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This morning, I was driving to the mechanic (after 2 hours sleep, woohoo) and I was behind one of these Red Bull promotion cars. Completely unbidden, I had this mental image of it stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, with a caption (Impact, of course, with a black outline): Where's your wings NOW, motherfucker?

I blame it on the lack of sleep >.>

Ahahaha this is fabulous.

Me:

Instead of having a cigarette after sex, Angie heads outside and brands her cattle.

Angie doesn't say "who's your daddy", because she knows the answer.

Give a man a fish, and you will feed him for a day. Give a man anything that is better than a fish, and Angie will beat his ass and take it.

Angie can strangle you with a cordless phone.

Rita:

Rita once visited the Virgin Islands. They are now The Islands.

Rita uses a night light. Not because Rita is afraid of the dark, but the dark is afraid of Rita.

The truth will set you free. Unless Rita has you, in which case, forget it buddy!

Rita can taste lies.

Current Mood: amused

Wow. Once again I have failed to update my journal for over a month. And I'm doing so now that I have a print media piece due tomorrow. I'm attempting to write a travel piece about being in Belfast over Easter last year. It's happening, if slowly. Mostly, it's making me pine terribly for being overseas again. I realised the other night that I could actually look up Norwich on googlemaps and view the place on the satellite. I could actually trace the path I walked from uni to village on a daily basis, and see the building that contained my flat.

I have a few weeks left of my degree. Then I start looking for a real job. I really, really want to be back there. In England. Free and having fun and living my life like I did for those 6 months. At this point, though, I haven't got enough money. I guess I'll have to work here for a year or so before I can start looking for wok over there. Get some experience in the industry I want to work in, anyway, rather than being a supermarket checkout chick. I decided against the honours year, because it just looked like far too much effort, and too much of an excuse to avoid change.

In online life, I've joined

road_ahead RPG. This time, I'm trying my hand at muggleborn!Ravenclaw Rita, because the concept of playing her muggleborn is fascinating after DH in a way it never was before. I haven't been hugely active yet, because blargh uni, but I'm having fun so far, and I'm loving reading everyone else's stuff. It's been so intense and so sad these past few weeks, because of all the funerals (the Weasleys in this game are absolutely amazing). It's been overwhelming just reading.

wizardwatch has only one week left. Rita has made it right through to the end. I've taken over modding there, too, which is easy enough but time consuming omg.

Rita and Neville have been at it again. In this one, Rita is bored and horny, and Neville has been ill and takes a nap in her bed, and she comes in and just... convinces him to sleep with her. It was very fun and interesting to play, like that - knowing what we wanted but just putting the two of them in the room together and seeing where they took us. Go read, if you are so inclined, and tell me/us what you think. The game has precious few watchers these days and I am a complete whore for reviews ;).

I'm in love with Ill Will Press Little iLLs, and I'm currently bidding on one of the glow in the dark ones. So cool. It's getting really expensive, and the auction ends at 10am tomorrow, so I don't know if I'll get it, but I'm hoping. There's another one I love as well, though, so I won't be heartbroken if I don't win this one.

All of you should go and watch Albus Dumbledore: The Only Gay At Hogwarts - with music from Little Britain. It's absolute brilliance.

Also, since I haven't posted about it: YEY for teh gay. And absolute fail to those fans that I saw going 'suck why couldn't she have made one of the hotter characters gay'. Because yeah. Um. I think it's far more awesome that a generation of kids have realised that one of the most respected characters in their favourite book series preferred men than the fact that you can now write slashy Albus porn with Jo's blessing.

That is all. I'll go back to my travel piece now.

Current Mood: procrastinating w/ period pain

i. I am off work sick. I have a chest infection. I have antibiotics and cough medicine and nicotine patches. Again. Maybe I can quit permanently this time. Of course, the cloves I ordered from Ebay arrived today. *sigh*. Maybe I'll just send them on to people I know who'll like em.

ii. Jim Broadbent has been cast as Slughorn! Omfg! sjdgjdhhdghdgdfd YAYE!! :D He'll be so, so, so perfect.

iii. I have been meaning to pimp this for a while, but haven't got around to it. At

wizardwatch, Rita and Neville have a 'treasure hunt' during games week, in the garden. As a dare, Rita tells Neville to eat a piece of fruit fallen from a tree she does not recognise, which is actually 'passion fruit', a potent aphrodisiac. He fixates on her, and she's far too hedonist to think about what will happen later. I am so insanely proud of how this thread turned out - completely unplanned - and am in awe of

regasssa's fabulous Neville, and her writing in this thread. I believe the line that kills me the most is a lion made of sunbeams. Beautiful. Things have been amazingly strange and awkward between our charries ever since, which is a very fun dynamic to play.

