Current mood:	better
Current music:	Sing when you're winning (Robbie Williams)

Post flounce restoration
Feeling better today, for no obvious reason. Perhaps sewing that flounce on the skirt of my woes did the trick. Perhaps it's just that my hair is all clean and shiny and fragrant. It's hard to be truly miserable when one has newly washed hair. I'm sure if the world just had more shampoo and conditioner it would be a much happier place.

I'm such a hairophile. Lovely stuff. Never been one for the dark man. Nay! Dark hair on men is most often all coarse and non-tactile: where's the fun in that? Medium fair is the thing (medium fair covering anything from medium brown to dark blond via red), and preferably straight and silky, though marvellous ringlets have their moments. Bonus points if it comes with green eyes. Glorious things. Used to stare at green things as a child in the hope that my eyes might turn green, and read up on human eye colour inheritance to figure out how to maximise my chances of a green-eyed child. Then I read a few years later that women tend to favour men with the same eye colour as their father, and was, as they say, a bit squicked, because my dad does indeed have green eyes. Ick! Ah well. (My own eyes are greenish hazel, so I have hopes of having recessive genes for green eyes stashed away somewhere).

I never do Q&A memes, as a rule, but I'm making an exception for this one. I like it for its spontaneity and its tapping into the mundane. Reasons why I like LJ. It's the mundane stuff of life that makes us human, I say.

1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says.

"the medium of communication will almost certainly be English. Though the French and"

(The nearest book to me is a bound copy of some reference materials for my Asian Names book!)

2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?

The broken beige vertical blinds on my bedroom window, which are now swinging slightly in response to my hand.

3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?

The Iron Chef, watched at the house of the Fair and Fuzz a couple of hours ago. Something I'd never have thought to watch of my own accord (in fact, I seldom watch TV of my own accord at all), but it was surprisingly amusing. Japanese gladiator-style cook-offs, commentated like an Olympic sport by a swashbuckling Japanese man in tights, doublet and frilly cravat, dubbed in amusingly incongruous American accents. Must be seen to be believed.

4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is:
10:15pm

5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
11:02pm

6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?

My next door neighbour settling down for the night.

7: When did you last step outside? What were you doing?

Walking from my car to my front door on the last stage of my return from my friends' place.

8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?

My LJ Friends page is my home page, but I do check my email before reading it.

9: What are you wearing?

Black scoop neck T-shirt, mushroom bootleg trousers, unzipped black cardigan with band of white snowflakes knitted around the middle.

10: Did you dream last night?

I think so, but I can't remember what I dreamt about.

11: When did you last laugh?

When reading the ridiculously honest country Aussie down-to-earth salt of the earth bloke bio for Shannon Noll (Australian Idol runner-up) at the Fuzz dwelling a couple of hours ago. Priceless. Can't decide whether they're intending to be comic or not. See for yourselves: www.shannonnoll.com.au

12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?

Heh, was looking forward to this question! Circles of holographic gold and hot pink contact (sticky book cover stuff) winding all over the walls in a lurid trail of delight. Never fails to evoke comment from visitors, that.

13: Seen anything weird lately?

Yeah, went swimming today at the Brunswick Baths, and a double lane was cordoned off for divers. Divers, I ask you! As you swam past the deep end of the pool it was as though there was a sinister underwater coven of black rubber people bubbling and plotting on the tiles while the swimmers thrashed by overhead. A bilevel water world.

14 (a): What book are you currently reading?

None, though I am planning to start on "The Song of Silver Frond" by Catherine Lim, who is my mother's cousin and a lively lady indeed.

14 (b): What is the last book you finished?

Er, do I have to answer this? (looks sheepish). Um. Well. In my current girly climate of winter wardrobe shopping and eyelash curling, I was moved to read (clears throat and whispers shamefacedly) "Shopaholic Ties the Knot".

Yes, yes, all right, that's enough...

15: What is the last film you saw?

"Secret Window", last night before the flounce. Had me cowering in my seat, as I don't deal at all well with scary movies. Starred Johnny Depp looking all tousled and artistic and tormented (winks at here_be_dragons).

16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?

My little bluestone cottage by the sea, with pink climbing roses and beautiful flowery garden (with someone else to tend it, due to my Red Thumb of Death). English countryside exterior, modern interior. Windows with top panes which I would gradually replace with leadlighting panes of my own design, put together in my purpose built art and craft studio at the back. Piano. Polished floorboards to minimise allergies and animal odours for when I buy my silky black puppy, who can gambol alongside me during my walks along the shore below, leaping adorably at my hand.

17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:

I've always had a fascination with the sad fate of Antarctica, which was full of plants and animals and life until it had the misfortune to drift too far south...

18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you change?

Phew. Too hard to say.

19: Do you like to dance?

Love to! This is a comparatively recent thing, mind. Was *terribly* self-conscious and awkward about dancing until about my mid-twenties. These days, though, I love dancing. Should do more of it.

20: What is the last thing you ate or drank?

A very agreeable vegetarian shepherd's pie concocted by the Fair One, followed by an Easter egg over Upwords (I won! Heh heh) and rice crackers and garlic hommous dip during The Iron Chef.

21(a): Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?

Couldn't tell you. Would depend on what her surname was going to be and whether her father had any strong preferences to factor in.

21 (b): Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?

As above.

22: Would you ever consider living abroad?

Not indefinitely. Too fond of Australia. I could spend a year or two in Japan, though (great place), and would consider a sojourn in continental Europe somewhere.