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Whew. Back, a teeny bit early...got home around midnight last night.

Will babble later. ;)

So, an update...

Came back to the usual defriending/friending (well, when you're gone 30 days, you expect one but not the other, so that was pleasant).

Forgot my camera, so last year's pics will have to suffice.

Came back to an astonishing thing...the wonder that is florence_craye sent me a squid/cuttlefish blanket!!! (!!!) THANK YOU!!! It is majestic and oceanic and I will treasure it always as I cuddle my cuttlefish within its fleecey folds. *adores*

Am trying to catch up on LJ, as I finish sorting out pictures of Barbies for the Barbie Pantheon post, which is upcoming. I'm through the C's at this point. whew!

I also had the very strange experience of being in a hotel in Missouri and suddenly hearing something about Harry Potter on CNN (turned out, it was the release date for DH). Strange, though, because in my head I always think, well, if I can't see it nothing is happening, la la la, and I always forget that the rest of the world likes HP too, not just LJ fen. heh.

Reread HBP (finally!) while on the trip. Wow. I had several thoughts while I was reading it, and cannot remember any of them, except I thought it was rather cruel of Ginny to trip Ron when all he wanted was a little peck on the cheek from Fleur. In fact, I am still a little surprised by the Weasley clan's rather extreme reaction to Fleur. She didn't sound particularly awful to me.

I had nearly the same reaction at the end, which went something like this: aaah, oh noes, how could you do that, Severus? And with such a steely calm. You're a badass, that's for certain. I'll bet you know some Dark Bedroom Magic as well.

I missed everybody, in short. I was at a different show this year, only five days instead of fifteen, and did not get to hang out with my Afghani buddy, nor did I eat delicious Afghani food, nor witness a casually horrific tooth-loss incident.

Also, I ended up with a nasty sinus infection the day BEFORE we began setup. I was so sick the first day of the show that I wanted to pelt customers with loose change.

I only have one story, honestly, and it didn't even happen to me, but to my WI friend.

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boggles

I've somehow caught up on the flist in only five hours.

A month's worth of entries. I can't tell how many, but it was a lot.

I even read every single iibnf post (okay, fine, I always read all of her entries, but still, there were sixty.)

I mean, I still have to go through the comm entries (that's another couple days right there), but wow. It's a good thing, of course, because this is a majorly jam-packed week, and now I won't feel guilty about not having read stuff.

I have also edited all of the Barbie photos. I might have the Pantheon entry done tomorrow.

*goes to bed feeling accomplished*