girlofprey

Hello. It's me. I didn't get stuck somewhere on the way back from Connotations, I just haven't been posting. I'd like to apologise again about the lack of posting or commenting. Sorry about that.

But I did go to Connotations. I took longer than I probably needed to getting to Lancaster on the Thursday and then drove up with jekesta, alicamel and calapine on Friday. The hotel screwed us over slightly by booking boxing as well as the con on the Friday night so we had to have the first couple of panels in a weird hot room where we normally have vid shows or pimping, but jekesta and I had a lovely double room, with a view of the beach from the bathroom, and a view of the sea and what turned out to be a seal enclosure at the aquarium next door from the main room, although we didn't find out about the seal enclosure thing until we were just about to leave. I've forgiven the hotel so many things because it was near the beach. But the next day we were back in the main room for panels, so it was a bit better. And we had panels and discussed fanfic trends and minority pairings and femslash and we played slash pictionary and there was cake and I watched some of Spirited Away and I learned about huge fannish events that I hadn't noticed at the time and one of the panels was slightly livened up by a bee and we played slash trap, which is AWESOME, even if we didn't ever get the Tyler/El Blanco High School AU I was hoping for. And I had a great time, Connotations hurrah!

On the Monday after we checked out, jekesta, calapine and nerdcakes and I all went to aquarium down the road as well. We saw beautiful fish, and a shark, and some seals doing the best chasing and twirling in the water ever. I fear I might have been slightly ruined for any other aquarium, because I don't think any of them could ever have such great seal chasing and twirling again. Oh well.

Also I won Sirius Black and a red flower thing in the Connotations raffle. Hurray.

Since then I have managed to a) catch up on some of the things I didn't watch or listen to while I was at Connotations, b) get into town twice before the shops closed to buy (cheapish) things I didn't need, c) go to the Goose Fair with my parents and oldest nephew, which was pretty great, I had Rocky Road fudge and a freshly (cooked? baked?) made doughnut, d) pay the rent with money I'm going to have to borrow off my parents till my housing benefit comes through, and e) catch up on some of the things I didn't watch while I was out at the Goose Fair. I know. CHECK OUT THE ACHIEVEMENT. Tonight I'm aiming for f) apply for at least one job and g) fill in my Jobseeker's diary, and then tomorrow for h) get up in time for my Jobseeker's appointment, i) go to my Jobseeker's appointment, and j) try to sort out getting some money from my ISA so I can pay my parents back the money I owe them. Who knows.

In the meantime: ( Harper's Island, spoilers up to 1.10 )

Anyway. Back to those things I have to do.

I can't believe they did a whole section on last night's It Takes Two about how Mark was too gentle for the tango and couldn't really get into the character, when they'd just the night before showed him and Hayley dancing and said how he had the right look, and you could totally tell it was a tango even without the music, which was good. I like Mark. He seems like quite a lovely person. I hope he doesn't go out this week.

Also, Hayley was training in her shorts. I love her!

I also saw tonight's It Takes Two. Len was a bit rubbish, but then he called Craig a "stupid boy". That was quite good. And made up for a lot of things.

Austin and Erin are very good as well. I hope his back doesn't cause him too much trouble.

I don't think I explained very well about Toby last week. This is a summary of his first day on Casualty, set to a truly inspired choice of soundtrack. I saw it, and loved him. I hope he gets an onscreen boyfriend. Preferably soon.

In other news, the Goose Fair's back in town. My parents are coming down tomorrow with my nephew and we're going tomorrow evening. It seems like a good time for a poll.

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