iv. In SHH news and pimps, Kingsley and Rita have a moment on the dance floor at a function. Guh. Ollivander has certainly mellowed my girl considerably, and Kingsley is more mellow lately too, but it's still ahdghsghshsghs. If my girl ever has to make an IC choice between her two 'interests', it's going to kill me. Seriously.

v. Thanks to all who commented recently on my print media post. I didn't quite know what to say to all the hugs and love, but I really appreciate your words, and thank you so much for the support ♥

vi. I got an email today - a generic one obviously sent to anyone with the right GPA, but still - about doing an Honours year, and I'm really, really tempted. The thing about screenwriting seems to be that it's not what you know but who, and really, where better to 'know' the right people that at uni, where several of my lecturers/tutors are film makers themselves? I'm also not sure I want to leave the uni experience behind just yet. Part of me just wants to be out making money and thinks I could do postgrad later, but another part of me doesn't think I ever *will*, and if I want to the best time to go for it would be now. Despite the lack of time I have this semester with so much work, I'm actually really enjoying my time on campus and everything I'm learning. I feel more productive than I have for a while. Perhaps that's because it's my last semester.

vii. Ordered Provoked and The Night And The Moment from amazon today. Yaye Miranda! Nothing like retail therapy to make one feel better. Also watched Snow White again, which is really not a very good movie, but better than the Disney one, and Miranda's insanely hot Elspeth makes it worth it.

viii. FINALLY found something about vista that I like. It's called 'snipping tool' and it's a built in utility that takes screencaps - of both normal screens and DVDs! Huzzah! Finally something that's not slightly cool yet completely useless and actually functionally awesome about this platform. Anyone with Vista who wants to find it, just click start and type snipping tool into the search. Ahh, thank god. I was so worried that I'd have no way of capping my DVDs. The horror!

This post brought to you by Angie finally having time to do nothing (extension on screenwriting til Monday yaye thank god), and the nice mixture of drugs I am on.

Current Mood: sick *cough hack gasp*

So. I have a new laptop. It is very shiny and new. My wallet, however, disagrees with my 'mmm shiny gadget' mentality.

Old laptop only lasted 2 years. Not even, really. How incredibly annoying. But it crashed last week, and I got it reformatted (for $100), which didn't help. And then I took it to the computer doctor (for $105), at which point I was told that repairing it would cost $2200. Um, no. Sorry. It didn't even cost that much.

And neither did this one, come to that. Yaye for 24-month end-of-financial-year payment plan options.

Anyway, so it's a HP, and it's quite lovely, and it has Vista.

OMG wtf Vista is completely incomprehensible.

Okay so maybe not. But it is strange liek whoah. I suppose I will get used to it. The screensaver is nifty, as is the little sidebar thing.

Any other Vista users on my flist? Tell me about the sooper seekrit awesome I haven't discovered yet! Do any of you know if I can get some sort of world time clock Gadget?

Also, all my essays for the semester are finished. I go to the US in less than a month. :D

Until then, I suppose I need to work like a dog at the supermarket :P

I'm a bit YAY right now.

Firstly.

A. Thank all of you lovely people who wished me a happy birthday! I had a great day, and a big chocolate cake, and it was rather cool. I knew in advance that I couldn't possibly hope to beat last year's birthday (Judi Dench liek omg, and then shopping at Harrods with

princesslucia and eating La Duree macaroons and wandering up and down Charing Cross Rd), so I didn't try, but it was still very awesome.

Also, I got ( these flowers, which I am putting behind a cut because I have no idea how large the picture is )

They're really awesome.

B. I am not going to let myself get excited until I have flights booked and passport and visa in hand, but I think I shall be coming over to your neck of the woods (your = a great many people on my flist). My Dad has agreed to pay for the flight (as the 21st gift), and I shall hopefully be visiting

ooh_blah_blah (and maybe

doesnotlikethis and/or

dfmovieman?) in Seattle in the summer! Hopefully, the money will extend to allow me to go and stay a few days with

cocohufflepuffs and

chibitoaster who will be visiting together for the release of DH. I wish I could stay for a YEAR, and visit about 463553 more of you, but your country is freakin' huge, and my uni break (and my wallet) will only let me do so much.

