| weather | : | cloudy | |
| outside | : | 3.7°C | |
| mood | : |  | exhausted |
I've been home since about 0900h, but I'm just sitting down after cleaning the birds' cages, spending some time with them and organizing some of the gifts/deliveries from our lootcases.
I've had quite enough of long haul flights for a while. 12 hours from Vancouver to Taipei; 5 hours from Taipei to Singapore; 8 hour layover; 12 hours from Singapore to Cape Town with a 2 hour stop in Johannesburg; 10 hours from Cape Town to Singapore; 2 hours until connecting flight; 4 hours from Singapore to Taipei; 10 hours from Taipei to Vancouver =\
It didn't occur to me before I left, but... I have family... in South Africa now... and this is one of the most amazing concepts I've gotten to wrap my head around. They are a very sweet bunch, very similar to us and our family, but yet, different.
Need to run out and get stuff before I can even come home and shower and do more unpacking. =P
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How frightening that some neurons are utterly wasted on remembering that silly little rhyme. Of course, seeing the senior DS9 crew hopping and reciting a children's rhyme was quite amusing at the time.
DS9 references: Doh, I'll never be a proper Trekkie, or even SciFi fan ever, though some things I really think is fab. 1993 was a tough year for me and I didn't watch (let alone remember) much TV then. About 1-2 years later I started catching up with DS9 though that wasn't sustained and it was the last series I tried to keep up with regularly (Voyager, I was in and out of; I haven't even tried the newer series since, the one with Scott Bakula). I still miss Odo and Quark! I think Quark was a great character at so many levels; I don't know if I missed any really good episodes with him.
I met Armin Shimmerman once or twice at conventions and he's an amazing amazing guy =)
Every time we see him at a convention we always always always ask him to do the Richard III monologue. I think it's Act 5, Scene 3 just after the Ghosts disappear and before Ratcliff comes in. I'll never tire of seeing him do that bit =)
(Another freaky one that I was on top of was recognising the actor that played the Oompa-Loompas from the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. While watching the movie, I thought to myself, "this person looks just like the guy who rode the Racing Snail at the beginning of The Neverending Story". And I was right!)
DORKINESS OVERWHELMING!!! Yeeeeeeee!