Home Safe

As you on Tumblr may have guessed from the influx of answered asks, I am home safe, back on my real computer and no longer dependent on the Slowest Computer Known To Man. I still have lots of catching up to do, but for now I’m happily ensconsed on my sofa, listening to a podcast before bed, answering what I can of my messages, and doing a crap-ton of laundry. 

I opened my suitcase and everything smelled faintly but pleasantly of Disney. I can’t even work out what the smell is, but everything smelled like it.

For snacking, I took a small tupperware tub of almond butter with me, and since I didn’t finish it, I put it back in my luggage and brought it home. It decompressed on the plane with violent results, so I’m super glad I thought to wrap it in a plastic bag first. Dear lord. 

The sunburn has faded greatly, thank goodness, and I think another few days of religiously applying Biafine and aloe should do the trick.

Now I just have to decide whether to re-dye my hair purple so it doesn’t look faded and messy, or dye it brown so that I don’t freak out the people I’m skype-interviewing with sometime this week. I kinda feel like on the one hand they’re probably not super conservative, but they might be, you know, more conservative than my current office, where my boss likes my crazy hair. 

Then again, do I want to work somewhere I can’t have purple hair? Decisions, decisions.  

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Back to Work

I really should have taken today off to recover from vacation, but I am back to work today and have stuff due so perhaps it’s just as well. Though this morning I am missing the endless free already-made cocoa I could get at Disney. Staying on-property and eating on the meal plan was kind of like summer camp a little – we mostly did breakfast in our room but I would wake up and walk to the “main building” where cocoa would be waiting and it was a nice way to start the day. 

WHERE IS MY FREE ENDLESS COCOA? Why do I suffer so? 

I mean, most mornings after The Cocoa we were catching a bus which is very reminiscent of my daily life at any rate, but now the bus takes me to work instead of to roller coasters and the Haunted Mansion.

I had bizarre dreams last night. In one I was a Jedi detective, bearing in mind I have very little real idea of how Jedi work. I suppose I don’t really know much about how detectives work either, though, when you come down to it, so I was probably terrible at both. 

FYI guys for those following the adventures of Dream 911 Operator, I did totally have a dream at some point last week that she was moonlighting as an announcer at Disney. Like, she would come over the hidden speakers all over the park to let people know what was going on and give emergency instructions. 

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Today’s origami is the fastest, dirtiest crown

Today’s origami is the fastest, dirtiest crown ever. I’m glad to be back at it though! I decided consciously not to while I was on vacation because it would have been something else to remember to do, so it’s nice to settle back in with this as part of my routine.

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