wispfox

Less than a month.

Needing to sleep upwards of 10 hours a night is irritating. But it's what happens when I combine 'winter' and 'sick'. On the plus side, the random bits of dizzy while lying in bed (which moved to when I was upright, until I slept for 12 hours one night and 10 the next) has stopped. Eventually, I will stop being sick (have been sick for a week, today)...

I leave for .au 6 weeks from tomorrow.

I still have no idea if I'm going to Arisia (but if I do, it'll be Saturday).

Random baking is neat. Hopefully I'll be a bit more able to be involved in it, with the continuation thereof. Last night I was utterly exhausted at 8pm. Way too early, dammit. And then, when I went to bed at 9pm, my digestion was unhappy for at least an hour or two. Meh.

Sleepy. Headachy. But not terribly stuffy, for once.

Car gets to have maintenance a week from tomorrow, including brake work and new tires. Ah, the expense of owning a car.

I have glow-in-the-dark nails again, because it felt _wrong_ for them to not be glowing when I turned out the light before sleep. Also, it pleases me immensely to have glowing nails.

Two months. Last month went by _far_ too slowly. Dammit!

Serenity Hand Puppet Theatre - via multiple people. Spoilers. In case anyone wasn't sure. :)

Sunlight! Yay! (people who've lived on the west coast before have been feeling the need to verify their location; it's been wet, cloudy, and strangely warm for days)

The line in Ghost, by the Indigo Girls, which says "the Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota at a place which you could walk across with five steps down" means I just added seeing the source of the Mississippi to the things I want to see, in my year of wandering.

Because of this, I'm wondering if there are any other places in the US that I should visit, based on lines from songs. Alternately, suggestions from books.

Anyone have any musical or literary suggestions for places to travel in the contiguous US?

3 months!

I have a printout of an electronic ticket to .au in Feb.

And, I was good and got the electronic Visa thing already.

Less than 6 months!

Because redjo's answers fascinated me enough to ask for questions...


( questions and answers below )

edit: forgot this part. :)

Standard instructions: Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me," and I'll ask you five questions of my choice. You post the questions and answers on your journal, include this same explanation and an offer to interview someone else. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Dear self:

You have an amazingly high likelihood of getting sick when you travel. You don't, however, usually remember this before you go. Please work on that, or at least on bringing anti-sick stuff with you!

Sore-throated, headachy and sniffly,

Me

PS learn how to sleep, would you? That can't be helping...

NYC no longer scares me.

6 hours in a bus is annoying. When two and a half of those are in mostly not moving traffic, the air conditioner has died not long after the traffic started being nasty, and the only openable thing while driving is the emergency exit in the roof of the bus, the ride gets very unpleasant, very quickly. The driver said that was one of his worst trips, and he's been doing it for 12 years.

Hey, if my first bus ride to NYC is that bad, it can only get better, right?

There is no law against being topless in NYC. Yes, I _did_ immediately make use of this knowledge when it was presented to me! This was precisely the kind of hot, muggy weather that always makes me wish I _could_ take off my shirt (stupid gender-specific laws!). Alas, after leaving Central Park, it seemed wiser to reshirt myself (subways have _entirely_ too much likelihood of people trying to cop a feel, for example). And, unfortunately, the repeatedly threatened thunderstorm never materialized. I wanted downpour! And lightning! (and to have the dried sweat washed off myself!) And I _love_ warm rainstorms...

Much silliness. Insufficient sleep (being awakened by light, and all). Much walking. I seem to do an awful lot of walking when visiting rosefox andsinboy. Which is a good thing, since I normally don't get enough exercise! My legs and feet tend to thank me, other than the fact that my sandals caused blisters on the tops of my feet (which were not worse because regyt demonstrated her state of preparedness by having bandaids).

Lots of people, but nothing like any of my previous visits. I approve of the general ability of rosefox, regyt, sinboy, kythryne, and elissaann to find places that I liked and was (mostly) not scared by. Also, regyt, sinboy, and kythryne are good at coping with an extremely overwhelmed, dazed, and exhausted post-bus ride wispfox. I am impressed. Mostly, I was tired, hot, starving, and completely useless. So there was much making of decisions by _other_ people.

Sleepy. Much silly. Much touch and cuddling. Is good. Must come back.