i still feel like i'm swaying about after no sleep for over 24 hours, a 6-hour flight and two more hours in a van. it's a weird feeling. it's like i'm still on the ship, but it can't be that, because i got off yesterday morning so i'm jusr chalking it up to fatigue. but for some reason i can't fall asleep, so i'm here.

i will tell you one thing for now: i'm never traveling with my entire family again. i already wanted to push them all off the ship by day 3.

i really don't think i'll be checking my flist until later so if i missed something important/fun/awesome (fic self pimps are encouraged, i'm going through fandom withdrawal), do tell. rl or not, i've been completely disconnected from the real world since i left on the 30th.

firstly, WTF australia. if only there was a way to magically transport all the water from the floods to where the fires are. or, you know, something.

i slept a couple hours and the swaying feeling has gone away. mostly. i had to wake up to shower because i was feeling incredibly disgusting and my hair was a ratty mess. oh, and remember my comments about finally getting a tan? well, the lobster red coloration on my chest and legs toned down to... splotchy brown. go me.

oh and speaking of hair, my blue fringe was a hit in the caribbean. i had at least one person commenting on it every day.

i had a bit of internet access while i was staying at the hotel in panama, so i was pretty surprised when i received an invitation to daily_deviant. i only accepted it today, but i'm afraid their posting schedule is still beyond my comprehension so i had to ask a mod to explain it to me. if it's too deadline-heavy i think it'd be best if i dropped out of the comm. me and deadlines, you know.

speaking of deadlines. i worked a bit on my hd_worldcup piece while i was away. that was pretty much it on the art front. i didn't really have the motivation to draw anything.

i did read a couple books. child 44 which bored me a little in the middle but picked up later on, i enjoyed it. in the ship's library i found kushiel's scion, which i picked up because i've heard some people on lj talking about that series. the world-building and the inter-character relationships were pretty interesting (esp. the royal families, i always like that sort of stuff), but... the sex bored me. i abandoned the book shortly after the stuff with the pseudo-roman senator's wife started happening. and the constant mentions of phedre's super duper fabulous awesomeness were a bit tiring as well. i also read GoF (in its original english) which was a good memory refresher because i had only read that book once, like 6 years ago. and once again i thought that if harry and ginny had gone together to the yule ball it would have been beyond adorable. too bad they sucked as a couple later. it also gave me major cravings for both immediately-post-azkaban r/s and school-aged h/d. oh, i suffered. :[

i also gained like 3 kilos from the cruise food. stupid delicious food.

now, i think i should go edit some photos.