a not especially S&H related post

[sarren]

Snuggling with special_trille over at jamaicablue. Not as cozy as Dome, and also no magazines with quizzes for Trille to do, but the coffee is better.

Me - Grr. I asked for my latte without froth! Twice!
Waiter - Would you like me to take it back and bring you a new one?
Me (more friendly, mollified by professionalism) No, I'll just pout for a long time.
Admiring random strangers at next table - Good answer!
Me - Ack! Get away from me, freaks.

Short time later

Me - Must start saving now in order to go to America in two years.
Trille - I didn't know you wanted to go to America. You want to go to Canada.
Me - I don't want to go to America. I'm afraid of America. It's just I really should visit my sister.
Trille - Are you afraid of the American authorities, or terrorists?
Me - Er..the people.

pause

Trille - Because of the drive-by shootings and stuff?
Me - It's all 'Deliverance' rednecks and Jerry Springer and reality TV and serial killers and people who can't find America on a map and who think there've been three world wars.
Trille - Well so is Adelaide, particularly the serial killers.
Me - Ooh, we have serial killers here too. Plus we had our first shoot out between armed robbers and security guards the other day. I'm so proud.

pause

Me - Also, I don't want to go to Canada. It's cold in Canada.
Trille - Oh, wait, it's me that wants to go to Canada.


Later, we decide to 'window shop'. Within seconds have both chosen jackets to buy. Trille's looks and feels like a snuggly soft toy. I forsee much petting of the Trille. Meanwhile, I admire myself in the mirror.

Trille - Are you Starsky, or Hutch?

(She's learning, mostly by being talked at a lot, and being shown selected bits, as she cries pitifully if I suggest watching an entire episode).

I get home, share Trille's witticism with dragonfly8.

Dragonfly - Is it brown, with fur on the collar?
Me - Yes, yes it is.
Dragonfly - You're so butch, Starsky.


Trille also helped me impulse buy really tight black jeans as my current pair only stay up if I remember to wear a belt. Bloody stretch jeans, damn them for being so comfy. I promised to give them to cricketk after she stood up at our last party and demonstrated how she could take off her own stretch jeans without undoing the button. I mentioned that I could also do this new party trick and was challenged to prove it. Luckily for me I couldn't find them right then as I had completely forgotton that in addition to the usual slash gang, there was also cricketk's boyfriend present. Major embarrassment averted through pure luck rather than any kind of forethought on my part. Par for the course, really, except that sometimes the pure luck part doesn't happen.

Comments

[sarren.livejournal.com]

As much as I'd like to undertake the task of obsessing you to S&H fandom, I don't think we have time before you leave. Cos we've barely made a start on Due South haven't we, unless you've borrowed eps?

[psycho-tabby.livejournal.com]

Nope. Only seen two.
Though have been extreamly bored (lets just forget assignments for a sec) and have started watching Buffy.
I have no idea if your a fan, but do you have any idea what season spike turns up? *curious*
*g*

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Ah, you obviously haven't been to my house yet, have all of Buffy and Angel on DVD.

Spike shows up at the start of season 2.

[psycho-tabby.livejournal.com]

Great *g*
I was worring it was going to be season 5 or something, I mean Angels not bad, but Spike *g* :P
*is annoyed at self for not watching it while it was on tv*

[sarren.livejournal.com]

How odd of you not to have watched it when it was on TV!

Luckily you know a hell of a lot of people who have it on video and/or DVD.

[psycho-tabby.livejournal.com]

I dunno my family was abit freaky in that we didn't have a tv for ten years ( apparently I chucked a tantrum when I was 3 and the tv was getting sold and trumatised my parents for life.) Poor brother missing out because of my mistakes.

Anyway when we finally got a tv I was just sooooo much more interested in books. Silly Dee.

yes its just great that I now know all these people :P

[sarren.livejournal.com]

We had a black and white TV til I was 10, if that counts.

I always was an obsessive reader of books...until about 8 years ago when finally accessing the internet gave me 24/7 running slash.

As far as siblings ruining for each other, my brother, given his first car, completely killed it, through not giving a shit.

So guess who didn't get given a car as a result? Cos my dad learns from his mistakes. Grrr.

(its not that I feel that teenagers should be entitled to be given cars, its just the injustice of him getting something I didn't. )

[psycho-tabby.livejournal.com]

hahaha
Well I guess I was just lucky to be the oldest then :) No one to stuff it up for me.

8 years of slash *finds that very hard to imagine* wouldn't you eventually run out of stories at some point? Must have been different fandoms?

[sarren.livejournal.com]

Er..try 14 years of slash, just in the early days the only access was ordering zines from over east or the US (and they weren't cheap).

Many fandoms. Many many fandoms. And they just keep on coming. HP is only a few years old. Take Starsky and Hutch, that's one of the forerunners, like Kirk/Spock and Bodie/Doyle. I'm just surprised that I'm only getting into it now.

I still revisit the old ones. For example , crack_van rec a mix of old and new. It's nostalgic....