1. Despite my best efforts to avoid something as patriotic and sport-related as the Commonwealth Games, it seems there is no escape- you can't even walk to the train station these days without being interrupted by the Baton Relay.
That said, it was kind of cool and surreal- quarter past seven in the morning, only just getting light and suddenly there's this cavalcade of police cars, vans, official-looking vehicles and the odd spectator (it was 7:15am on a weekday) and in the middle of it all a guy dressed in white carrying a big stick.
I didn't even know it was going through my suburb!
Nor did anyone else apparently. As the garbo said to his friend on his mobile: 'Nah, it's not the Queen, it's just the torch!'
2. The transport situation so far doesn't seem any worse than normal. Of course, it does help that our trams can now fly, which clears up the roads considerably:
On blogging...
3. Isn't it funny that even though there is a world-wide 'blogosphere' out there, bloggers tend to congregate around location? I read a lot of blogs from Melbourne; people from Melbourne read my blog. Like-attracts-like I guess.
4. I'm also fascinated by the different 'rules' for various online mediums. Why is it that on Blogger, your readers tend to be people you don't know in real life, while on MySpace, your 'friends' tend to be people you do know?
On fashion...
5. I wanted this type of shoe for ages, but then I realised something- they're clown shoes.*
6. I wish I wasn't influenced by fashion, as it's so... vacuous... but I still am. I live in a city. You can't get to know every person you see. Judgements are made fast. Clothes matter.
On cats...
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On guilty pleasures...
9. While I read heaps of highbrow literature for uni**, I secretly really dig self-help books. At the moment I'm reading How to be a Couple & Still be Free. (I can't believe I just told you guys that!)
10. 'Between the Sheets' on the ABC. Love it. Especially how it deals with the sexuality of people of all age groups, not just the young.
Ten things on a Thursday. Please excuse the randomness.
*No offence to anyone who owns these kind of shoes- like I said, I wanted a pair for ages!
**Just made my way through the 500-odd pages of 'V' by Thomas Pynchon. At times I felt like that guy on The Simpsons who has hiccups- 'hik, kill me, hik, kill me...'
9 comments:
500 pages for V - My edition has about 440. Is yours really big print? If so, wait til you hit Gravity's Rainbow. You're screwed then.
PS. You do read QLD once in a while don't you...or have you just been humouring me.
T T on a T has the ring of a regular spot does it not?
Thanks Russell, nice to see you still make sense at times. :)
T T on a T does have a nice ring to it.
The copy of 'V' was 492 pages.
But it felt like more.
Susanne I added your link to my blog!
I reckon Between the Sheets is riveting Susanne - it's my program of choice if I happen to be home on a Saturday night. Wish I'd seen the whole series.
Candice- cool, I'll add yours too.
Ro- The last episode is on tonight. It's well worth taping it even if you're going out.
That first cat, it's terrible!
:^)
Just get the shoes. Dont be a slave to fashion.
Mark had a pair of those shoes, he loved them but they fell apart pretty quickly. We got him a pair of vans for xmas that have skulls all over them, to replace the cons. They're pretty cool.
Im on holidays all this week so free during the day. Next weekend and the one after that are definately booked up, but i could have a free weekend after those.. possibly.
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