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O - Oxygen Oh, we all know this, essential to life etc.

S - Sulfer Also called brimstone! Smells like volcanos!

Se - Selenium Used in photocopiers.

Ack! My brain is getting full. Took me ages to remember the last one. Still, got it in before midday, so still officially 'my morning elements'.

In other news, I woke up at 7.30 and have spent the morning huddled under the bedclothes with my laptop and heatbags to ward off these ARCTIC conditions.* I bet it's colder down in Fairbridge at Slashcon. I have of course been updating my CV and applying for jobs like I said I was going to, not reading Top lists of stuff over at Cracked Because I don't LOVE LISTS at all. So I wasn't wasting valuable time on that, just so we're clear.

Off to the exciting world of playing scrabble with my 95 year old Grandma, just like I do ever Saturday, and will forevermore because she's been planning to die since she was 80 and at this rate she never will. She's perpetually annoyed by this. For the last couple of years she's been REALLY annoyed because she'd been counting on dying in her sleep and now she can't sleep. My Grandma is awesome value.




*Am resisting talking about climate change, just so's you know.

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When I'm separated from the internets I have all sorts of thoughts and opinions about climate change! the environment! politics! family! I have stuff to do like updating my CV and applying for jobs with the Department of Environment and Conservation that I'm not qualified for, and I read books and sometimes do assignments! and study!

And then I switch on the laptop. Today I read lists! For hours! I followed an innocent link and found this - The 6 Most Badass Stunts Ever Pulled in the Name of Science. I don't even think I got to the thing I'd been pointed to. Speaking of badass scientists, OMG those guys on the list were hardcore! I bet there were legions more in the early days pulling shit like that. I wonder how many died without ever discovering anything to make their suffering worthwhile. Not to mention the ones who died from exposure to harmful shit. I wonder if there's a list. I love lists. I used to make lists of pointless stuff when I was a teenager. I found one a while back. Anyone want to know how many left-handed actors there were in the 1980s? Because I KNOW. At the time I thought that was weird and fetishest of me, it was actually quite disappointing to find out later that it's actually very common.

Last night I watched the pilot of some new vampire show starring Anna Paquin as a mind reading waitress in Louisiana (maybe?) called Sookie Stackhouse. It is quite simply, appalling. I was going to try and describe it but I can't capture how distasteful it all was, partly because of the unpleasant supporting characters, but mostly because of the twitchy Sookie who appeared to nearly go into convulsions of maidenly shyness anytime anybody mentioned sex but was instantly fascinated and aroused by Bill, the vampire. She did manage to mention COYLY that she hadn't 'known' any men and was a LADY, thank you very much, which obviously made him instantly more interested her. I did like the way the actors pupils were massively dilated when they stared at each other, though it got kind of disturbing after a while.

WHAT WAS ANNA PAQUIN THINKING? SHE'S WON AN OSCAR. SHE'S AN X-MAN.

At 56 minutes the file ended right at ( an important dramatic bit )

and it was really, truly a relief. I have no idea why I was still watching it - I suspect subliminal messaging rendered me unable to move my limbs.


Tonight, til I TORE MYSELF AWAY to make this very important post, I was watching Mind the Buzzcocks. And when I finish I will go and watch more Buzzcocks, probably til I fall asleep. Until a couple of days ago my entire knowledge of this show was the 1:10 minute clip of John Barrowman camping it up. Then mr_booboo and special_trille showed me an episode and it was GOOD. And they GAVE me some episodes of my very own for keeps. Here's the Barrowman one on up on youtube.

And tonight I have laughed and laughed and laughed.