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It's Christmas, soo.... list time.

From Mum:
-sandals (black, gorgeous)
-three shirts
-bookmarks (several)
-one of those fancy erasers from that one store in asian market in Seattle (can't remember how it's spelt)
-a pen and notepad set
-a 'magic' washcloth that expands when you put it in hot water
-workpants

From Dad:
-Lego. It's got a freakin' DINOSAUR. I love it.
-a crystal cube with a fair etching in the center
-rechargable batteries and charger
-stickers (penguins)
-coffee plunger
-four smallish containers that are freezer and microwave friendly that would do for holding sugar, tea, coffee, etc. except...

From Suzy:
-three glass containers labeled for holding tea, coffee, and sugar

From Lin:
-a gel pen with scented ink

From

pandoras_evil_t:
-another mug
-a $10 gift voucher to Zuki's, as a partial contribution to my wishlist Brazilian

From

macjinx:
-A corset purse. It's so cute!
-Salmiakki, a Finnish candy (I tried it, but I don't really like it; sorry Olivia!)
-Dracula Blod which is another candy... I think. Or is cough drops, 'cause it kinda tastes that way...

Ummm... I think that's all in the way of gifts so far. Oh, wait, there's the earrings and mesh wrap from 'dad' except, well... I bought them and left them on his pillow with a note that I "didn't see these" and had a fun, "Gee, I wonder what this is," moment when I picked them up.

Stocking contents:
-apple
-nectarine
-two... peaches? Or is it apricots? I used to know the difference...
-chocolate coated almonds
-Cadbury Roses chocolates
-jaffas
-damned if I can ever remember their name. Fruit candy things.

Hope your haul is just as pleasing, and the day is really fun for you. Happy holidays, and all that sweet mushy stuff that makes you nearly gag. <3

-Hana

Current Mood: giggly
Current Music: Limp Bizkit - "Break Stuff"

+ reading and finishing Night Watch
+ getting to ride Iain's bike for a little while
- just about all my things gone, leaving my room rather empty
- sunburning my legs
- headache not from dehydration
- aspirin only partially effective
- period starting (although hopefully the aspirin will have worked as a preventative for cramps)

Fin.

Current Mood: restless
Current Music: Semisonic - "Temptation"

o1.)What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
o2.)When and how did you decide you were a heterosexual?
o3.)Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
o4.)Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?
o5.)If you have never slept with a person of the same sex, is it possible that all you need is a good Gay lover?
o6.)Do your parents know that you are straight? Do your friends and/or roommates(s) know? How did they react?
o7.)Why do you insist on flauntin your heterosexuality? Can't you just be who you are and keep it quiet?
o8.)Why do heterosexuals place so much emphasis on sex?
o9.)Why do heterosexuals feel compelled to seduce others into their lifestyle?
1o.)A disproportionate majority of child molesters are heterosexual. do you consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual teachers?
11.)Just what do men and women do in bed together? How can they truly know how to please each other, being so anatomically different?
12.)With all the societal support marriage receives, the divorce rate is spiraling. Why are there so few stable relationships among heterosexuals?
13.)Statistics show that lesbians have the lowest incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. Is it really safe for a woman to maintain a heterosexual lifestyle and run the risk of disease and pregnancy?
14.)How can you become a whole person if you limit yourself to compulsive, exclusive heterosexuality?
15.)Considering the menace of overpopulation, h ow could the human race survive if everyone were heterosexual?
16.)Could you trust a heterosexual therapist to be objective? Don't you feel s/he might be inclined to influence you in the direction of her/his own leanings?
17.)There seem to be very few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change if you really want to. Have you considered trying aversion therapy?
18.)Would you want your child to be heterosexual, knowing the problems that s/he would face?

Then lament the hetorosexual agenda and how it's being forced on you every time you see a sitcom or "chick flick"

If Your Child is a Gothic, Reform Through the Lord!

