I'm back from the beach, just in time to do laundry and pack for San Francisco.

The beach was very nice, though I wish I'd not been feeling blah as much as I was. It was still great, though. Good times were had by all.
Yesterday we went to a place I'd not been in 15 years, which was interesting. It's been built up a lot, but the beach there is amazing. Soooo very much fun was had.
The day before that we voyaged to the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher, where I viewed fishes, and turtles, and alligators, and pretty neon-lit jellyfish, and then I discovered a tank of cuttlefish, and all symbolance of being interested in anything else was lost completely. Cuttlefish are... completely amazing. Cephalopods are now one of my favorite types of creatures, beating dinosaurs, dinosaur-like birds, and regular birds, and tying with sloths, echidnas, pangolins, and domesticated cats.
I forgot to mention last time that on my first night at the beach I got to see loggerhead turtle babies emerging from their nest. 107 of them. That was awe-inspiring.

Right now I'm reading "The Persian Boy" by Mary Renault. I'm a little more than half-way through. I'm very invested in it... the writing is great, and I'm awfully attached to the characters. It's making me into such an Alexander the Great fangirl. And Bagoas is just wonderful... and the love story... well... just, *sigh.*
When I pick it up, I can't put it down, but I'm getting slightly more reluctant to open it once I do, because I know bad things are going to happen. That's what sucks about historical fiction. If it's about real people, you know at least some of how it will end. So now if anything at all bad happens, I get so upset, because I want them to be as happy as possible for as long as possible. Of course, that adds depth, and I love and appreciate it, and so far, things have looked up again after the unhappy bits.
So, in other words, it has sucked me in big time.

I've been feeling a bit sick and blah; I hope I feel better before I head to California. Or that Max cures it. I know he'll cure the blah; maybe the sick will go with it.

Ahhhhhhhhhh I must have "Waterloo to Everywhere" (the Dirty Pretty Things debut). AHHHHHH. Insound says it comes out in the US tomorrow but the local record store's website says it comes next week. And it's too f'in hot to go down to the store tomorrow to check.
EDIT: Pssssshhh Insound is dumb. their front page says tomorrow but everywhere else they, like everybody, say it arrives the 8th. Sillyheads! They have misled me! And I put it on my Google calendar and everything!
Have I ever pointed out that I'm obsessed with Google calendar?

Um. I made an icon!!! *points* It's from the new Doctor Who, series 2 episode... 6? *counts on fingers* Yes, 6. "Idiot's Lantern." It was much the rocking.
Oh, Doctor Who, how I love you.
( Pssst. )

Er. Wow, I'm a dork. *proud*
This is my last week of work, and I'm freaking out, but I still feel like I have nothing to do. It's gonna drive me mad, I tell you! MAD!

Oh, and go through "Here" and look at the icons I made for my first icontest, eva. They're for mh_icontest, which is a male model icontest.
( Here )

Wheee!
I've been making icons like mad for months and yet have hardly uploaded any of them. I'm silly. Be prepared for a massive update at some point in the near future, as that's one of my projects for next week.


P.S.
"I thought cephalopods were underwater animals!"
"They played us for suckers!"

Squid, cuttlefish, and other similarly baleful creatures