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hnpccOk, working backwards through memes.
7 things that are pissing me off.
1. People with doof music playing in their cars turned up so loud that it makes my furniture vibrate. I don't live on the main road, so if I can (a) hear the doof and (b) feel the bloody doof through the couch it is Too. Damn. Loud. Seriously though, I've actually seen a car where the numberplate was vibrating ready to come off because the bass was so loud. Recently I've been considering ways of making a weapon that would tune into obnoxiously loud car stereos, and blow the stereos up. Not the cars and occupants though, that would be murder. Just the speakers. That would be fun.
2. Moreland Library's paperback cataloguing system. That would be put the books on those rotating stands, "catalogued" by the first letter of the author's surname. The rotating stands are annoying - every so often you get some littleshitangel who finds it fun to rotate the stands really fast and make the books fly off, but only having them sorted by one letter is really irritating. G is a popular letter. Can I find the one book that the computer system tells me is definitely in on the four stands for G? No, of course not. In bookshops I can easily find 4 books I want to read in under 20 minutes. In Moreland it takes me forever to find one.
3. The whole RU486 'debate'. Oh for fuck's sake. I've been holding off posting on this because it is seriously pissing me off and I can see the post degenerating into a long rant punctuated with swearing. Just... get a grip people. I'm looking at you, Barnaby. And you, Danna. Rhetoric is one thing, but blatantly racist scaremongering is another thing altogether. As is guesstimating statistics up cos there aren't any available.
4. Job hunting. Argh. *sigh* I didn't want a life, really. And my view of myself doesn't depend in any way on my job, honest. *sigh*
5. My ankle. Just heal already. I'm sick of being unable to run properly and I'm really sick of icing my foot every time I come home from the gym or playing sport. It's not like I can really avoid walking either.
6. Aging. See above. I swear I used to heal faster than this. And I had non-dyed hair. And a future. Yes, I am having the usual no-life crisis. Last time I ended up working for OzPost for two and a bit years. I'm trying to avoid that this time. But seriously? I'm running out of time. And all I'm doing is writing job applications and playing Total Anhiliation.
7. The Last Level of Total Anhiliation. I've played this before. It can be done, dammit. It's just going to frustrate the hell out of me until I do it.
There are of course other things that are pissing me off, but they tend to be long term and fairly general. These are just the here and now ones.
10 celebrities I find attractive
I should point out I'm going with the Australian definition of "celebrity" here, which basically is someone who appeared on telly at least once. So this may be kind of a wide and odd list.
Ed Byrne. He's funny, he's intelligent and he has a sexy accent. *shrug* I'm basing this entirely on his appearance at the Melbourne Comedy Festival about, um, 5 years ago? Either way, he stayed in my mind. So did his velvet jacket: I think I may have its twin somewhere.
Bruce Willis. Dean claims it's because they look alike, but then again I'd have to pick Woody Harrelson and Adrian Edmondson as well if that were the case. To be honest it's because of his guest appearance in Mad About You.
Patrick Stewart. And his character in American Dad. Not so much Picard though, he always struck me as being kind of aloof. His voice is gorgeous.
Halle Berry. Woman could look good in a hessian sack (although not in what she wore to the Golden Globes two years ago.) She's basically gorgeous.
Eric Bana. Not so much as his characters in The Castle or Hulk though. He made Troy worth seeing.
Jessica Alba. I loved her in the first series of Dark Angel. I probably would have loved her in the second series had the writing not lost the plot entirely. She's totally kick arse, particularly when half-cat.
Jude Law. I'm including him as the one celebrity I'd be likely to shag. God knows, if the media are anything to go by you know he'd be up for it.
James Hird. He's not bad looking, he's articulate and, most importantly, he can kick a football like a god (sometimes. Other times he screws it right up.) Pity he's getting older, his knees are starting to go and he will retire soon. Till then I'll sit on the side lines watching. Because, like with Michael Long, Derek Kickett, Ablett (both) and Paul Salmon to name just a few, sometimes you just have to sit and marvel at the talent of it all. With Hird you also get something to say as well as the usual good body.
Laura Prepon. Donna in That 70s Show. She's cool
Adam Hill. Dean would also include Myf Warhurst. I think they're both ace.
5 Weird Habits I have.
Rewritten meme description: Post about five of your habits that others find weird, and make sure this description gets propagated in the same post.
I have no idea what others find weird, so here's what I do that I think is probably weird.
1. I talk to myself a lot. Mostly it's normal harmless out loud reminding of things I need to do, occasionally it segues off into half a conversation. I dunno why.
2. I talk to other drivers a lot. Sometimes nicely ("please move over a tad"), sometimes less so ("Oh for crying out loud, pick a friggin lane!"). Either way it's probably good that they can't hear me.
3. I sing to myself a lot. Sometimes it's with the radio, sometimes it's against the radio. Occasionally I'm not aware of doing it, and realise only after someone else mentions it.
4. I find myself obsessively stuck on one play, one novel, one scenario and replaying it over and over again, trying new variants along the way. I probably need to write fan fic and get it out of my system or something. But I don't.
5. I organise netball teams. Trust me, this has been described as weird by quite a few people, usually those who've previously done it.
So, that answer anyone's questions..? ;-)
7 things that are pissing me off.