Listed below are some warning signs to indicate if your child may have gone astray from the Lord. Gothic (or goth) is a very obscure and often dangerous culture that young teenagers are prone to participating in.
The gothic culture leads young, susceptible minds into an imagined world of evil, darkness, and violence. Please seek immediate attention through counselling, prayer, and parental guidance to rid your child of Satan's temptations if five or more of the following are applicable to your child:

-Frequently wears black clothing.
-Wears band and/or rock t-shirts.
-Wears excessive black eye makeup, lipstick or nailpolish.
-Wears any odd, silver jewelry or symbols. Some of these include: reversed crosses, pentagrams, pentacles, ankhs or various other Satanic worshipping symbols.
-Shows an interest in piercings or tattoos.
-Listens to gothic or any other anti-social genres of music. (Marilyn Manson claims to be the anti-Christ, and publicly speaks against the Lord. Please discard any such albums IMMEDIATELY.)
-Associates with other people that dress, act or speak eccentrically.
-Shows a declining interest in wholesome activities, such as: the Bible, prayer, church or sports.
-Shows an increasing interest in death, vampires, magic, the occult, witchcraft or anything else that involves Satan.
-Takes drugs.
-Drinks alcohol.
-Is suicidal and/or depressed.
-Cuts, burns or partakes in any other method of self-mutilation. (This is a Satanic ritual that uses pain to detract from the light of God and His love. Please seek immediate attention for this at your local mental health center.)
-Complains of boredom.
-Sleeps too excessively or too little.
-Is excessively awake during the night.
-Dislikes sunlight or any other form of light. (This pertains to vampires promoting the idea that His light is of no use.)
-Demands an unusual amount of privacy.
-Spends large amounts of time alone.
-Requests time alone and quietness. (This is so that your child may speak to evil sprits through meditation.)
-Insists on spending time with friends while unaccompanied by an adult.
-Disregards authority figures; teachers, priests, nuns and elders are but a few examples of this.
-Misbehaves at school.
-Misbehaves at home.
-Eats goth-related foods. Count Dracula cereal is an example of this.
-Drinks blood or expresses an interest in drinking blood. (Vampires believe this is how to attain Satan. This act is very dangerous and should be stopped immediately.)
-Watches cable television or any other corrupted media sources. (Ask your local church for proper programs that your child may watch.)
-Plays videos games that contains violence or are of a role-playing nature.
-Uses the internet excessively and frequently makes time for the computer.
-Makes Satanic symbols and/or violently shakes head to music.
-Dances to music in a provocative or sexual manner.
-Expresses an interest in sex.
-Masturbates
-Is homosexual and/or bisexual.
-Pursues dangerous cult religions. Such include: Satanism, Scientology, Philosophy, Paganism, Wicca, Hinduism and Buddhism.
-Wears pins, stickers or anything else that contains these various phrases: "I'm so gothic, I'm dead", "woe is me", "I'm a goth".
-Claims to be a goth.

If five or more of these apply to your child, please intervene immediately. The gothic culture is dangerous and Satan thrives within it. If any of these problems persist, enlist your child into your local mental health center.

~St. Mary's Catholic Church, Colorado Springs

Current Mood: mischievous
Current Music: How about 28? Oh dear, so not saved.

The other night I was walking up the stairs to the dining hall, and I spotted Shan was also approaching the hall. Naturally, I slowed down so he could catch up and we'd queue together. "You going to dinner?" he asked. I almost said it. I don't know why I didn't, even if it's Shan. "Nope, my tapeworm's been acting up again, so I'm punishing it by letting it smell food it's not getting! Here's your sign."

...It was five p.m. It's the dining hall. Why else would I be going to the dining hall at the same time I do every night? Silly boy.

