[m i a o w] the cat

Don’t know what it is, but I like staying over at friends houses. Expecially after they feed me burritos and pretend to think my photos are tres exciting. Baby Luka is bigger, a little more feisty and has two tiny razor sharp teeth that he tested out on my finger this morning while I helped to feed him his breakfast. My visit helped to clean a bit of Hampton from my soul - so I can vault back there tonight and like it.

Yesterday I played astronomer, went up on to the roof of the university and saw the Transit of Venus through a telescope with a special filter on it. It’s the first one since 1882 - which I unintentionally missed out on. By a century or so. I had no idea what to expect and examined it perplexedly. It was like looking at a huge smudgy dense yellow oil pastel background with a tiny perfect black sphere in front of it. Kind of like someone had dotted a small perfect circle on the telescope lense. When I had another look I realised what was going on, and I have to admit the obvious. The sun is Big. Venus is Small. Yike. How did Captain Cook figure it all out!?

The Office of Film & Literature Classification have revised their rating of the latest Harry Potter film to PG. Thousands of Australian children who have parents like I did will be heaving heartfelt sighs of relief. Those parents who pay close attention to film ratings and act as if they are written in the blood of all first born children…

“I don’t care how good the book is - the film is not to be seen by people under 15, and that’s YOU.”

I had to sneak to the cinema when I was fourteen to see Tom Cruise swooning over Kelly McGillis in Top Gun. It was the highlight of my year. I wasn’t allowed to see Grease when it came out at the cinema either. Or watch The Young Ones. Gripe, gripe, angst, angst.

BROWSE / IN TIMELINE
« Mingling with the Masses
» Diving in the Steno Pool

BROWSE / IN Food
« All The Little Fishies
» Slow Learner

COMMENTS / ONE COMMENT

*sigh* of relief! I had no idea how I was going to get an 8 year old in to see HP this time around. Other than dressing her in a more adult type of clothing and adding make up, I still don’t think they’d have let my daughter in.

Rae typed this on Jun 09 04 at 2:37 pm

SPEAK / ADD YOUR COMMENT
Comments are moderated.