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Dec. 19th, 2010 01:07 pm
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I'm home. Oh, I'm home, I'm home, I'm home. In a weird, eerie twist, there is enough snow here for my parents to have been trapped in the hospital overnight, and to have spent four hours on the road to come and get me from the airport; and no snow at all in Ithaca or NYC! It's colder here than it's been in decades and feels rather a lot like Ithaca in that respect. It's more beautiful, though; mostly untouched, and storybook pretty.

I stayed up all night; I got a bus at six down to New York City, I had delicious brunch with [personal profile] macadamanaity, who cheered me up thoroughly; and then I got a bus out to JFK, and all that time a kindly god was smiling on me; Manchester was the only large British airport not closed for snow, and my plane landed half an hour early on a swept runway. I tracked the landscape through a clear sky during the descent and saw Anglesey, North Wales, Wirral, and Formby under a great coat of white. It really is eerie.

But... I am home safe. I made it. I really did. I made it to the exam, incompetence notwithstanding, and packed up everything in my apartment, and I made it. And I wrote 2300 words of [livejournal.com profile] yuletide on the plane! So now.... sleep.

on 2010-12-19 03:42 pm (UTC)
brightlywoven: (happy)
Posted by [personal profile] brightlywoven
Welcome home dear!

on 2010-12-19 04:51 pm (UTC)
livrelibre: DW barcode (Default)
Posted by [personal profile] livrelibre
Glad you made it home safe!

on 2010-12-19 07:41 pm (UTC)
forthwritten: stained glass spiral (Default)
Posted by [personal profile] forthwritten
Glad you made it home. I hope you're enjoying the (comparative) warmth.

on 2010-12-19 09:33 pm (UTC)
brewsternorth: Electric-blue stylized teapot, captioned "Brewster North". (Default)
Posted by [personal profile] brewsternorth
*hugs* Glad to see you made it back! (You did get lucky on the airport, for sure.)

on 2010-12-19 10:12 pm (UTC)
toft: graphic design for the moon europa (Default)
Posted by [personal profile] toft
Yay! I was worried about you coming through these airports - lucky about Manchester! Glad you're back safely.

on 2010-12-19 01:18 pm (UTC)
Posted by [personal profile] stained_glass
*HUUUUUUGS*

on 2010-12-19 01:26 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] highfantastical.livejournal.com
Welcome baaack! *twirls you*

on 2010-12-19 01:34 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] bookwormsarah.livejournal.com
Welcome home to Dickensian landscapes and beautiful scenes. I have a steam train passing the museum periodically and it is all perfectly magical.

on 2010-12-19 03:43 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] gamesiplay.livejournal.com
Yay for home! So glad things all worked out.

on 2010-12-19 03:49 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] hathy-col.livejournal.com
I'm so glad you're back! *hugs* We shall have to meet up, although possibly when we are both not buried under SNOWMAGEDDON.

on 2010-12-19 05:29 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] macadamanaity.livejournal.com
Glad you got back all right! Yay sleep!

on 2010-12-19 09:12 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] marymac.livejournal.com
Yay! I was starting to wonder if you'd make it.

It just keeps snowing. We've lost the recycling bin.

on 2010-12-20 08:24 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
*squish squish* Home!

on 2010-12-20 08:25 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
So happy to be back!

on 2010-12-20 08:25 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Thank you! We have sea smoke moving in from the shore and trees creaking from the weight of snow. It'a amazing.

on 2010-12-20 08:27 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
Seriously, seriously. I keep hearing about friend after friend stuck in NYC because Heathrow is closed, and feeling rather there-but-for-the-grace-of-God about it!

on 2010-12-20 08:28 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
eeeee! So happy to be back! And yes, yes, absolutely, I owe you and Tali an email.

on 2010-12-20 08:37 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
I actually did! I am really amazed. And sleep was SO GREAT. Thank you again for brunch, it was lovely. :)

on 2010-12-20 08:53 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] yiskah.livejournal.com
Aw, well done for making it home!

on 2010-12-20 09:08 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
So was I! *shakes head* I've been so lucky, seriously.

(Ahahaha, that's kind of fabulous. Shim was saying earlier that he wasn't entirely sure where the food recycling had got to, besides deep frozen.)

on 2010-12-20 09:35 am (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] loneraven.livejournal.com
*grins* It was such luck. I hope you make it!

on 2010-12-20 06:47 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] littlered2.livejournal.com
Welcome home!

on 2010-12-20 08:59 pm (UTC)
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Posted by [personal profile] fyrdrakken
Congrats on being home!

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