( A joke someone on my f-list posted recently )

miyumiyu has some really cute Snupin art if anyone's interested. Incredibly cute. Quite likely the Cutest Thing Cori May Have Possibly Ever Drawn to date. I am entirely open to the possibility that she will manage to draw something (or even somethings!) cuter one day. You never can tell.
Nyarghhh. I don't want to study for my Chem test. But if I don't I will fail it, likely even worse than with the Physics test. That would not be cool. So, studying. Going through my study guide, taking notes on all that stuff I just wasn't getting. I don't know what it is with my Physics and Chem lectures, but I swear that stuff goes in one ear and straight out the other. Only the Bio classes have any affect on me, and even then, only Bio of Animals is in any way remotely fascinating.
The Physics lecturer is a cool guy though. He's kinda odd, but he's British. He makes us laugh all the time with some of the simply wierd things he says. His demonstrations are often entertaining, mostly because they screw up. We've had a different lecturer for each unit of Chem, and none of them really interest me, although this current guy is kinda amusing w/ some of the stuff he says. In Bio of Cells I can get chocolate for volunteering, hmmmm. Bio of Animals we've also had three different lecturers, and Dr. Death has been the coolest.
It's so funny when they start talking about sex. Whether it's bug sex (oh, the Sneaky Fuckers, how clever they are!), or conjugation which is sex for bacterial cells, it gets funny b/c some people *coughs* just aren't that grown up. Honestly, though? So glad I'm not a bacterial 'female' cell. Because what happens is that the 'male' cell comes along and forms this form sex pilus that brings the two cells together, and spins off it's DNA that it inserts into the 'female' cell, turning it into another 'male' cell. (This would not be a bad thing, the whole turning into a guy b/c omg tehgaysecks, except for the fact the bloody genes dictate I'd have to go impregnate some other chick. Not so cool then.)
Shan has my bloody pen. Yes, I'm aware that comment seems random. Consider it stream of consciousness. I lent it to him last night--ooh, boy next to me has nice cologne (ha! now that's random!)--so he could do his studying, and I forgot to get it back. Normally I wouldn't worry. The other day I lost this really nice mechanical pencil that had been part of a pen/pencil set mum gave me for my 18th b-day, except I was never overly attached to the pencil. But that pen? Yeah, sure, it's just a run of the mill, typical Massey pen. But I like that pen. It writes well. I'm a bit more fussy about losing the pens that write well.
I am in a weird mood tonight. And I'm aware my brain isn't making much sense. Hell, you should see what happens when I'm trying to write notes...
- 'insects' becomes 'incest'
- 'chain' becomes 'chan' (typing that almost became Shan)
- 'grouped' becomes 'groped'
- Seeing the part of a chemical formula, HOOC, I focus on OOC and grin...
Definitely weird. I'll spare you more of this, yeah?
Well, this gave me at least twenty minutes of entertainment. It made me think of

shiseiji. I expect she'd have loads of fun with this. You know how when someone tells you not to do something? Or you tell yourself not to do something? But then someone gives you an opening to do just that... just one peek/smell/bite, and suddenly you're hooked. Yeah, that. Y'know. Temptation. The little devil on your shoulder that constantly beats up the little angel on the other shoulder. And you just can't resist. Especially when it says...

DO NOT PRESS.

*watches as all her readers are lost in the abyss* Oh, damn.

Fin.

Current Mood: thirsty
Current Music: I wish House had been on tonight not stupid bloody boxing...

( not dealing )

Btw... I absolutely cannot remember ferret!Draco. When the fuck did that happen? How the hell did I miss that?!

Fin.

Current Mood: confused
Current Music: a little help here

virginhuntress you are my Goddess and I love you. *hugs*

Cara, saucy little minx that she is, keeps trying to take off with my stuff. Yesterday it was one of the ties from Dad. Today it was one of my wheat bags. Then, once I shut her out of my room she spent about ten or twenty minutes batting the cap of some hair product around the bedroom, hallway, and bathroom. Now she's finally passed out on the bathroom mat, probably because it's just simply got too hot for that sort of play.

Things to do:
~trim nails
~buy new batteries
~call that lady at Massey
~watch Lost

Gacked from

macjinx
...or

diea or

ireth

01. Name:
02. Age:
03. Where on earth do you live:
04. What makes you happy:
05. What have you been listening to lately:
06. Do you enjoy reading my LJ:
07. If so, why:
08. Interesting fact about you:
09. Are you in love at the moment:
10. Favourite destination:
11. Favourite quote:
12. Will you post this in your LJ:

Fin.

