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Happy birthday chimerakitty! It's your birthday for REAL this time! I hope this birthday is the start of a year of magical happiness.

X-treme hateness

Things I currently hate:

Copy protected CDs. And not because they're copy protected, but because they come with their own stupid player which doesn't have the information I need easily accessible, plus it interrupts the well-planned order of my windows. And it argues with me if I eject the CD before closing the stupid player.

CDs with CD-ROM fancy title page stuff. See above. Also it takes over my entire computer screen and interrupts everything else I'm doing.

CD liner notes that are all one long sentence. Who is actually able to read that?

What's wrong with a nice basic CD, with clearly written titles, composer credits, and song timings? Is that too much to ask?

Current Mood: Augh, I *know* there's no disc in Drive D! I just took it out! GO AWAY STUPID POP-UP BOX!

Fringe Day 2: In Which Our Heroine is Baked, Fried and Roasted

I thought all the Fringe venues were air-conditioned. Lord was I wrong. The second show I saw on Wednesday and the show I saw last night were both in the hottest room I have ever been in. And it's even an actual studio theatre. I was totally enjoying the play last night, but I kept checking my watch, because I really wanted to get out of there before I died or something. And that's the venue that I have the most shows picked from! I can't decide whether it'd be better to aim for super late night shows, or go for the earliest show I can, before the theatre has had too much time to heat up. Or possibly, if it gets much hotter here, admit defeat. I hate to do that, though.

An Unfortunate Woman

Excellent! Nicola Gunn is awesome at creating characters with just a slight tilt of the head or twitch of the mouth. And her story of three mundane lives, although slow at the beginning, ended up totally throwing me for a loop. Go see, but take a fan.

I can fold my laundry twice as fast as you

I have new cds. Yay! All hail the power of the insurance claim. Sadly, the power of my brain is not nearly as good, because I apparently ordered two cds that I already have. Argh.

I am a big wuss, and allowed myself to be completely cowed by the scary hot theatre, so I did not go to my planned Fringe show tonight. I know, I'm a loser, I have fallen off the Fringe wagon. Tomorrow, though, tomorrow I will jump right back on, and eventually I will psyche myself back up and enter that theatre again.

Maybe.

Decisions made tonight: I think I need a new VCR. And ice cream is not worth getting dressed for, not tonight.

Oh, and finally, if you are taking part in the tea exchange, this is just a wee poke to remind you to send your tea out if you haven't done so already. I'd like to do the next round in August, but only if most people have got their tea care package by then. (And yes, I know it's summer, and who's thinking of tea anyway, but that's too bad. You'll be happy when October comes around!)