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Yesterday's pictures, coming somewhat on time (?) for once!

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I was awake for the very first stop in North Dakota too, but since we were about two hours behind schedule, it was already dark and I didn't get any pictures.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: Midnorth
Current Music: no 8(

We're starting to head back east now; this day covers northern California through part of Washington state.

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Then night came.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: The Northwest
Current Music: clack clack clack

This is the first day of cell phone photos, due to the aforementioned broken camera. I still think most of them came out pretty well, though!

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That's all for yesterday; more on today coming this evening/tomorrow morning.

Current Mood: relieved
Current Location: The Northwest
Current Music: people chatting

Sorry this entry is so late! LJ's been down for a lot of today, so I haven't gotten a chance to post. Anyway, onward!

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After that my camera broke and I couldn't fix it myself, so future pictures will be cell phone quality.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: The West
Current Music: The conductor speaking over the intercom

Sorry I didn't post this last night; we went through a semi-dead area in the evening and I couldn't upload the pictures.

Here we get into the more interesting stuff, IMHO-- we got off the east coast and into the midwest, and I walked around Chicago with

jeannette for a few hours!

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That's it for yesterday's pictures! I'll try to post today's tonight, but if we go through another dead area it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: The Midwest
Current Music: idk

Okay, so it's the end of my first day, and I have literally no idea where we are right now. The last station I was aware of was Albany-Rensselaer in New York, but like I was telling

rinhriveiel over Facebook, there aren't exactly road signs along train routes (unfortunately; it'd be really handy if there were!).

Pictures of today are somewhat boring from my POV, mostly because we're still in the northeast and it's all really similar to the stuff I see at home every day-- but I'm posting them anyway. There are a few from inside the train too, but not many yet. I'll take more on the bigger train (the Superliner) I'll be on tomorrow.

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For the most part, today has been pretty much just sitting and looking at stuff out the window. The food's good; at dinner, I sat with a woman and we talked a loooooooot about animals and other things (but mostly animals), which was really fun. We exchanged email addresses so that we can send each other pictures of the different legs of our journeys (she's going to Dallas after we get to Chicago, and I'll be on my way to California). We also talked a little bit about family, and I felt like I sounded like a pathological liar when I got into some of our stuff ("my dad speaks Chinese, Russian, and Bulgarian and my mom speaks French and Bulgarian and also she used to work for the CIA!"), BECAUSE IT SOUNDS RIDICULOUS AND MADE-UP EVEN THOUGH IT'S TRUE.

Anyway, I'm up way past the time I was planning to be, so I'll post this and get off now. Tomorrow I'll get into Chicago at 9:45, see

jeannette, and then head off on the California Zephyr at two!

Current Mood: happy
Current Location: The Mideast
Current Music: train wheels

So, every time I try to go to a plurk page-- including my own-- I get the message "[username] has been banned". I'm guessing this is a glitch, or has Plurk gone on a massive banning spree?

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I might have left off a few European countries that I don't remember having been to (we lived in Germany when I was little and drove all over the continent then), but I'm pretty sure I have everything down. As for the states, I'm going to add a lot more to that list next month. :P Overall, though, I'd love to travel more-- particularly in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: New Hampshuh
Current Music: The rats scurrying around in their cages.

The Rules:
1. People who have been tagged must write the answers on their blog and replace any question they dislike with a new, original question.
~~2. Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.~~ SCREW THIS; I HATE TAGGING PEOPLE IN MEMES. Do it if you want; don't do it if you don't.

( this is actually kind of boring! )

Current Mood: bored
Current Location: New Hampshuh
Current Music: lolno

So! In early April (the first to the eighth), I'm going to be taking a train trip across the country. I'm ridiculously excited and I've been spending forever preparing for this, and because I had nothing better to do this afternoon, I put together a list of the route I'll be taking. If any of you online people live in any of these places, I'll wave at your city from my window. :P

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Can it be April yet?

Current Mood: giddy
Current Location: New Hampshuh
Current Music: shrieking cockatiels

Because I know I have at least a couple Criminal Minds fans on my flist, it's survey time! Tell me your opinion on...

- the spookiest episode
- the spookiest scene (not necessarily from that episode, but it can be)

Feel free to link to clips if you can find any.

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Anyone else?

