Book reviews + geography hatred

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I have managed to write up a couple of the books I was reading while travelling:

Steven Brust: Phoenix
Pamela Dean: Tam Lin

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The only other thing I've managed to do today is establish that there is no affordable way I can manage my intended trip to north America this summer. I've been poking around every internet site I can find, and I can't get the price down under £900. I'm almost tempted to do it anyway, since I've set my heart on it, and I really, really, really want to see rysmiel and darcydodo and compilerbitch. But it's not sensible; I have to compare how much holiday in Europe I could get for that kind of money, or how many trips to England. And compilerbitch is going to Mars so I wouldn't see much of her, and darcydodo is coming to England in August so I'll see her at least briefly then.

The reasonable thing to do is to come to America sometime when I have more flexibility, so it's not the middle of peak season. And spend this summer's vacation exploring somewhere I haven't been before, such as the remote parts of Sweden, or the interesting bits of Europe. But I am sick as a dog about missing my people. Stupid evil horrid geography.

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Yeah, that was really a lot of geography, and generally not good for sanity. My long distance thing is working quite well so far, because Sweden to England is affordable about one weekend in a month, and I actually prefer not having someone in my space all the time. But I can see either drifting apart because we don't spend enough time together to sustain the relationship, or growing closer feeling more and more deprived that we can't be together more of the time. So I'll have to see if it's as sustainable as I hope. (My attempt at a trans-Atlantic relationship folded before we'd had time to even try to visit eachother.)

My trouble is that I have loved ones all over north America, and I want to see them, maybe not every week, but at least more than once every couple of years which is all I can manage. Because they're not partners, in some ways it feels less justified to spend lots of time and money visiting them, though they are just as important to me as a romantic partner would be. But there are several of them, and not all in the same place, which makes it even harder.