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: le sigh

( Thank me for saving your friends page )

Fin.

Current Mood: hungry
Current Music: and yeah

Yay for my last trip to Seattle. I will be back, because, damnit, there are stores with way too cool stuff to just never visit again if I have the money.

+ game day meaning small crowd day
+++ silk store

And right now...

+ dark chocolate orange
+ koala chocolate cookie things
+ chocolate pocky
+ strawberry pocky
+ vanilla chai tea latte

It's cold and wet and raining but I'm happy.

Fin.

Current Mood: thirsty
Current Music: mmmm

Countdown time ladies and gentlemen. I leave for New Zealand on November 18. Get that, November 18. It's finalized. Now I have to do more shit to get my stuff down there with me. But first, a job would be nice!
Also, would have posted this yesterday except I was at Rhi's... Watching Ronin Warriors and stuff. They have a Dorry fish. As well as Nemo. Hehe.

List your favorite role for each actor (doesn't matter your opinion of the movie), then add three of your own.

+ Tom Hanks - I must say I was most impressed with Forrest Gump
+ Jim Carrey - I'mma go with Bruce in Bruce Almighty.
+ Tobey Maguire - I likme him best as Bud in Pleasantville.
+ Mel Gibson - Ach, he's so cool... I love him as Riggs in the Lethal Weapon movies
+ Ben Affleck - Quoting

peaseblossom03 quoting

catslash: "Bartleby, Dogma. The role that made me say, 'Holy shit, Ben Affleck can act!'"
+ Nicole Kidman - I think I liked her best as Santine in Moulin Rouge
+ Liv Tyler - I've only seen maybe two movies with her (okay LoTR is three movies but it's all one deal for me) and I rather liked her as Grace in Armageddon.
+ Harrison Ford - I'm with Pease on this one... Either Han Solo or Indiana Jones. Can't decide.
+ Natalie Portman - pffft. I could do without her.
+ Ewan McGregor - The penniless writer in Moulin Rouge. DAMN that boy can sing! Or what'sisname in the Full Monty
+ Edward Norton - I've only ever seen him in the Italian Job as the unimaginative bad boy.
+ Angelina Jolie - Her role in Girl, Interrupted. Wow.
+ John Cusack - I don't remember too many with him, except Identity (ick!) and Con Air where he was all right.
+ Renee Zellweger - It's been too long since I've seen Jerry Mcguire... I'mma have to go with Bridget in Bridget Jones' Diary
+ Johnny Depp - I haven't seen enough of his movies, but I adore Captain Jack Sparrow.
+ Will Smith - whatsisface in Independence Day.
+ Meg Ryan - Not really a huge fan of hers... but she played Kate fairly well in Kate and Leopold
+ Catherine Zeta-Jones - Best remember her in Zorro, but I'm with Pease with casting her as War in Good Omens, when they make it a movie. They'd better, damnit.
+ Sandra Bullock - I was going to go for her chara in Miss Congeniality but then I remembered Demolition Man... *snickers*
