I’m currently lying in bed at a roadside inn in Rocky Mount, North Carolina!
I’m entirely too exhausted to post many details (and my iPhone is a bit of a pain to type long entries on), but we’re still here and alive!
::faceplant::
We’re in New Jersey!
We left Boston at 9:30-ish after a fucking horrible night sleep. We got probably four hours all up, it was alternately too hot or too cold, plus our allergies kept playing up.
The drive itself was very good though, we made good time and got into
Tomorrow we head to Aberdeen in Maryland to see some friends of my parents, then it’s basically just a straight drive south and get as far as we can get before we get tired.
Good god I hope we manage to get a good night sleep tonight.
Things are significantly better than last post! We’re both getting over our sickness, thankfully, and the apartment seems to have given up on actively trying to kill us.
For one, it’s my birthday today! We definitely timed things nicely… I was in Boston for kungfupolarbear‘s birthday last year in August, and I’m here for mine this year!
We haven’t done too much by way of photo-taking, though we went to Rockport again today, which was snazzy. And bloody cold, too. I got some cool photos, much more interesting than the “Oh, here’s a building at an uninteresting angle. Here’s another building of the same” I had last time. 🙂 We’re about to head out to a delicious delicious Indian restaurant for dinner.
Saturday night we had kungfupolarbear‘s going away party, which was great fun. I saw quite a few people I’d met last time I was here, and met absinthetic, wee_squirrel, tamalinn and catullus_5 for the first time. Sunday night was Rock Band, also a whole lot of fun, saw some more people that I’d met last time too.
Tomorrow we’re going to see trunkbutt, Wednesday is last-minute packing, and Thursday morning we leave Boston! Phew!
I have no idea how kungfupolarbear has put up with this apartment for the past four months.
It’s currently 6:35am, I was lying in bed awake from 4 until 6, and we only got to bed at a bit before midnight. We’ve both been alternately too hot or too cold, and the bed is squeaky as hell in several places. Outside it’s currently ~3C, according to WeatherBug. I ended up just getting up because I was getting massively frustrated at not being able to get to sleep.
Seriously, were I in kungfupolarbear‘s place, I’d have killed someone by now. Heh. I’ll post some more later, when I’m warmer and less annoyed.
(Don’t get me wrong, it’s absolutely fantastic seeing kungfupolarbear again… just not much her apartment. ;))
You know that feeling you got when you were a kid and Christmas was very close and you were all excited and hoping time would hurry up and pass so Christmas would actually be here already? Yeah, that’s totally where I am right now, waiting to see kungfupolarbear again.
I’m leaving here TOMORROW! I can’t believe it’s gone that fast already. Counting down from like 30 days feels like it was just yesterday.
The plane leaves Sydney at 14:45, gets to San Francisco at 11:00 local time, there’s a two and a half hour stop-over then I get to Boston at 22:30 or so. Phew! And also squee!
😀
Oh for fuck’s sake! The cable in my headphones has fucked up again. It’s only playing out one side. Fortunately the cable actually plugs into the headphones themselves, one into the left and one into right, so I don’t need to get an entire new set of headphones completely, but god dammit! I’m leaving tomorrow and would really like a working set! Last time it happened was over a year ago, but seriously, WTF. Exactly the same problem.
I’m considering just going down to JB Hi-Fi and getting a whole new pair, as I had to order the cable last time and it took like a week to arrive.
And there’s some douche sitting next to me listening to his voicemail messages on speakerphone. Grrr. Not a good start to the day.
iPhone camera vs proper camera with actual flash
iPhone camera:
versus
Proper camera with external flash:
😀
I tweaked both of the photos a bit. The iPhone camera one was just the auto-levels button in Aperture, to bring the brightness up — it was really dim — and the real one was brightened just a bit, and the temperature changed to be a bit less yellow.
Dear next five days,
Please go really really fast. I want to see my kungfupolarbear, like, yesterday.
Love,
virtualwolf
I think I just confirmed my lack-of-taking-photos-at-home theory from my previous post… we were up at Mum and Dad’s for dinner, and I ended up taking a bunch of shots!
And now to hopefully take advantage of the extra hour sleep tonight because of daylight savings ending! ::faceplant::
I realised it’s been almost a month since I took any photos with my regular camera. I think I’ve just been feeling uninspired… and the total lack of furniture in my place at the moment kind of limits things too, heh. Photos of a large empty room? Not very interesting.
Once kungfupolarbear gets here (ELEVEN DAYS UNTIL I LEAVE, SQUEE) we’ll be out and about taking photos of all and sundry! Most of the photos I’ve been taking recently have been from my iPhone, altered with Camera Bag and uploaded to Tumblr.
I snapped a few photos of Lily with my full camera today, though only one was worth keeping.
I was combing her hair after her bath last night, and it’s actually getting really long! The sheer curliness of it disguises the length. And good lord does she manage to get some impressive knots in there. I’ve found the trick to her staying put so I can de-knot it all is to put on Shrek 2 and just have her sitting in my lap watching it while I comb. She’s discovered Monsters Inc now too and says “Mons-ers!” while we’re watching it. 🙂