Psapphirical

So, the relatives aren't too bad. The aunt that's here at the moment is my dad's eldest sister. I'd met her once or twice before in China. She doesn't speak English at all so I've had to stretch my Shanghainese to communicate. From what I've seen, my dad's siblings are fairly intelligent, rational, considerate people... and completely unlike him. I think he's the defective one. Srsly.

I went for a really long walk today after dinner. Walking always makes me emo, unfortunately, because it's boring and repetitive and the trail is too full of memories, and my mind is far to free to wander. So I came home in a bit of a funky mood. Playing WoW didn't help much. Actually, it helped a little until mum came in and made another comment about how I should do a course in Chinese over the summer. She does this every single holidays, and then we have a fight about it. I wouldn't get so defensive about it if it wasn't a part of the continual expression of disappointment over my career choices. I honestly thought she'd gotten over it. But no.

I'm up to Season 6, episode 24 of Voyager. What will I do when I run out? I suppose there's always TNG... or maybe Battlestar Galactica. But there's nothing like Voyager when it comes to comfort TV.

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I just read this in the paper:

Suddenly with "Walnuts" McCain and Sarah the Warrior Princess (!!!) marketing themselves as a pair of mavericks, Obama's extraordinary life story looked merely exotic, a Pacific souvenir.

*twitch*
I can't believe they're comparing Xena with Sarah Palin.

Please excuse me while I go choke on my own bile.

[Edit: But this makes the world okay again:
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Today... I have done nothing.

Actually, that is not true. I spent about two hours singing in German. It's actually been a rather musical day. I woke up with the Benny Lava song stuck in my head. Then I recorded myself singing "Dschingis Khan - Moskau".  And then I found some sheet music for Damien Rice's 9 Crimes and played that on the piano for a while.  But it was kinda repetitive.

So when I say I did nothing, I really mean that I didn't write anything for my NaNoWriMo which is now a couple days behind. -.-  And I haven't yet started on my next Beowulf essay.  It's due tomorrow.

It's really cold here at the moment.  I'm sitting here with a blanket on my lap and the hood of my hoodie over my head.  I didn't go on my run today either because it was pretty much rainy and windy the entire day.  Blah.

I feel unproductive.  :-/