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I visited Alison!

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I visited Alison @sinesalvatorem! Twice, actually!

Things:

• She’s pretty. Like, she was in Redacted and in guy-mode because Redacted is very transphobic so I wasn’t sure what I was expecting, but when I saw her at the airport the first thing I thought was “pretty!”
  
  
• The weather is consistently a humid 83°F / 28°C in the afternoons! I’ve been told that this is normal in the tropics, ruining my plans to visit Singapore and Taiwan! I spent a lot of time hiding in air-conditioned rooms.
  
  
• Alison’s mom is quite possibly the best mom ever and I am super jealous. Also she joked about joining Tumblr to tell embarrassing stories about Alison’s childhood and Alison was all “NO NO NO NO NO” but I feel like everyone else would have more positive opinions on this.
  
  
• There are mosquitoes here, but I am surprisingly unaffected by mosquitoes. I got a mosquito bite on my finger and it felt tingly and not entirely unpleasant!
  
  
• Alison says she’s a lesbian but her fingernails say otherwise.
  
  
• So, they have this lake, which is the biggest lake on the island and kind of a big deal to them… and it’s smaller than the lake in my backyard. Like, ¼ the size of the lake in my backyard. It’s a pond. She was telling me about it and then I saw it and I accidentally laughed and I think she’s offended. :(
  
  
• This isn’t related to Redacted, but I just want to point out that my parasol broke, and I managed to fix it with the pliers and wirecutters on my multitool, and the spring from a clicky pen. I felt like MacGuyver.
  
  
• The day I left was Redacted Independence Day, which I’m sure is great for them but meant that literally everything was closed including the restaurants, so I was hungry until I got to the airport.
  
  
• Basically no one takes AmEx outside of America. AmEx tells you, “no foreign transaction fees”, but this doesn’t actually matter because you won’t have any foreign transactions in the first place. Nearly everywhere takes Visa/MasterCard, though.
  
  
• She calls herself a nerd and yet she was falling asleep when I was trying to tell her about the epsilon-delta definition of a limit! She was falling asleep before I started talking about math, but still.
  
  
• They didn’t have running water for hours twice in the week I was there. They insisted it was really rare but that they had water stashed for these situations proves it can’t be that rare.
  
  

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My thoughts, in order:

She’s pretty

=DDD

she joked about joining Tumblr to tell embarrassing stories about Alison’s childhood and Alison was all “NO NO NO NO NO” but I feel like everyone else would have more positive opinions on this.

Please no. I would like all my followers to take a Firm Stand against this. Don’t inflict the blue hellsite upon my poor mother. She only recently learned what a meme is. She isn’t ready to learn how thicc the Oncler can be. She really, really isn’t.

Alison says she’s a lesbian but her fingernails say otherwise.

Femme nails are pretty and I will not apologise for them >_>

She was telling me about it and then I saw it and I accidentally laughed and I think she’s offended.

HOW DARE YOU GO AND TELL TUMBLR ABOUT THE PLACE WE LITERALLY CALL “BIG LAKE” AND MYTHOLOGISE AS BEING A GATEWAY TO HELL ITSELF

my parasol broke, and I managed to fix it with the pliers and wirecutters on my multitool, and the spring from a clicky pen.

Your parasol broke because you were trying to hack it in the first place. Don’t spread #FakeNews on the hellsite.

They insisted it was really rare but that they had water stashed for these situations proves it can’t be that rare.

It has not happened again since you left! The storage is because water usually goes during natural disasters. It just disappearing out of the blue is weird and only happened because you were here…

…Which is maybe a reason you shouldn’t mock the primary water source, which also happens to be the gateway to hell.