sundries

[rm]

Patty is sitting at the dining room table making earings, while I sit here watching the Dancing with the Stars results show, because of my Baz thing (maybe I have a post brewing about all that? Or maybe I'll shut up and just take Patty to one of the local Aussie restaurants. Fuck I miss Sydney and my naivete in that adventure). Yeah, yeah, I know, and now I'm going to have that crappy song from the Disney Channel girl stuck in my head. I'm kinda digging the marching band thing that's going on now though. Um, you don't want to know how many times I've seen Drumline.

Having regained some small measure of sanity, we have decided not to go to a holiday ball in December, because it is the only weekend for the rest of the year wherein we will both be home and have nothing planned.

Speaking of this weekend, we are going to a Pepper Festival on Saturday and the air show and pumpkin festival for my birthday on Sunday.

I am actually kinda sorta starting to get excited about the Going to Zurich thing because I'm realizing that I'll probably be staying in a company flat and be able to wander around the city on my own in the evenings, and cities and solitude within them is good for me.

According to BookDepository.co.uk the next Torchwood novels should be here any day now. I'm excited, but also oh crap, Ianto about it.

Meanwhile all sorts of awesome Whoniverse things arrived from Mike's Comics today. This is good as it includes things I need to look at while working on the Bristol abstract, as well as Blink, which I need to rewatch because I'm writing Jack/Weeping Angels for the omnijaxual fest, and a couple of other episodes that are key in various proposals/abstracts I have littering my desktop.

So Primeval was brought back from the dead.... um, I still think it's crap, but folks I like (and in some cases know) write for it, so good for them. I can't figure out who actually likes the show as something other than background noise, though (sorry guys). Maybe if I watched from the beginning? Or maybe it'll give people who are pissed about CoE something cracky to watch (but why? they're all watching Merlin). I can't figure it out. I can't figure out why I am trying to figure it out.

Back to Dancing with the Stars -- Patty and I are now singing along with Son of a Preacher Man. One of the best compliments I've ever been paid was by my ex who said I walked like this song. I was smug about that for a long time, and am a little sad that these days my main reaction is sorta "eh, that was less cool than I thought, because all we did did was act like drunks." Ah, time. Fun to sing with Patty though.

Notice I'm not writing a rant about straight privilege right now. Just... I've hit and passed my anger quotient on the Internet today. Between the Polanski thing and the ever changing state of who's behaving badly as regards the LLAs situation and I've had a lot of work to do and, I just can't -- there's a quota of how much I can just go for it each day. But don't worry, there's probably another rant coming. Um, yay or something? It fucking sucks. I'd really like to save my eloquence for the Whoniverse and Severus Snape's gender identity and my city and Patty and all the great food that we eat and just random crap I'm obsessed with. But if this needs to be said, and sadly, apparently it does, there is a problem and I will be ranting soon. Fucking a, none of that should need to be said.

The flooding in the Philippines and Viet Nam has had an impact on the family of at least one of my friends. Help at the Red Cross if you can.

The flooding in the Southeast has also caused trouble for tons of people I know, although most seem have to have gotten off lightly in the scheme of things. Still, help is totally needed there too.

I should be America's Next Great Pundit, dontcha think?

Comments

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

watching primeval from the beginning is not going to help make it better... srsly, it is background entertainment for when you're busy doing something that doesn't quite need 100% concentration (like when i'm sewing - much like merlin, though merlin is... cuter)

you should totes be america's next great pundit!

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Have you been to Zurich? It is amazing. The street food is excellent--though I know you'll probably need to avoid most of that. There is a Lindt-Sprungli cafe that is three floors of chocolate madness. And little cobblestone streets. And the red light district is kind of right in the middle of everything.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

I never got hooked on Primeval (which is weird, ’cause dinosaurs!), but I’m glad the fans will get resolutions to the cliffhangers. Although there is that small, perverse part of me that thinks it would be hilarious if the show came back with a new cast and the characters marooned in time were never mentioned.

