May Miscellany

Greetings from NYC, dears. My trip was pretty uneventful (we won't talk about the wrong turn that put me in the wrong direction on the interstate -- and the next exit wasn't for six miles, and even then it just put me onto another interstate. Three miles later, I exited that, only to find that I couldn't just drive across the local road and get back on in the interstate in the opposite direction, the way you usually can. It was one of those weird interchanges that took me back through the entire small town and looped me up to an even earlier interstate entrance before I could get going in the right direction. So 17 miles and about 30 minutes after I made the wrong turn, I was back on track.)

But all's well that ends well, and I got to NY about 10:00 pm on Saturday. Yesterday, my partner and I drove to her parents' house so that I could leave my car. No more long drives now until August.

To brighten and/or terrify your Monday, here are a few fun and frightening things I've found on the net.

Thing 1 -- AARRGGH! Jesus effing. . . The only things worse than bug-eyed cicadas are cockroaches (and you all know how I am Totally Unable to Deal with cockroaches). When we had the last plague of these locusts, I stayed virtually house-bound the entire time. Their mating screams are unreal. And they bang against the windows so hard that I thought they would break the glass.

Thing 2 -- Prompting is open until May 15! Go and leave some (I plan to do mine this week). Last time, this fest was one of the highlights of the HP year for me.


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Thing 3 -- hp_beholder is still going strong. What with travel and wrong turns and all, I'm behind on my reading, but I'll have a Week Four rec post soon.

Thing 4 -- Queen Helen Mirren FTW! Want to see her? Here's the (not very good) video.