+ Gwyneth Paltrow - don't really remember anything with her
+ Brad Pitt - Death/Joe Black in Meet Joe Black (and Pease it was 12 Monkeys, not 8. :P I hated that movie)
+ Keanu Reeves - Neo in The Matrix. But only the first one, damnit!
+ Cameron Diaz - Fiona, Shrek.
+ Christina Ricci - I've only seen her as Wednesday in the Addams Family.
+ Drew Barrymore - Best liked her as our great cinderella of Ever After
+ Kate Hudson - . . .
+ Marilyn Monroe - I've only ever seen her in Some Like it Hot.
+ Adam Sandler - Hmmm, no huge fan of him.
+ Robin Williams - I rather liked him in Jumanji
+ Arnold Schwarzenegger - As much as I watched movies with him when I was a kid... so can't enjoy any of them now.
+ Bruce Willis - McClane in the Diehard movies or Corban Dallas in the Fifth Element
+ Eddie Murphy - The Donkey in the Shrek movies, or the family dragon Mewshou or however you spell it from Mulan
+ Morgan Freeman - He does well as God in Bruce Almighty.
+ Sigourney Weaver - Gwen in Galaxy Quest all the way.
+ George Clooney - Oh man... Ulysses Everett McGill in O Brother Where Art Thou, or his mass-muderer-come-vampire-slayer character in From Dusk Till Dawn
+ Julia Stiles - Outside of 10 Things I Hate About You I've only seen her in the Bourne Identity... neither were particularly outstanding
+ Jodie Foster - You know, I always want to mix her up with Helen Hunt. But I've never seen Silence of the Lambs and loved her in Contact.
+ Sean Connery - Professor Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
+ Christian Slater - The freaky guy in Heathers. *drool*
+ Julianne Moore - Teehee. Her in Evolution.
+ Michael Pitt - ...who...?
+ Uma Thurman - Er, nothing really. Not even Kill Bill.
+ Ethan Hawke - Don't think I've actually seen any movie with him. Wait... a few mins some version of Hamlet with Julia Stiles but bleh.
+ Elijah Wood - That one alien... The Faculty. "Not the pole, not the pole!"
+ Adrien Brody - I haven't seen anything of his.
+ Leonardo DiCaprio - The guy in Catch Me if You Can
+ Kate Winslet - Er...?
+ Ian McKellen - I do rather like him as Magneto or as Gandalf but he made a cool oooh what was his name... the villain in the Scarlet Pimpernel. There's several versions I know but this one had him and it was its only redeeming feature.
+ Crispin Glover - Don't know him.
+ Kenneth Branagh - Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing
+ Willem Dafoe - . . .
+ Alan Rickman - Oh don't make me pick... Although he does make the perfect Severus Snape.
+ Pierce Brosnan - Bond. James Bond. One of the two actors to play Bond I can actually enjoy.
+ Mike Myers - Wayne Campbell in Wayne's World.
+ Matt Damon- Will in Good Will Hunting
+ Viggo Mortensen - I liked him as Frank T Hopkins in Hidalgo oh yes.
+ Patrick Stuart - Oh, give me Captain Jon Luc Picard any day or night.

