I'm going to be honest, I just took a moment to think of what's happened in my life since the last time you posted and I fair boggled. If the past three-and-change years have been anywhere near as eventful for you... congratulations on surviving?
Operations, travel, operations, not enough travel, sometimes not enough writing and sometimes too much writing, and a heavy dose of what happens to a young woman when she buys herself a PS3. ( Worlds have been saved. Unfortunately none of those worlds technically exists as quote-real-unquote. ) I want to just plug in and find out everything that I've missed.
Not shocked to hear you've survived it all, though. Hopefully good along with the bad?
Operation (after dramatically proving that the aphorism "like riding a bike" contains no truth whatsoever), travel (three months in Rome, with the occasional jaunt elsewhere, including an impromptu nose piercing in London and three days in a hostel by myself in Venice which my mother still blanches to think of), the bulk of my undergraduate degree. Found true love, lost it, found a few other things that weren't quite love but still rather pleasant and lost them as well, found BBC programming and decided that if it wasn't true love it was certainly close enough.
Where did you travel to, though? Was it strange? Was it beautiful? Was the food good? These are the only really important questions about new places.
( And here I was, hoping with bedazzled eyes that the "like riding a bike" aphorism would be the one thing I could count on as I climb back onto the seat of my LJ unicycle. Curses! Well... Maybe I can get a set of training wheels? ) Three months in Rome - have four words ever been so perfect? ( If "Found BBC programming" was four words instead of three, it'd give them a run for their money. ) Seems like we've been riding similar bicycles.
I finally got my time in Japan, though it's years in the past it feels like only yesterday. Ah, love! And the food was so good. Too good. You'll-never-love-again good. ( Oh, Scarecrow. I've missed you most of all. ) And as for what I found, I'd say a lot of good music - which is as close to three months in Rome and found BBC programming as you can get on a low budget.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I DON'T KNOW/REMEMBER YOU? ( Because I totes do/absolutely/tehlimiest. ) Let me be your kitten. You can be my stuffed puppy. And together, WE WILL SNUGGLE.
Not that you know who I am but: Welcome back to LJ, Jaida! We have all really missed you and your lovely words! Hope everything's been great with you and yours these past few years. ♥
It's had its ups and it's had its downs. ( Literally. I went on my first rollercoaster! And I like to think it was a perfect metaphor for the years sandwiching that one rollercoastery experience. ) Thank you so much for helping me feel a wee bit less like a cavernous echo dancing through the darkness!
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Also your little LJ head is a heart. What magic is this?!
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:D It's so nice to see you around here again, really!
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You're welcome!
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Not shocked to hear you've survived it all, though. Hopefully good along with the bad?
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Where did you travel to, though? Was it strange? Was it beautiful? Was the food good? These are the only really important questions about new places.
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I finally got my time in Japan, though it's years in the past it feels like only yesterday. Ah, love! And the food was so good. Too good. You'll-never-love-again good. ( Oh, Scarecrow. I've missed you most of all. ) And as for what I found, I'd say a lot of good music - which is as close to three months in Rome and found BBC programming as you can get on a low budget.
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