Vacation, here I come!

Have very much enjoyed the last three days off from work. Tomorrow, I am heading off to North Carolina for Phase II of my vacation plans, which will involve lots of beach and seafood. (Oh, and my brother and sister-in-law. Them too. :P)

I have caught up on Series 2 of Downtown Abbey, and my official stance on it can be summed up thusly: uhhhh...whuh? (Largely good stuff, but HOLY CRAP, they managed to turn the melodrama up to 11.)

Doctor Who is back, and I'm all \0/. It's good and I'm glad it's back and I am SO EXCITED for the new companion! (Also, I have drunk the Kool-Aid, and my new official stance is "continuity, what?" because seriously, who cares???)

The picture scavenger hunt for my vacation is ON, and here is the current list of photo oppportunities I must find:

• a non-bird animal
  
• a turtle hatching area
  
• Evidence to the contrary of southern stereotypes
  
• A vanity license plate
  
• Piece of beach detritus most likely to embarrass us all if it were found by future anthropologists
  
• Something in a shell
  
• Someone smuggling budgies
  
• An approximation of the meaning of life
  
• a parasurfer
  
• PICTURES OF EVERYTHING~
  
• a snap of the thing you see that makes you go, 'damn, I wish someone had said they wanted to see that!!!'
  
• lighthouses
  
• inappropriately-shaped seaweed

So, you know: in the bag, right??? (Also, THANK YOU, queerlyobscure, for your dedication to lowering the tone, but evilhippo actually got there first. Big ups to her for basically requesting I walk around taking photos of men's crotches. THANKS GUYS!)

I'll see y'all on Twitter while I'm away. Don't break the Internet and whatnot.