1. People with doof music playing in their cars turned up so loud that it makes my furniture vibrate. I don't live on the main road, so if I can (a) hear the doof and (b) feel the bloody doof through the couch it is Too. Damn. Loud. Seriously though, I've actually seen a car where the numberplate was vibrating ready to come off because the bass was so loud. Recently I've been considering ways of making a weapon that would tune into obnoxiously loud car stereos, and blow the stereos up. Not the cars and occupants though, that would be murder. Just the speakers. That would be fun.
2. Moreland Library's paperback cataloguing system. That would be put the books on those rotating stands, "catalogued" by the first letter of the author's surname. The rotating stands are annoying - every so often you get some little
3. The whole RU486 'debate'. Oh for fuck's sake. I've been holding off posting on this because it is seriously pissing me off and I can see the post degenerating into a long rant punctuated with swearing. Just... get a grip people. I'm looking at you, Barnaby. And you, Danna. Rhetoric is one thing, but blatantly racist scaremongering is another thing altogether. As is guesstimating statistics up cos there aren't any available.
4. Job hunting. Argh. *sigh* I didn't want a life, really. And my view of myself doesn't depend in any way on my job, honest. *sigh*
5. My ankle. Just heal already. I'm sick of being unable to run properly and I'm really sick of icing my foot every time I come home from the gym or playing sport. It's not like I can really avoid walking either.
6. Aging. See above. I swear I used to heal faster than this. And I had non-dyed hair. And a future. Yes, I am having the usual no-life crisis. Last time I ended up working for OzPost for two and a bit years. I'm trying to avoid that this time. But seriously? I'm running out of time. And all I'm doing is writing job applications and playing Total Anhiliation.
7. The Last Level of Total Anhiliation. I've played this before. It can be done, dammit. It's just going to frustrate the hell out of me until I do it.
There are of course other things that are pissing me off, but they tend to be long term and fairly general. These are just the here and now ones.
10 celebrities I find attractive
I should point out I'm going with the Australian definition of "celebrity" here, which basically is someone who appeared on telly at least once. So this may be kind of a wide and odd list.
Ed Byrne. He's funny, he's intelligent and he has a sexy accent. *shrug* I'm basing this entirely on his appearance at the Melbourne Comedy Festival about, um, 5 years ago? Either way, he stayed in my mind. So did his velvet jacket: I think I may have its twin somewhere.
Bruce Willis. Dean claims it's because they look alike, but then again I'd have to pick Woody Harrelson and Adrian Edmondson as well if that were the case. To be honest it's because of his guest appearance in Mad About You.
Patrick Stewart. And his character in American Dad. Not so much Picard though, he always struck me as being kind of aloof. His voice is gorgeous.
Halle Berry. Woman could look good in a hessian sack (although not in what she wore to the Golden Globes two years ago.) She's basically gorgeous.
Eric Bana. Not so much as his characters in The Castle or Hulk though. He made Troy worth seeing.
Jessica Alba. I loved her in the first series of Dark Angel. I probably would have loved her in the second series had the writing not lost the plot entirely. She's totally kick arse, particularly when half-cat.
Jude Law. I'm including him as the one celebrity I'd be likely to shag. God knows, if the media are anything to go by you know he'd be up for it.
James Hird. He's not bad looking, he's articulate and, most importantly, he can kick a football like a god (sometimes. Other times he screws it right up.) Pity he's getting older, his knees are starting to go and he will retire soon. Till then I'll sit on the side lines watching. Because, like with Michael Long, Derek Kickett, Ablett (both) and Paul Salmon to name just a few, sometimes you just have to sit and marvel at the talent of it all. With Hird you also get something to say as well as the usual good body.
Laura Prepon. Donna in That 70s Show. She's cool
Adam Hill. Dean would also include Myf Warhurst. I think they're both ace.
5 Weird Habits I have.
Rewritten meme description: Post about five of your habits that others find weird, and make sure this description gets propagated in the same post.
I have no idea what others find weird, so here's what I do that I think is probably weird.
1. I talk to myself a lot. Mostly it's normal harmless out loud reminding of things I need to do, occasionally it segues off into half a conversation. I dunno why.
2. I talk to other drivers a lot. Sometimes nicely ("please move over a tad"), sometimes less so ("Oh for crying out loud, pick a friggin lane!"). Either way it's probably good that they can't hear me.
3. I sing to myself a lot. Sometimes it's with the radio, sometimes it's against the radio. Occasionally I'm not aware of doing it, and realise only after someone else mentions it.
4. I find myself obsessively stuck on one play, one novel, one scenario and replaying it over and over again, trying new variants along the way. I probably need to write fan fic and get it out of my system or something. But I don't.
5. I organise netball teams. Trust me, this has been described as weird by quite a few people, usually those who've previously done it.
So, that answer anyone's questions..? ;-)
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Date: 2006-02-15 09:38 am (UTC)I have to go back to the doctor again. I thought I'd cracked the achilles tendon thing by throwing away the shoes that I thought caused most of the problems but now it's coming back again. I don't really want to wear foot supports but I think that's the way that things are going.
I agree with you about Bruce Willis and there is just something about Patrick Stewart. Berry seems to *glow*
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