Current Mood: awake
Current Location: New Hampshuh
Current Music: "Boadicea"

I finished series five of the new Doctor Who today-- and after watching "Vincent and the Doctor" last night, I... legit cannot stop thinking about how awesome it was (a few people on Plurk can attest to this). It's a time-travel episode in which the main characters go back and meet Vincent Van Gogh-- and the last few minutes even made my mom cry, and she isn't a fan of sci-fi and thus doesn't watch the show. I've been trying to find a link just to that bit so I can post it here, but no cigar.

While I did really like the metaphor of the entire plot (and I also loved the scene where Amy, Vincent, and the Doctor are lying on the grass and the sky above them transforms into his painting The Starry Night), I won't describe the entire episode because really, what made it for me was the ending. After spending time living with, getting to know, and becoming close to Van Gogh, and seeing just how misunderstood and pushed aside he was in his own time, the Doctor and his current companion bring him onto the TARDIS and take him to 2010's Musée d'Orsay... where there's an exhibition of all his paintings, finally being viewed and appreciated. They talk to a tour guide, who says that he believes that Van Gogh is not only the best artist of all time, but one of the best people of all time-- and Vincent just starts crying. Looking around at reviews online, there's definitely a segment of the fandom that thought the scene was overly sappy, but... I don't know. There was just something so incredibly moving about it for me. And like I said, I cannot. Get it out. Of my head. It's something that really would be wonderful to be able to do in real life-- take historical figures who were particularly tortured or unjustly maligned, and bring them into the future to say, "Look! See! We appreciate you! No matter what happened to you in your time, you weren't forgotten, and now you're going to be loved forever."

Definitely my favorite episode of the series-- old and new. Even better than "Midnight"... just for that ending.

Current Mood: happy
Current Location: New Hampshuh
Current Music: my dog snores...

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"Waaaaaaaaaait, can we get a do-over?"

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: New Hampshuh
Current Music: lol it's 5am

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I'm sure LJ and Samsung have no ulterior motives for asking this. None at all.

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: New Hampshuh

Because I a) am a huge geek, and b) have recently come into possession of quite a few classic Doctor Who DVDs, I'm using my good ol' LJ to catalogue which ones I own. This list will presumably (hopefully?) be added to as time goes on.

First Doctor

008. "The Reign of Terror" (incomplete)
014. "The Crusade" (incomplete)
017. "The Time Meddler"
018. "Galaxy 4" (incomplete)
020. "The Myth Makers" (incomplete)
021. "The Daleks' Master Plan" (incomplete)
024. "The Celestial Toymaker" (incomplete)
026. "The Savages" (incomplete)
028. "The Smugglers" (incomplete)
029. "The Tenth Planet" (incomplete)

Second Doctor

030. "The Power of the Daleks" (incomplete)
031. "The Highlanders" (incomplete)
032. "The Underwater Menace" (incomplete)
033. "The Moonbase" (incomplete)
034. "The Macra Terror" (incomplete)
035. "The Faceless Ones" (incomplete)
036. "The Evil of the Daleks" (incomplete)
038. "The Abominable Snowmen" (incomplete)
040. "The Enemy of the World" (incomplete)
041. "The Web of Fear" (incomplete)
042. "Fury from the Deep" (incomplete)
043. "The Wheel in Space" (incomplete)
049. "The Space Pirates (incomplete)

Fourth Doctor

078. "Genesis of the Daleks"
082. "Pyramids of Mars"
087. "The Hand of Fear"
105. "City of Death"
109. "The Leisure Hive"

Fifth Doctor

128. "The King's Demons"

Sixth Doctor

136. "The Twin Dilemma"

Seventh Doctor

148. "Remembrance of the Daleks"
153. "Ghost Light"
155. "Survival"

Ninth Doctor

157. "Rose"
158. "The End of the World"
159. "The Unquiet Dead"
160. "Aliens of London"/"World War Three"
161. "Dalek"
162. "The Long Game"
163. "Father's Day"
164. "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances"
165. "Boom Town"
166. "Bad Wolf"/"The Parting of the Ways"