It’s an air show and a pumpkin festival? Will there be a screening of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Never been before. You're making me feel more enthused. I already know it's going to inspire me to write.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

It looks like a Grimm's fairy tale. Clock towers and cobble stones. I did not expect to even like Zurich, but it has a gentle charm. Its incredibly clean and the food is fabulous. It had cool goth clothing stores and I talked my mother into buying pointy knee high black boots with skull buckles the first time we went.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to decide if I like the thing I got you for your birthday or not, so of course I have not mailed it on time. Besides, it would probably cause the world to end if I mailed in on time.

[fruitsgrow.livejournal.com]

I had to look up Primeval and...omfg, looks horrible. From skimming, at least the woman are intelligent? That's the only plus I could see, really.

Also, hi. /waves. Sorry for adding you so randomly. You get linked on metafandom a lot, and you're too interesting for me to not add.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hi, welcome.

And I've only watched a few episodes of Primeval but it's really terrible. The women are smart and interesting. But the show is deeply, deeply pointless, even with dinos.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Even friends who watch it say it's terrible.

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

Or maybe I'll shut up and just take Patty to one of the local Aussie restaurants.

What sort of things do you get at one of your local Aussie restaurants?

[rm.livejournal.com]

My favorite thing is fried barra over chopped roast potatoes mixed with chopped bacon and papaya.

Also, there's grilled steak with horseradish sauce served next to a vegetarian lasagne (although I can't have that any more).

Grilled chicken (chook!) skewers over rice.

And they totally have fabulous meat pies and stuff (that I also can't have now).

Desserts! Pav and lamingtons. I can't believe Patty and I have been together for two years and I haven't taken her to have these things.

Oh, duh, I can just link you to restaurant website: http://www.thesunburntcow.com/

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

Mmm, that sounds great. :)

I love barramundi, especially when it's fresh, and is cooked with the skin on. There's a Greek restaurant in Sydney that does the best I've ever tasted, but they only get it in sometimes -- so one can never be sure if it'll be on the menu.

Pavlova is also good, although technically, that, like Russell Crowe, is from New Zealand.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that about the pav. I become totally hooked on it in Sydney, and it's gluten-free friendly, so I've done it a few times here.

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

It is definitely most delicious. New Zealanders tend to be most put out that it's generally seen as an Australian food -- the whole friendly rivalry thing, of course.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Don't breathe easy for SE Asia just yet. There are two, possibly three more typhoons headed in.

[regyt.livejournal.com]

I'll be at that pepper festival, too! It looks awesome and is just a short walk from my apartment, so I was planning on going already. Total win.

Happy almost birthday!

(The Polanski thing gets me much angrier than most internet fails do. I'm not even really sure why, since I'm one of the few women I know who actually haven't been raped, but it's nonetheless pushing me into fury even more than the usual offensive insanity tends to.)

[qthelights.livejournal.com]

I've only watched a few eps of Primeval, but mainly I LOVE the idea of it 'cause I always wanted there to be dinosaurs in real (current) life. It's a cool idea. But yes, it hasn't really ever grabbed me the way I want it to.

Somewhat, but not exactly, random...

[sageautumn.livejournal.com]

Son of a Preacher Man was my (well, our) wedding song.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I love Primeval but its a load of cobblers, I just like the cute dinos and its a good way to suspend my brain for a little while.. :)

[norda.livejournal.com]

1] Good on ya for carving out weekend time for you both in an overstuffed year.

2] My thanks for the Mike's Comics plug. Enjoy in good health!

3] The Polanski thing has triggered me in ways I thought were dealt with long ago. And I hear you loud and clear on knowing how much idiocy one can take in a day and needing to marshal one's forces.

4] I'm relieved that I have heard from my friends in the Philippines, but am concerned that more weather is coming.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Friendly? Okay, sure. *wink*

[laurab1.livejournal.com]

You've got Len and Bruno on your dancing show, too, haven't you? Strictly Come Dancing's the hardest ever, this series, with everyone dancing two dances, already. I really don't understand how they manage, flying to the USA and back, every week, for 4 months.