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[fahye]

Er, just to clarify for anyone who was confused by the recent 'I'm off to Sydney!' post -- I was just in Sydney for the weekend! I bought cheap fabric at Cabramatta and swanked my way through an evening at an Oxford Street restaurant, fell in love with _leareth's neighbourhood in Chatswood, dressed up for a picnic and drove through the upper-upper crust eastern coast suburbs to get there, and watched all five hours of the BBC Pride & Prejudice miniseries. IT WAS FUN. But now I'm back in Canberra for the rest of the month, and I expect to spend most of my time either sewing or packing, because I have to produce this (no, not the goat. hilarious as that would be.) and convince myself that applying a fake tan will not signal the end of the world (MY BRITISH SENSIBILITIES. THEY HURT.) etc. etc.

My paid account runs out in three days; to distract myself from the loss of all those things I never use, like phoneposts, I have been tidying up my LJ tags! The 'writing' tag is now handily subdivided into 'fanfic', 'origific', 'drabbles', and so on, so that if I'm looking for an actual fic I don't have to trawl through all those entries in which I am merely moaning about how stuck I am. Now all I need is a tags page that doesn't look like it's been put through a garbage compressor, or a layout that actually lets me display all tags instead of a handful. Sigh.

I am also acquiring TV at the speed of light, so that I have things saved up to watch in Sydney. I watched the pilot of How I Met Your Mother today to see if I should download the rest, which was a mistake, because now I want to download it all and watch it IMMEDIATELY. I'd forgotten how much I have an enormous crush on admire Alyson Hannigan.

Comments

[pathstotread.livejournal.com]

Watch HIMYM, Fahye. Thank me later.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I WILL. When I can track down some valid links.

[hobviously.livejournal.com]

HIMYM IS AS GODS.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I LIKE IT ALREADY. It seems like great fun and excellent stress relief, though I think I will totally render that useless by watching it all as soon as I get it.

[-leareth.livejournal.com]

Glad you had fun despite me falling asleep (it's the heat, I swear), and I still maintain that slathering oneself in thick white theatrical makeup is worse than a fake tan because at least with a fake tan skin can /breathe/.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Yes, but it also only covers the face :D I have to cover MOST OF MY BODY. Ew.

[-leareth.livejournal.com]

This time it does :P but one of the cosplays I did in the US in 2004 required me to be albino in a toga-like outfit, so that required me to paint my face, upper body, whole arms and lower legs XD definitely my least comfortable dress up ever.