we are only made of air and dust

Working 10 hour days is nothing, considering that friends of mine have worked longer shifts in their own careers (lawyers, doctors), but this mandatory overtime at work has been kind of a bitch and a half. It's like the world doesn't exist outside of an a/c cube.

Anyway, I'll be at Comic-con this Sunday, and apparently I missed a lot of hilarz when the cast of Twilight and La Dame Meyers showed up today. A quote from Stephanie Meyers:

"There are so many girls out there who do not know kung fu, and if a guy jumps in the alley they're not going to turn around with a roundhouse kick," Meyer said. "There's a lot of people who are just quieter and aren't having the Prada lifestyle and going to a special school in New York where everyone's rich and fabulous. There's normal people out there and I think that's one of the reasons Bella has become so popular."

Innocuous words, but I don't know about you - I might not know kung fu, but growing up with overprotective, paranoid Asian parents who were convinced that in every dark alley hid a rapist, I did learn a few things about making sure I stayed out of harm's way.

I'm going to Seattle next month to visit my dear aquacat37 and I just bought the ticket today. I'm very excited.

I received the American DVD version of SPACED (aka, one of my favorite shows EVER.) and aside from the third disc (which has a very amusing Q & A with Edgar and Simon, and then the rest of the cast, minus Jess) and a few interesting tidbits on the American commentary (Diablo Cody sounds younger than I was expecting her to sound, while Patton Oswald's commentaries were my favorite because he was so unrepentantly a fan of the show and talked about it, and his undying love for Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson) and Daisy.)

I'll do a side by side comparison with the UK Special Edition soon.

Uploading my last memory card now, but here's the Flickr travelogue in full affect. Mostly the themes are: pictures of really pretty scenery, pictures of food, pictures of my hair, pictures of the Wonder Twins, and pictures of the places we stayed at. And pictures of food. I'm slowly sorting all the captions and titles out, but I've already tagged a few. I'll try and do a write up of the entire adventure today, but right now I have to go fuel my car, exchange my money at Downtown Disney, and eat something that isn't a candy bar.

As an added bonus - silly little video of an Irish kitten

Took a nap, but now I'm really going to leave and attempt to mail some things, along with scrounging up some late lunch.

It's just so peaceful right now -

I uploaded a fraction of my holiday snaps - Dublin, Glasgow, and Edinburgh are up. Something approaching wit or tags and captions will have to wait for the weekend however.

a few highlights from my holiday so far:


1. Ewan Macgregor walked past me on Charing Cross/Shaftesbury Ave. Attempted not to gawp like a tourist.

2. Went on a Jack the Ripper tour. It was very gorey and theatrical and perfect on a blustery, cold night.

3. Apparently missed the good weather by a whole week. It will probably be sunshine and puppies after I leave.

4. British Museum yesterday, along with Forbidden Planet. Today will be National Portrait Gallery and maybe the V&A and definitely Harrods.

5. If I am a very good girl, I could coax my friends to a cream tea.

6. Saw Hot Fuzz in Dublin, and Becoming Jane in Glasgow.

7. Edinburgh. Blond man tapping on the window, pointing at my hair and mouthing, "fantastic hair" and giving me the thumbs up outside our hostel.

8. Marks & Spencer's cookies

9. Strolling through Theaterland, and seeing the poster for Equus.

10. Seeing Wicked.

I miss you lot, and I have laundry, HYD, and fic to catch up on. Oh and work. Bleh. I wish to be kept in the lifestyle I am now accustomed to!

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. It's lovely inside.

Going to FAO Scwhartz later in the afternoon and meeting up with a few friends, then Chinatown for dinner. And then tomorrow it's off to the Pod Hotel, daylight savings time (I still have no idea what's going to happen, but I'm going to assume my computer at home will not explode) and then IRELAND.

Places I've been to so far - Harlem, Rockefeller Center, Kinokinuya (I found it all by myself!), H&M, Serendippity.

Today will be Central Park day as well.

I saw the script up for HYD, and I can only say, man, they really did compress the storyline.

the (IT'S A VERY SMALL) World Tour 2007 is about to start, coming to a city or country (quite possibly) near to you!

My Check List

PRE-TRIP CHORES:

1. Pay bills online
2. Get new checks
3. Check status of tax refund (supposed to get it tomorrow) CALL IRS!
4. Clean Bathroom
5. Clean Car - okay, I know no one else is going to be driving it for 3 weeks, but it's just a Virgo thing. You have to let it go.
6. Laundry
7. Remind mom am leaving for vacation
8. Book airport shuttle
9. Clean Room
10. Mow Lawn

( positively fascinating, I know )

PLACES I WANT TO GO WHILE IN NEW YORK:

1. Central Park
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art (maybe)
3. Imagine Memorial
4. Midtown Comics
5. Chinatown
6. Williamsburg
7. Any of the places I copied down for good cheap eating (korean bim bop, japanese pancake, chinese soup dumplings, and grey's papaya!)
8. Japanese book/stationery stores or Books

PEOPLE I WANT TO SEE WHILE IN NEW YORK

Well, you, naturally.

As it is the new year (how was yours? I fell asleep at 8:30 on New Year's Day and slept for about 15 hours), I did the obligatory Must Have New Hair! except it is not really new hair, as it is short, fringed, and chunky striped red, because red is pretty much my default color (and it looks the best on me). Mailed some more packages out, and caught up on two obsessions - the last ever episode of Green Wing, and the second season of Hana Yori Dango. The fangirl force, may it be with you.

(The geek is strong, young padawan. I feel a powerful squee.)

Work is the same as it ever was, meaning: repetitive, full of consumer assholes, and unexpected hilarity among my co-workers, only now I'm working 40- hour weeks full time and at less than minimum wage (thank you, college education! Thank myself for constantly undervaluing my worth!) per hour, so I'm basically swimming around the drain hole, waiting for the moment. Because I have a Big Moment coming - in March, I will be doing the Saff is Poor But That Has Never Stopped Her SEMI WORLD TOUR 2007! Yes, my little LJ popsicles, the second week of March, I will be returning to the birthland, and gracing (or defacing) New York City and then from there on to Manchester which has not been Madchester for quite a while now, but now it shall be SAFFCHESTER, and to London and ONWARD TO THE LOVE OF MY LIFE, SCOTLAND.

And Ireland for St. Patrick's Day!

And I will be traveling in style with two of my favoritest people ever, D & R! Or as their rockstar names go: Dare and Rebecca. I've already lined up accomodations for myself in NY (read: couches, yours, you could be lucky) and we're still planning the UK part of the trip, and I'm buying my NY tickets this weekend, and then getting grown up gorgeous luggage, and not eating anything in between! Oh, saving money is so much fun. About as much fun as going to the dentist and him telling you that you have to have emergency root canal surgery and they've just run out of anaesthetic. But March will all be worth it.

So, what should I (we) see and do in NY? Who shall I shamelessly make out with? Who deserves some serious glomping? It could be you.....


I will of course have to have my picture taken at the Imagine memorial, because YES.