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[tahariel]

I'M BACK!!!

I bought a million t-shirts and a million books and four DVD boxsets (Sears is really weirdly cheap, whole seasons for what is the equivalent atm of £20 with the great exchange rate - got Prison Break Season One, The Sentinel Season One, Medium Season One and Numb3rs Season One) and it was fab right up to the point in the queue to check-in for the flight back where I CAUGHT MY DAD'S STUPID AWFUL COLD. It managed to develop from a slightly bunged nose then into a full-on stuffed-up, sore throat, headache horrible cold by the time I got on the plane for the first leg of our trip home, a six-and-a-half hour flight from Chicago to Dublin overnight. And then when we finally got home I tried to take some better medicine and threw up in the sink. I'm a bit better now, thanks to Day Nurse, but it couldn't have bloody waited until we were all the way home so I didn't have to do the whole journey like that, could it. Nooooo...

ANYHOO

Had a great time. The sky is so big in Wisconsin, it's actually kinda scary for somebody who's used to the hills and not those great wide plains with nothing to obscure the view. And Chicago - if ever I go to live in the States, which I might for a couple of years (you can do that as an orthoptist, which is neat) then I'd like to live there. Pretty much everyone is really friendly and helpful, and there aren't as many really dumb annoying people as you think there might be (no offense to any Americans, but we don't get the best impression of you here in Britain any more. Blame George Bush.) I was really glad to get home, anyway. Proper British cars! Proper British trees and spindly old fences! Proper British windy little lanes where not even two Mini's can get past each other but we manage anyway!

BTW - can anyone give me a synopsis of this whole thing with the terrorists and the planes? This happens every year when I go on holiday, and then I can never find out enough about it to really understand what's going on.

Also, pobbit, did you get the CD of SGA I posted you? And does anyone have eps four and five of season three? ETA: Found them with a million seeds, so got them basically dled now :)

ETA2: Would anyone be interested in an essay I'm thinking of writing about slash, and the things that make us see that in relationships between male characters? I was trying to get to sleep one night in the States and ended up thinking about it as a proposal for the next Slash Study Day, if I end up being able to go. It's going to have a kick-ass title, too, "All But(t) Sex - What Are You Seeing That I'm Not?" (The original was "All But(t) Sex - You're Making This Shit Up, Aren't You?" but I decided it wasn't descriptive enough despite being funny ^-^)

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[pobbit.livejournal.com]

Hello and it sounds like you had a (mostly) great time. It sucks with the cold though. I did get the CD and spent hours in my room watching and loving it. I also downloaded episode 4 after figuring out how to use Azures but ep. 5 does not seem to want to download at all. It got as far as 99% then froze my computer and everything went bang for a while. I don't know if I want to risk the same thing again. I can put the single episode on a disk if you want.

Also, do you still have my season 2 disks? If you don't then I may have mislaid them. Oops.

Ok, the deal with the planes as far as I can remember is:
On thursday morning there was a tip-off from some sources saying that a bunch of nutters were planning on using liquid containers of chemicals to blow up around 9 planes mid-flight between Uk and USA. The police made a set of raids in London (Birmingham?) and High Wycombe(!) and arrested 24 people and are still questioning them. There are now a load more checks at airports, people with guns which I am guessing you saw and hand baggage has been restricted. I think that is it in a nutshell.

[tahariel.livejournal.com]

I still have them, sorry! Haven't got around to copying yet, but will do when I am a) able to move and b) able to remember.

I have four and five now, I found them relatively easily last night in the end but haven't watched them yet. It's in the additions I put on my post last night - to see them you'll need to look at the post again, there's that plus a little bit about an essay/presentation I'm thinking about writing :)

[pityaperian.livejournal.com]

The best bit about the High wycombe people is that it wasn't even wycombe where they were based. They were living in Totterige (spelling?) which is on our side of wycombe as i'm sure you know. So now our area has produced two lots of terrorists. Great. Oh, and as of yesterday i think, the police were still combing Kings wood for evidence/another one. I'm not sure, but there've been more helicopters than usual going over.

Glad you had a good holiday.

Clare

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[tahariel.livejournal.com]

AOL News says they found a suitcase with 'components needed for an explosive device' in Kingswood today, so that would be why. Erk! Glad we went and came back when we did and that we're not going anywhere for a while.