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[lapsedmodernist]

After a completely insane 36 hours prior to our departure and an exhausting series of flights (with one extra layover! not advertised on the itinerary! surprise!) we are in Leiden at the home of Niels, the friend I made while couchsurfing back in the spring, and we are about to head south.

I just wanted to say thank you so much to everyone that helped us so much in the last few weeks--redheadedmuse and legitimatelove and thoroughbass and everyone--and a special thanks goes out to beginnersmind, who magically appeared on wednesday with her husband, and for serious, if they hadn't--I am absolutely certain that there is no way we would have made our plane.

more soon!

Comments

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on making it there !
Good luck finding a home and adjusting etc...

[isolt.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the successful move! May I have such luck...

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

best of luck to you!

[olamina.livejournal.com]

Congrats!!! Best wishes!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thank you!!

[nearly-there.livejournal.com]

So glad that you had a safe trip over, and best of luck finding a new home and getting settled in. I'll be thinking about you!

[msmsgirl.livejournal.com]

You're there! Oh god, I miss you already... soon I will be even further away, like almost as far away as you can go. (I'm coming to visit though!) What does Fionn think of the Netherlands? Is he fluent in Dutch yet? Congrats on making it!

[orchid-and-wasp.livejournal.com]

Welcome to your new home, I am really looking forward to hearing and seeing all about it.
x

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

thank you! there will be much more to be told and shown.

[cyberanya.livejournal.com]

so glad you made it!! reading LJ from a very remote mountain region here - can you believe it my GPRS works much better than in the city! did you find a place to live?

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

no place to live yet, but hopefully that will be resolved tomorrow...what is a GPRS? Is that like a portable satellite system?

[cyberanya.livejournal.com]

good luck with finding a place!! i actually have no idea what GPRS technically is, but it's mobile internet, which lets you use your cell phone as a modem in places where it's possible to use mobile phones. it totally makes it bearable, otherwise it's real village anthropology!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

oh wow, how cool. is it expensive?

I wish I could come visit you in your village. what do you mean you are failing to find any natives?

[cyberanya.livejournal.com]

> oh wow, how cool. is it expensive?
no, not really expensive, but you pay per MB - 2,5 roubles (10 cents) per 1MB.

>I wish I could come visit you in your village. what do you mean you are failing to find any natives?

i was partially kidding, because yesterday we went for a day trip into the "last" village before the real taiga starts and it was a ridiculously nightmarish mosquito-ridden half-deserted place, that even locals think is insane to go to. i'm on this increasingly absurd "archeographic" or "archeobibliographic" expedition - archeographic actually means searching for rare books. so i'm with this guy who's looking for these tibetan ritual texts that were usually buried in such places during the soviet times.

[brooklyn-jak.livejournal.com]

you made it! How exciting. I look forward to hearing and seeing more.

[legitimatelove.livejournal.com]

Love and miss you already :(

[beginnersmind.livejournal.com]

So happy you guys made it! We're ready for the photos of Fionn wearing clogs standing in a field of tulips!

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I was actually trying to figure out today if we could for real take a picture like that!

In the chaos of my pre-departure I totally forgot to ask you about the trout that you met! Tell me?

[somegal.livejournal.com]

Hey- would you send me an email when you get a chance? I'm pretty sure the lj email works for me... (it's about your PhD)