Going on a mental-break/birthday/visit/HP-celebration vacation

[bironic]

From Thursday through next Wednesday I'll be down in Asheville, North Carolina, visiting synn, who's now living there instead of 20 minutes from my house. It's her birthday Saturday, so the trip is partly a gift for her and partly a celebration of Deathly Hallows coming out and partly a gift for me too (five days off work! preceded by a three-day week and followed up by a two-day week!), since my birthday is the day after I get back.

In addition to seeing synn and reading the last new HP book and exploring a new town, my biggest hope for the trip is that I'll be able to calm down from the stress of the past few weeks (months, years, but let's not get too ambitious) and write, whether that turns out to be stories or long-overdue letters. (To give you some idea of life lately, my current to-do list includes: pack, see a friend who'll be moving away while I'm gone, make two doctor's appointments, move all the furniture out of my room, install and test a wireless card, re-read Half-Blood Prince, write up Order of the Phoenix review, write to grad programs, possibly enroll in classes, continue to look for jobs, have my third-anniversary review at work without hinting that I want to get the hell out, research medical copy providers, write the two stories that are due in August, and prepare for two lovely visitors next month.) Gah, stress stress stress. And when I'm stressed, I can't think or write, and when I can't write, I don't post (I'm embarrassed to say how long it's taken just to write this crappy entry) or even comment, really, and when I don't post or comment, I don't get emails, and then my inbox gets lonely. And by my inbox I mean me. But who wants to hear about that? Nobody, that's who. Another reason I haven't posted. Yet here we are.

Um. Still reading? Have a treat. This is an MRI of my abdomen.





Well, I think it's cool.

So. How are all of you?

Comments

[zulu.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty cool abdomen you've got there.

My life is going pretty well. Right now I'm writing House/Foreman. It makes me happy.

[roga.livejournal.com]

Now I finally have a face to place your name with! Or, you know, a picture.

Hope your big list of things gets shorter soon, and all that's left will be the good stuff.

[thedeadparrot.livejournal.com]

roga made me start an SGA AU. :(

Which is annoying since I have like ten-bazillion other things on my plate as well.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

Oooo, nifty!

I'm posting one-handed, holding a finally-sleeping Z. And headed for bed myself. Hope you have a great vacation!

*hugs*

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

That's ... quite the lovely abdomen ya got there, bironic. Hee.

How are all of you?

Drowning in the Roman Empire. Frikkity-frakkity James and Gregorius are being so damn talkative I can't shut them the hell up. Which is a good thing but sheesh.

Have a safe and happy trip!

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

What fantastically squooshy insides you have!

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Have fun! Write that movie review! Show us your... internal organs! Yes, I'm a bit distracted and random :)

[thewlisian-afer.livejournal.com]

Nice kidneys; House would approve. Personally, I'm partial to your liver. It's lovely. :: sage nod ::

Is it weird that I saved that picture? XD When I was in sixth grade, I had screenshots from my boyfriend's gall bladder removal surgery... I think I might be strange.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Have a great trip! I've actually been to Asheville once, and it's beautiful—or at least it was twenty-some years ago. There was a really good used book store in town. With luck, it'll still be there.

I'm sorry to hear you're so stressed out. I totally empathize. Hope the holiday helps!

The MRI is definitely cool. Did it reveal anything useful diagnostically? (You don't have to answer if you don't want to.)

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

My, what a lovely spleen and gallbladder you have, my dear! And, er, other organs. :-) I'll totally recognize you on the street now!

Writing? What's that again? *sighs* Sorry, I shouldn't be venting in your LJ. But I hear you, oh yes I do. However, I am cross stitching the Powerpuff Girls, so I am very happy that I am accomplishing something fandom-y. (I have a cross stitch program on my laptop, and have been playing with it recently, to see what it can do.)

[crazypalefreak.livejournal.com]

That MRI is seriously cool. I really want a scan of my head to keep. Just because I think it would be an interesting conversation piece.

I'm well. You're probably reading Deathly Hallows right now. I hope you get the mental-break you need.

Have a lovely birthday!