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I made it safely home to my parents'. The train ride was uneventful, as usual, and during the trip kyonkun lent me her DS and let me start Phoenix Wright. Since then (Thursday), I've been playing pretty non-stop and have gotten through half of the fourth case. It's so much fun. XD And so slashy. XD;;

Time not spent either with Phoenix (my new favorite dweeb :D) or my family has been spent reading -- for fun. How joyous! At the moment I am just over a third of the way through Anything We Love Can Be Saved, a collection of essays by Alice Walker. ( more on that ... )

In other reading news, I've finished the first six collections of Runaways, which is now my favorite work by Brian K. Vaughan. As part-superhero saga, part-teen adventure, it appeals to my love of both traditional Western comics and shounen manga. As the least overtly political of his titles, it does the best job of conveying his political beliefs without beating us over the head with them. As ratzeo (whom I borrowed the books from) and I've discussed, this makes his beliefs more convincing, in a show-rather-than-tell kind of way.

I'm also 22 now. Thanks to everyone who gave me birthday wishes, birthday gifts, and/or attended my birthday dinner. ^_^

And alas, I'm on a dial-up connection here (14.4kps, WOEZ), so this may be the last you hear from me until I get back to Seattle on the 30th. I'm trying to keep up with email and LJ, but it'll be a test of my patience. I may just give up on the Internet and go back to Phoenix Wright. XD;;