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smokingboot ([personal profile] smokingboot) wrote2004-03-04 10:54 am

Things happening

The grooness is beginning to depart.

The strange skeletal warrior thing in my pumpkin tray is an emerging pumpkin seedling. It has a friend on the other side of the tray. Though they are still small, they have a sinister fleshiness to them...at present they really do look like tiny thickening tendrils coming out of the earth. They're alive all right.

Scotland is happening. I am looking forward to seeing the huge pictish stone November Girl spoke of, and exploring more of the highlands. Fort William, Loch Ness, Glen Coe...I would love to see Skye, but I guess at 50 miles away, I may be imposing too much on the drivers in our group!

Cuba is happening, probably in September.
Venice is happening, everything booked for October. God, I am going to need more money.

Stabface is happening on the same weekend as we go to see Starsky and Hutch, a cool combination of idiotic ways to spend our time. I think it's ridiculous that everyone claims S&H are being played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, when it's clear we're watching the acting debuts of Derek Zoolander and Hansel (he's so hot right now!)

Maelstrom is happening. I am beginning to look forward to this. Hope most excellent chum's worries have been solved, but I'm trying to get beyond that and think about the game. I have a character concept which I like, though god knows what will happen when she impacts reality.

The Wolf Event is happening, the Lions event is happening, the gerbils looks as though they are happening, and most of all, my writing is happening.

The thing that is not happening, is coffee. Time to do something about that.

[identity profile] november-girl.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure we can get to Skye without too much effort - it'll just be about an hour's drive. I'll take you even if the others aren't up for it. It's probably no more time than going up to Sueno's Stone (which is in Morayshire).

We have to drive through Glencoe to get to where we're going, so there's no danger whatsoever of missing that one, although it would be nice to go and do some walking or riding in that area. Loch Ness is, of course, beautiful (like you didn't know that), and I shall be badgering you all to take a boat trip on it as I've wanted to do that for years. As for Fort William - it really isn't that different to Shaw, although it has more B & Bs and ski shops. Quite frankly, the only thing it has to recommend it is the supermarket!

Weird Pointless Thingummies

[identity profile] smokingboot.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
Apparently there's a weird pointless thingummy in Fort William, some kind of picture which just looks like a blob, until you do something to it (put a spy glass on top? Can't remember) at which point it looks like Bonnie Prince Charlie. There's a lot more to it than this, but until I rediscover my Big Bumper Book of Weird Pointless Thimgummies, that's all I can recall!

Re: Weird Pointless Thingummies

[identity profile] november-girl.livejournal.com 2004-03-04 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds really cool. I must have missed that. I was probably pissed.

We must go (preferably with spyglasses)!

I have installed a "pictures of nice Scottish scenery" screensaver, just in case I wasn't looking forward to it enough already!