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angstyteenagesam replied to your post “Hey - have a fantastic trip! I would love to hear about your Icelandic...”

Ooooh. It looks amazing. (And may now be moving towards the top of my to-do list...)

Go! We flew on WOW Air (Icecland’s discount airline) direct from Boston for a pretty reasonable rate, having only booked about six weeks in advance, and I know Icelandair has itineraries where you get a stopover via Reykjavik en route to wherever else you’re going in Europe. 

Five days was plenty to really feel like we “did” the country, although obviously if we’d had more time we could’ve done much more. (It’s a small island, and the middle part is all uninhabited highlands, so the usual version of traveling to Iceland is driving to/from Reyjavik around the coast.) And it was a nice coupley trip, too, given that a fair amount of it was just the two of us driving around rural roads or walking up tall things—a good complement to our trip through the American Southwest back in January, actually.

amypop replied to your post “Hey - have a fantastic trip! I would love to hear about your Icelandic...”

these are breathtaking and inspiring!

I will tell Boyfriend his photography skills are being admired :D

iloveyouandilikeyou replied to your post “Hey - have a fantastic trip! I would love to hear about your Icelandic...”

AWW I'M SO GLAD YOU AHD A GOOD TIME also the icelandic names, WOW you got those right with the weird os and all the accent you're magic

I just copy/pasted most of them, admittedly, although I did learn how to type most of the wacky Nordic characters (å, æ, ø, ö) while in Denmark. 

The problem here is that the letter eth or ð (uppercase version is Ð) doesn’t appear to exist on American English keyboards. According to Wikipedia, it’s only used today in Icelandic and Faroese (spoken in the Faroe Islands, which is part of Denmark), so I suppose there’s not much of a need for it.

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19. Leslie/Ben :)

19. Met In Detention!AU

"What, Ms. Knope?"

"Mr. Swanson, I would like to again, draw your attention to the reasons why I, Leslie ‘Has Never Been In Trouble in Her Life’ Knope is in detention. Now let me start with—"

"Mr. Swanson?"

Leslie whipped around to the only other person in detention. It was a guy, a good looking guy, one of those guys who were kind of too skinny but their jawline made up for it. He wasn’t looking at her, but at Mr. Swanson, his hand raised.

"There’s a silence at all times rule in detention, right?"

Leslie narrowed her eyes and she scraped her teeth together. She was supposed to stop grinding her teeth. Her dentist was going to mention it again.

"That is correct." Mr. Swanson nodded to the guy and then pointed at Leslie. "Silence."

Leslie fell back in her seat with a loud huff. She wasn’t supposed to be in detention. She was supposed to be rallying and campaigning for her student council seat. Sure, the campaign landed her here because of her fight with Lindsay Carlisle Shay. However, Lindsay was being a jerk, and deserved to be slapped at the debate. 

Something hit Leslie in the back of her head. She jumped and swung around. The guy was reading a comic book, his chin in his hand. His other hand drifted to the edge of his desk and he pointed down with one finger.

Leslie looked to the floor and found a crumpled piece of paper. She looked back at the guy before grabbing the ball and unraveling it over her desk.

Last minute campaign strategy: don’t hit people. Also, pass out those cookies you made last year when you ran for vice president. 

- Ben.

Leslie bit the inside of her cheek and slowly looked back at Ben. Her stomach was knotting for some reason. Probably because it was nice to be recognized for her political presence in the school.

Ben’s eyes flicked up at her. He smiled, just with his lips and shifted in his seat. He cleared his throat before looking back to the comic book.

Leslie clicked her pen and wrote below his message.

Thanks. I’m Leslie.

She tossed it back and turned back around, waiting for his response. She read the same sentence in her history book over and over again until Ben sat down next to her.

He opened his comic book again, arranging his stuff below his chair before turning in his seat to place a piece of paper on her desk.

She unfolded it.

So the cookies, will they be out tomorrow? I like the snickerdoodles best.