Fin.

Current Mood: shocked
Current Music: Not so far away... Less than 3 months!

Go to google, and in the search window type "You know you're from (state/province/country/city) if..." find a list, and post it. Bold the ones you actually fit.

-You're not a republican. You only notice the Royal family when one of their scandals hits the covers of the women's magazines, or when one of them pays a visit.
-You're familiar with all the US and British pop culture references relevant to your age group. Most of the TV and movies you watch and the popular music you listen to come from either the US or Britain.
-Depending on your age, you'll be familar with the Howard Morrison Quartet, Billy T. James, Tim and Neil Finn, Crowded House, Purest Form, Fur Patrol, Bic Runga, and Johnny Devlin. On TV you'd instantly recognise Paul Holmes, Judy Bailey, Richard Long, John Campbell, Carol Hirshfield, the Topp Twins, Lucy Lawless, and Keith Quinn.
-You're not interested in baseball, basketball, or American football. If you're male you know everything there is to know about rugby union, and possibly rugby league as well. You may have played soccer at school but you don't follow it as a spectator.
-You go to church for weddings and funerals, and possibly have a vague belief in God, but anyone talking excessively about religion is suspected of being mentally unstable.
-You think of McDonald's, Burger King, KFC etc. as cheap food.
-You own a telephone, a TV, and probably a car, which you drive on the left side of the road. You're bemused that affluent looking New Yorkers on American TV don't own a car. Your place is heated in winter and has its own bathroom. You do your laundry in a machine and don't kill your own food. You don't have a dirt floor. You eat at a table, sitting on chairs. (so I didn't own it personally, but the 'rents did)
-You don't consider insects, dogs, cats, monkeys, or guinea pigs to be food. You consider juvenile fish ("whitebait") -fried whole, including the head and eyes- to be a delicacy, though. (have eaten ants, will eat grasshoppers, and don't like whitebait)
-You usually refer to the smallest room as the "toilet". You understand a reference to the "bathroom", but would use that for the (possibly separate) room where you take a bath.
-It seems natural to you that the telephone system, railroads, airlines, and power companies are privately run, and that there aren't any auto manufacturers any more. You might be concerned that all these companies are owned by foreigners, but you can't see things changing.
-You expect, as a matter of course, that the phones will work. Getting a new phone is routine.
-You hardly ever travel by train. If you commute, it's by car or bus.
-You probably find a two-party system natural, and think of the recent change to proportional representation as giving too much power to flakey minor parties, even though you may have voted for it.
-You don't expect to hear socialism seriously defended. Plenty of people hate capitalism but they never give any coherent alternative.
-You think most problems could be solved if only people would put aside their prejudices and work together.
-You take a strong court system for granted, even if you don't use it. You know that if you went into business and had problems with a customer, partner, or supplier, you could take them to court.
-You probably learnt a bit of French or German at high school, or Japanese if the principal took Michael Crichton too seriously, but everyone speaks English nowadays, so what's the point of learning foreign languages? You certainly know the Maori greeting "kiaora", and maybe a handful of other words. You can't speak Maori, even if you're of Maori descent yourself. (I nearly went down that road...)
-You think a tax level of 33% for high earners is reasonable.
-School is free through high school, university is heavily subsidised but still expensive. You may not have gone to university - it's not considered absolutely necessary as long as you have some other route into employment.
-Mustard comes in jars. Shaving cream comes in cans. Milk comes in glass bottles delivered to your door, or in cardboard cartons.
-The date comes first: 6/2/1840, and you know what happened on that date. (I nearly forgot, but I know.)
-The decimal point is a dot, not a comma.
-World War I was a terrible tragedy, where incompetent British generals sent New Zealanders to be slaughtered at Gallipoli.
-World War II was a just war, where Britain suffered terribly until the New Zealanders defeated the Germans at El Alamein and turned the tide. You probably have a relative who fought in the war.
-You expect marriages to be made for love, not arranged by third parties. Most marriages happen in church, and there's no additional secular ceremony required. You have a best man and several bridesmaids. A man gets only one wife at a time.
-If a man has sex with another man, he's a homosexual.
-You call everyone by their first name, from the Prime Minister down. (yeah, we're like that)
-If you're a women, you certainly wouldn't go to the beach topless. (crazy aussies)
-You seriously expect to be able to transact business, or deal with the government, without paying bribes.
-If a politician has been cheating on his wife, you'd lose a lot of respect for him but wouldn't necessarily expect him to resign. The slightest hint of anything illegal, though, and you'd expect him to be sacked immediately.
-You can use your ATM card to make electronic purchases at stores and even withdraw money from their cash registers. Therefore you carry only a small amount of cash and use credit cards only for major purchases or for ordering things over the Internet. (minus the credit card stuff)
-A company can mostly fire who it wants.
-Labour Day is a holiday, and is always called Labour Day, not a "Bank Holiday". Everyone gets at least three weeks holiday a year.
