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3rdragonSo I arrived. The trip home was . . . uneventful. Also long, but that was expected. And, truth to tell, the time spend on the train was less than expected (although total travel time was more than expected) due to the fact that the train arrived 50 minutes late, caught up during the ridiculous amount of time spent waiting in Connecticut (I left school at 12, and the train was supposed to leave at 1:19. At 4:00 I was still sitting in New Haven, CT, and that was on time.) and managed to be half an hour late again by the time we got to Philly. Not that I'm complaining. Well, except about the fact that my fingers got cold while waiting for the train. My fingerless gloves are in my other coat, and I can't read in polartec mittens. But if that's the greatest hardship I have all break, I think that I'll be able to manage. Somehow. Also, many thanks to Talia for Trickster's Choice. Grab and Go was suprisingly good (yay for mozerella and tomato salad, even if the cheese and veggie sandwich turned out to be cheese, one leaf of lettuce, a few lone carrot slivers, and perhaps three slices of pepper . . . someone needs to teach that school how to make a proper sandwich . . . or perhaps I should just kidnap an icepack so that I can have actual meat on these trips). I got into Philly before 10:00 last night.
Being home is very nice. Particularly the wood-stove part. Even if my room is frigid. Oh, right. I like it that way . . . although a little less frigid would be okay. Maybe I just need to convince Aclysm to come be a handwarmer. She seems to have figured out the petting business, even if her purr could use some work. More on being home again later.
So far today, I have:
Visited my Aunt Ruth. This also included seeing my cousin Danny (almost six years old, and wanted me to tell him what invention he should make for me), Naomi (1 year and change; the cleft palate surgery went very well and she's starting to make more complex sounds, like "p"), my grandparents, and my mother.
Visited Dee (and Ghengis. He was very pleased to see me. And he doesn't need any help with his purr).
Ate lunch in the same general vicinity as my brother.
And visited Teresa at the library. We had a nice chat, and I got books! Ten of them! Aunt Maria and A Tale of Time City by DWJ, The Traitors' Gate by Avi, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio, by Lloyd Alexander (he's dead now *tear*), Anne McCaffery's newest Acorna book (the spine is facing the wrong way and I'm too lazy to adjust the stack), Reserved for the Cat by Mercedes Lackey, Dragons in the Waters, An Acceptable Time and And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle (who's also dead . . .) and The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech.
It's going to be a marvelous break. Even if I miss all of you college-people.
Oh, and for the record, I have once again rediscovered my hate of AOL's browser. But I don't want to go through the bother of installing Firefox on dad's computer.
Being home is very nice. Particularly the wood-stove part. Even if my room is frigid. Oh, right. I like it that way . . . although a little less frigid would be okay. Maybe I just need to convince Aclysm to come be a handwarmer. She seems to have figured out the petting business, even if her purr could use some work. More on being home again later.
So far today, I have:
Visited my Aunt Ruth. This also included seeing my cousin Danny (almost six years old, and wanted me to tell him what invention he should make for me), Naomi (1 year and change; the cleft palate surgery went very well and she's starting to make more complex sounds, like "p"), my grandparents, and my mother.
Visited Dee (and Ghengis. He was very pleased to see me. And he doesn't need any help with his purr).
Ate lunch in the same general vicinity as my brother.
And visited Teresa at the library. We had a nice chat, and I got books! Ten of them! Aunt Maria and A Tale of Time City by DWJ, The Traitors' Gate by Avi, The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio, by Lloyd Alexander (he's dead now *tear*), Anne McCaffery's newest Acorna book (the spine is facing the wrong way and I'm too lazy to adjust the stack), Reserved for the Cat by Mercedes Lackey, Dragons in the Waters, An Acceptable Time and And Both Were Young by Madeleine L'Engle (who's also dead . . .) and The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech.
It's going to be a marvelous break. Even if I miss all of you college-people.
Oh, and for the record, I have once again rediscovered my hate of AOL's browser. But I don't want to go through the bother of installing Firefox on dad's computer.
