mmoa_writes

Have finally got my laptop repair date fixed. Due to a severe case of wrakspurt, the keyboard started acting up whilst still on holiday which got me rather anxious considering it was only a matter of days before the warranty gives out. Anyway, along the way, I have rediscovered an important truth - PC World is the epitome of capitalism in all it's gory darkness. Thank Chinyenye (see 'So...' part II) for small businesses, because I could have easily ended up wiping a good chunk of what pathetic savings I have on a stupid data retrieval. Today, I woke up far too late, did no writing whatsoever, daydreamed until I got a headache and then went to watch all too-distracting women skate and shove each other on a rink with the charming glowering and jeebus_uc. Roller derby looks even more fun to play than lacrosse, and that includes long sticks which should make it nigh impossible to be beaten, but there you go. It also took me a much shorter amount of time to understand the gameplay (and can I again state that that's much more impressive than it sounds because a) I am very thick when it comes to sport. Often the ones I love the most are the ones I understand the least and b) the players really were distracting. Really), which made it more enjoyable... and throat-rasping. The London Roller Girls got in a close win and I loved every minute of it, turning into a suitably starstruck (and wristached) newly deflowered roller derby virgin by the end. Am now watching Brideshead Revisited (the one with Jeremy Irons), which is not helping me return to post-modernity at all. That and an overdose of 'Edge' magazine. I know I am overly critical - but only in the way that a former zealot is of her previously held dogma - but some issues make the whole attempt at creating a 'third culture' with the new 'Humanist Scientists' at the helm rather pathetic. I suppose it's more fun if you have a rather inattentive eye on the real world.