there'd be no distance that could hold us back

Hello to one and all, I am officially back in sunny California :-) Though it did depress the fuck out of me to leave Chi-town and Ellie and Jen, it's been a process in getting renormalized and getting my shit together in the post-epic-roadtrip phase. Watching a lot of MSNBC and The Daily Show/The Colbert Report is a big part of that, so I'm catching up, but I've found that I've come back to SoCal with a bigger view of things. It's really true, there is life outside of the internet, and it's fucking awesome if you let it be. Horizons broadened, I feel more and more like this town isn't big enough for me, but I can handle that because I actually have the motivation to finish what I start--I have college and a job to get back to, gotta cut my losses with people I don't talk to anymore and work on the ones that I see everyday because I now see how horribly stunted I am in a social situation. I need to do better and I'm going to do just that.

Hello my lovelies! Here just to let you all know that a) we're all safe and sound, and b) Jen and Ellie are some of the coolest cats on the face of the planet <3 If you want to keep a more frequently updated blog of our adventures in the land of America, check out the On The Road blogspot. As it is, internet access is very limited, so follow the bouncing link ;-)

[mood| sad]
[music|omg why am I crying to Snow Patrol? ;__;]

Doctor Who fans out there: there was a DW love meme on LJ not too long ago; I don't remember much about it except that it encompassed all eras and on the first page someone said FIVE and there were a bunch of people squeeing about Five. Can anyone link me up?

In a very strange place right now, mentally anyway. Can't say why because I'm not sure myself, but no matter. Still a trifle sick, but I'm getting over it. Today was the last day of the semester, last final I had to take. By the end of it I wasn't sure/didn't care what kind of tools were developed by early hominids, so I was taking wild stabs in the dark, but overall I think I did pretty well for not paying attention for the second half of the semester whilst doodling the weighted companion cube in my notebook :D Well. That's not fair. I wrote down pretty much everything the professor said, but studying it and absorbing it is another thing entirely. Or, uh, two. things. Whatever. But this all means I can embark on securing a second job to build monies for the Epic Roadtrip of Wonderfulness (I will always find a different verb every time I mention it now) this summer. GO GO GADGET SUMMER JOB.

Guess what came in the mail yesterday? A cooling pad for my laptop! \o/ I've been having problems with the heat for the past couple weeks, since California has decided to go all Tartarus on us, but I ended up ordering one off Amazon to aid me in my crusade to keep a laptop for over one year -__- It's made of light metal and has three well-placed fans and plenty of room to air out while remaining comfortable, so I'm really stoked about it. The only two things I've got to work on is paying back Sean and working on extending the battery life of the lappy. And if I just happen to be calling it Jarvis, it's all Tony Stark's fault.

Also, Iron Man has caused me to have a bit of a Robert Downey Jr. renaissance, but I realized I only have one movie he was in (Chaplin--FANTASTIC movie, btw, if anyone gets a chance to watch it). This saddens me greatly.

( Doctor Who and me being a bit of a sappy, crying mess )

Back to my Five binge!

*dematerializes*