ebay is fun.

it's been a long and boring day. outside the computer. inside the computer, however, there have been struggles - yes, battles between me and other ebayers. i am yet to call myself the proud owner of anything i have bidded for today. but, lets see how i go. i have three lots i am waiting on right now.
set of DPN's, bamboo
some really cheap NZ wool
this beautiful little book of shelley from the 1900 or so... so pretty. fairly tattered, but still stunning. and a steal for the (current) $30 AUD. i will be sad if i lose that one. *eyeballs anyone reading this who likes shelley and might steal this off me. realises the chances that anyone reading this cares about shelley are pretty much nil.*

i had an extremely intoxicated lad chat to me on the way home. it was sort of funny. and then, on the way to work today, i saw a (possibly) homeless bloke with a flat screen tv. strange. he was just sitting at the bus-stop with his tv. it baffled and amused me. no syringes or condoms though! what an exciting change! nor any vomit! which is rare. especially on a saturday morning. usually the streets are littered with vomit. saturdays are when i don't love living in the valley so much. people, for gods sake, vomit in the garden or something. it's Gross when you do it on the sidewalk. even the gutter is better.

suicide girls is on tonight. i am avoiding the valley, due to the large amount of emo-testosterone that will probably be present. what irritates me with obessively anit-suicide girls people is that - yep. suicide girls are feministically-dubiously-anti-feminist. however, i don't see that much specifically aimed anger at things like illegal street prostitution, and the state of the women forced into it. or to the likes of players universal, where my dear sister had to work when she was forced out of her previous job. she is lucky, as she has more than just looks to get her another job. not everyone does though. your average strip club does far more than the suicide girls will, and yet, there is all this ranting about the latter. *shrugs*. personally, there are bigger feminist issues out there for me than porn, or stripping. far, far more. that, and i am generally bored by the whole debate. *coughs* and being randomly forced into it. *shrugs*

tonight! will be a knitting night! and maybe a reading night. i bought a very interesting book of contemporary jewish short stories by an othodox jewish american. sounds really good. that, and two children's books.

and i still want to read that gail jones book, 'dreams of speaking,' i bought about a month ago.
and, on the book topic, i read an appaling children's book called 'angel-monster,' about the relationship between mary and percy shelley. i don't even know where i would start with what was wrong with the book. it pains me to think about how terrible it was. and inaccurate. and generally flawed. i still feel sort of dirty from reading it.

i could have spend that hour reading something else. lordy, i work in a bookstore, it's not like i am starved for choice.

i am 30inches through the strap for lucky. it's getting closer to finished. but, but... i need it done for sigur ros!! can i do it? can i? go team elizabeth! you can do it! * cheers *