What did YOU get for Christmas? I got



a plane ticket to Japan!


OK, it was a promise of a ticket - my mom carefully drew a plane ticket on a piece of paper for me - because the dates of travel haven't been set yet, but I'm looking at heading over for about 2 weeks around the end of August because Worldcon is in Yokohama this year. I don't actually care too much for the con, so just a couple of days there to catch a couple of panels and fangirl in a scary fashion at Yoshitaka Amano, and then the rest of the time toodling around in a thoroughly touristy way with rachelmanija is my general idea.




I'm on my mom's laptop with its horrid laptop keyboard and dialup connection right now, so I probably won't read LJ until tomorrow evening after I get back up to Fort Worth and see how much the cat has destroyed and what crack-addled things the TiVo has suggested for me, and won't make a more substantial post about lactose-free pumpkin pie and doppelgangers (experienced twice in one day, even!) until then.

Although I should remind you that my birthday is the 29th and if you just happen to feel like giving me presents, I am totally there for you.