*wobbles back in* Hi, sorry, yes, I'm alive. Sorry sorry sorry. Will begin resurrecting my internet presence this week. Once again.

Hello Beetle.

Plz to help [Chimes] out by submitting to The Paper Tree!
http://the-paper-tree.co.uk

My badge slot is a flippin' nightmare.

Oh, also... There is/was a squatter in my chives back in Oulu.

For the Whovians amongst us: The Doctor at Ropecon 2012

Trin: No Malfoys this year, I'm afraid. :/ Or at least none that I saw.

Halp halp halp HALP. Having decision issues again.

I want all of it. >_<
http://www.etsy.com/shop/StoriedThreads

Attention, Brits!

Loooklooklooklooklooooook it's a thing it's almost done will finish tomorrow and I am really kind of proud :O

So I'm working on an acrylic painting. I think it's coming out okay. But the thing that just hit me is... I probably haven't spent this much time on a painting (acrylics, not oils, and I only worked with those in school) like, ever. Unless you count the (unfinished and not here, my canvases from last summer got left in Helsinki when my folks brought the supplies here) portrait of Miss Curls. I feel slightly strange about this, because that is/was a labour of love in a very literal way. Hm.

Oh well.

I would like nothing
so much as
to quietly dissolve into the rain—
go rushing against
the drops that pass by,
dive up through clouds, back into sunshine;
reach higher, farther,
beyond the exosphere and away
where no sound can enter—
until finally, bewitched, becalmed,
I could grasp at peace
and be one with the stars.

Baby fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) on the railing of our terrace a few weeks ago.


Baby ducks at the botanical garden last week.

Opinion poll time! I'm uploading stuff onto my RedBubble after a loooooooong while, and decisions need to be made. So. Which one? Or both, even?

All updates: check. Junk at 67823 unread. Tomorrow I can start being useful.

In other news, I apparently started being an active tweeter. Let's see how long that lasts. Follow if you feel like it. http://twitter.com/lamiena

There really needs to be a way to get rid of member and wiki notifications that does not involve clicking through every single one of them.

Going to start catching up to stuff tomorrow. I've been languishing in a fairly deep pit of apathy, but managed to hoist myself out at least temporarily this past week. Maybe you'll actually start seeing me around again in a bit.