home again home again

So I think that home is the place where, when you get off the freeway there after ELEVEN HOURS, you nearly weep with happiness to see stupid things like the IHOP and familiar highway signs, because you are home.

The drive back down from Boston wasn't really bad, except a) I was driving AWAY from Boston, WTF is that? and b) I got stuck sitting in an accident backup in New Jersey for about two hours. When I finally got there, they had two lanes blocked off with big barrier trucks, and there were six state police cars in those two lanes, plus a couple of other vehicles in the median, but the only sign that there had been an accident was something that looked like a street-sweeper, clearing up the last of the mess. I listened to the first half of Les Miserables while staring at the truck in front of me with the F#%* FRANCE! bumper sticker, and then I called iuliamentis and talked to her for an hour. By the time I got out of the backup it just didn't seem worth stopping again when it would only make getting home slower, so I just. Didn't. Drove the last 250 miles straight through.

I got home, waved my ID card nonchalantly at the security guards, checked my mail (oooh, a phone bill) and headed up to my apartment, dark and quiet but for the strip of light visible under Roomie's door. I wandered around getting settled and making myself a tasty dinner of ramen noodles, and then sat down to the omg yay midsummer_fic stories! I haven't read more than a handful yet, but I absolutely adore the Men With Brooms story written for me: Trajectory. It's teenaged Cutter and Lennox, back before they'd quite begun to become the men we knew them as, and it's wonderful.

*heart*

So the brilliant thing about being a ds_recs reccer is that, sometimes, I rec something and people turn around and rec things back. Today, for instance, I recced Superman songs that make me think of Fraser, because, let's face it, Fraser is Superman, or at least an understudy. One of the songs I recced was Five for Fighting's "Superman," which I have long considered the definitive Fraser-Superman song, and lo and behold, sperrywink turned around and recced me willows_mom's wonderful Fraser vid to that song. This is the vid I have been waiting for about two years for someone to make, and it's perfect! It's all footage from the first two seasons, which means a) beautiful DVD-quality footage and b) OMG ADORABLE BABY FRASER. Go watch.