I don't know what to say about The Madrid train bombing, except that I wish it hadn't happened and I hope the familes and friends of those killed or injured are surviving as best they can.
But it needed to be mentioned.

Like t00bage only... wait, is that what t00bage is? Wow. I've arrived! (comme le beaujolais nouveau, wot.)

kitsune13 is in taaaaahn! Which meant meeting with her, with dezzikitty (complete sweetheart, and impossibly charming), jiggery_pokery (dry and funny and cool), and with malachan (lovely), ambling about the streets of grey grey London, the ponytailed ducks of st james' park, food, and talktalktalktalktalking; then stealing Catja away, abandoning the others to their own ahem devices, and HOURS of DRINK and FOOD and TALK and SQUEEING and META and dammit she rocks. <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3! <3!