It's film festival season in Melbourne. I love it. The queues are crazy, sessions are selling out like boom! My blissfully retired parents are all organised with their mini-passes and booked sessions and calm, relaxed, carefully caffienated lifestyle, while I am running around, scrambling, always late, trying to get into a film simply because it's ( Read more... )

Apparently bacon sales in the US are down 95% since the Swine Flu outbreak. Which has lead me to imagine a dystopic world in which pork products are no longer eaten, and yet a band of dedicated baconophiles get together for secret meetings where no-one knows each other's real name and together they eat illegal hand-reared bacon in scent-proofed ( Read more... )

Frakking frakking frakpants, you guys, IT'S COLD! Holy fuckersnaps! Brrrr. (OK. Maybe 11.3°C isn't cold by the standards of where you live, but I am a delicate flower and AM FREEZING MY FRIKKIN' BOOBIES OFF HERE! THINK OF THE BOOBIES.)

So, things to keep me us warm? Kitty/s? Check. (He's curled up on a pile of random junk on the desk right now. ( Read more... )

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Had an excellent weekend, though I do feel it's over too quickly, damn bugger bum shit. On Saturday, some of us went to the Roller Derby! OMG so so so so AWESOME! I already harboured the desire to be a roller derby girl but now even more! And my team won! I've never had a team before. I'm not really into team sports or even sport in general (not ( Read more... )

I am home from house/cat-sitting for my parents, but I left my laptop at their place. So, because I am an INTERNET ADDICT, I come to you from my old laptop, The Shitbox. And LOL, it is so clunky! And small but chunky. It feels dinosaurish. And I'm used to my new slick lappy (which for some reason I want to call Darcy - not after Mr Darcy - but ( Read more... )

Just in case you non-Aussies were missing posts from Australians complaining about the weather, here - have another one. (It's been a week, right?)

Well, today has been the HOTTEST MELBOURNE DAY ON RECORD! Yes, it's true. It got to 46.4°C (that's 115.5°F) at around 3pm and right now it's 45.7°C... so it's dropping! Cool change expected tonight, so ( Read more... )

Hi everyone, How did I manage to post more when I was writing a novel last month, but now the fact that it's December and Christmas in, like, TWO WEEKS (apparently) just totally overwhelms me and I have to have a cup of tea and a lie down just thinking about it. So, anyway, hi! This is me posting something.

Things I want:-to be able to write that ( Read more... )

Rain! Ha! It's awesome! ... It was forcast, but I didn't believe it because it was mild and sunny this morning and yesterday and the day before. So I didn't pack my raincoat and hence got wet riding home. It was actually kinda fun, except the traffic was shit, so there was a lot of swearing at motorists who went into the bike lane in between ( Read more... )

First mango of the season. OMG NOM!

( fairly incoherent and not exactly sober dot-point thoughts on Supernatural 4.02 )