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So.. vampires, eh?

They've been bugging me the last few days. Well, not vampires exactly... more the current obsession with them.

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I think it's time I re-watched my American Gothic DVDs. Lucas Buck was hot without needing to be a vampire. Just... evil. :)

As I was on the bus this morning I saw a homeless man selling the Big Issue outside of the Library in the city.

I'm a big supporter of the Big Issue. I buy one every fortnight (usually from the same Vendor near my work), even if I'm down to my last 5 dollars. I have never, ever picked up a free MX Paper. I refuse to, because I think it removes the attention from the homeless selling the Big Issue. Ask my friends; I'm stubborn about it.

Anyway, as the bus was rolling past I started looking at the people that were walking past the vendor. They just... didn't look at him. They'd walk straight past him, and their eyes would be fixed on something else even though they're within a metre of him. I was appalled. Most vendors are quite lovely (in my experience). The ones I walk past every day usually shout out a good morning to everyone, and some even pass along compliments - and they do this knowing that 99% of the people they see won't even buy one of their magazines.

It disgusted me.

It doesn't matter what they're selling or giving away. I will look at each vendor and say "no, thank you" if I don't want it. You don't need to make an excuse, just say "no, thank you". Guess what, mate - we're all human beings. How about we treat each other with some level of respect and decency!?

I was so crushed. The vendor was taking it all in stride, obviously used to it. I don't know why anyone SHOULD be used to it.

There was actually a great article in the Big Issue last month about the way telemarketers are treated as well. I just.. try to be nice to everyone. It doesn't matter if they're working behind the counter at McDonalds, calling me about a great deal I could get (and don't want) on my mobile phone, or if they're a homeless vendor selling the Big Issue in a pair of thongs (flip-flops) in the freezing cold: Manners cost nothing, so suck it up and be fucking nice to each other.

It's End of Financial Year, which means that I get to work back and run lots of reports and backups.

As per company tradition (well, it started with my predecessor) I have a giant, giant glass of booze in front of me. It's vodka and orange, and it's tasty and effective. I'm going to be running GST reports drunk off my ass. And who am I to argue?!

DAMN, this cup is massive. And there is a lot of vodka in it. I've only had half a glass, and I'm already on my way to being toasted.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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Ah, cold & flu season. I had a minor cold a few weeks ago (when my boss bought me some beautiful flowers to celebrate my being at the company for 9 years). It's over now, but the fun part is beginning. The horrible asthma, inability to breathe, and coughing so loud I feel sorry for my neighbours.

Haha, I like that it's so easy to piss George off. Just one cough and he cringes and glares at me. Oh well. I'm on funky cough medicine, an asthma preventive that looks like a bubble gum dispenser, and enough ventolin to make me dizzy. Still with the coughing. Fingers crossed it goes away soon.

Hey, I'm alcohol free at the moment. I don't miss it really - the main issue is Friday nights. George and I like coming home on a Friday afternoon and cracking open a bottle (or three) of champagne while we cook something complicated. Maybe it's so we'll be too drunk to realise it tastes bad ;) Seriously though, that's all I'm missing about it. Just a slight craving on Friday nights to have a glass or so.

I went to the video store the other night and rented out Blast from the Past. You know, the one with Brendan Fraser. Ah, he was so adorkable. But for some reason I can't stop playing it in the background while I'm doing things. And that song (Mr. Zoot Suit, by the Flying Neutrinos) is just.. great. So now I'm playing the only similar music I have - Cherry Poppin' Daddies. If anyone has any music recs along those lines, pass 'em on, yeah?

We're sleeping in the spare bedroom at the moment because it's warmer, but George & I are too lazy to plug the TV & DVD player in. Probably not laziness, really. G probably knows that I'll trip over them every night until I land myself in hospital. But the point was that I've been reading instead of watching TV. Sort of annoying. Took me ages to finish Pride & Prejudice & Zombies because I was so tired. (I didn't mind it, by the way. I lol'd a few times, but I prefer the original much better). But now I'm stuck about what I want to read. I literally have 5 books on my bedside table, and I'm switching between them each night depending on my mood. Haha, and they're all re-reads, all books I've read before.

I've got Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice (both in these GORGEOUS little tiny versions that can almost fit in your pocket), one of the Twilight books (don't ask), P&P&Z (too lazy to type the whole thing again, but not lazy enough to tell you that) and one of the Earth's Children books. Plains of Passage, I think. God, the sex in those books gets old. How can people stand to read bodice rippers all the time? Maybe it's just because it's the same characters. You can only see the words "jutting manhood" so many times before your eyeballs start to bleed. Lucky for the author that the story is actually interesting, and that I've read the books enough times to know when the smut is about to commence (and I can therefore skip the next few pages).

I'm keen to buy this book I've heard about: Eats, Shoots & Leaves, by Lynne Truss.

A panda walks into a caf. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.

'Why?' asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.

'Well, I'm a panda', he says, at the door. 'Look it up.'

The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation. 'Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.'

It looks good. Not something readily available in Oz, but I think I'll have to order it in from the UK on my next payday. Hey, my geeky bookshelves needs to be fuller in order to convince G that I need another one, OK?

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I. Loved. It.

Unashamedly. I'm not a die-hard TOS fan, but I've seen all of the episodes, and I love the TOS-based movies.

( More thoughts under the cut. Spoilers, if you're crazy enough not to have seen it yet. )

Damnit, I didn't even publish this post, I'd only saved it .. *grumbles* Silly Wordpress Plugin.

Anyway... ( more thoughts... )

Well... that's about it for now. I loved it, and I hope the entire cast signs on for a second season :)

I don't talk much about a lot of the things I watch on TV. George and I save up episodes of Heroes and Lost and have marathons on some weekends. This weekend was the Heroes marathon, where we finished watching Season 3.

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1. The Complete Works of Jane Austen - I've always wanted one of these giant books, but end up thinking that if I fell asleep reading one (as I often do) I'd die from the weight of the book on my chest...


2. The Plains of Passage by Jean M Auel


3. The Shelters of Stone by Jean M Auel (because these two are my favourite books in the series)


4. The Ruins of Ambrai by Melanie Rawn (because I'm in denial about events in book 2)


5. The Dictionary

Boy, that was a tough one! I couldn't include 1 Terry Goodkind book without wanting to include them all, and as much as I love Harry Potter.. I could live without it if I had to. lol @ the dictionary. I'd still want proof when I'm correcting people (even if they end up being imaginary people). The only other thing I'd consider is an art book. Like... a Brom book, or a Waterhouse book. I need pretties.

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Just FYI, these caps are usually up at frak-that.com a couple of days before the re-watch at bsg_refrak, I only advertise them after the allowed time ;)

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