Tenth Doctor

167. "The Christmas Invasion"
168. "New Earth"
169. "Tooth and Claw"
170. "School Reunion"
171. "The Girl in the Fireplace"
172. "Rise of the Cybermen"/"The Age of Steel"
173. "The Idiot's Lantern"
174. "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit"
175. "Love & Monsters"
176. "Fear Her"
177. "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday"
178. "The Runaway Bride"
179. "Smith and Jones"
180. "The Shakespeare Code"
181. "Gridlock"
182. "Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks"
183. "The Lazarus Experiment"
184. "42"
185. "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood"
186. "Blink"
187. "Utopia"/"The Sound of Drums"/"Last of the Time Lords"
188. "Voyage of the Damned"
189. "Partners in Crime"
190. "The Fires of Pompeii"
191. "Planet of the Ood"
192. "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky"
193. "The Doctor's Daughter"
194. "The Unicorn and the Wasp"
195. "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead"
196. "Midnight"
197. "Turn Left"
198. "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End"
199. "The Next Doctor"
200. "Planet of the Dead"
201. "The Waters of Mars"
202. "The End of Time"

Eleventh Doctor

203. "The Eleventh Hour"
204. "The Beast Below"
205. "Victory of the Daleks"
206. "The Time of Angels"/"Flesh and Stone"
207. "The Vampires of Venice"
208. "Amy's Choice"
209. "The Hungry Earth"/"Cold Blood"
210. "Vincent and the Doctor"
211. "The Lodger"
212. "The Pandorica Opens"/"The Big Bang"
213. "A Christmas Carol"
214. "The Impossible Astronaut"/"Day of the Moon"
215. "Curse of the Black Spot"
216. "The Doctor's Wife"
217. "The Rebel Flesh"/"The Almost People"
218. "A Good Man Goes to War"/"Let's Kill Hitler"
219. "Night Terrors"
220. "The Girl Who Waited"
221. "The God Complex"
222. "Closing Time"
223. "The Wedding of River Song"

Current Mood: geeky
Current Location: New Hampshuh
Current Music: Sophie just yawned...

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My favorite answers to this, all taken from here:

"Try not to kill anyone who doesn't deserve it." -

torimcd
"I wish you no specific harm." -

the_raff
"I would replace it with a series of grunts and threatening hand motions."

seanmonster
"Have a nice night!" -

romankrimker
"I hope you go to hell." -

raptureraptor
"I hope you fall in a hole and die." -

haggis_bagpipes
"A nice day. You should have one." -

flooglebunnies
"I hope the moments following our parting are as pleasant as the feel of sunshine on skin after a cool autumn breeze. May every second be useful, every minute exciting and every hour full of the exciting and useful combinations of minutes and seconds that will henceforth make up your time. May you climb mountains using nothing but your keen sense of smell and enthusiasm for life, may you encounter nothing but kindness and may- Hey... where are you going? Don't leave! I so want to be friends!" -

arguingvitality
"Cunnilingus is God." -

zoomeister
"Have fun, don't die." -

ruralgeekgirl
"Go fuck yourself! :D" -

xxangelsblood
"Don't you dare have a nice day." -

malatruse
"K, now GTFO." -

uttering
"That's what she said." -

onyxdragonfly10
"It only hurts the first time." -

wolfy

I stopped at the end of this page if anyone wants to find more.

Current Mood: amused
Current Location: New Hampshuh
Current Music: Writer's Block has the weirdest questions

1. Create a graphic (200 x 200 max size) to represent your personal "candy". It should have your username on it, but otherwise can feature whatever you want. Make it something special since it's self-representative.

2. Make a post with the subject "trick or treat?". Put your "candy" somewhere in it, and be sure to repost these instructions.

3. Then, go around other people's LJs and reply to them with either "trick" or "treat". If you reply with "trick", they will give you an LJ dare that you have to perform before taking their candy. If you're too wimpy for that, simply say "treat" and take their candy.

4. List all your collected candies in your original "trick or treat?" post to show off your collection!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: New Hampshuh
Current Music: I am ridiculous

I still hope Michael and Holly start dating again. Still.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: New Hampshuh
Current Music: o/

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Finish a novel.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: New Hampshuh
Current Music: My laptop cooling pad whirring.

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Pretty positive, really. I love shopping for school supplies, I love putting my backpack together and arranging my notebooks, and I love using all-new materials. High school made up some of my best years, so that's where the most positive associations lie, but even though I'm taking time off of college because of burn-out my experience there was hardly all negative. I hope that when I end up going back, I'll accumulate even more good memories to add to that.

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Madame.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Location: New Hampshuh
Current Music: the rats drinking their water

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