Can anybody who has read the books tell me who (*) was, exactly? I could look it up if I weren't so lazy and swamped as is. But, yeah, great books, and well worth reading for any Q fan. I think I'll re-read Q-Sqaured if I ever find it again... I'm pretty sure that I own it.
The walk went very well, I thought. They said before we started out that there was a record number of participants, 1500, which is very good. Oh, for those that don't know, I went on a Light the Night Walk while in Indianapolis to benefit the Lukemia and Lymphoma Society. My father died of lymphoma, so it was naturally both something that I really wanted to do and something I was kind of dreading. But I not only made it through it, I think I did pretty well. I only cried once, and even that wasn't a complete breakdown.
Other than that, it's been a very, very long day. We left Indy at nine am, drove seven hours, and arrived just in time for me to leave for my two evening classes tonight, one of which had an essay due. Then I find that I have 116 e-mails, 98 of which are just junk mail. Frigging spam. And it was also close encounters with animals day for me, apparently. First the dog puked on me in the back seat of the car, which is the one and only time he's ever been carsick. But I had to change in a surprisingly clean rest area bathroom, into my sister's old gym t-shirt. Then, on the way to class, this cat runs out into the middle of the road, sits down, and starts washing its face. In the middle of the road. I had to go around it, because apparently my car barreling down on it didn't faze it in the slightest. Then, on the way home, the car in front of me swerved to go around some unidentified creature that ran across the road. And *then*, when I was driving through a state park in the pitch black (part of my route home) I drove (veeeeery slowly) past a doe and two fawns. That was pretty darn cool. It's the second time I've seen those three on that stretch of road, about that time of night, so I might see them again this semester.
To sum up the weekend: My mother is a bigot. This saddens me terribly, and makes me very uncomfortable, since I've sort of given up on ever changing her. On the bright side, I managed to get a copy of A Place of Greater Safety for four bucks. Thank God for Half Price Books. I also got a great Picard bookmark for a quarter. All hail the god of sexy bald men!
And to get to what I actually read while I was gone... I polished off the entire Q Continuum Trilogy. Have I ever mentioned how much I adore Q? I need some Q/Picard slash, stat. Great series, I must say. The author even managed to make the female Q, a character I once loathed, into a fairly interesting character whose scenes I rather enjoyed. And damn, subtle cameo alert. I didn't entirely get all of the cameos, but I know when I reference is being made. Can anybody who has read the books tell me who (*) was, exactly? I could look it up if I weren't so lazy and swamped as is. But, yeah, great books, and well worth reading for any Q fan. I think I'll re-read Q-Sqaured if I ever find it again... I'm pretty sure that I own it.
