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Harry Potter poll!✦ I've probably babbled on 4859 times about how
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kitsche was published in the
LiveJournal Anniversary Anthology, but I received the copy of the book not too long ago. Whoo! Anyway, I scanned the pages -- check it out!
(click to zoom in)✦ Speaking of
kitsche, I
updated it for the first time in nearly 2 years. Begone, proverbial dust -- it's back! I'll be posting more entries later this week, so stay tuned.
✦ Do you guys have a
NaNoWriMo account? You should add me -- I'm
piratecookie!
✦ I'm seeing
Hamlet featuring
Jude Law tomorrow. GLEE!
✦ I'm going to
Boston for Thanksgiving weekend, thus breaking the chain of spending my past two Thanksgivings in Jersey and the preceding ones in Indianapolis. I miss having a break. Anyway, buying my bus tickets now!
... and WITHOUT FURTHER ADO.
egypt and turkey: day v-vi
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Back in early August, I went on a 9/10-day trip through Egypt and Turkey. Just like London and the road trip, I'll be posting photos divided by day. Photos from the trip will be updated at my Flickr as well!)
(8/12-3): Took the bus to Hurghada, a city along the Red Sea coast. Basically, Hurghada's got loads of seaside resorts and beaches, but getting there was a nightmare.
We got lost in the desert.
Yeah. It's one of those worst-case scenarios where you think, "Hey you know what would suck? Being lost in the desert, that's what!" The bus was going in circles and we were passing by the same billboards once, twice, at least ten times. Hot August weather + a bus going nowhere + hours of driving through sand, sand, and more sand + impatient passengers =/= fun times, kids. We made it to the resort pretty late (around 9PM?), and I proceeded to gorge myself at the buffet.
I woke up the next morning at 4AM. (Funny, that's when I go to sleep in NY, ha!) You're probably wondering, "Why on earth did you voluntarily woke up at 4AM?!" Well, I went on an early-morning safari in the Eastern Desert to check out the sunrise at said desert, among other things.
Guys, if there's ever an occasion to wake up at 4AM, it better be at a desert, because:
a.) the COLORS. Absolutely sublime stuff. It's the prettiest I've ever seen a sky look, and this is coming from somebody who has seen MANY sunrises.*
b.) the slight morning breeze is perf.
c.) the sand-between-your-toes feeling? Yeah, it's like the beach except your feet aren't wet so you don't get the sand clinging past your filmy ankles.
d.) running down the hills of sand with reckless abandon? Enough said.
*= Er, most of those sunrises are compliments of my many all-nighters pulled at college. BUT STILL.
Anyway. A few hours were spent at the Eastern desert, and then we visited a Bedouin village, where we had breakfast (Bedouin barbecue!). A camel ride ensued! And tons of pictures. We got back to the resort around 11am, which is normally when I would wake up on a normal day in New York. We chilled out at the beach for the afternoon, and then it was on the bus back to Cairo.
.... and this time, we didn't get lost! Yay!
Instead, we ran out of gas. In the middle of the desert. Worst Case Scenario #2, check. We had planned to go on a late afternoon cruise back in Cairo, but that was pretty much shot to hell. We switched drivers thrice, stopped roadside many more times, and finally set up camp at a remote gas station before the bus was up and running again.
Four hours past our expected time of arrival, we got to Cairo and luckily, we got put on an evening cruise, honestly was a pretty nice way to spend the last night in Egypt, since there were all those city lights and the night sky.
( sunrise, sunrise, camels, and a cuppa tea ) 
