Last week I went to Miami for the BIG GAME between Alabama and Notre Dame, by which we mean, I went to Miami and when I got there discovered that billions of other people were causing traffic and so it took ages to get from the airport to my hotel. I was like, football game? What? Really? Oh, that explains why there seemed to be a lot of football people in the plane (like the guy next to me reading a rules book who may have been a coach). Then I wandered amongst the crowds to find food. They had their game and cleared out shortly thereafter and I was left to spend a few days on the beach. Much swimming was had. I wandered around looking at architecture and parks and memorials and art and the world's least-lit tiny lighthouse. Went to the Wolfsonian FIU to see art deco and art nouveau and the World Erotic Art Museum to see lots of nudity (and some very dubious information on artifacts that I sincerely doubt was anywhere near correct).

Now I'm back at work again but on the plus side there's video footage of a giant squid in its deepwater habitat for the first time ever. Also oxoniensis has opened prompting for the porn battle.

Right before I left I was reading this Charles/Erik college AU fic (where everyone was American and no one had powers) and my main response actually was that it would have been much more in character if it were Clex. I'm certain that if someone did a simple find/replace on the names in this fic and posted it somewhere (not that I ever would do this, it would be wrong, but just bear with me here as a hypothetical), readers would go: "Oh, Lex has hair and an adopted little sister and no one cares about his evil father? Willing to roll with that. And the Kents are Jewish and not from Kansas? Sure, okay, if you say so. And Clark needs to pay for college and so Lex is his sugar daddy and they have sex? Right! And hey, this is a totally acceptable fic that falls absolutely within the bounds of typical fanon characterization!" Which was disconcerting, because it's one thing to find myself thinking that every sentence out of Charles Xavier's mouth could easily have been said by Lex Luthor, but I really should not be thinking that Erik Lehnsherr is acting too much like Clark Kent, you know?

(And in other news, I recently found out what Lehnsherr means. It's like I'm learning German or something.)