sarren

I rarely watch tv when I'm by myself - I have the internet - but I could compete for Australia in watching stuff with other people.

( Where I watch more gay films in one sitting than I have in the last six months. )

Then it was time for the actual Gathering and conversation and then I had to leave before zebra363's birthday celebration to collect Bunny, who ended up with fish and chips and brussel sprouts for dinner alfresco while I drank beer and watched Bunny's dad attempt to get his 'classic' car started.

And now I'm feeling all inspired to watch these half a dozen gay films someone lent me like, a year ago, but Dragonfly has homework to do. As though that's more important. *sniffs*

I had THE BEST TIME yesterday.

I love my friends. I LOVE that our friendships have grown beyond that which brought us together over the years. I love the fact that we hang out, and talk about Life Stuff, and snuggle, and cook (well, not me, obviously).

But yesterday was all about our Mutual Love.

We watched many songvids, mostly brought by me (and hasn't my last couple of days been - focussed) so I got to pimp some of my favourites. Pimping is just so much fun.

silver_b_a then put on the pilot of Life On Mars, and the two? three? people in the room who hadn't yet been forcibly sat down and pimped to yet got to finally see it. To the accompaniment of 'That's Gene!' 'Gene rocks!' 'See how fabulous Gene is pushing people around and being a bastard?'

Sphinx brought along Big Wolf on Campus, which some of us liked, some wandered off to chat, or help organise dinner.

After dinner there was opening of presents by the birthday people. ravenclaw_harpy got the crappy 80's tv show War of the Worlds, which only me and her like, yet we insisted people watch some, so they could at least know what Colonel Ironhorse looks like. So, SO BAD. At least people got a laugh out of it.

And silver_b_a got Space: Above and Beyond. Which is a GOOD show. So, we watched the pilot episode, and cheered whenever McQueen came on the screen (what? I wasn't the only one!) and pimped the characters to the newbies "That's West. He's supposed to be all heroic and tortured. Forget him. He's whiny.' 'This is Hawkes. You WILL love him.' 'McQueen and Hawkes are looking at each other!!'


Fandom is good.

My 'green not greed' t-shirt is nifty.

It conveys to the worid that I'm a 'barmy leftie' (as special_trille likes to describe us)
Also, it is very tiny and very green.

These are all good things, thus I decided to wear it on Saturday. So we go to vote, which as things never run smoothly in Sarren-land, it turns out that you can't wear advertise a political party within a certain radius of the voting booths. Apparently in case you cause people to change their political opinions in the time it takes them to queue and vote. What the?

So I ended up making more of a statement than I'd originally intended. The Greens pamphlet guy offered me a shirt from his car, but I went with the more fun option and flipped the t-shirt up so the slogan was covered. I mentioned it was really tight, right? Got quite a bit of attention while waiting in the queue.

Finally it's my turn.

Official - Name?
Me *gives full name*
Official *looking, looking*
Me *puts finger on name* There
Official - Address?
Me *gives address* I'm reading it right off the page. I'm actually totally somebody else.
Official - Is this the first time you've voted today?
Me - Yes. Unless you count the five other electorates I've already been around today.
Official - You'd need to go around more than five if you're voting Green.
Me *sob*



Also, I had a lovely birthday weekend, if you don't count the part where my country betrayed me. We had a party for ME on Sunday, which admittedly involved the first couple of hours being spent with all of us depressed and rehashing the election travesty, but after the sugar kicked in (other people get drunk, fans get sugar highs) we cheered up (though emma_in_oz was probably faking it for my sake) and people paid attention to me, and the world was good. Well, for me.

Big thank-yous to everyone who made my day lovely by washing-up, child-minding, tea-making or mostly importantly, paying attention to me. I love you all lots.

And then we watched one of my prezzies, Y Tu Mama Tambien , which rocked, and then everyone went home except zebra363 who sinks ever deeper into the bottomless pit of fandom, and has newly discovered the guilty pleasure of rewatching the 'good bits'. Over and over.

I love my friends.