October 20th

Aw crap. Local elections have switched to Preferential voting. I am going to have to become MORE INFORMED. I'm too lazy for this. *narrows eyes* Wait, that's what they are counting on, isn't it?

Fear factor

Dragonfly's got the station on 94.5. It seems like every ad break they're playing the PREDATORS ARE STALKING YOUR CHILDREN OVER THE INTERNET AND ONLY WE CAN PROTECT YOU ads.

Yep, nothing says election time like the government playing on your fear for your children to distract you from actual issues.

Speaking of which, walkagainstwarming Anyone want to walk with me? In fact, I appear to have volunteered to HELP OUT.

It's been a weird day. First with the Village of the Damned kids on mr_booboo's bus this morning. Seriously, we were surrounded by private school boys who appeared to neither move nor speak the entire trip into town. Creeeepy. Oh, except when we were arguing loudly about whether the poster above the windows were supposed to have an apostrophe. I swear their eyes moved.

Then the part where I seem to have become an ACTIVIST. I had just taken the migraine drugs. And then I ran into ascetic_hedony who had a sword on his back! And then I failed to hold a coherent conversation with him. I may have been a little thrown by the beard. Which did not look like any of these.

I was looking forward to some hope!

mr_booboo accompanied me to the screening of Climate of Hope.

Speaker introduces the film - 'The government are looking towards using nuclear power because it's clean energy with zero greenhouse emissions!'

Me *thinks* Wow really! That's good news!

Speaker - Let me first explain that in the past I was an Anti-Nuclear protester.

Me *thinks* Wow, this must be good!

What we got was 27 minutes of how EVIL AND TERRIFYING NUCLEAR ENERGY IS and how it's totally NOT EMISSION-FREE and three minutes of these-are-the-clean-alternatives-yay!

Me *bangs head repeatedly on desk*
mr_booboo WE ARE NOT DOOMED!!!

Of course, then I had to go tell the guy that the title of the film was misleading and really, I needed more than three minutes of hope at the end, and his explanation? He ran out of time. Then I gently explained how he could improve his speaking voice, because I'm helpful like that.

But then we had dinner and cake and coffee with special_trille and haunted_attics which cheered me up until an accidental lapse of attention at a crucial moment put me behind in the Token White Girl (TWG) running.*

Then mr_booboo and I went back to her place and watched the new Heroes episode and it featured my two favourite characters a lot and it was GOOD, even if it did make me shout at the telly a lot.


*Mr Booboo and Haunted Attics haven't made up their minds who gets to replace Special Trille as their TWG friend while she's in China next month. It's between me and dark_squire.