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Being at Eastercon also reminded me that there's a lot of things I love that I don't talk about. Hence:

• Video: Americans can't deal with Snatch-style British accents, but then most of the time neither can I.



• This is a Juana Ines de la Cruz, who was a child genius in the 17th Century, and apparently wrote quite a lot of feminist stuff that still - sadly - seems relevant and important today. I love her.



• These women have a tumblr pretty much dedicated to recreating and mocking ridiculous female superhero poses, and I love them.



• I really, really want to do a songvid of all of the fighty games I love at the moment - mainly Infamous, Wet, and Saints Row 2 - to the Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor. And if there isn't already an action-themed fanvid - or many of them - to it, then I am just ANGRY AT THE WORLD.

My computer is going extremely slowly. It says it's backing something up, but it's been doing that for about three hours. slkfjsdkf.

Also I am SO TIRED.

Things that aren't Emmerdale and thus are a bit more cheerful:

• It's been years since I found it, and yet Folksongs Are Your Friends is still one of the funniest things on the internet for me.



• New Bad Machinery story, woo! Sometimes I think about if I ever did the Slashies again, who would I have for each category. I properly couldn't think of anyone for Best Dressed except maybe Cheryl from Hollyoaks. How I ever forgot Lottie, I will never know.



• The other week I came downstairs to get something just as my parents were watching the end of a film they had taped on the Sky box. It involved Dougray Scott being a bit of a psycho and chasing a young man all over his house. They told me that was basically the plot of the film, except in Edinburgh generally, not just Dougray Scott's house. I was intrigued. Chase films/pairings are a bit of a kink of mine, and Dougray Scott was gaying it up, as far as I could see. So I bought the DVD quite cheaply from Play.com and watched it all this week. It is called New Town Killers. And it's really quite gay. I very much enjoyed it at any rate. Alistair/Sean, dudes. Or Alistair/Jamie. Or Jamie/Sean. Whatever.



• And I watched Strictly. ( Spoilers for this week )



• I have been watching Misfits! ( Spoilers up 2.03 )



• It snowed here Friday and today, hurrah! Although me not having to go out in it might be making me happier about it than I otherwise would be.

Tomorrow I have to call the Jobcentre to reschedule an appointment, call the doctor's to reschedule another appointment, and I'd like to tidy up my incredibly messy bedroom a bit, if I can. We'll see.

( Emmerdale )

I had a plan for this week. It was not to have a shower on Sunday, because it was far too cold in my flat, and when I woke up late on Monday it was to not go out and pay my rent and my water bill till the next day, and to stay in and have a shower and tidy up instead. So far I haven't done much of that. Although I have had a shower and the rent is paid, and I did a bit of tidying because the building underneath me had a leak through their ceiling and my landlords wanted to send the plumber round. It totally wasn’t me though. Hah.

What I have been doing is:

• Through Youtube investigations, confirmed my suspicion that the first/2006 Big Fat Quiz of the Year is the only one worth bothering with. Although the second one does have David Mitchell. The first one has the origin of "congratuwell done". That's almost perfection in itself.



• Reading brilliant Twilight parodies!



• Watching brilliant Robert Pattison Twilight interviews! (It takes a while to load, and isn't particularly brilliant till about 3 minutes in, but then it is QUITE brilliant). It almost as good as having read the books.



• Listening to my Woman and Woman Vol. 2 CDs I used to have and ripped to my computer. Walk On By! Love...Thy Will Be Done! I Don't Wanna Lose You! Why don't I have Cyndi Lauper albums? It's genius.

Tomorrow I'm going to try to pay my water bill again. And try to get them to pay me some Jobseeker's Allowance, still. And go to my agency and see if they have any work going. Because I sort of need a job at the moment. Soon-ish, really.