in_stead: (whee!)
in_stead ([personal profile] in_stead) wrote2006-12-18 09:43 am

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HI CANADA! I'M HOME!

Well, in Toronto, at least. My mother conveniently has meetings here today and so was able to come pick me up from my plane, which landed at 12:30 last night. I didn't clear customs and get out with my luggage until 1:40 (the customs guy got pissy when he saw my work visa in my passport -- "Yes, fine, you're Canadian, whatever, but where do you spend the most time in an average year?" "Um. Canada. Because I've only been in England for four months. As you can see, both from what I very truthfully filled out on my customs card and by the stamps in my passport.") and then couldn't sleep for ages, because my body thought it was morning when we got back to the hotel. I am so very, very jetlagged.

And the Delta Chelsea has internets. The stores don't open for another hour or so, so I am trying to catch up on about three months worth of flist (good lord, you people are so verbose! cut it out! or at least point out the highlights in a sort of coles notes of lj.).

I love internets.

Much to say. Much, much, MUCH to say. Much has happened since the sort-of-some-times-hot spot in the kitchen went decidedly cold. But it will have to wait. Short form: I like teaching. Except when I don't. And I work with really fantastically awesome people at a really fantastically awesome school that I really seriously love.

And now, Christmas.

Yays!

So, plan for today: TIM HORTONS. And a little bit of putting the final touches on Christmas shopping. And TIM HORTONS. And some TIM HORTONS. And some more TIM HORTONS. Then we drive back to North Bay this evening.

*pines for that brown paper cup of caffeinated goodness*


(eta: omg! it just occurred to me that 'tis the season for holiday icons again! *uploads a mess of santas*)

[identity profile] oneangrykate.livejournal.com 2006-12-18 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
CANADA IS GLAD TO HAVE YOU BACK. *clings*

[identity profile] jubilancy.livejournal.com 2006-12-18 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome home!!!!

[identity profile] red-estelle.livejournal.com 2006-12-18 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
welcome home (feels odd to say that when home for me is here, where you just left, um, lets then say home is online, yay!). one of my bf's is from over yours and forever FOREVER pines for tim hortons. she had to explain in little letters it's greatness.

i totally agree on the teaching yay! teaching poo! argument, i have it most days with myself and then go "bollocks to it, internet, yay!"

have a super christmas duder!
xx

[identity profile] ink-stain.livejournal.com 2006-12-18 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
LOLLIEST! omg have some tim hortons for me. have LOTS of tim hortons for me. GALLONS.
msilverstar: (billy-viggo Narita)

[personal profile] msilverstar 2006-12-18 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome home! (as someone said, home can be here cyberspace or whatever).

[identity profile] lmondegreen.livejournal.com 2006-12-18 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Welcome back!!!

[identity profile] mcee.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
*LE CLING*

[identity profile] in-stead.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
HI CANADA HI!

*titmashes*

[identity profile] in-stead.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Hi, franchise, hi!

[identity profile] in-stead.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Home is indeed online. I am working on getting internets where I am as I am sick of being cut off from everyone and everything.

Happy Christmas to you, too!

I feel that, once I get back to old Blighty, we should sort out a meet and greet for sometime or another. We can moan over teaching in person and I can MAKE you Tim Horton's coffee from the extraordinarily large tin of it that I will be bringing back with me.

[identity profile] in-stead.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I have had THREE Tim Horton's today ALONE.

Me/Tim Horton's = the OTPest.

[identity profile] in-stead.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Home is where the heart is, among other assorted body parts.

I have missed the porn! the information! having everyone at my fingertips.

:D

[identity profile] ink-stain.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
does that mean that you/tim horton's/mcee = OT3?

[identity profile] in-stead.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly for a very short period of time. But as I was saying to someone or other, I am trying to get internet installed in my room in England. I miss everyone too much! It's not quite the same as being back in Canada, of course, but at least I can talk to everyone!

[identity profile] in-stead.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
HI HI HI! THREE DAYS! THEN YOU! YAY YOU!

[identity profile] in-stead.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Throw in Starbucks and it's an fourgy!

[identity profile] ink-stain.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
*squeezes in the middle omg*

[identity profile] in-stead.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
And five makes a proper orgy! Woot!

[identity profile] lmondegreen.livejournal.com 2006-12-19 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs*

BTW, did you get my email? I'm going to London next June...

[identity profile] mcee.livejournal.com 2006-12-20 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
my excitement cannot be textually rendered, lollycakes.