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I am home! And I miss kungfupolarbear already.

I took a couple of sleeping tablets after the plane left from San Francisco, but they didn’t totally knock me out unfortunately. Still, it was an improvement over the flight from Sydney to LA. I managed to get a few hours sleep at least.

The plane arrived at 6:30 this morning, I got home about 8 or so. I had breakfast with one of my roommates then was chatting to my lovely kungfupolarbear on Skype when all the lack of sleep on the plane hit me all at once. I went for a nap at about 12:30… and woke up eight hours later. 😮

I’m still pretty tired and out of it even now. I’ve got tomorrow off work thankfully, so I’ll organise and upload all my photos then. Going to try to stay awake for at least another couple of hours, then go to bed. ::props eyelids open::

Quote of the day:

kungfupolarbear: Kiss me, I’m flaccid.

Hee. I’m writing this entry on kungfupolarbear‘s laptop… 600MHz, 128MB RAM! Whee.

We saw Finntroll last night, and they were fucking awesome. There were three support bands, the first two were terrible, the third was a band called Warbringer who actually really ruled. The downside of the whole concert was the moshpit… there weren’t enough people there so there was a decent amount of space, which meant that all the crazy running-around-and-into-everyone people had a lot of speed when they were running around. Poor kungfupolarbear was smashed into towards the end of the concert by someone I didn’t even see come in… her forehead collided hard with his head. :\

Oh, and the music that I put that video of Lily walking to? Finntroll played that last night. 😀 😀

Man, I’m getting all tanned and shit. Crazy!

On Friday we hit up the Boston Public Library, and as lame as that sounds, it’s very impressive. It’s part library and part museum… there’s a whole bunch of big paintings on the walls (Sistine Chapel-esque).

For lunch we went to The Cheesecake Factory. Good god they have large servings… we got the “lunch” portions, which are smaller versions of the dinner portions, and neither of us could finish the damn things!

After that we wandered through a few disturbingly touristy areas (think Bondi) and snuggled on the grass in a park for a while. Then we hit up the North End, which is very New York-feeling and full of Italian restaurants and grocery stores, and not much else. There were lots of little old Italian women sitting out the front of their houses smoking. It was very strange.

Yesterday we were at Newburyport at the beach. It’s basically an entire suburb of little beach shacks and houses, some more elaborate than others. Last night we saw Pineapple Express, and it’s hilarious!

Today we went to Mt Auburn Cemetary… holy shit it’s epically large! I took a metric shitton of pictures, and we didn’t even see anywhere near the whole thing.

Tomorrow we’re seeing Finntroll! \m/

We went to Rockport yesterday, which was a fishing village and it’s got all these awesome old buildings. I took a heap of photos, which I’ll upload to Flickr once I’m home, and got rather sunburnt. Bought a few bits and pieces (namely a new wallet and awesome pewter goblet for me, plus some souvenirs for the family). Afterwards we visited the lovely trunkbutt and sat around on the grass at the beach talking for a couple of hours, which was nice. At night we went to pool and I met several more LJ-types, zanylikethat, thetathx1138, mkb_technologie,and newtonnut plus some other non-LJers (and my goodness I’d forgotten how much I suck at pool, heh).

Today we’re being lazy, and tonight going to have dinner with xenofalcon and his parents. Woo!

I am in Boston, at kungfupolarbear‘s!

All went well on the way over here, except for the hour and a half delay before we actually took off after we’d boarded the plane in Sydney. And despite all the horrendous things I’ve heard about Los Angeles airport, there were no problems of any sort! Straight through immigration and customs, a couple of minute walk around to the terminal where we were going to be boarding, and that was that! On the trip home I’m going via San Fransisco, so I’m half expecting things to be horrible there, to make up for the lack of horribleness at LAX. 😛

Also, the post-plane flight shower is the greatest thing in the world.

I just got back from seeing The Dark Knight…

Holy.

Fucking.

Shit.

That is the best movie I have seen in a long time.

Woo, we have passportiness!

I’ve got tomorrow and Wednesday off — going to see Children Of Bodom tomorrow night — so I’m going to go visit a travel agent about plane tickets and stuff then. 🙂

YAY!

I got a call from mum this afternoon, she actually found my original birth certificate! So I don’t have to fuck around with getting a new one after all! Everything else that was a problem with the passport application is already sorted, the only hold-up was going to be that.

w00t!