Zoriah... smile happily at your wonderful achievement!
Look, you've started a meeting place for every Southern Hemispherer to come and gossip! It's great!
Plus we get to flirt with Dean... my main reason for checking in daily. Can you tell I'm single?
I don't know many guys who go for 30 year old women who are sci-fi nuts! The moment I mention it on a date their eyes glaze over. Which is fine, most of the men I have found lately prefer to talk to my... erm... assetts. *looks Heavenward* Great Maker send me a man who knows where your eyes are!
Anyway, Zoriah... *HUGS* for creating such a warm environment!
Angel Summers -
No, sorry, I don't live in Perth! I'm an East Coast girl in Melbourne, and probably old enough to be your mother! *laughs*
You're right, we blondes are not bimbo's, but it is an aspiration and goal for many of us!
When I went back to catch up on S2 and S1 of Buffy after getting hooked, I really thought it took off when Angel and Buffy did the lurve groove and he went evil. When he killed the teacher... Miles' love interest... I have to admit, I went all teary and cried again! My man at the time thought it was decidedly pathetic that I sobbed at television shows - particularly anything sci-fi. He didn't know what to do with me when I watched the last two B5 episodes. I sobbed all the way through 'Objects and Rest' (? or is it 'in Motion') and 'Sleeping in Light'! What can I say, I love a good story!
Like you too, I'm a bit unhappy there are no Angel/Buffy crossovers. I keep believing they will rethink that choice. Warner Brothers was insane to give up Buffy!
In regards to SMG, I really think she's gotten better with each season. Her acting was very standard and uninspired in the first three, but around four it seemed she became more serious about her craft. But I have to admit she can do no wrong in my book! *laughs*
They DO deserve an Emmy!
Whitestar90 -
Yeah! Party time in the great Southern Land!!
Channe -
You'll be here soon, young lady! (Great Universe I sound like my mother!!)
No more snow and cold for you. Canberra gets VERY hot in our Summer - averaging temperatures in the mid to high thirties with the odd touch into the fourties. That's in celsius, I have no idea what the translation is to farenheit.
Just take a trip down the south coast at that time, and dive into the ocean, you'll be fine!
While in Melbourne at La Trobe, our temperatures are pretty much the same during Summer, but it is a different kind of heat. You just go down to St Kilda and throw yourself into the Bay to cool down. My advice... avoid St Kilda (many many wierdo's) and take a trip arond to Williamstown Beach, or up to Brighton or Beamauris. Nice Bayside beaches. If you can drive, and get transport, even better is Portsea and Sorrento down on the Mornington Penninsula. Great beaches, fantastic food, and one side you have the Bay, if you like just swimming in calm waters, the other side you have Bass Strait, if you want some crashing waves and surf.
You're going to love your time in Melbourne!
Deviot -
No!! No I tell you!! *slaps wrist* Not in Sydney! MELBOURNE!
Raia -
Thank you! Guess who will be checking out that website!
So you're coming to Melbourne! You are in for a treat! Who knows, depending on which Uni you end up at, I could be teaching you!
Scary huh! Yes, even University Lecturers love Babylon 5.
If you love hunting through Sci-Fi stores, there is a brilliant one on Burke Street, just up from the mall, and down from the Village Centre and the Hoyts Cinema Complex. I think it's called 'Mind Games' but am not certain. It's very easy to miss as you walk up the hill from the mall, but with perserverance you will find it. It has three levels of stuff on everything sci-fi and gets imported a lot of magazines we never get to see, like the Star Wars Insider. It also has a great range of comics - yes, I love comics and collect them, pathetic I know, but I refuse to grow up - and if you like action figures and video's, they're the place to go!
I actually have not found the sci-fi shop on Swanston. Next time I'm in the city I will be hunting it down!
Also, if you don't like Melbourne City (which very few locals do *laughs*), go out to St Kilda, to Chappel Street, and go to the Jam Factory. Nearby is a great little specialty store called 'Alternate Worlds'. It has sister shops sprinkled around Melbourne, but I think the head store is in Chappel Street. Nice staff (lousy service because they're always talking sci-fi with some customer, and forget the world exists while doing it), and they sell some very great collectibles, back issues on comics, and get all the latest imports from the US.
I haven't found them in Chappel Street yet, they just moved there after packing up store near where I live in a neighbouring suburb... GST bit their bums and they had to find cheaper rent.
I do know from the owner of the shop that they have located to Chappel Street, either in or near the Jam Factory Complex. You can't miss the Jam Factory, just walk down Chappel and you'll run into - if you don't get lost shopping on the way!
Now, hopefully I have given you enough to do when you wag school over while staying in our beautiful city!
I should work for the Tourism Department!
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