Where Am I?

[galadriel1010]

I'm currently in Melbourne. I've got two more days of relaxation, then New Year's Eve is spent travelling to Sydney. We're in Sydney for five nights, then we go to New York for three nights - yes, I spent $130 on ski gear today to keep me warm and dry in New York.

If you are anywhere along this route, I want to stalk you it would be a pleasure if you would join me for lunch somewhere of your recommendation. I am new in town, show me the shiny and all that.


I want to go home. I'm lonely, tired, stressed out and bored of sitting around waiting for the next place without really enjoying being anywhere. I'm also unusually bitchy at the moment, because normally I'm extremely slow to annoyance and quick to laughter, and it's sliding more the other way at the moment, which is sucky for everyone involved because people get bitched at and then I feel guilty about it and I get more depressed defensive and, you guessed it, bitchy.

I'm going to be home before long, and I'll probably feel better then. I have Christmas to cheer me up, after all.


Yes, I know that doesn't mean 'to do with literature'. I don't care.

I am going to rush through my last schmoop_bingo prompts and try to get them up before the deadline. Then I am going to be travelling, so I'm not going to write anything. Then I'm going to write my reel_TW story, which will probably be about 20-30k and no one will read it. Once that is over, I'm going to try to get Just A Mistake finished. Or at least solidly worked on. And in February, JAM is going to go back to being a break story, and I'm going to write an original novel. I don't know what yet, but I'm going to write one. I hope.

Comments

[usakiwigirl.livejournal.com]

Sorry, bb, but I don't think I can meet up with you before you leave. My schedule is just too full :( I hope you have fun in Sydney and don't freeze your ta-ta's in NY! It's bloody miserable there right now! They had 30" of snow. That's a lot of white to dig out from under.

I'll read your reel_TW, when I get the chance. I always read those, it's so much fun. I love AU's. Also, aren't you doing LAS? I thought you were? I hope so (not that I need the competition, but I like reading the competition - make sense?)

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

Oh doom :( That's a shame. I hope the move goes well for you. I'll just have to stalk you somewhere else in the world.

And I am doing LAS, I had forgotten about that. Lol, the first challenge is released on my first day back at uni. Whoops!

[fide-et-spe.livejournal.com]

Hey people love the reel TW comm! OF course they will read it. I do think there is an issue with comments, and I'm guilty myself, because they can be difficult to comment on, I find you download the PDF, end up reading past bedtime and then fall asleep, and I tend to then forget to go to the original post to comment. So you shouldn't judge it too much by the response, because you will definitely get readers.

Apart from that, you are clearly really homesick, and I think you have mentioned being from York? If so, well it's such a beautiful place, and I think for people from Yorkshire there is no where like it. That combined with what sounds like a lovely family makes it hard. Still it won't be long now..

Patrick Stewart, when he was in LA for Star Trek, was desperately homesick for Yorkshire. I've seen him talk about it a couple of times, and he said the way he coped was each night as he was going to sleep, he would imagine the path up to his front door, and imagine himself walking up that path.

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

Reel TW is awesome. I never actually posted my story on LJ, because I had it up on ff.net, where I was getting the most hits and responses at the time, and it's only had about 300 hits over there, where I'd normally get a couple of times that easily. But it's only the first part of three (I'm doing the Lord of the Rings), so I'm going to wait until it's all done before I really worry about it.

Yorkshire is really special, and my family are... also special. I don't miss the family so much, because I've spoken to them pretty much every day on MSN and that's no different to being at home, but I do miss the county like crazy.

[coldwater1010.livejournal.com]

I read your last reel torward. It was one of the ones I liked.

[fiwen1010.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you did. It was heavy going and still unfinished, which put a lot off, I think.
Nearly put me off lol.