*flails a bit, despite resolve not to get excited yet*

C. Also, a few recs:

So Much Potential by

florahart. Rita/um, a beetle. This is the BEST sort of crack. Nearly killed me. Go read.

Barking At The Moon by

rinsbane. Petunia/Snape. This is an absolutely amazing piece of writing. Powerful and understated, beautiful and heart-wrenching. Even if you've never read/considered the pairing, go and take a look.

I'm sure there was more I wanted to say. Gah. I can't think of it now. Oh, well, that'll do

Current Mood: energetic

Some of the girls over at the MRAP were lamenting the lack of Mab cleavage in a recent thread. So I took care of it for them. This is what happens when I've been working on an essay for the last few days.

100% certified Miranda breasts :D

( HAY LOOK BOOBIES )

Current Mood: silly

You may have noticed I've been missing-in-action liek whoah.

I've been living it up over at

stoatshead_hill, as usual, of course, and doing uni. I'm having a lot of fun with both, actually. My performance class is a lot of fun, as is scriptwriting. I'm kind of stressed out about the whole 'doing interviews' thing with the feature writing class, because of course I chose to write a feature on something difficult, like the Australian film industry, and so I want to talk to someone involved in said industry, and that is a lot harder than it might sound.

But I love scriptwriting. Honestly, I really do think it's something I could do with my life. I think I've made the right decision about this ambition.

For those of you who like the SHH link-spam stuff, have some. I haven't done this for a while.

Rita gets stoned with Ollivander. Snogging ensues.. She flirts with Siri Travers, whose Deatheater brother she had a rather nasty encounter with in an alley some weeks back. Horace Slughorn throws a party, at which Rita finds herself in a few conversations, the most amusing of which is one between herself, Irma Pince and Ollivander. Also, she helps Ollivander welcome the Spring. Seriously, folks, go read that one :D. Far too few people seem to be game, because zomg an old man getting it on. But I think it's hot, so there. And I hope I've had Rita deal realistically with Ollivander's age without ruining the mood. It was a fun challenge. And did I mention hot?

I'm typing this on my shitty old broken Sony laptop. My Samsung has eaten its own power cord, which has resulted in much frustration (not the least of which was carrying the fucking thing in a bag full of books over the Macquarie centre near uni the other day, spending $150 on a 'universal' adaptor only to get back to the library and discover that none of the plugs fit. Here's hoping Samsung can send me a new one when I call in the morning). Why this had to happen on the weekend, and also the week that I have two papers due, is, I'm sure, another big joke from the person who played the 'lets make you get lost on the way to a friend's, miss the movie you're supposed to see and then blow your tyre on the way home' one a few weeks ago.

But I did find something randomly amusing in my documents folder on this thing. I must have written it in first year. An open letter to university markers:

( Dear Department )

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: on my bed
Current Music: 1am silence

i. Mouth is gradually feeling better. I have progressed to the eating of pasta.

ii. Makani drew Rita!! :D :D :D. Fellow Rita fans, where is the fannish creation? Seeing this made me realise how long it's been since I saw any Rita fic (or art, etc) that I didn't write myself.

I want Rita fic! *whips minions* Write some for me! :P ;)

iii. At SHH. Rita writes... er, fic? mind!pr0n or something, anyway.

Also, Julain Avery opens a hellmouth and ends up with a new 'pet'. Hillariously entertaining reading. Go look :D.

iv. I feel a really strong urge to just... do some fangirling.

Sometimes, in fandom, I think we take for granted that we are often introduced to pairings/genres and affected and changed as writers by our reading habits, and our interaction with other fandom authors. So I just want to take a moment to acknowledge/thank a few writers that have blown me away/affected me with their work, and who I have probably taken inspiration from, both thematically and stylistically.

minerva_fan. I'd never read femslash before I found your work. I'd never realised there was Minerva fic, Petunia fic, Sybill fic. I had no idea there was an audience for such things. I remember, initially, that I read your femslash because I just wanted to read everything I could about these characters, and I thought 'I could cope with' femslash for them. I think I was presuming femslash to be like 'lesbian' porn. I have no idea. Perhaps I just thought it would be confronting, but your fic... well. Your women are real and beautiful, full of humanity and depth. Their relationships - whether with each other or with men - are subtle, warm and realistic. I remember being struck by how normal the attractions seemed - how the fact that they were lesbians was just a fact, and didn't matter. Your writing seduced my gently into femslash, and by god, I've never looked back.

