Rome not-quite on five denariis a day; fandom and news stuff

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And so I have spent six days in Rome, which is large and warm and full of echoes of past times and occasionally makes it feel a little surreal. But had a smashing time with falena84. A pic-spam of my time in Italy will come, but for now you can enjoy this not-at-all staged photo of me reading a guidebook. (We had much fun with that one, let me tell you.) Important fields of discussion on the trip included which world leader you'd rather do (expect a poll in the coming days), overheard American comments, that a wise Viking knows when to retreat to the longboat (a.ka when to have a siesta), overpriced centurions, books, which important historical Roman it would be the best to be the wife of and what monuments would indicate the builder was compensating. Fun times all around.

I'll be back in Norway Friday - end to a very lovely trip. :)

So, what did I miss in the world of the Internets? Well, I notice Doctor Who fandom made it to f_w yet AGAIN. And for shipping. Sigh. I'll just be here in my longboat, writing the fic I want and steer T&C as carefully as I can away from wanky waters. There's plenty of mead if you want to join.

And fandom is displeased with LJ. Hum. I need to read up on all of that. Is really a mass exodus happening or what? I think I'm missing large chunks of what's going on - not surprising, since I've been kinda distracted by having a holiday.

And because I'm a sheep - The Epilogue Meme.

And yay, new expansion for World of Warcraft, but not with a release date. Those teases.

And I have two fics to finish. Oops. Brass in Norway and the Doctor and Rose in Kent, 1900. Must kick self.

So, once again, what's new with you? Those of you who asked for postcards, have you gotten them yet?

In other news:
Karl Rove resigns.
Australian taken hostage in Internet bride scam.
New attempt to locate trapped Utah miners.
Floods in Norway.

Comments

[maureenlycaon.livejournal.com]

Oh, mannnn . . . you missed a wank and a half. It started with the deletion of ponderosa121 and three other people's accounts -- ponderosa's for a very dicey case of alleged child porn. It blew up from there, thanks to the incredible ham-handedness of SixApart management. I don't have the energy to go into it all now. I'm sure others will. I'm not proud of Fandom Wank's performance in this, btw.

I'm going to slowly move the center of my own operations over to my own IJ, and not renew my paid account. Btw, there are now at least two DW communities on IJ: bbc_dr_who and who_fic.