Bridge to the Stars

I seem to have just vanished from Dreamwidth for the past month. It's been a very busy summer, and I do need to catch up on all that. My mum and I were in Copenhagen last week, which I found delightful (if extremely expensive — a representative experience being that we bought two coffees and then discovered when she logged into her bank account later that this had cost $AU 24. Since my perception of 'reasonable' prices in Australian dollars is set permanently at whatever items cost back in 2008 — when I immigrated to the UK — the $24 coffees seemed even more extreme than if I had paid for them with my UK bank card and seen the conversion in pounds).

I'll write up a longer post about my time in Copenhagen a bit later, and I also feel I owe a wrap-up post about all my summer holiday reading. At the moment, since I flew back home and immediately got a terrible cold, I'm feeling somewhat lacking in energy. I made the usual massive pot of congee that I always make when I have a cold, and am going to spend the remainder of the day lying around in the living room, doing my best to relax. This would possibly be easier if my neighbour weren't blasting evangelical Christian sermons at top volume — her preferred background noise when doing housework.

I hope everyone is feeling a lot better than I am!