awake. arrgh!

[lapis_lazuli022]

My body is telling me it's 9:30am, and I'm wide awake. This is especially annoying since we only just got home around what our bodies thought was 4am. *yawn*

The extra leg of the trip, kindly added by the airline when they canceled our original flight, was okay on the way out, but too much on the way back. After 8 hours in the air, to pass over your home and go an extra flight-hour out of the way is a really cruel tease.

All in all, though, everything was really nice. Lots of beautiful weather and good people and pretty things to see. We made an effort not to push ourselves to the point of exhaustion and irritability this time (for a change), and it worked admirably.

Non-people-centric highlights: 'window-shopping' in Amsterdam, and the Best Sign Ever™ at the zoo (photo forthcoming); finding an amazing shade of red for my hair (now to find someone to keep me supplied in it!); seeing much of England I hadn't seen before, and taking lots of good photos, and an especially cute cat (photo forthcoming).

People-centric highlights: catching up with zoo_music_girl and ladycat, a lovely and unhurried lunch with kitty_goth, a lovely visit with gothgems and lellen, and of course, meeting foreverdirt: *swoon*.

A few people ended up being conspicuously absent, and were missed (painispretty, for one), but that's okay... That's what next time is for, right? :)

And, most astonishingly, I went for more than a calendar week without even checking my email. I'm not quite sure how I managed that, really. I was tempted to wander over to the one 'net cafe in Whitby a few times, but these times were usually at bizarre hours of the morning (like now) when it was closed. I didn't even feel tempted to beg gothgems for a couple of minutes of computer time. A couple of short and staticky early-morning phone calls back home kept me connected enough to the real world, instead.

Back to sleep now, until a more respectable hour of the day. Or at least until the sun's up.

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edit: nope. It's 5:45am now, and I'm definitely awake. This is bad: I expect I'll be craving curry by 9:00.

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[firsttiger.livejournal.com]

Welcome back! Sounds like you had a very pleasant vacation.