Talking to thin air

I arrived safe and sound in Helsinki, and checked into my hotel, and it is nice. Rather small, but that's good. It doesn't have a window, but that's fine. Unfortunately, I discovered that I 1) have to pay eight euros to go to the aviation museum, 2) would have to walk 20 minutes to get there, or 3) would have to take the bus. Obviously, the walking bit would be fun, except for the part where it's dark out.

I did go walk around the airport a bit before it got completely dark, though. THERE IS SNOW. SO MUCH SNOW. Actually, not much snow, but it was snowing when we landed and it hasn't stopped. \o/ I GOT SNOW ON MY BIRTHDAY YAY!!!!! SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!!!!!

I also got myself a piece of chocolate cake instead of dinner. It was delicious. It was a great birthday present, but I am looking forward to some real birthday food on Sunday.

Also, I only noticed that it was Friday the 13th some time this morning. How could I possibly not have been extremely prepared for the fact that my birthday was on Friday the 13th this year??? HOW DID I NOT KNOW???

So anyway ... I read more than 100 pages of my biogeography textbook on the plane, and spent a while working on my 2012 project. I am getting very excited about it. I like the characters I have so far, and the world has much promise. I just have to decide how much like Shinto I want it to be, versus how much I am willing to modify it and/or make it a sort of dark Shinto. I rather like Shinto, so I don't really want to make it dark; but on the other hand, I really like the idea that I have at the moment ...

I must have taken the slowest possible train to get to the airport this morning, but I made it in time. Plus, getting through the airport (the Nagoya airport) was extremely breeze-like.

Also, I finished editing the Vampire's thing for her, as well as the other thing from the con lang listserv. But both of those were a few days ago.