I went to a local festival. [link] Unfortunately, I can only take the heat, humidity, and crowds for a few hours, but I've been to this event a dozen or so times over the years, so I have it down to a science. In at 10:15, henna tat, shopping, music, raptor rescue tent to see the birds, tent next door to pet the snakes, more music, t-shirt and hat purchased, lunch, more music, fairy hair, and out by 12:30.
If I'd paid for a ticket I'd feel inclined to stay longer and get my money's worth, but I volunteered with setup last weekend, so my ticket was free.
I've spent the rest of the day watching Due South DVDs and reading the associated fic. The opening credits, with the field of snow, sooth my soul. Paul Gross in a leather jacket soothes other bits. There's also a plethora of That Guys there. Wee baby Mark Ruffalo in S1.
Pride is a great movie! Though it made me cry on an airplane.
I danced more today. And now my feet are killing me, it's 4am, and brunch is at 10am. Good god.
This post is making my morning. [link]
So great!
Pride is a great movie! Though it made me cry on an airplane.
Every movie makes me cry on an airplane, I think.
YES! It's also true of Call the Midwife at any altitude, but I really love a good clean cry like that. One time on a plane I watched a movie I had never heard of about Reese Witherspoon and some Sudanese refugees, and I swear every scene made me cry -- they alternated between happy and sad tears, but all tears! That remains my high-water mark.
Oh dear God. So the extremist I mentioned above, Pauline Hanson, who's returning to Parliament this election. Going to be a Queensland senator. Her party's platform, right on their official website: [link] For the Cliff notes, scroll down to the section, "Pauline Hanson's One Nation Policy". Top of the pops:
Call for an inquiry or Royal Commission to determine if Islam is a religion or political ideology
Yaaaaay.
Ryan occasionally asks me, who do I think is worse - Donald Trump or Tony Abbott (our previous PM). That's easy, Trump is way worse. I now have a point of comparison. Trump is if Pauline Hanson became a viable candidate for Prime Minister.
Am I ready to move furniture? No. Am I going to anyway? Yep.
billytea, I feel for your country's bad choices in governance.
Why is it that I can't get my sister to understand that I need more definite plans from her than "we'll call you when we're on the way"? I stopped doing that with them that time I waited all dressed up ready to go out for FOUR HOURS after they called "20 minutes away". I just told her, I'm in pajamas and I'm not getting dressed until I know where I'm supposed to be and when.
