vacation's end
Technically, I do not leave Australia for another three days. However, in the past day or so it has become very apparent that I am really, really done. Like, yesterday I bailed on museumgoing and tours of more spectacular things I will never be in the same hemisphere with again to go see "Salt" at a movie theater. (Liked it! More Aliasy than anticipated.) My brain cannot take in any more glorious new experiences. It just wants to watch HGTV for a while. My feet, while still game for glorious new experience, feel that such experience should walk here, to my current location, from now on. I am seriously considering not really leaving the hotel apartment tomorrow, save for a neighborhood coffee. When I came down here, I came down determined to make the absolute most of it, and I have -- and to finish the first draft of a book; write, revise and turn in a short story; and get to work on book revisions, which I also have. But now I am TIRED. The better part of valor really might be a day spent in, with revisions and some films from the nearby DVD rental place, with some final activities on my last full day here, Sunday.
You are still not to spoil me on: "Mad Men," "Vampire Diaries"
You can now link me to all your posts on: MOCKINGJAY. What did you guys think?
ETA: The fannish5 question du jour -- Name five fictional bars you would like to visit.
1) Quark's, ST:DS9 -- First of all, because this would mean that I had finally fulfilled my lifelong ambition of being pulled into the Star Trek universe, and second, because this would mean I could buy Miles and Julian a round, see if they'd invite me to a holosuite game, and have a chance to get them to admit their undying love to each other. Ahem.
2) Foxy's, All My Children -- I would, of course, be sneaking into this place around 1983, which is when it existed, and more to the point, when Jenny was waiting tables and Jesse was the bouncer. I'd just want to hang out with these guys. I would not wear the little outfit.
3) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the HITCHHIKER'S series -- They served alcohol, right? At the end of the universe, you need alcohol. So I say it counts as a bar.
4) Rick's Cafe Americain, Casablanca -- I, too, wish to defy the Nazis with a rousing chorus of La Marseillaise. And watch Captain Renault slither around. And sing along to Sam's tunes. And try not to fall afoul of Peter Lorre, which is just good advice generally.
5) The Cantina, Star Wars -- If I can get one shot at Han Solo before he meets Leia, I'm taking it.
You are still not to spoil me on: "Mad Men," "Vampire Diaries"
You can now link me to all your posts on: MOCKINGJAY. What did you guys think?
ETA: The fannish5 question du jour -- Name five fictional bars you would like to visit.
1) Quark's, ST:DS9 -- First of all, because this would mean that I had finally fulfilled my lifelong ambition of being pulled into the Star Trek universe, and second, because this would mean I could buy Miles and Julian a round, see if they'd invite me to a holosuite game, and have a chance to get them to admit their undying love to each other. Ahem.
2) Foxy's, All My Children -- I would, of course, be sneaking into this place around 1983, which is when it existed, and more to the point, when Jenny was waiting tables and Jesse was the bouncer. I'd just want to hang out with these guys. I would not wear the little outfit.
3) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, the HITCHHIKER'S series -- They served alcohol, right? At the end of the universe, you need alcohol. So I say it counts as a bar.
4) Rick's Cafe Americain, Casablanca -- I, too, wish to defy the Nazis with a rousing chorus of La Marseillaise. And watch Captain Renault slither around. And sing along to Sam's tunes. And try not to fall afoul of Peter Lorre, which is just good advice generally.
5) The Cantina, Star Wars -- If I can get one shot at Han Solo before he meets Leia, I'm taking it.