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elaby ([personal profile] elaby) wrote2008-05-28 08:09 pm
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Life update

I am a bad little LJer! Bad! [livejournal.com profile] caitirin disagrees because she's wonderful and beautiful and the most perfect wife ever in the world. Even if she has a cold sore.

Things of interest that have happened recently:

- There's a new guy in our unit at work. He's okay.

- I got a CD by a Japanese ubercute pop band called Under17. Holy GOD, it's adorable and peppy and catchy and charms my socks off. I listened to it on the plane both to and from visiting Caitirin's parents last week.

- Speaking of which, we had a fabulous time :) It's very nice out there, and the irritation brought on by having to deal with Caitirin's grandmother is fading into that now-just-an-amusing-story state. When we got out there and Caitirin's mom was driving us home, I saw a rainbow cloud. It was incredible - the sun was shining on the edge of this cloud, and the entire cloud was a spectrum of color with rainbows at the edges. Another cloud near it had edges of rainbows too. I've never seen this before. I figured it must be something about the altitude difference (much higher out there). I should look and see if I can find pictures online!

[edit: It was kind of like this, only the bands were a lot thicker and the cloud was smaller, so the colors filled all of it.]

- In early May I saw a faery trail. You know faery circles? Dark round patches in the grass? Well, one morning I was dropping Caitirin off at the bus stop and it was one of the first very dewy mornings. The lawn near where I dropped her off was alight with dew. The sun was still low and the grass was brilliant with it. And as I drove off, I saw a dark path, consistently about a foot wide, straight from the forest to the road.

- I had put in an application for a job at Caitirin's university for a web writing job, and although they're in a hiring freeze and couldn't hire anyone at the moment anyway, they sent me a rejection letter. It wasn't the normal one, though, and it said they were impressed with my credentials.

- We wrote and had dinner with [livejournal.com profile] _melisande_ last night, and it was incredible. She has a really great net tent thing, and her garden is gorgeous, and her family is just beyond wonderful. They cooked us hamburgers and homemade potato salad, and Caitirin and [livejournal.com profile] _melisande_ and I sat around a fire after it got dark and made s'mores and sang and looked at the stars. She lives out in the woods, so you can see the stars so sharply. I haven't sung around a campfire since Caitirin and I went camping back before we moved in together. And this time there were three of us so we could sing beautiful rounds :) And we sounded great. It was wonderful. And there was talk of shirtless!Thomas, which makes any situation better XD

- I'm in a medieval historical fiction reading mood, and I'm reading Sharon Kay Penman's Medieval Mysteries (SO GOOD!) and The Pillars of the Earth, which is less well-written but still pretty interesting.

Ooh, a TV show about Herculaneum is on.
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[identity profile] x-pyewacket-x.livejournal.com 2008-05-29 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, I saw a cloud like that last week when we went to get my sister's stuff from Farmington! I'm pretty sure the rainbow effect comes from ice crystals in the clouds making pretty refraction patterns. Neat stuff!

[identity profile] elaby.livejournal.com 2008-05-29 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooo! Thanks for the science ^_^ I wanted to know why it did that!

[identity profile] elaby.livejournal.com 2008-05-29 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you :) There was more good than bad, so that was nice! And the rejection was more complimentary and personal than the ones I've gotten from the university before.

[identity profile] poelaramont.livejournal.com 2008-05-30 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
S'mores are one of the Perfect Foods.

[identity profile] elaby.livejournal.com 2008-05-30 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
I don't usually like marshmallows, but I've found I just love s'mores!

[identity profile] coastal-spirit.livejournal.com 2008-05-31 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
That cloud must have been fantastic! I've never seen anything like that before.

I would have been in awe if I had seen the faery trail. That is so cool!

I'm glad they recognized your credentials, even if they didn't hire you. :(

The cookout at Bethany's sounds nice. :)

[identity profile] elaby.livejournal.com 2008-05-31 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
The cloud was really cool! I was very surprised ^_^ I should have tried to get a picture of it...

I was also really surprised by the faery trail. I was already going "Ooooooo!" because the grass was just so sparkly.

It was a really nice time at Bethany's ^_^