I've now seen all of New Who season 1. Bye, Eccleston! You were awesome.

Also, moar Capt. Jack in my life, please.

Sweden was rainy today.

Ahaahahaha oh gawd today was outstandingly awesome even by my recent standards. So I was walking west to pick up about where I'd left off yesterday just past Museum Island, and I saw a couple of fairly big birds hopping around the dirtpath back way I'd found through one block, and they were kind of pretty, and then one of them took off and I swear the first thing I thought was "hey, that bird has Nightwing markings!" Which, alright yes, DORK, but they WERE a big V-mark across the chest with highlights on wings and tail.

I went past a booksale at Humboldt Uni, through a good bit of fun historical Berlin, and ended up at the Reichstag Building. Which, holy SHIT, guys, the Bundestag gets to do their Parliament thing in the best building in the world period. It is an ancient stone legislative building, rebuilt from the inside in modernist style. The effect is a massively impressive classical building shell with a glass and fantastically modern core. Its dome is glass. That's the main bit free to the public.

So I went up onto the roof, and up into the dome, and up up up the ramp into the cupola, which has 360 deg view and open-air roof. And a circular bench in the middle designed, I swear to god, for taking naps. I didn't but I came PRETTY CLOSE. And I wandered back down, realized I wasn't half done admiring the awesomeness of the entire structure - there's a cone of 360 huge mirrors in the middle of this dome, base at the cupola, tapering downwards. They reduce glare and reflect light into the main parliament chamber. They are also beautiful.

So I wandered my butt right back up, and sat down to write.

An hour later the sun was setting and I sat up, looked around, and promptly reread the complete first draft of that Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo allegory essay I have been promising myself I would write for MONTHS. It is done, I will type it up, I am so proud. Thank you, Berlin, for enabling this level of TOTAL GEEK.

And then I drifted back downstairs for a long, leisurely walk through the Tiergarten. Which is beyond gorgeous, by the way, particularly during a two-hour sunset, and also has bunnies.

On the way to the Tiergarten two Americans were talking about a pretty bird hopping around the Bundestag lawn. The man said "Ah, but that's a magpie, they're trouble." Realizing suddenly I would need to know what a magpie actually LOOKS like in order to write one as a supervillain, I looked over.

And there was the bird with Nightwing markings.

/o/ THAT'S IT. THE WORLD WINS. I LOVE THE WORLD.



ps After dinner on the other side of the Tiergarten I got lost. My map didn't go that far out. I stuck to bigger streets, found a bus station, looked at the map, and made my way over to the Hauptbahnhof- and realized halfway there that I could have just turned on Data Roaming and had the iPhone display me a Google Map at any time. Ahaha. Still! It is supernice to know that I can navigate an unhelpful neighborhood of a foreign city, in the dark, with no map. Even if it is a German city. And besides I am generally pretty leery of pulling out my Mug Me, I'm An American Tourist! device under anything like suspicious circumstances. Which totally include a poorly lit area with a graffiti'd church and a huge, old, strong building with the kind of watchtower-and-barbed-wire-studded wall indicative of a penitentiary, or Arkham Asylum.

Yep. Awesome day all around.

sdFKL;H

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I need some LJ icons for this show.


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X'D

Okay so

I just did something kind of terrible to a very sweet girl in my Civ class. She's a sophomore and always positive and upbeat and we're pretty good casual friends. And we're coming out of class talking about break and I mention the pillow fight and that there was a political rally there! Because what better way to get the young vote, am I right. And she goes Yeah, that's a great idea, who was it for? And I go, Harvey Dent for Gotham City DA. And show off my campaign pin on my bag. And she goes oh cool, uh-huh! Nodding along.

And I go all casual. Have you heard of him? No, she admits, so tell me about him, what's he like?

Well, gee, how to explain Harvey Dent. I take the pause to think. Is he a good guy? Or is he kind of a douchebag. she asks, all ready for the hard truth.

Well, he's really tough on crime, y'know? Kind of a hard-ass. And maybe you don't want that in SOME positions, though our governor was KIND OF doing okay with that (we divert into Spitzer talk for a moment and then go back to Dent) anyway, I think it's good to have a hardass for your DA! And he's not a BAD guy, he got where he is by being friends with all the right people, you know? Philanthropists. Rich guys who aren't douchebags. She nods along.

I like him, anyway (we talk about Spitzer more, how his downfall was this incredible disassociation between his public works and private misdeeds) and I do admit, I've been kind of watching Dent for awhile, and I think maybe that split could happen with him too! Between public and private personas. But y'know. So long as he doesn't do anything dangerous, illegal and stupid with that private life (we laugh about Spitzer.)

But wiki him, yeah? See what you think. I will, says she, armed and ready to go inform herself. I will wikipedia this guy and when we come to class on Wednesday, I will be all, "I wiki'd Harvey Dent." And we grin at each other

for entirely different reasons

and go our separate ways.

She is probably wiki'ing him right now.

I should feel terrible and I don't, I just don't.

I will be laughing about this so hard for such a long time. She is going to come to class on Wednesday and hate me, just hate me (for like thirty seconds).

Aw man. Life? Is pretty hilarious.

Icon meme, you know the drill. Comment and I'll pick 7 that you have to explain. Possibly.

Hit up from eva_kasumi. ♥


( The goggles! The kittens! The GAY. )

I snapped awake, and listened. Carefully.

And then I rolled out of bed and killed the roach. Ground its head half off with a handy shoe.

Puttered around the room, stopped, listened. And then pulled the bag out of the trash and ground the scrabbling remainder into paste.

In other news, I must've been exhausted; I fell asleep with the experimental Nami tattoo still on. Fortunately the hairspray seems to be a good fixative; no smearing on anything else at all and only a little flaking off! Also that makes two nights in a row. Last night I went out with studio people with the Nami-tat on my arm, and the night before I went out with mom wearing the casual MODE outfit in celebration of shoooes. Casual means that the skirt was nonskanky and the Log Pose was left off because it is still in pieces. Need to fix that this week. Anyway it is fun to do public cosplay with shit like Nami because it is so simple and casual it is like sekrit code.

Anyway now it's 2am and I'm awake. Whoooo.

Pimping: The-"OMG There Were Final Fantasy Games Before 7?!"-Friending Meme

This is a gratuitous icon post. It's also somewhat circular, as merely having the icon puts me in the mood to use it.

So I went to bed at what, 6.30am, and woke up maybe half an hour ago. Mmm.

My brother just served me breakfast in bed. Warm cinnamon rolls, fresh out of the oven. ♥

Looks like it's gonna be a good birthday.

ps I suck at eljay layouts~! Wheeeeeeee. Y'know what I want for my birfday? A good-looking earthtones/yellowed-paper layout and a new calm-Nami default icon. Not that anybody should feel obliged, but I mean. Since people were asking.

...also I would like to know how to change journal title, since LJ has apparently taken that option off! =O

I. Rock.



Do I rock? Or WHAT.