ellenkushner: (Bessie McNicol)
ellenkushner ([personal profile] ellenkushner) wrote2010-06-15 10:34 am
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Home Again!

Oh. My.  

We took what was essentially the redeye back from London to Newark last night, arriving around midnight (5 a.m. UK time) - add 1 hour to get through passport/baggage/customs, and another :30 to get home . . . . I slept some on the plane, but also took great joy in staring out the window at the hours & hours of sunset over the clouds - if I were mathematically inclined, I would have a nifty little formula for how our speed relative to the earth's meant that sunset lasted 5+ hrs . . . . Woke up to see a crescent moon posed precisely over the evening star right over our wing with a streak of pale blue &  a flush of pink on the horizon below.  Sometimes I am one very lucky human being.

Also read all of Katherine Langrish's Dark Angels (published here as The Shadow Hunt), which is just amazing (thank you, Terri, for the perfect parting gift!) - and this is also a good place to recommend her blog, Seven Miles of Steel Thistles, which is smart & thoughtful & deep about the sorts of things we really care about.

Woke up at 6, but to my amazement, went back to sleep 'til now!  Hurray, body - I think you're finally getting the hang of this International Travel thing.  Of course, feel like creamed chipped death on toast . . . . I guess I'll catch up on all the e-mail I missed in the past 24 hours.  It's hard being back from the country, but Riverside Park is gloriously full of the scent of blooming linden - I could even smell it as we came up from the West Side Highway at 1 a.m.!

One thing I do know:  I'm having SUSHI for lunch!

best line of the day

(Anonymous) 2010-06-15 03:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad to hear that you're back, and love you're line: "creamed chipped death on toast." How well I know that feeling!

Diane Silver
www.InSearchOfGoodness.com
How would you answer the question?

Re: best line of the day

[identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Hee hee . . . thanks!

[identity profile] movingfinger.livejournal.com 2010-06-15 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
One of my favorite flights ever left Scandinavia just before sunset and essentially followed the day-night terminator over the Arctic and Upper Canada for hours before leaving the edge. It was very beautiful.

Do you have any urban foragers collecting linden blossom?

Welcome home

(Anonymous) 2010-06-15 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
And remember - the one thing you usually can't get in the country is a nice spicy tuna roll. That's why we all live in NYC (I think). But good to have you back on this brief stop-off on the world tour!
Deborah A.

Re: Welcome home

[identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com 2010-06-16 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, Deborah - this is why I love you!