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Tagged by amypop!

Once you get this, share 5 random facts about yourself and then pass it on to 10 of your favorite followers :)

I have several fake teeth. I'm naturally missing one of my canines (so is one of my sisters) and my front teeth got damaged by the fluoride (or lack thereof) in the water in Philadelphia when I was an infant, so all of my front teeth have porcelain veneers.

Oh, right, and I was born in Philly. My parents lived there for a decade but moved to Virginia shortly after my sister was born because my dad found a job in his very specific medical specialty there.

Despite having grown up in the Old Dominion, I actually haven't heard anyone refer to the Civil War as "the War of Northern Aggression" unironically. I have, however, read some delightful things about how the Sons of the Confederacy refer to it as "the Second Revolution." As in, the first one was in 1776, and the second was in 1861.

My current favorite flavor of tea is tied between Tealuxe's Lady Londonderry and Boston Harbour Tea, which sounds cheesy and fake but is delicious and why would you ever throw that away?

I got into kickboxing because of study abroad. My (American) roommates and I would go to a gym near our apartment in central Copenhagen, and it offered a Thai Bo class taught by an awesome woman with a very Danish name (Gitte, maybe?) who did almost everything by demonstration rather than vocal instruction, so it was easy to follow and she made it really fun to boot. When I got back, I couldn't wait to find something similar, which, at the gyms I've since joined, has been cardio kickboxing. And it's awesome and I can do a mean crescent kick now!

Tagging: fulltimeprocrastinator, rodarawr, spunkyar, iloveyouandilikeyou, diaphenia, knopeforamerica, code-name-duchess, ryeloza, merger-she-wrote, halesnoelle

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merger-she-wrote replied to your post:I wiped out going down my steps this morning. My...

Oh no! Hope you heal up soon. Super glad you didn’t crack open your noggin!

Thanks! I cracked my head open when I was 10, so I really don't need to relive that.

amypop replied to your post:I wiped out going down my steps this morning. My...

oh honey! you poor thing! can you rest for a while?

I'm lying on the couch now (and that's where I plan to stay the rest of the night).

fulltimeprocrastinator replied to your post:I wiped out going down my steps this morning. My...

OMG!! ARE YOU OKAY??? DID YOU HIT YOUR HEAD EVEN IN THE SLIGHTEST WAY??? Take some advil and sleep if you didn’t hit your head!!

I am okay! My back is killing me, but I took some advil and it should kick in soon. One of my coworkers gave me some painkillers earlier, so I managed to get through work. I think I'm just going to be a little bruised and sore for the next few days.

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A thing!

Tagged by starsinthesky (and I am procrastinating!). 

Name: Georgie. Not really, though. You may call me that, or Princess will suffice.

Birthday: May

Gender: Female

Sexual Orientation: Straight

Height: 5’4”

Favorite Color: I don't really have favourites. I say red when my kids ask, though. 

Current Date & Time: January 15, 2015 at 9:54 a.m.

Last thing you googled: Google the number (which is googol) because I was sharing a joke with a friend via email. 

Favorite Musical(s): Probably A Chorus Line or Billy Bishop Goes to War. I learned all the words to both when we had the albums when I was a kid. Billy Bishop is a Canadian show about the WWI flying ace. I got a chance to see the original performers (it's a one-man show with a visible piano player who in this case was also the composer) on stage recently and I was completely verklempt - they did a slightly different version of it to account for the age of the performer (the glorious Eric Peterson). 

Favorite Book(s): I'd have to say Possession. I re-read it every year. I love the 90s multitextual elements of it. I love the last few chapters. The very last chapter makes me cry every. single. time. All the things nobody ever knows about our lives. 

Favorite Movie(s): The movies that make me happiest are satisfying little movies: Truly, Madly, Deeply comes to mind. 

Favorite Video Game(s): I really don't play any, never really did (I came of age in the Pac-Man era and didn't even really play that stuff). I try them and play for a bit and then just stop. The online NY Times crossword is an obsession. I'm old. 

