Game of Thrones

I recently completed A Dance of Dragons and wish to articulate my theory that a song of ice and fire is the greatest work of fiction in our generation

In terms of depth of character, and as a result character attachment; I'm positive that if the man who plays Tyrion Lanister were to be in my immediate presence I would hyperventilate and possibly worship him when I came to, and Arya is the only name I would ever name a daughter.

As for immersion; I just shivered in 113 degree Oklahoman heat while reading the final chapters of DoD ( what an unfortunate acronym).

Plot is almost unmentionable because it us so effortlessly perfect every word on every page is a surprise. I normally pride myself on guessing endings or plot points And as I am so overly saturated with all forms of media I am nearly always correct, with GOT (again sad acronyms) I cannot even form a rational guess it is almost completely original.

And of corse the television adaptation

Only If James Earl jones, Liam neesum, and Morgan Freeman, were genetically combined and then read the books outloud while everyone was on a low dose Iv of LSD so they thought god was telling them humanity's history

so here I set, winter has fallen I'm bundled up and ready for the long hall... Whenever the next book gets published

Opportunity

I just got back from the best trip of my life so far...

At times I could have killed some of my travel companions as I'm sure they came close to murdering me. I saw things I've read and dreamed about. I missed people and communication, I got lost, found, hidden, stalked, checked out, confused, and appalled. Now I'm back and I realize there's a lot more I got to do that wasn't on the itinerary.

I'm a planner, not grand schemes but minute details, before I sleep every night I outline my next day. I act out important conversations and silently cheat myself when I accurately predict the other persons statements. But all of these things I accomplished were unplanned, even hough I would've if I could have.

"I'll take first watch"
I got to say and mean this in the fantastical sense of I'll watch u and Ur stuff to make sure we don't get robed or killed"

Learning limits
I now know that I have limits on how long I can be without personal time, without sleep, with certain people, etc... (etc covers a lot ask me about it later)

Defining hatred
This one sounds bad, and I guess it is in almost all ways but this trip has fully established the kind of people I do and do not like and im pretty sure thats a good thing everyone should no what type of person I don't like.

Finally

Long distance relationships
They can work for short amounts of time, especially if you know the exact amount of time you will be apart

So theres my other obligatory travel post, I will find some other thing to post on at some point...