Your biannual I am still alive plurk: currently I am in Taiwan. It's awesome. I'm tempted to try to go to one of the full-immersion Mandarin courses because I'm enjoying myself so much

Man, I'm just catching up on the spoilers for the latest Vorkosigan book and I am so glad I no longer RP Cordelia

I have developed the inability to drink tea before breakfast without throwing up on my trip. I'm in a hostel that offers no breakfast and requires you to boil the water before drinking.

I just took a shower in the dark and then someone showed me where the light switch was. It's been that sort of day.

Ugh I'm at the first hostel in a week that has decent wifi and it doesn't have convenient plugs. Anywhere.

When your reconstruction has "the original was destroyed and we don't know exactly what it looked like so we just looked at other things around that time period and built it in that style" placards everywhere

Laurel K Hamilton writes Disney princesses is still the greatest description of the Black Jewels series ever.

The people in my hostel room KEEP LEAVING THE DOOR OPEN

I kept having nightmares about randomly deciding to go to a terrible unsafe city and then trying to book my exit all day long and all the buses being full and not actually having a place to stay for the night

the fanfic tropes sorter meme keeps trying to make me choose between things I refuse to say I like under any circumstances because it would be a lie