End of Year 13
[ Haldir / Craig Parker - because Jess & I finally made it through all the extended versions of LOTR in one sitting! ]Mood: Festive
Music: Clannad, something beautiful and nameless
Latest book finished: Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar
Excuse for being online: picking up bus tickets for the trip to Christchurch tomorrow
Top of my inbox: 'Help WWF Protect', World Wildlife Fund
Today I had a very geeky moment. These are not uncommon, as my personality does seem to swing that way - grammar, ribbon, books, perfectionist touches with chocolate cakes and truffles and countless other things - but this was of the kind that came so naturally it didn't even seem odd until I played it back.
Mum, Jess and I were watching McLeod's Daughters, a very girly Australian farming drama. One of the characters is psychic, and in this episode the writers had played on it by adding a temporary extra: an angel. His name was Gabriel, as you'd expect. (He was also tallish, muscular, Polynesian, and wore denim overalls, but that's just side-knowledge for now.) My mother commented that Gabriel was the 'fallen angel'. He isn't (I think that's the devil, Mum), so I pointed it out, and then proposed what I thought was a perfectly fitting analogy: whereas Gabriel was an archangel, epitome of goodness etc, the devil was like Sauron.
That did not seem weird. However, Mum and Jess burst out laughing... Argh. Apparently making Tolkien references out of the blue is geeky. Well, yes - but in my defence, that marathon Lord of the Rings session had occurred just the day before, and Jess understood me perfectly. She knew! I was not alone!
*resigned shake of head* Topic shift.
Have been looking up options for overseas next year, scouting through sites to check out some absolutely breath-taking ideas: trekking in Nepal, helping to rebuild schoolhouses destroyed by earthquakes; cycling through Cambodia to raise money for child sponsorship; going on a mini Amazing Race through Asia with a friend. It's all too good, too overwhelming... There's just so much to do.
How do all you adults do it? How do you organise yourselves, find money when you need it, and take time from work to do things like this? How do you wade through the piles of paperwork (even my tiny portion of which are driving me mad)? I'm in awe.
Eyes sliding closed... Computer screen becoming blurry... Music fading to background... That pavlova and cream is sending me off to sleep all full and comforted.
Thank you so much for reading - oh, and Merry Christmas!
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