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The Vampire Bag Lady
09/10/2010 11:34 amLazy serpent. Not been squiggling or lurking in Cyberia lately. Guess we need to make the most of the gorgeous weather before it becomes seriously stinking hot and sizzling and then it will be time to slink back inside most of the time
Thursday and Friday being the serpent weekend, decided to tweek things a bit and not follow the usual routine.
There's a particular cute cafe out of town. It's darkish but not dingy but most importantly has got very cheap and very good coffees - two thirds the price of the rubbish they serve in the mainstream cafes.
It's just the perfect spot for playing with the cards, scheming and squiggling. Last week's attempt to visit was thwarted by missing the bus and deciding to go to Delizioso pizza instead for half price Happy Hour.
Thursday left early enough to have plenty of time for the bus. But this time it was the bus that was ten minutes late. Got into the city to discover that the connecting bus was scheduled to leave at 15.08 and it was then 15.10. And Murphy's Law dictates quite clearly that all buses are at least ten minutes late except those that one is connecting too which always arrive right on time.
Could have waited 30 mins for the next one but figured it made sense to go straight to the university as planned for their spring festival rather than rushing and trying to visit the cafe and then go on using the two hour limit on the bus ticket
Loved lurking in the gorgeous gardens and old buildings of the university and then nearby cafe with fishbowl sized cups. The spring food festival itself was much less fun. Crowded and full of cackling squawking squealing humans and most of the offerings were not at all kosher. Will spend much more time enjoying the peace and quiet next time
Did finally get to the Little Pantry yesterday and the bus was more than ten minutes late. Had originally planned to potter around the Swan Valley and the assorted cafes there. But had been silly and gone to the grocery store and bought yogurt, bread and chocolate. The longer carrying it. the heavier it got. The weather was also increasingly warm so figured that it would be no fun carting around all that stuff and declared not to make the same stupid mistake next time.
Decided not to visit the spring festival which starts today as it's gotten all too boozy and crazy. Not worth wasting a precious day of holidays.
But the other amusing event yesterday was the usual Friday morning public speaking group.
Had mentioned to Joel - one of the younger members there that the serpent had gone over to the sparkly side and showed him a copy of a certain book with the letter T in the title. But made a point of saying that the corruption was not totally complete or beyond redemption by pointing at the library code on the spine.
He was glad to see that Stephenie Meyer was not going to make a cent out of this serpent.
Said he was sort of attached to the thing for the simple reason that he used it as the basis for an English assignment and it earned him 84%.
He said he was astonished at how truly awful all the male characters were. Totally stereotypical and one dimensional and offensive to all self respecting teenage males. Izzie added that the females were even worse.
Unlike others, Izzie's problem was not the sparkly vampires with super powers. After all, they are American vampires so are allowed to be different and bigger and better than their European counterparts. It was how such a superhero could be so infatuated with an idiot like Bella. He probably cannot read her thoughts for the simple reason that she doesn't actually have any.
Added that the whole thing is just as boring as bat shit. Unlike stuff by JK Rowling, Stephen King or Douglas Adams - there's just no voice or tone to the story - it's just totally dead, dead, dead.
As a few scheduled speakers were missing for the day, the chairman could see how excited we were about this masterpiece and decided to run a circle of impromptu speeches starting with the serpent
"Why I hate "Twilight""
After one minute, the baton passes to the next speaker who then starts their speech with the last sentence of the previous one
Joel was next and said he just loved trash and then proceeded to explain the concept of "Mary Sue' to those who may not have heard it before.
The topic morphed into the joys of doing household duties and the evils of mosquitoes and all sorts of unlikely twists and turns
Talking to Joel later after the meeting ended, said that it was bit where Bella does her online search for Vampires that was particularly painful. All those silly unnecessary details about shooting down pop up boxes and munching cereals. All totally corny. (and that was even before paying a visit to the Cullens' glass house)
Some one else joined in talking about a story where there were 3 pages about some character's hair - its colour, style, length etc etc and it never appeared again in the story. She found this seriously annoying and pointless. Izzie added - maybe it was just padding so the writer could increase their nano word count.
Joel then laughed and said that he had tried nano last November but with exams and all, got as far as 2,000 words. A group of classmates did it but all dried up after the first week of initial enthusiasm. But he did go on to finish Script Frenzy in April.
He asked Izzie about our final word count. First time ever mentioned the magic 50,805 to anyone offline. He was impressed and said he might give it another go this time. Izzie added that we should try persuade everyone in the group to have a go.
Mentioned the decision to join at the last minute last year so that no planning would be possible and to then compare the process to next time with having the possibility of a whole year to think about it.
Last year had a setting and a couple of characters but no idea what was going to actually happen. Now it's the other way around. We know what's going to happen - a whole bunch of murders and mysterious disappearances. It's deciding who is going to die and what the main characters are going to do about it that is the problem. Also got to decide just who the main characters will be.