-You have a slightly sheepish pride in the success of the New Zealand film industry. You're familiar with Came a Hot Friday, Once Were Warriors, The Piano, Bad Taste, Heavenly Creatures, Goodbye Pork Pie, Sleeping Dogs, and The Navigator.
-Privatization of the public health service is absolutely unthinkable. You can count on excellent medical treatment in an emergency, but you vaguely expect a wait of decades for anything non-urgent. You might have private health insurance to get around this. You think of the health service as run-down and shambolic, yet you know you're not going to die of any Third World disease. Dying at 65 would be a tragedy.
-You went over some New Zealand history at school, and very little from anywhere else.
-You used to hear about the military only when the wings fell off their planes or the Army couldn't shoot a wild dog. Now you get touching images of peacekeepers in a place you couldn't find on the map. You can't name any New Zealand military figure (except for WWII hero Charles Upham and Private Leonard Manning, who was shot dead by militia in East Timor). You don't expect the military to get involved in politics.
-Your country has never been conquered by a foreign nation, ever. The Maori might disagree, but it wasn't a country back then, right? (teehee)
-You're used to a wide variety of choices for almost anything you buy.
-The metric system feels completely natural to you, from the 1-litre soft drink bottles to the 1-kilogram blocks of cheese.
-You are not a farmer. Farming is a very prominent industry, though. There are advertisements for sheep drenches on prime time TV, and politicians blame recessions on the weather. You probably know someone with either a full-scale farm or a small "lifestyle block".
-The people who appear on talk shows are entertainers, authors, or social campaigners of one sort or another.
-You think of the French as villains who explode nuclear bombs in your neighborhood (neighborhood being defined as "same ocean") (you bastards... sing the rainbow warrior will you?)
-The English are emotionally repressed snobs who feed weird stuff to their cows instead of plain grass. (but their accents are sexy)
-Americans are grossly obese, nauseatingly sentimental, arrogant sex maniacs. You've gained this impression via careful study of the Jerry Springer Show, Full House, and Dallas. (Don't know about Dallas, but...)
-Australians are even more arrogant than Americans, but slimmer. They're constantly taking credit for New Zealand stuff, everything from Russell Crowe to pavlova. They have strange fashion sense, favoring pink shirts and gold jewelry, at least for men. (OMG YES)
-The police are not routinely armed, but they can get a gun fairly easily.
-If a woman is plumper than average, it doesn't improve her looks.
-The biggest meal of the day is in the evening.
-The nationality people most often makes jokes about is the Australians.
-There might be parts of the city you want to avoid at night, depending on the city.
-You feel ordinary people aren't being listened to up in Wellington (or down in Wellington, depending on where you are). You count as "ordinary people", of course.
-You wouldn't expect both inflation and unemployment to be very high (over 10%) at the same time.
-You don't care what family someone comes from. You do care what they do for a living.
-The normal thing, when a couple dies, is for their estate to be divided equally between their children.
-You think of opera, ballet, and theater as elite entertainments, except for children's theater and comedies like Lady's Night.
-Christmas is in the summer. Unless you're Hindu or Muslim, you spend it with your family, give presents, and put up a tree. You also eat a roast turkey dinner in the blazing noon heat and lie around semi-comatose all afternoon.
-You can't remember when any church had any political influence.
-You can name the leaders of Britain, the US, and Australia. You couldn't name the leader of any Pacific or Asian country, except maybe for Jiang Zemin.
-You've left a message at the beep.
-Taxis are operated by slightly shady characters who charge outrageous prices.
-You think the Welfare State is a necessary part of civilized society.
-If you want to be a doctor, you have to get a master's first.
-Lawyers spend their time either cheating people out of their life savings or defending criminal scumbags. Barristers recently stopped wearing wigs and gowns.
-You'll apologise if you're a few minutes late for an appointment, and being an hour late is inexcusable.
-When talking to someone, you get uncomfortable if they approach closer than two feet.
-The only things you expect to bargain for are cars, houses, and things sold at garage sales. (What else is there?)
-The only times when it's acceptable to show up at someone's place without prior arrangement are when you've had a car accident or your spouse has thrown you out of the house.
-When negotiating, you generally say what you think and get straight to the point, but you also try not to appear too arrogant. (So me.)
-If you have an appointment with someone, you expect to have that person all to yourself and the business shouldn't take more than an hour or so.

Fin.

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Pretty amusing really

Remember:
Eye appointment
July 7; 4:00 p.m.
Ask Rhi for ride.

Talk to:
Celien, because it's been too long.

Contact:
Dad -thank you, b-day pres
Iain -books
The Girls -clothes
Carvahlo -contact info
Dawn -what up?
Dawn's Mum -small request
Matt -novel?
stickywicket -Lestat Louis icon
cleolinda -OB lembas icon

Complain:
'Net being screwy. MSN and LJ not helping. Earthlink sucks. Mother is selfish and bitchy.

Point out:
New icons. Love them. Worship them. Am attention whore.

Fin.

Current Mood: artistic
Current Music: I <3 virginhuntress