-_-

It's raining. And yet somehow, I'm still going hiking. Why?

Because I'm f**king CRAZY.

Fic tonight if I don't fall off a Lake District mountain. Woe.

EDIT: I shouldn't have made that crack about falling off a mountain. We came very very close and I am in excrucitating pain. There will still be fic later, if a few hours later than planned.

Now excuse me while I go sit in a very hot shower for the next few days, hours,, minutes.

EDIT: A couple of pictures to give you an idea of what we climbed over today. We climbed - all the way up to the top and I have photos in my camera to prove it and all the way back down again - Helvellyn. Which apparently is the third highest mountain in England - somewhere around 3080ft I think - and today, delightfully, had eight inches+ of snow on top. Keep in mind that I am in no way a serious walker when I say we wlked - and basically rock climbed - over ( these and this sort of scenery )

Add oh, around four inches of snow to that, plus actual snow falling and... I am never going hiking again. Ever. I survived but I have never been more aware that a single lapse in concentration would have actually sent me head first down sheer drops and probably all the way to the valley floor in some cases (thankfully the cloud was so thick we couldn't see exactly how far it was to fall.) We spent eight f**king hours on a mountain. It got to the point where you were just walking - in the dark over rocks and streams at the end - only because if you stopped, you would never be able to start again. Suffice to say the flatmate who didn't warn me how difficult it was going to be in not my bestest of friends right now. I'm a writer at heart. I pine for my laptop when I'm away for it for more than five or so hours. I like sitting in my room and not risking death on a daily basis. Hiking is... Just no.

Never. Again.

And now I've whinged about that - I am a little proud that I did it without breaking or spraining anything - I'm off to do my Creative Writing crits and finish this fic to post. It's still a little unbelievable that I'm *actually* sitting, intact - mostly -, in my room. o_O