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Have now spent the better part of a week lying on the couch watching TV while getting over an ear infection. Went to see the doctor today and it seems rest has done the trick and I will not need antibiotics, hooray! I have been making productive use of my time by spring cleaning the house. (I even cleaned behind the fridge! I don't think I've done that since it was installed three and a half years ago!) Now I only have two areas left to clean/organize.

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Also:

quixotic_sense, I still have several boxes of your stuff. Would you like it back, by any chance?

In other news, any time fandom is annoying me with its stupidity, I just need to spend a little time browsing aquarium sites. I do not have any fish at the moment, but I've got plans to set up several tanks in the future. You can never do too much research in advance, as the dumb questions on some of these sites prove.

It's not that I've never killed a fish through stupidity (never leave the lid off the tank unless you're in the room) but at least I never put any livestock in a tank with something that would eat it! If you put neon tetras in with your Angelfish, for instance, chances are the Angelfish will soon be thanking you for the tasty snacks.

Dumbest thing I have ever seen in a fish forum: "I caught a wild trout and put it in my betta's tank, and now my betta is acting weird. What is wrong with him?"

Of course he's acting weird! I would act weird if someone put a wild trout in my house.

Authors for Multiverse have now been made public! I was holding off hoping to get the last two stories in before the big reveal, and there is indeed an extra story up now. It's Two To Make Peace by Kathryn Andersen, so please check it out. Especially if you happen to be

marag ;).

... well, to be 100% honest, I was planning to get the author names up yesterday, but I went to the pub instead. People who know me IRL are probably incredulous, but you see I WENT THERE TO SEE PETER COMBE. (For non-Aussies, a very popular children's performer from the eighties. My generation's equivalent of the Wiggles.) It was COMPLETELY AWESOME. You have not been to a gig until you have jumped up and down with a room full of drunken twenty-somethings while singing along to Newspaper Mama.

I had a really good time. Now that they've banned smoking in pubs and clubs, the atmosphere at the Esplanade is a lot friendlier to me. I think I may have to go see more live music there in future. Since the workmate I went with got fired on Thursday - long story - I think we'll have to become concert buddies instead *g*.

My parents were in town this weekend to go shopping, and I had a very successful time at the winter sales. This is just as well, since both my best coat and a much-beloved jumper of mine (that's a sweater for those of you on the other side of the Pacific ...) had developed holes in the last week. I got a fabulous coat at 50% off and also a wrap-around cardigan thing I'd had my eye on for a while. Only 20% off the cardigan, but still a display of canny shopping on my part.

The real bargains, though, were the two Fayreform bras for $20 each. As a 12E, I have never in my life been able to buy a bra for $20!!! Incidentally, I urge any woman who's a C-cup or above to check out Fayreform bras. They make attractive, comfortable, supportive bras for women with larger cup sizes.

After taking care of the girly clothes shopping, I headed for K-Mart where I heard the 'exclusive' Walmart Robot Heroes Decepticon Sneak Attack set had been sighted. Sure enough, I managed to come away the proud owner of Skywarp and Cliffjumper as well as 'Supermetal' Optimus Prime and Megatron and 'Hologram' Mirage.

Thank goodness for imaginary optometrists appointments. I'm not the kind of person who usually finds herself in the position of having to invent reasons to explain being late for work, but I didn't think my boss would accept 'emergency kilt sale!' as a legitimate excuse, no matter how gorgeous I look. (Seriously, between the new hat I got last week, the kilt, and the lace jacket I bought to go with it, I am one foxy sales agent. I need to find someone with a camera to take my picture in this outfit.)

Kilts are awesome, especially on men. I think we should encourage guys wear them more often, especially if they are Patrick Stewart. I have a terrible weakness for slash (for some reason I've never seen het with this theme) where Avon/Fraser/whoever has to wear a kilt for whatever reason and it leads to HOTT SEX0RRING. One of those kinks that works for me even when the writing is not very good. (If anyone has Picard or Tenth Doctor fic with kilts, I will love you forever.)

Maybe I should write some gratuitous kiltfic to pass the evening at work. Of course, given what I'm watching at the moment, it would probably go something like this:

MOHINDER: Why am I wearing a skirt? For that matter, why are we all wearing skirts?

PETER: Hey, you wore a skirt when you were in India.

MOHINDER: That was a robe. Which covered my knees.

NATHAN: This is ridiculous - I'm going to call my lawyer.

PETER: If characters could sue fanfic writers for pain and suffering, they'd all be bankrupt. Besides, I think it suits you. In, uh, a brotherly way.

ANDO: This is still significantly less humiliating than the time Hiro made me wear a sailor fuku.

MOHINDER, NATHAN and PETER: ...

HIRO: I had a very good reason for that.
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Thanks to some kind person giving me paid lj time, I can now go back to spamming you all from work when I have nothing to do. And wow, do I ever have nothing to do tonight. I came back from lunch thirty-five minutes ago, and the only call I've had since then was someone wanting to cancel his account. He briefly livened up my evening by abusing me when I pointed out that the relevant department don't work on Sunday nights.

Having nothing of import to say, I'll just note in passing that I'm now most of the way through my first adult viewing of The Mysterious Cities of Gold. In this morning's thrilling installment, Mendoza shot an alligator. Is there any fierce animal that man can't dispose of with nothing but a sharpened stick and maybe a Sixteenth Century sidearm? He is, like, 100% pure cool.

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