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We've arrived in Florida, where we are spending the night before embarking on our cruise tomorrow. We came down a day early so the whole trip wouldn't risk scuppering by potential air travel delays.

We're in a Ramada Inn by the airport, best described as The Airport Hotel at the End of the World. If you ever wanted to write a story about despair and loss set in a surreal and transitory environment, SET IT RIGHT HERE. The place is ugly and run down; our room smells like bleach (hey, I'll take it over the alternative), and the center courtyard of the place features a closed Tikki Bar, a filled but unused pool full of leaves, signs to the Coco Lounge Night Club which is only open on Fridays and Saturdays, and a colony of semi-feral cats who will let you get close enough for photos but mostly not let you touch them, other than the giant Maru-like Scottish Fold that seems to rule them all.

It's 6:24pm and it's just gotten dark here and there's yowling and hissing and screaming from the bushes below. I actually don't think it's cat sex, but dominance wars between the large number of orange males here (although some are kittens).

The desk staff took more tries that I'd care to recount to get me the correct password for the ungodly slow Internet here, and despite my being very clear and very nice my burger did most certainly come with a bun (death! death!) on my first try in the pub earlier. Everyone here is leaving on some cruise or other tomorrow and is encamped loudly in every random little bar or restaurant in the complex -- there seem to be several, but inside they all seem to be the same -- and the names are different on the signs versus the menus in the room. Also: every menu item has quotation marks here, as if nothing is really real. I suppose food doesn't know when it's being served ironically. Certainly the parrot-print curtains in the pub are sincere in their belief that they were not designed by a schizophrenic toddler.

Have just finished up my last bit of work before traveling, and am going to take a much needed nap before we brave another hotel restaurant and hunker down for the night.

If you write stuff you want me to see while I'm gone, please post a link here.

And can I just say, oh Whoniverse people, that I'm still smiling about the Alonso thing?

Date: 2010-01-03 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rufus.livejournal.com
is anyone taping your play? I am going opening night and I can try (does the theater allow it/know you're sending ppl armed with digital recording devices??) if no-one else has stepped up.

Date: 2010-01-03 11:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rm.livejournal.com
No one else has stepped up and the director and actors all know and gave the okay, and said it should be a non issue, so I'd be SO GRATEFUL.

Date: 2010-01-03 11:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rufus.livejournal.com
ok! I will give it my best, er, shot, in that case.

Date: 2010-01-03 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dr-is-in.livejournal.com
Me too! I loved that scene, and it was beautifully acted. There was real subtle emotions and signs which I think those foaming at the mouth in a rage over it need to calm down and look closely at.

Oh, and Tovey gave an interview that pretty mush says we'll see Alonso again.

Date: 2010-01-03 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rm.livejournal.com
I am thrilled. I'm glad I can feel this on this side of things too, because it's nice recompense for crying in the bathroom at work the week after CoE.

Date: 2010-01-03 11:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dr-is-in.livejournal.com
The exact quote:

Is there a chance for you to reprise that role again after this?
"Surely. Yes. Sorry, I'm not allowed to say anything!"

Date: 2010-01-04 01:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] isil-helyanwe.livejournal.com
OH MY GOSH THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY.

Date: 2010-01-03 11:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angstzeit.livejournal.com
Have a wonderful time.

I really like the description here.

Date: 2010-01-03 11:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lolliejean.livejournal.com
>>>I suppose food doesn't know when it's being served ironically.

*burst of laughter*

Date: 2010-01-04 12:25 am (UTC)
ext_3690: Ianto Jones says, "Won't somebody please think of the children?!?" (BRAAAAINS)
From: [identity profile] robling-t.livejournal.com
That... actually sounds worse than the Uality Inn in Elkhart. Our first warning should have been that the Q had fallen off the sign behind the desk...
Edited Date: 2010-01-04 12:26 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-01-04 12:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lefaym.livejournal.com
I started a Jack/Alonso fic this morning. One that I think I will actually finish, as opposed to the crappy PWP I started the other day.

Yay!

Date: 2010-01-04 12:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jendaby.livejournal.com
Have you encountered the weird thing with tipping there, where they want to charge your tip ahead of time? We were in the Ft. Lauderdale-ish area over the summer and everywhere we went it was like that. Wacky!

The only thing that bothers me about Alonso is the concern that this might affect Being Human, since he is one of the leads in that show. (And I love that show!)

Date: 2010-01-04 04:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] newsbean.livejournal.com
Wait. How does this work? Like they want the money before they bring you food? Or ... I'm lost.

Date: 2010-01-04 12:51 am (UTC)
sethg: picture of me with a fedora and a "PRESS: Daily Planet" card in the hat band (Default)
From: [personal profile] sethg
The Ramada? I am so sorry.

Date: 2010-01-04 12:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gairid.livejournal.com
the parrot-print curtains in the pub

A picture would be just the thing--a mocking icon perhaps? Or just a post for [livejournal.com profile] ugly_crap for those of us who are interested in such frigtening fare.



Also, hotel posts must have the Danny Torrance icon.
Edited Date: 2010-01-04 12:59 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-01-04 01:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nicoli-dominn.livejournal.com
That's funny, because I was considering writing a comment to the effect of "Gee, that sounds like an ideal setting for another Stephen King novel."

Date: 2010-01-04 07:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heron61.livejournal.com
There are likely a number of cruises leaving tomorrow, but my parents' cruise is also leaving from Ft. Lauderdale tomorrow, which makes me wonder if you'll be on the same cruise. Very, very odd...

Date: 2010-01-04 03:00 pm (UTC)
ext_389012: Jon and Stephen talking about their rallies. (TW bisexual fury)
From: [identity profile] queenfanfiction.livejournal.com
Oh, good, I'm not alone in LOLing over Jack/Alonso. :D Midshipman Frame, beware, Captain Jack outranks you!

BTW, there is the Big Gay Battle between JB and Neil Patrick Harris and others going on via the intarwebz, in case you haven't heard. Any chance of reposting to spread the word? :D

Date: 2010-01-06 06:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eandh99.livejournal.com
She's not the copyright holder - Dame Jean Conan Doyle is click the linky (http://www.sherlockian.net/acd/copyright.html)

Date: 2010-01-04 10:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frodo-esque.livejournal.com
I oddly have an affinity for the smell of bleach. As a child I used to play in the laundry room because I couldn't get ENOUGH of the smell, so your hotel room sounds like heaven to me. =)

Date: 2010-01-06 03:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eandh99.livejournal.com
and in truly odd news - Sam Mendes is being touted as the director for the next James Bond movie in the Hollywood Reporter (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i856fd022b069b3fe4b8d2be322d5c07c)

Date: 2010-01-06 11:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] punzel.livejournal.com
I have mail art for you but haven't gotten a response back to emails to you about verifying your postal address -- whether it's busy or spamfilters, I don't know anyone else that art that's already been emblazoned "RACHELINE" can be sent to. Drop me your postal address so this whimsey can make it to your hands and eyeballs! And you & Patty should be included in my massive Valentine's day art spree coming up, too.
From: [identity profile] dark-machine.livejournal.com
...but I *am* going to write a fanfic piece about J & A.

I know this is wrong of me to do, for SO many reasons, the least of which I've never writtten anything, but it's just too funny to pass up.

Now I'm just trying to find quasi-legal methods of making you read the whole thing.

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