Eccentric Green Aliens
We'll probably leave in what...7 and a half hours? It's always so strange how in leading up to a trip things are all calm--and often somewhat boring--and then bam! your whole world explodes. Within say 12 hours you've gone from watching a Star Trek film to sitting in a wild beer-celebrating restaurant in Melbourne. Okay, so about the beer thing I don't understand entirely, but there is some beer celebrating thing happening down south on Friday night. Just wonder how many interesting stories I can scrounge out of that night *wriggles eyebrows*
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About Star Trek. I thought sci-fi was the one genre that would always make me gag. I practically avoid it as much as my Dad avoids cartoon movies (the ones that are suppose to be dramatic that is). Like sci-fi just doesn't appeal to me. But then perhaps that is because most of the movies made in that genre depend on the weirdness of their wack'o "beings" to excite their audience. I'm afraid my appreciation for movies is found almost solely in character development and twisted story plots. Give me a masked alien oozing green slime and I'll either throw up or yawn.
Something in Star Trek worked for me, though (in the later films anyway. I fell asleep in the first one, and was supposedly snoring... *roll*). I think perhaps it was because they reinvented concepts of earth and humans and simply put them into a different environment. A lot like the LOTR, I suppose. I'm not a fantasy fan for that matter either. But I really love the LOTR films--all of the parts excluding the ugly monsters, that is :P In a way, it's a lot like just normal characters in books. One author once said that you can't just put eccentricies into your character and expect your audience to accept them as a "real" person. The eccentricites should only be used as say "decoration". An added bonus that will perhaps sell your book, but in no way will work if you don't first have a good base. Fantasy and sci-fi movies are no different. A green alien won't tug at a viewer's emotions unless it has complex emotions of it's own--but wait, there are no green aliens in Star Trek. Drats, I'm going to have to think of a better example...
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Anyhow, as I was saying--before I went into my lengthy ramble on green aliens--I shall be off soon. Away and gone...*imagines little
Enterprise zooming off in warp speed* I don't expect I shall have any chance at a computer until at least Saturday, but until then, mourn my loss and pray that the beer celebrators do something weird and wack'o so that I shall have some eccentricies to add to my stories ;)
Guess Which Has Occurred
*eyes boggle* It ate my post! Oh, man, I can't believe it. I finally write a post--a lovely easy-going informative post--and it swallows it. *wistles in Tevvie* Grrr...well, in a nutshell, it's nine odd paragraphs said:
*I'm having a good day today
*We're going away in 10 days to Melbourne for my Grandma's b'day
*We'll be away for roughly 2 weeks
*I've been busy finishing up things I need to get done before we leave
*Current Adrenal Medication put me in overdose land again (migraines and almost constant sleeping) which is also why I've been a bit abscent
*Am going off this Adrenal med since my body doesn't like it
*Please pray that new stuff will work as my two thyroid diseases won't fix up until my adrenal glands are functioning again
*Because of this messy business my digestive system has gone down the tubes. Stomachaches and horrible acid taste in my mouth sometimes
*But despite all this, things are not all bad
*My Mum and I are communicating a lot better on how I'm coping on a day to day basis
*Prospects aren't great for Melbourne, but my Grandma is a diabetic and is also currently recovering from a broken kneecap, so together we should make a great hang-at-home pair
*She's a legend, and has been such an encouragement to me during this year since she really does understand the emotional side of being physically helpless
*I need to write another newsletter for Matty before we go
*I'm really looking forward to going away, despite how limited I'll be in what I'll be able to do and handle
*I love our new digital camera *grin*
*And now I'm off...
Ya know, this kind of annoying incident reminds me of this hilarious forward I got once. It had this list of Haiku error messages that the Japanese supposedly use instead of the usual impersonal computer error messages. Here's a few that would have really soothed my wild screams if they had appeared...
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Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
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I ate your Web page.
Forgive me; it was tasty
And tart on my tongue
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Three things are certain
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
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Psalm 30:5
I saw the dawn...
I Leave It to the Audience
Ooooh, my, just where do you start? It's always like this. You have these huge gaps of having not written anything, there's about five different posts written in your head, you can't write them all at once, and to not write them all makes the others not make sense. Then you think to pick one. But you can never pick just one. So, here, I'll give y'all a brief "intro" to a couple of stories and you guys have to tell me which ones you want the full tale for. Deal? ;)
1) Hannah's Clothing Dilemma
Involves an entrepreneurial Lyd, a happy new-possessor-of-former-Lyd's-jumper Rachel, and a dismayed Hannah uttering such lines of, "But by then we won't be wearing anything!"
2) Aaron's Undie Episode
They were once "too tricky" to wear, now they're so scarce they're not there to wear! Hear how the great undie man himself had to beg his baby-sitting sister to wash some undies for him, and how when they were to be placed in the washing machine couldn't be found.
3) Revelation of the Belly-button
The belly-button has always been the number one human source of fascination, but when has the study of it involved the idea of hiding food sources and smuggling valuables? Enter therein and learn of the latest fad to hit the residents of a station in outback Queensland.
4) Rolling out the Parents
They hung out at a 4 1/2 star resort in the middle of the Daintree forest, and ate so much at the free boufet breakfast put on by the resort that they would go all day without feeling hungry until tea time. The great question is: what did they eat? Some of the answers could have you running for the anti-goat club and in terror of snapping reptiles.
5) Suffering 'Bachelor Starvation' Husband
It's actually somewhat disturbing. That or maybe it's the strain of laughing so hard that makes you disturbed about the condition of your own health...either way, this is one story that will leave you questioning the genuineness of every homeless man that turns up at a bakery at 5:00am for years to come.
Wondered What Happened?
To be honest, not much. Well, actually a lot, but in regards to me not visiting anyone's blogs or being on MSN or blogging it comes down to one thing. Jolly internet usage...*borrows Kyra's fangs and stalks after Bigpond*
Anyhow, Rach managed to use up nearly a whole months internet download on us in ten days whilst she was out here *borrows Tevvie off Jolene* And we now only have like 14MBs for a whole week! Usually we use up to 20MBs in one day...it's like getting the best book you've ever read snatched away when you're half way through *sulks* So, I'm soooo sorry that I'm not visiting your blogs at the moment! I'm about to go insane *and borrow Tevvie for an extended time*. I'll be back to the world next Monday, 'kay? In the mean time, someone call me, e-mail me, something! I'll love you forever. I'm just about to go insane only being able to check my e-mail every day (which is, just incase you didn't know, *hint* desert.animal@bigpond.com */hint*)
