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Feb. 13th, 2013 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreSo, hey, I am totally back from vacation!
It was pretty much the perfect vacation (for me), also. I went to Santa Barbara to hang out with my sisters and basically just mooched around their apartment for a week. I mean, we went out to eat a couple times and Katie took me to her favorite bookstore, but mostly, just hanging around the apartment. When they were there, we played board games and watched tv (I have now seen the first seven episodes of Teen Wolf - it is kinda terrible and I love it) and had long conversations, and when they were not there (because of work and classes and such) I talked to the rabbit and read Les Miserables and knit quiltbits. I have a total of 253 quiltbits now and have finished the barricade section of Les Miz. I then had to take a break for a day or so because I was terribly terribly sad, but now I am reading again and learning all of Victor Hugo's Opinions About Waste Management. He has a lot of them. Good lord. Also, I read through the entirety of the Les Miz kink meme, much of which is ridiculous but all of which fills me with a giant gleeful love for fandom.
And because I am a ridiculous person, I may possibly have acquired the audiobook of Les Miz as well and listened to parts of it while I was there. Because, while I cannot read a book and then immediately read it again, the performance aspect of an audiobook renders it almost like an adaptation for me and so the experience is not the same as reading. Also, the audiobook is a different translation. I would like to note that I started listening to it pretty much as soon as I got to the airport on my way down, listened to it the whole time I was on the plane and when we landed we were still talking about Monsignor Bienvenue. On the way back, I managed to get to Fantine. (I slept through most of M Tholomyes, which I am perfectly all right with.)
But now I am back. I got back yesterday but took today off as it's nice to have a day after traveling to recover before going back to work, if at all possible. Of course, that does mean that my first day back is the day of a staff meeting. Ah, well. I suppose it can't be helped.
It was pretty much the perfect vacation (for me), also. I went to Santa Barbara to hang out with my sisters and basically just mooched around their apartment for a week. I mean, we went out to eat a couple times and Katie took me to her favorite bookstore, but mostly, just hanging around the apartment. When they were there, we played board games and watched tv (I have now seen the first seven episodes of Teen Wolf - it is kinda terrible and I love it) and had long conversations, and when they were not there (because of work and classes and such) I talked to the rabbit and read Les Miserables and knit quiltbits. I have a total of 253 quiltbits now and have finished the barricade section of Les Miz. I then had to take a break for a day or so because I was terribly terribly sad, but now I am reading again and learning all of Victor Hugo's Opinions About Waste Management. He has a lot of them. Good lord. Also, I read through the entirety of the Les Miz kink meme, much of which is ridiculous but all of which fills me with a giant gleeful love for fandom.
And because I am a ridiculous person, I may possibly have acquired the audiobook of Les Miz as well and listened to parts of it while I was there. Because, while I cannot read a book and then immediately read it again, the performance aspect of an audiobook renders it almost like an adaptation for me and so the experience is not the same as reading. Also, the audiobook is a different translation. I would like to note that I started listening to it pretty much as soon as I got to the airport on my way down, listened to it the whole time I was on the plane and when we landed we were still talking about Monsignor Bienvenue. On the way back, I managed to get to Fantine. (I slept through most of M Tholomyes, which I am perfectly all right with.)
But now I am back. I got back yesterday but took today off as it's nice to have a day after traveling to recover before going back to work, if at all possible. Of course, that does mean that my first day back is the day of a staff meeting. Ah, well. I suppose it can't be helped.
