Listening: random

It's dark and cold and wet out. Not raining, necessarily. But I'm terribly inclined to stay in, reading Harry Potter 7, drinking coffee, feet by the little space heater and music player set to random all day long. Though I really should get some exercise. I really should.

I want it to rain. Really rain. This near-rain reminds me of my childhood. I grew up in a drought that last some five odd years. I dunno, I was a kid. It was several years, though, of conserving water, learning about the water cycle with help from Ricky the Rambunctious Raindrop, sweeping the sidewalk instead of watering it, washing the car from buckets, turning off the tap when washing dishes or brushing my teeth. Rain days were very, very few. I learned to read the forecasts as 70% chance of rain = maybe yes, maybe no. Probably no. 40% or less was nothing, maybe a cloud rubbing up against a mountain. So it's not surprising now that yesterday the forecast was for light rain today and tomorrow and heavy rain on Thursday. But today it reads: light rain today, clouds tomorrow, light rain on Thursday.

I don't mind it terribly. I'm of desert stock. But it means I'm not good with cold, dark days. They make me want to hibernate.

Ah yes, and I have Harry Potter 7. Finally. The Harry Potter Series - books and movies both make me want to head back to the UK PDQ. And I know it's really dark and really cold there right now, but it would a foreign dark and cold and therefore...well, really something. I've only just started HP7, but I'm enjoying it as much as the others so far. I think if there's one thing that I do like about the series above other fantasy serieses (serii?) is that the antagonists have to choose to be malevolent. They aren't wholly creatures made by the antithesis to Good. They didn't slide in from alternate plane of reality, intending to benight all of humanity. They started out as people with a panoply of choices, just like everyone else, and instead of going with a better nature they gave in to envy, avarice, power-madness, pride etc and allowed themselves to be corrupted by the natural temptations every person faces. Though the magic flies high and fast, they're no different from humans from Gengis Khan to Pol Pot and all the incidental Hitlers along the way. Nifty.


Another argument for staying in and relaxing: very soon all my evenings and weekends are going to go down the drain as I'm highly likely to take on a stage managing gig. Rehearsals have already started and I'm to in and meet the director tomorrow night. The work begins in earnest on 2 January and that will probably be more full than February. Though in Feb I have to rehearse and nail down my own play. And of course there's that whole looking for a job thing.

But first a quiz:
1. last cigarette: Sunday night

2. last beverage: Water.

3. last phone call: With Elizabeth from SOSE

4. last text message: Miss Brazelton

5. last cd played: I think Karmakode by Lacuna Coil

6. last BUBBLE bath: I have no idea.

7. last time you cried: It would have been a few weeks ago.

8. last meal: 4 strawberries, toast with peanut butter, yogurt and milk.

SEVEN have you's:

1. have you ever dated someone twice? I've gone on second dates with a few people.

2. have you ever been cheated on? Yes.

3. have you ever kissed someone & regretted it? Kinda, but mostly no.

4. have you ever fallen in love? Yes.

5. have you ever lost someone? Yes.

6. have you ever been depressed? Yes.

7. have you ever been drunk and threw up? Yes.

FOUR things you did in the past three days:

1. Went to a dirty Christmas show.
2. Went to a Christmas chorale concert.
3. Went to Doctor Ray and CC's Christmas party.
4. Ordered a few more presents.

list FOUR people you can tell pretty much anything to --

1. I don't
2. tell anyone
3. everything
4. always.

list THREE favorite colors ---

1. cherry red
2. black
3. deep blue

This month have you...

made one new friend: Not really. I'd have to get out of the house more and see people other than old, old friends. But the butcher at the nearest Albertson's and the weekend coffee lady at the Bourgeois Pig are getting to know my face.

Laughed until you cried: don't think so.

Went behind your parents back: Just about everything I do is without my parent's knowledge or input. I can do that now...

Found out who your true friends were: It was reiterated for me, I suppose.

*WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT:

1. Bush? useless sack of shit, stinking up the capitol

2. Gay Marriage? sure why not? I don't think the government should be in the marriage business, but other than that I see no reason against consecrating a committed homosexual couple.

3. Lowering the drinking age? *shrug* Have you met even one person who swore he or she wasn't going to drink until the legal age? Just one? either people are going to drink or they aren't. the law won't make people much wiser for it.

4. Straight, Gay, Bi? I identify as bi.

5. Do you believe in love at first sight? lust, yes.

7. Is there something you want to tell someone? Of course, but I'll tell them when I see them. If there's something I'm ever holding back then I think that qualifies as something I *don't* want to tell someone.

8. Would you kiss anyone on your top friends? Sure.

9. How many people on your top friends do you KNOW? All of the ones that are people. As a matter of policy I don't link or "friend" people I don't know. for now.

10. How many kids do you want to have? none

11. Do you love the casey twins? *who?*

12. Do you wanna change your name? Nope

13. What did you do for your last birthday? I ran a LARP with fey folk and others.

14.What time did you wake up today? At 8am

15. What were you doing at midnight last night? Prepping for bed.

16. Last time you saw your father? A few weeks ago.

17. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life? I wouldn't have to worry about money, either with a resource of wealth I can always depend on to take care of every need or a job that doesn't seem like hateful drudgery.

18. Which hand do you like better? For what?

19.What are you listening to right now? random music

20.Have you ever talked to Tom? Er, no?

22. Have you ever talked about someone behind their back? Oh probably. It's virtually impossible to get along in any kind social anything without eventually talking about someone who isn't in the room.

23. What's the last piece of clothing you borrowed from anyone? A crinoline petticoat. It made my dress get poofy.

24. Who's getting on your nerves right now? Besides me? Well there's that Bush fellow... Everyday people are ok, since I barely see them.

25. Most visited web page: Either LiveJournal or MySpace. Which I know is sad. I'm regressing.

26. Coke or Pepsi?: Typically neither. I don't like the taste of diet and they both have far too much sugar.

27. Do you have a girlfriend/boyfriend? No

28. Do you like food? heh. Paraphrasing Mr Izzard: Food or Death? Um, food please?

29. Do you disagree with a lot of things going on in the world? Yes. I find the state of the world quite disagreeable.

30. Do you think there's some models/people out there that should gain a couple pounds? Oh certainly, there are definitely "people out there" who are underweight and could stand to gain a pounds. Furthermore, I wish the standards of beauty weren't such that the normal woman would have to be underweight to try to meet them.