Yes you are, you're brilliant.*

[bending_sickle]

Yesterday was a Good Day - and yes, it really does deserve the capital letters. I was unexpectadly invited to a BBQ by Vita, who unfortunately had to leave soon after I showed up to move some furniture from her old place to her new one. I got to the house at the same time as three Greek girls - and me without my ever-present Greek Eye pendant, for once - and managed to sneak in when a girl opened the door for her boyfriend. It turns out we were early despite being on time. Meaning, it was 2 pm and we'd been told to be there at 2 pm, but no one else was there, not even the hosts. So a few phone calls later, and people start showing up and all hands are enlisted to help chop, peel, mash and coax. I met a lot of people, including my first ever twin couple - two tall Italian boys. There was a massive proportion of Greeks and Italians, with a few nationalities left over. The Indian girl I met the very first day of university was there, along with her friend who'd been a student at the university last semester but was now just visiting. It was nice to see them again. And then, yes, I met nice boys too. (I'm trying to up my Meeting-Nice-Boys events. You gotta start somewhere.) The food was nice too - we even had tzatziki! Gods, I miss Greek cusine so much now. The only downside was that it was really windy - and I mean Dutch standard "really". Seriously, we lost a chair to the wind. Just up and flew away into a skylight hole in the middle of the terrace. Eventually we made our way inside - and Vita came back - armed with hot bananas with chocolate inside, and chatted some more. It was lovely in that big community feel, where everyone's real open to talking to folk and everyone's so relaxed and cool. Ah, nice times.

And then there was the football, but you have my previous post for that.

And today I watched Doctor Who: Turn Left. I &heart; Donna. Liek, so much. Just, wow. And the bit where they started talking about "labour camps" and "England for the English" and Wilf is all teary-eyed? Me, with the tears and my crumpled heart wibbling in a corner going, "No, they didn't. They're not... No, please, say they're not going..." I don't think we - adults, maybe - needed Wilf to say something explicit about the labour camps, but maybe kids did, and Donna certainly did. And was it just me, or did Rose have a horribel lisp thing going on? Like she was wearing a retainer or had a cleft palate. Is this new or did I just notice this before? Seriously, it really bothered me.


Links of the Day:
Print Driver Covnerter and PDF Creator - .doc -> .pdf covnerters
Lost: Top 30 "WTF?!" Moments
Speaklolspeak.com
calapine's Doctor Who Fanfic: Tapestry (Doctor/River)
darthsemicolon's Doctor Who Essay: Rare pairings month: Nine/Martha (The Constant Doctor) and unfinished fic.
the_constant - Lost/Discworld Desmondd/Penny AU fic.
Calon Song's Webpage - Music galore!
7 Incredible Natural Phenomena You've Never Seen
Bad Gods
Cat's Can Fly - Photographic Evidence
lozenger8's Picspam: John Simm - Guh!
Wordle: The "I Believe" speech from Neil Gaiman's "American Gods."
The Jargon File
Lostpedia: Bad Twin - a book in the Lost universe, released as a real life semi-canonical tie-in novel.

Zander: There are certain things I believe in – like Good and Evil… the hard part is, you don’t only choose just once… most of us have to keep choosing, day in, day out. Year in, year out. Good or bad, which way am I going to go…

Paul: That’s the idea of purgatory, right?

Zander: What if there is no purgatory… What if there is no heaven? No hell either? No afterlife at all… This is our chance to get it right. First chance, last chance, only chance. But that’s exciting, beautiful, right?… Our work in this life is to choose good over evil. To be fair. To be kind. And there is a payoff, though it doesn’t have to do with harps and wings. The payoff is peace of mind. That’s what redemption really is.

Angel: Well, I guess I kinda worked it out. If there's no great glorious end to all this, if nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do. 'Cause that's all there is. What we do. Now. Today. I fought for so long, for redemption, for a reward, and finally just to beat the other guy, but I never got it.

Kate Lockley: And now you do?

Angel: Not all of it. All I wanna do is help. I wanna help because, I don't think people should suffer as they do. Because, if there's no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world.

Kate Lockley: Yikes. It sounds like you've had an epiphany.

Angel: I keep saying that, but nobody's listening.


* The Doctor, Turn Left