Favorite TV Shows: The Wire. Parks and Recreation (the earlier seasons). 

Favorite Drink: Wine? 

Favorite Song(s): "Solsbury Hill" by Peter Gabriel, maybe? Just gives me such a feeling of satisfaction. 

Last Movie I Saw in Theaters: Guardians of the Galaxy! 

Dream Holiday: Oh my god, are you kidding me? Point to a random patch of the globe and I can plan a trip there - weekend, week, month, 3 months... I'd go just about anywhere. I've never been to Europe, outside of Paris, London, and a part of Yorkshire. I should probably head to Italy. But I want to go to Turkey, Egypt, Tanzania, Ghana, Madagascar, Brazil, Chile, basically all of South America, Vietnam, Philippines, Japan...  

Dream Job: I might be doing it. Kind of. I'm my own boss. I don't want a job. I want a bigger team to whom I can delegate stuff. I need to grow the business so I can hire people. 

Tagging, I don't know, who hasn't done this? diaphenia, amypop, poehlaris

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joana's Follow forever: the 2014 edition!

hey guys.

I have been kind of absent lately, in a way that I haven't paid a lot of attention to people on this website. I probably missed out on a lot going on with your lives and wasn't very attentive, which is very crappy of me. I think I have neglected some (of what I considered) tumblr friendships in the past year, and that really sucks.

The thing is, despite of coming here almost every day, I actually felt weirdly disconnected most of the time, like an outsider. I know that, for many, this is ""just"" a blogging platform and it really isn't a social setting in a conventional way, but it definitely means a lot to me, fandom or not. It is is not only a place where we share information (it is also a source of knowledge, these days) and/or love for fandom, but also where we share a bit of ourselves, who we are and who we want to be, our goods and our bads, our hopes, our fears. In the last year, I have been able to do that, even if in smaller doses, but those responses and/or messages of support that were sent to me helped a lot and made me feel better. 

That said, I want to thank all of you for being there, in some way, even to just reblog shit. I appreciate you.

Now, here's my annual follow forever list. Follow these people; you won't regret it. 

a-i

afefobia, aldoclemens, amypoehler, amypop, andthenisay, ballroompink,bokayjunkie, buckkybarnes, cunt-rock, daenerysknope, emojitional,escudosuizo, fancynewbeesly, fishnightlight,flushwithcash,galentines, iloveyouandilikeyou,intoyoursunlight

j-q

jokeperalta, judygrimes, l-aveu,  latetothereallife, lilianlies, lizdexia, mindynovak, mikybaby, misschanandlerb,  networkconnectivityproblems, pinguimperador, siglotabolota, stashberry

r-z

rachellastname, sonni89, tchitchou26, tender-tired, thosewildcharms,  to-the-moon, transponsters, twistedlittlestar, wah-pah, xomary, you-are-beyond, zatannna

(if you are not on the list, I hope we have the chance to talk more and/or to get to know each other better, next year.)

I WISH ALL OF YOU A GREAT 2015! 

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Look what just arrived in the mail--thanks amypop ! I can't wait to read it :D

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To answer your tags on the crocheted Groot doll -- all the best amigurumi are crocheted because crocheting is the best and knitting is dumb. A fact of which I can declare truthfully because I can't knit no matter how hard I try, but crocheting comes easily to me. ;)

Hey now, no hating on my craft of choice. You don’t see me coming into your house and insulting the way crotchers eat up cheap yarn or whatever seems insulting on this front…?

I figured it actually has to do with the fact that it’s simpler and easier to make things with a small circumference when you just have the one hook—knitting can get kind of confusing once you start factoring in DPNs and/or the Magic Loop method, even if you know what you’re doing. (I can do both no problem now, but it’s always a little precarious.) 

And anyway, these kinds of patterns are always written for crochet…perhaps it’s a self-perpetuating cycle.