This time there will be no shameless snatching from other people's stories.
So much choice. So little time
Thursday and Friday being the serpent weekend, decided to tweek things a bit and not follow the usual routine.
There's a particular cute cafe out of town. It's darkish but not dingy but most importantly has got very cheap and very good coffees - two thirds the price of the rubbish they serve in the mainstream cafes.
It's just the perfect spot for playing with the cards, scheming and squiggling. Last week's attempt to visit was thwarted by missing the bus and deciding to go to Delizioso pizza instead for half price Happy Hour.
Thursday left early enough to have plenty of time for the bus. But this time it was the bus that was ten minutes late. Got into the city to discover that the connecting bus was scheduled to leave at 15.08 and it was then 15.10. And Murphy's Law dictates quite clearly that all buses are at least ten minutes late except those that one is connecting too which always arrive right on time.
Could have waited 30 mins for the next one but figured it made sense to go straight to the university as planned for their spring festival rather than rushing and trying to visit the cafe and then go on using the two hour limit on the bus ticket
Loved lurking in the gorgeous gardens and old buildings of the university and then nearby cafe with fishbowl sized cups. The spring food festival itself was much less fun. Crowded and full of cackling squawking squealing humans and most of the offerings were not at all kosher. Will spend much more time enjoying the peace and quiet next time
Did finally get to the Little Pantry yesterday and the bus was more than ten minutes late. Had originally planned to potter around the Swan Valley and the assorted cafes there. But had been silly and gone to the grocery store and bought yogurt, bread and chocolate. The longer carrying it. the heavier it got. The weather was also increasingly warm so figured that it would be no fun carting around all that stuff and declared not to make the same stupid mistake next time.
Decided not to visit the spring festival which starts today as it's gotten all too boozy and crazy. Not worth wasting a precious day of holidays.
But the other amusing event yesterday was the usual Friday morning public speaking group.
Had mentioned to Joel - one of the younger members there that the serpent had gone over to the sparkly side and showed him a copy of a certain book with the letter T in the title. But made a point of saying that the corruption was not totally complete or beyond redemption by pointing at the library code on the spine.
He was glad to see that Stephenie Meyer was not going to make a cent out of this serpent.
Said he was sort of attached to the thing for the simple reason that he used it as the basis for an English assignment and it earned him 84%.
He said he was astonished at how truly awful all the male characters were. Totally stereotypical and one dimensional and offensive to all self respecting teenage males. Izzie added that the females were even worse.
Unlike others, Izzie's problem was not the sparkly vampires with super powers. After all, they are American vampires so are allowed to be different and bigger and better than their European counterparts. It was how such a superhero could be so infatuated with an idiot like Bella. He probably cannot read her thoughts for the simple reason that she doesn't actually have any.
Added that the whole thing is just as boring as bat shit. Unlike stuff by JK Rowling, Stephen King or Douglas Adams - there's just no voice or tone to the story - it's just totally dead, dead, dead.
As a few scheduled speakers were missing for the day, the chairman could see how excited we were about this masterpiece and decided to run a circle of impromptu speeches starting with the serpent
"Why I hate "Twilight""
After one minute, the baton passes to the next speaker who then starts their speech with the last sentence of the previous one
Joel was next and said he just loved trash and then proceeded to explain the concept of "Mary Sue' to those who may not have heard it before.
The topic morphed into the joys of doing household duties and the evils of mosquitoes and all sorts of unlikely twists and turns
Talking to Joel later after the meeting ended, said that it was bit where Bella does her online search for Vampires that was particularly painful. All those silly unnecessary details about shooting down pop up boxes and munching cereals. All totally corny. (and that was even before paying a visit to the Cullens' glass house)
Some one else joined in talking about a story where there were 3 pages about some character's hair - its colour, style, length etc etc and it never appeared again in the story. She found this seriously annoying and pointless. Izzie added - maybe it was just padding so the writer could increase their nano word count.
Joel then laughed and said that he had tried nano last November but with exams and all, got as far as 2,000 words. A group of classmates did it but all dried up after the first week of initial enthusiasm. But he did go on to finish Script Frenzy in April.
He asked Izzie about our final word count. First time ever mentioned the magic 50,805 to anyone offline. He was impressed and said he might give it another go this time. Izzie added that we should try persuade everyone in the group to have a go.
Mentioned the decision to join at the last minute last year so that no planning would be possible and to then compare the process to next time with having the possibility of a whole year to think about it.
Last year had a setting and a couple of characters but no idea what was going to actually happen. Now it's the other way around. We know what's going to happen - a whole bunch of murders and mysterious disappearances. It's deciding who is going to die and what the main characters are going to do about it that is the problem. Also got to decide just who the main characters will be.
This time there will be no shameless snatching from other people's stories.
So much choice. So little time
