The Icon Faerie

BRB, guys, driving to Pennsylvania.

WELL it's been a long few days. Last you heard from me I was... wow, okay, roseanna was still with me in Long Island. I sent her home and then the following week I came home myself. Thursday I started driving home, I stayed overnight in Ohio, and made it back on Friday afternoon. Saturday was William's first birthday so my mom, Gretchen, and I went to see Cat and William. He's such a corker. She and the father's family are still having custody issues, and I think she's supposed to be back in court today. The less I say about that, the better, I think.

Otherwise, my sister is living in an apartment in Cedar Rapids with Abby for the summer and she's going to Japan in the fall, and my brother is still doing nothing with his life. I swear, I am this close to 911ing Dr. Phil on his ass, mostly because I think if I 911'd on Cat and Chris, I think it would be sticking my nose in. Oh, I'd forgotten how nice it was to not be the center of all this drama. (Although at least this drama involves things that I actually care about, unlike Who Gets The Desks In The Office With A Window.)

But that's neither here nor there.

( Now I'm going to talk about fannish things. In here there are spoilers for finales of The Mentalist, Private Practice, Grey's, and Supernatural, recent eps of Glee and Doctor Who, and the Heroes cancellation. Maybe this will get me in the mood to review the six or so shows I have seen since I posted my last review on Theatre Geekery. )

Phew. That was long. But I think I said my piece.

MAKE IT WORK has been my mantra this week. We made it work, and it did.

So since I just updated with little "oh we're here/there" remarks, here's a more detailed version of our trip east. I have pictures! Most were taken from the car window but they are pretty nice.

( Click the cut for pictures and babbling about this that and the next thing. )

I don't know what to say about the orientations. They probably could have been half as long as they were but I enjoyed meeting the people in the theater department, even if I'd had my fill of forced socializing by mid-afternoon on Thursday. The people were all RAWR YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO HAVE ANY TIME TO DO ANYTHING EVER WE WILL EAT YOUR LIFE but seriously. I just can't wait to get into a routine and get settled.

I think I'm going to like it here. I am already trying to decide on what show to see for my birthday. XD

So today we are going to Pennsylvania.

I'm doing this.

Well, that took three hours longer than it should have.

Liz is a t00b. Bad things happen when she is away from her computer. For instance, she takes a wrong turn while leaving Trish's house, and instead of getting in I-74 West like she's supposed to, she ends up on I-65 North and she has no idea how. So, coming up with the mantra of, "Am fierce, smart, independent woman and I can find my way home with just this atlas!" she plans to follow I-65 North until she reaches I-80 at Chicago, which will take her to Moline and then Davenport and then home.

Then she makes an ungodly long excursion off the highway onto a six-laned road in a suburb of Chicago in search of a McDonalds so she could eat and runs a stoplight, nearly hits three cars, and fails to turn in a "right turn only" lane.

Then at approximately 8:30 she blows a tire and pulls over. She calls her mom, and mom and dad leave home immediately to come and get me. I spend the next hour in the car listening to "Dancing Through Life" in an attempt to make me happy and feeling semis whizz past me at 65+ miles an hour less than five feet away. An Illinois state trooper stopped and asked what the trouble was. I burst into tears and he is very sympathetic over the fact that I know nothing about cars and gives me a tissue. He starts to change the tire for me (yay) and my parents arrive. Tire gets changed and we have to jump the car because I killed the battery while wibbling and waiting for parents to arrive. Then we spend the next two hours on the backroads because my dad is a freak because my dad is incredibly wise to avoid the construction on I-80.

This is why I should be chained to my computer except for alotted times.

I think my LJ needs a change in layout. And my paid account runs out in ten days. ::makes note to send check::