things that will always remind me of...summer 2007 (aka the summer of Kate)

- The summer of 06/07 started innocently enough:

- It started with naked lesbians. Mmm, I love me some photoshopped-Helena-head.

- Also, I love me some Shane. This is Shane, in case you, for some incredibly weird reason, don't know. Played by the enigmatic, alluring, incredibly attractive Kate Moennig:

- So. Damn. Hot.

- She makes me want to wear aviators and fedoras, okay? She makes skinny, androgynous, white girl look sexy. She made Justin Bieber happen!
(That last part is not entirely true - half the lesbians of this world made Justin Bieber, or at least his hair, happen. And his face. And his fashion. Yeah, they totally made him happen.)

- She made me start watching dumb, pretty people and their dumb, pretty problems. All. Eight. Episodes. Oh, the beauty...oh, the brainlessness...

- Which, in turn, led me to the prettiest of them all. There is so much *guh* with these two. No words can describe what these young, beautiful, sexually-ambiguous side story characters did for me and more than half the fandom.

- Half-nakedness helps too. Ian and Kate, I tip my fedora to you.

- But mostly, I tip it to Kate. Thanks to summer 2007, for allowing her to pop up on my radar and spurn my ongoing admiration.

things that will always remind me of...summer 2009

- Hot, sticky January nights making it impossible to sleep...the discovery of random season 3 South of Nowhere episodes on my hard drive....even though I hadn't finished season 1...ever...insomnia cured!

- Sleep vs. fatigue...sleep vs. hunger...hunger vs. hunger...HUNGER vs. HUNGERRRRRRRRRR.

- A most perfect summer.

List of Things I May Never Get To Do. Ever.

1. Work at the AO in some capacity. Any capacity that allows me to have access to players. Preferably as umpire, so I can deduct points from people I hate. Or driver, even though I'm pretty sure I'd get them lost in my own city. Meh, I'm not too proud to be players' dining room server. I WILL SERVE THEM FOOD, DAMNIT.

2. Become a world-famous tennis player. Those dreams shattered in Year 8 PE.

3. Find a piano teacher who is willing to teach my Grade 1 arse so that I can play something other than elementary crap. They all hated me when I was younger - I've only become much worse since.

4. Know how to cook several dishes at the drop of a (chef's) hat. Without recipes. Or, be able to invent recipes at a moment's notice and not kill everyone at the table.

5. Invent a gadget that is amazingly useful and instantly popular - market, mass-produce, millionaire!

6. Wake up to find that 9 years of French study has suddenly returned to my noggin, ready to use. Also, discover that 0 years of Spanish study is not a problem - yo hablo español tan fluido como locales. Es como magia!

7. Write a novel/screenplay. I'll settle for writing a novel that becomes a screenplay. The get-rich-and-famous part is implied.

8. Be discovered as the next Broadway star while singing a Wicked number to myself on the streets (the dancing is negligible, obviously). That, or become homeless and become a theatre squatter - povo, Oz-style!

9. Live in a hotel. More Eloise than Oliver Trask though. And preferably, I'd own the shit out of that building too.

10. Meet Kate Moennig. The become-her-best-friend-and-confidante-and-shopping-partner part is implied.

'Hello, hello; I take you on a trip...'

I dreamed a dream that Rafa died,
On RLA where he was playing,
I dreamed that I sat down and cried,
For my tickets now a-wasting

Though he was young and living well,
That heart attack meant life had ended,
I watched on YouTube as he fell,
Not knees this time to be mended

My AO dreams came apart,
Mes billets are torn asunder,
Then the GOAT he called me up,
And hired me to take his ba.....bies....

And so I turned up to MP,
With twins in hand and guest pass holder,
But still the courts they seemed to be,
Somehow haunted and much colder

I had a dream my January,
Was a complete and total nightmare,
Nadal won't play anymore,
And now I long for days before.


Another delirious drug-addled dream courtesy of my please-go-away-now illness?

At Long, Long Last Receive Your Due

My long overdue fedora is finally mine. I HAVE A FEDORA!!! I feel so Kate Moennig!!!1!!!!!1!!

Watching Annie on Fox News

I heart the Internetz. So, here I am, at 12.52am Melbourne, rain finally breaking the heat spell, watching frickin' Fox News on the net for no real good reason except that I can.

And now I want to go spend a holiday season in the United States. With snow and Thanksgiving.

Also, I love the foreign familiarity of their ads - somehow, I know what a Publix is because of exposure to their culture since forever, but I've never really seen one. Until now.

Dude...they totally just had an ad for Cymbalta. I think that's not allowed here. Like, legally. And they listed AE's and interactions and contraindications too. Like, whoa. That's an ad, man. During breakfast TV. Depressing.

Random Recap - The Russell Girl aka When Peasant Smocks Attack

Defining hallmarks (do u c what I did thar?) of TV movies:

- terrible acting/don't-give-a-fuck acting/trying-so-hard-to-make-this-work acting
- familiar faces who are known for better projects appearing possibly for the sake of a paycheck
- plot involving something horrible happening to a female character, often the protagonist
- cheap-looking graphics, titles, sets, actors, etc.
- general apathy from everyone all 'round, viewer included

So, while waiting for Amber Tamblyn to debut on House and possibly make me more interested in watching, I perused her IMDb profile as a means to procrastinate from study (what else is new?) and decided to check out The Russell Girl. Despite its listing as a TV movie, I selectively didn't read that part and in my mind, I somehow decided it was an independent feature that would be very charming in a big-city-girl-returns-to-small-home-town-rediscovers-life kind of way. Yeah, I didn't read the plot either, just judged it straight from its cover:

Oh...dis gonna be goooooood.

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