Success!

Talking about the sexy Violinist on QaFUS, tboy said, and I quote:

"...Something that she regrets..."

It's still another petty victory for me! *g*

And she knows it!

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Okay tboy, what QaF episode are we up to?

Hagrid/Snape

For iibnf, even though I've yet to start on the book files...

( It's a heck of a lot closer to a Hagrid/Snape than I ever thought I'd get. )

And now, off to bed, since it's 2am!

Good Omen-y thoughts.

I read GO on the way to work, so I'm making notes about it as I go...

My thoughts re: the description of Crowley proves that I am dirty minded:
"Crowley had dark hair, and good cheekbones, and he was wearing snakeskin shoes, or at least presumably he was wearing shoes, and he could do really weird things with his tongue. And, whenever he forgot himself, he had a tendency to hiss. (p20)

*g* It's the tongue bit that made me snigger. Yeah, I'll bet he can...

I appreciate the fact that he came up with Value Added Tax (VAT being the equivalent of GST over here, and still a very evil thing). (p23)

Part of the reason I don't pity Crowley is that he obviously doesn't miss Heaven. He doesn't like Hell, either, but in his opinion they're both as bad as each other (for different reasons, anyway). Hence, even though he suantered, he's been on Earth since the beginning, and enjoys it. Plus, he obviously is good at, and enjoys his work, so all in all, I think he's got a pretty good life. (p26)

Another reason why I love Crowley? He's a sleepyhead! (p40)

And now, it's time for something completely different... Work. *g*

The Aziraphale Edition...

More GO observations...

The Arrangement between Aziraphale and Crowley has been in effect for 1000 years... (since 1070, I think, but I can't find the page number now.)

Aziraphales weaknesses are: music particularly Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Mozart (CD's, "Albert Hall", "Proms" and "Glyndbourne" are also mentioned) (p47)
And on page 48: Gravlax with dill sauce, fascinating little restuarants where they know you, Daily Telegraph crossword, small antique shops, bookshops, interesting old editins, Regency silve snuffboxes.

p50 mentions that Aziraphale specialises in collecting books of prophecies/predictions, Wilde first editions (heh) and he has a complete set of Infamous Bibles.

p51 - Aziraphale has gone by A. Ziraphale during the 1650s. (We all know that Crowley still uses A. J. Crowley as his "human" signature)

I'm amused by the way that Aziraphale keeps using "my dear", and "my dear boy" and I've just realised that he's sounding just a little like Ethan Rayne in my head. *g*

From p59:
Aziraphale beamed. "You know, I'd never have thought of that," he said. "Godfathers. Well, I'll be damned."
"It's not too bad," said Crowley, "when you get used to it."

Crowley's comment interests me. You could read it as someone who was fairly happy with their life, once take the good points and the bad points into consideration, or as a nice quiet form of regret on Crowley's part. Hmmm...

Memories...

Earliest memory...?

Being bundled into the car, Mum being a little stressy but not showing it, even though I only had a stubbed toe. I also remember sitting on a bed/bench at the hospital and being amused by the fuss, but these are vague memories at best.

This is actually the story of my big accident as a little kid. I would have been about 2 or 3, and at the time Mum and I lived with friends of hers in a two story place. She was out the front, gardening/lawn-mowing, and I was inside on the second storey, waving to her, and the entire window screen gave way and I fell. I fell two storeys, Mum just missed catching me, but I missed the concrete by less than a foot, and only stubbed my big toe. No broken bones or anything. I remember the emotions of being amused by the entire thing more than anything else.

I remember bursting a blister as I sat down in the car one day, I think I was about 3 or 4. Very odd memory to have so clearly.

I remember being very short in kindy/prep. I was a year younger than everyone else (4 yrs old - after kindy I did transition for a year and cuaght up on my age group) and I remember the bubblers being too tall for me to use comfortably. I also remember the girls sitting around one tree and the boys around another, and the knowledge that the boys' tree had "spitfires" (weird tree-hugging creepy-crawlies that look like thick black caterpillers). In retrospect, I doubt that was actually true.

Kindy/Prep onwards I remember a good deal of things through a combination of schools and TV shows. I can also remember the recurring nightmare I used to have as kid, which was just an insecurity of losing mum, really.

I can remember waking up in the middle of the night when my brother and shared a room (I must have been about 6) and being absolutely convinced that I saw a fiary dancing on a pile of clean clothes. It would have been around this time (6 or 7) that I was allowed to sleep with the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve and I was sure that I woke up in the middle of the night and saw elves faces in the tree. (Admittedly, these are the only two occasions that I was ever sure that I saw anything supernatural, and in hindsight, I think they were really vivid dreams... Why I can't dream like that about Lex, I'll never know.)

Wow. Trying to recall this stuff really makes you think.

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Unlike Luke who was so far in the closest that he was looking into real estate prices in Narnia.

Enjoyable little Craig/Luke piece: Did it Again.