Home again

[jenepel]

TGIF for sure. I've had three days of work since we got back from Athens, but they've felt like those quick yet long days where you're kind of underwater, not really paying attention to the fact that you are actually supposed to be doing work. See what just a small little holiday does to me?!

I'm also slightly weirded out because in the past week or so I've read several war based books. It's coincidence, but it's strange because it's not my normal genre. One was Atonement, which I've been meaning to read for ages, but then basilm gave me one about ambulance drivers in WW1, and then I got one from A for the flight back to the UK which was set in occupied France in WW2. I tend to jump pretty completely into what I'm reading, so reading them on the tube gives me this weird jump back to real life when my stop comes up. And it makes me all vague and out of it for a little while until I realise that I'm in normal life again. Either way, all three of them were really good, but I think I could use some peacetime reading now!

Speaking of other reading, I got a few books from nanoSara last night. I went after work to meet her and another American and give them some help with their taxes. I always feel so bad about how much people freak out about it, so it's nice to be helpful. It took us about three hours, but part of that was because Sara had three back years to do and her friend had some dividends that needed foreign tax credit. Man I really HATE the 1116! It's one of my least favourite forms, especially when doing it by hand like that. Anyhow, they got done, so that's what counts. In the matter of taxes, what I really need to get to are my own and my parents, neither of which I have done yet. I got kind of lax about it because I was so busy, but the June 15th deadline is rapidly approaching, so I need to get on that.

On another random note, not sure why (perhaps the reading of death and destruction) but I woke up in panic this morning having dreamed that my dad had died. It's not the first time I've dreamed that one (or both) of my parents died (or you know, other people, or me) but still. I called home once it was late enough just to assuage my tingling feelings of worry that I had suddenly become a precog, but all was well. Creepy.

Anyway, as for the Athens trip, it was pretty amazing. I feel like we saw a decent amount of stuff for just five days. We walked a lot of Athens, went out to Sounion and took a day trip on the train to see the monasteries at Meteora. The pictures are here at my facebook but I did want to put just one here on my LJ, because I took it just for filo77.

Comments

[basilm.livejournal.com]

are you going to keep that banner?

you LOVE my taste in books! read those italy ones!! I'll bring the second one tomorrow. you don't have any JQ with you do you. siiiigh I can't wait for the lost duke of whatsists, read the first chapter at work today.

[jenepel.livejournal.com]

That other book is at my house, so I can't read it until I go home, but I'll read it next week! The only JQ I have is the Lady Whistledown one about the stolen bracelet, but I think you've read that?

The banner is temporary. Adina is making me one, but she's been kinda busy. It's growing on me though! :)

[basilm.livejournal.com]

you fail at jq =(

[adinarj.livejournal.com]

I'm working on it, I promise! It's been started and I recently became more inspired. I will be working on it more on Saturday. I just have no time or energy during the week!

[jenepel.livejournal.com]

Oh I know! Don't worry, you're doing it as a favour anyway. Any time you have is good. :)

[robyn-migratori.livejournal.com]

I find it a wee bit strange to see the title "Home again" coupled with a picture of Vancouver. That is home! I know those buildings! And those mountains! But not Betty, which I guess is fortunate.

And I love having someone from the UK on my flist, so I can read stuff about "small little holidays" to freakin' Greece, and weekends in Germany and the like. Glad you had fun.

[jenepel.livejournal.com]

Man I was SO confused by this comment. "Vancouver?? What? It's a picture of Athens." And then I realised that Dead Like Me must have been shot in Vancouver and that you meant the icon. Riiiight. I wouldn't have know what city it was! But I know Betty. :)

[iamseb.livejournal.com]

Some of these pics from meteora look familiar ... did you wander along the main road out to a little town/village that was down a hill ... cute little place with lots of tile roofs and chimneys?

[jenepel.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's exactly the walk we did - from the top monastery down the road through two little villages back to the train station. It took us a few hours.