Hey guys guess what!

[eruthros]

I'm back home! Over the last few days I have been:

1. sleeping in my comfy bed (well, as much as the jet lag will let me)

2. eating many meals made with lots of protein (how I ended up working somewhere with a cuisine that doesn't include tofu or tempeh or black beans or lentils or vegetarian protein I do not know)
2a. eating chocolate (I ran out of chocolate-from-home two and a half weeks ago)
2b. ESPRESSO.

3. wearing different clothes (they are ... different! it's exciting.)

4. chatting with thingswithwings IRL! (Having IRL conversations with someone about fandom! \o/)

5. hugging the internet close (I finally caught up on dw)

6. watching Leverage (oh OT3)

7. playing Super Mario Galaxy nostalgically (guys, there is going to be Super Mario Galaxy 2! In January! OMG AWESOME.)

8. working on a kink_bingo story (begun in the middle of nowhere; turns out that when you write in hundred word increments in your five minutes of free time, you need to go back and put in a whole bunch of transitions)

So, in short, I am very happy to be home. And to see read all you guys! And to be able to comment on your posts and stuff! It is thrilling.

Comments

[isagel]

Yay for your return to civilization!

Thank you so much for the postcard (which I think threw my mom for a loop - sometimes it's a bit weird when you're away and someone else gets your mail for you *g*), and even more for the postcard feedback!!!

[eruthros]

I am glad you enjoyed the postcard! I hadn't thought about the reaction if someone else read it, so, whoops. :) That is a true story, about my coworker's music and my mishearing of "sweetheart's paw."

I am glad to be home, but I'm uncomfortable with the phrasing of it as being back in "civilization." You couldn't have known this, but lots of people I work with, both here and in the Middle of Nowhere, use that phrasing, and it really bothers me -- I get what people are intending to say, but the word has unpleasant connotations in the context of returning to America from ... well, really, anywhere. As I was leaving, colleagues kept saying "enjoy civilization," as I was standing in a predominantly-Muslim country, in a place with a landscape changed massively by colonialism and imperialism. I know you didn't mean it that way, but I just wanted to let you know why it makes me uncomfortable.

[isagel]

Heh. Being European, I can't say I really think of America as more civilized than any other place. *g* Bad attempts at humour aside, though: I used the word unthinkingly, and I apologize. Thank you for letting me know you didn't like it - everyone should do that more often when word-usage bothers them. :)

(Trying to retrace my thoughts, I believe the lack of civilization I was implying wasn't Turkey, but your isolated (and I think mostly Western?) work-community which seemed to bother you so much. Regardless, I'll think twice before I use the word again.)

[eruthros]

Yeah, I know what you mean about America. :)

I do know exactly what you mean: I really was mostly living in a weird isolated largely-British and American workspace with really awful rules. And I can absolutely see where the word comes from, when I move from a place that has no internet to a place that does; it's just that I'm also moving from a Muslim space to a Christian one. (And, really, I don't think there's a way to use "civilized" that doesn't imply that somebody is primitive.)

[anatsuno]

welcome home! \o/!

[livrelibre]

Yay! Welcome back and I am glad you are home!

[ryca]

Ooh, who on Leverage is your OT3? I've only seen three episodes so far, so I don't have any OTPs or OT3s yet.

[eruthros]

Parker/Elliot/Hardison. I LOVE THEM SO!

And yet I don't have an icon for them. Must get on that.

[lysimache]

Just wanted to say thank you for the postcard! We got it a couple of weeks ago. Very pretty!

:)