Uploaded a few more pics...

... to my Flickr account. They're all from the north of Germany, where I spent the last three months and where my family comes from. I don't feel particularly patriotic about Germany as a whole, but the north, and Schleswig-Holstein in particular, is the part of it that I love most. Although I didn't grow up there it's the place that's always felt like home to me. So, if you've never been there and don't know what it looks like, have a look.

Set "Northern Germany"

Set "Hamburg" - very incomplete

Set "Cafés etc." - not really on topic here, but includes a sneak preview of fic-in-the-process-of-creation! ;-)

Met friends tonight, had some...

... apocalyptic talk, peppered with cynicism. Consensus seems to be it'll be best for everyone if we (humankind) collectively off ourselves, soon.

Yet, reading, or listening to music, or looking at art, or looking at silly internet jokes, I can never bring myself to hate humankind. I can't even bring myself not to love it. Them. Us.

Back to the Future or The Mad Doctrine or Maggie Doesn't Live Here Anymore or Dormouse

wordcount: 4235. Nope, not done yet. ETA: And not quite my longest sustained narrative yet, either. Getting there, I think.