Some of my favourites for people who wat to read :). And her masterlist, because choosing just a few as 'favourites' was rather difficult. Go and read everything. Now.

lilith_morgana. The way you use words absolutely slays me. The way you imagine characters and relationships and put them into words is just amazing. The images and the allusions, the connections you draw between characters and the words you use to describe them - I really find it difficult to put into words just how much I love your style. The fact that you can make me read anything - from Rita/Minerva to Snapeledore - and love it. The faults you find in the characters that you love and the way you write those fractures as beautiful. I have learned a lot from you, both in terms of style and character.

Read some here. And masterlist.

bartzina13. This one comes as a surprise to me, when I search my brain for authors whose work I return to and that have had a large impact on me. But yes. It probably comes as a surprise to me because unlike the others, I don't know you at all. It's the porn. The honesty. Pure and simple. It's age and pointing out the things that aren't beautiful about your characters, writing nasty women and making me love them, writing detail in the porn, and making me feel it. Unrelenting, but hot.

And some links.

And

tamlane, for a million reasons I've discussed with you already, and cannot re-articulate right now. You're on this list as well, even if I can't find the words tell everyone else why. ♥

Current Mood: grateful
Current Music: HIM - Close To The Flame

Yesterday, I went to buy milk at the place next door to the video store. Bad idea. Spending money I don't have on movies? What the hell, why not?

Yay for movies.

Yesterday, I hired Shadowboxer, with Helen Mirren and Cuba Gooding Jnr (I didn't even know it was out here, zomg), and I've heard bad things about it from the HMAS, but I really enjoyed it! I mean, really, anything with an interracial, intergenerational relationship in it is awesome in my book. OMG Helen/Cuba *dies*. Story was brilliant, too.

englishwannabe, you should definitely get this one out. With your 'mother' obsession, you'll love it. All I'm sayin'. Go hire it.

I also hired '8 Femmes' again, which was just as awesome as the last time I saw it, except maybe even more, because omg it's just so sapphic. I took about a zillion screencaps. Icons coming soon.

So, I took Shadowboxer back today, and and course I had to hire more movies. I know I do this, so I don't even know why I let myself go in there in the first place. I know I am now damned to hire 6 movies per week for the next few weeks, until I get it out of my system.

norwegianne, I blame you entirely for my burgeoning Isabelle Huppert obsession. I got Me and My Sister out today, and also I Heart Huckabees. I feel it coming on, the same ravenous 'omg I wanna see more of her work' that happened before I fell hopelessly in love with Miranda. :D

I also have Some Like It Hot, Evil Under The Sun (yay Maggie!), Roman Holiday, Last Tango in Paris and Picnic At Hanging Rock.

At least I can blame my need for shiny to watch on the fact that I'm getting my wisdom teeth ripped out next Friday, and will be sore and in need of things to take my mind off it.

Also, I stopped smoking two days ago. I have patches, and yay. Watching Shadowboxer and 8 Femmes did not help with that (omg it is so not fair that Helen and Catherine Deneuve and Fanny Ardant look so freaking hot when they smoke). I had a stupid little ritual when I smoked my last one. It involved defiantly lighting up my last clove in my bedroom while listening to Tori Amos' 'Taxi Ride' (And I'm down to Your last cigarette and this "We are one" crap as you're invading This thing you call Love - she smiles way too much).

This morning, I listened to Kate Bush's 'Hounds of Love Album', and then immediately afterward, threw in Rammstein's 'Reise, Reise'. Dude, wtf. Does anyone else in the world have those cds back to back in their cases? LOL

Peace out.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Music: Rammstein - "Amerika"

( The two words in meme are 'me' and 'me', hence why this gratuitous time-waster is going behind a cut )

Also, sign #2 you're far too obsessed with Rita Skeeter: you don't like tequila, but you buy a tequila based cocktail simply because it is called a 'Rose Rita'. No, really. Thankfully, said cocktail is good. And you also win $18 on pokies a little later, which pays for it :D.

Also?

Dear Customers,

We close at 4:30pm on Sunday. That means I am rostered until 5. When you don't LEAVE until 5:15pm, do you even consider the fact that I want to go home? Why must you skank in the exit doors after close? Why do your children need toys 2 weeks after Christmas? What is with your overwhelming need to consume?

No love,

Me.

That is all.

Current Mood: lazy
Current Music: Tori Amos - A Sorta Fairytale