Wow...um. Huh. Just read an Alan Ball interview where he discussed that the Charlaine Harris books were all about Sookie/Bill and any other characters are secondary to their story. Huh. I didn't get that at all. Not sure what to say since he obviously loves their storyline and there's no way around that. If we ever get a "triangle" or an Eric/Sookie moment, it'll merely be part of the Bill/Sookie story. In a way, it's good to know that now and at least he isn't lying to us about the show exploring all options.

Maybe after the lastest book his perspective is not wrong. Sure, there are books where Bill is almost entirely absent but, heck, it could still be all about Bill/Sookie if Charlaine Harris intended for every other suitor in the series to lead Sookie back to her first and truest love *vomits*. I say this because I read the most recent book with this constant feeling of inevitable doom. I can hardly be irritated that the show is erasing Eric when it seems that's about to happen in the books too from this girl's perspective. Hopefully I'm just being cynical but here are my thoughts from the pretty disappointing Dead and Gone. ( Here be spoilers and lots of waffles!!! )

Carnivale is love. Finished season two and decided if I was a TV, I could die happy after that season finale. I was plodding along thinking with this great climax, I probably won't mind that the show didn't continue because all the themes seemed to come to a head and we did receive several great answers. It was a better place to end it then the end of season one, because at least our protagonist had actually met his arch nemesis at the end. I was screaming with joy throughout the whole marathon, refused to go to sleep even though I had to work the next day and I'm still a bit sick, I just HAD to finish it.

I got more than I bargained for in the last ten minutes and wanted to CRY. Sigh. I wish more people liked the shows I do then Carnivale would have had more success than True Blood. Cest la vie, TV world.

I'm so, so, so glad I waited for years after the show was over to try it. I would have been so upset when this was cancelled if I'd followed it every week and speculated in a community environment about it. I also would have probably been one of those scary people fighting hard for a show to come back, in whatever form, just so that I know what happens. lol At least four years on, it's pretty safe to say, the cast, crew and creative teams have moved on and this gem ain't coming back. Sigh. I would be so excited if I heard there was a Carnivale movie; I don't think it would work as well in a book series, since information is so often conveyed visually in the show, but I would still buy it. I doubt it will happen though which sucks.

The bad thing is that now all the boards are gone (Basically) and I have no one to talk to about it except my roomie. She watched it with me and agreed it was awesome but doesn't really go into deep discussions and finds me funny when I get that interested and start asking a bunch of philiosophical questions and wondering what happens. She just says it was canceled, nothing happened. Grr. lol How can she not care when great TV (great storytelling - period) is so rare these days.

If anyone did watch it and can recommend a good fanfic that continued on from the last episode, I'd be much obliged. I'm too nervous to put a toe in there and it seems like all the fanfic archives are dead and gone except for ff.net (and I don't understand how a story true to the show could be ON ff.net considering all the sex, swearing and other creepy things that happened on it).

I'll probably pop online in a couple of weeks with some Carnivale icons because they were really difficult to find too. Carnivale web community, where are you?? It must be true that the best shows, have the last need for 'fanfic' intervention, and thus the least dedication to the online space because I was so surprised that the community was so dead already. Four years isn't long, considering the Roswell boards.

Oh and briefly. I have new love for Nick Stahl who is not my type but is quite perfect for this character and magnetic in the role. Clea Duvall, who I've always loved...*squishes* Never become a Hollywood starlet, you are class and grace and I wish I could have seen what you did next with Sofie's character because...dang.

Real life factoids:

- My new internet connection is so fast that I forgive it for taking so long to function. I've never had a connection so fast!!!
- I'm also sick with a water-cooler bug. I don't care! I just had a snotty, tissue-cushioned Carnivale marathon that made me feel better. :)
- I had to make up a research question for my Information Management major assignment and I "manufactured" a fantasy novel concept that required background research. I did my first REAL research into that vampire story that's been kicking around in my head since highschool. I actually named one of my characters and feel like I accomplished something. I knew I'd feel more creative if I wasn't studying English. Stupid contrary brain... It was amusing to interview a librarian about abattoirs and concentration camps in connection with each other though, I think a lot of people believe I'm going to become a serial killer in my near future. :) At least I didn't ask specific questions about slaughtering techniques...I did find this art book by Sue Coe called "Dead Meat!" that was very inspiring. Very macabre vegetarian perspective into the meat industry and since I'm a visual writer, I found looking at those images send my brain into a dark, disturbing twirl.

Fandom things that I noticed were awesome during my livejournal hiatus: ( Carinvale, Dead Like Me, Across the Universe etc. )

It feels strange to get into shows when they are over and done with but I also feel it's better for me too. I know the show is cancelled, there's no anxiety about that any more, there's also no suspense and gritting of the teeth and speculation between seasons. That stuff can kill your appreciation for a show especially if you picture the story going in one direction and it disappoints you. Nonetheless, I miss having a show to follow with people.

I'm going to watch True Blood which I just realized has a new episode out. But I doubt I'll squee much unless Eric suddenly has a bigger role. (See above point about disappointment...heh).

Since I'm basically loopless at the moment, does anyone know any new shows I should think about considering?

WHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Hallelujah! I thought I'd never get the internet.

Who am I? Nobody cares any more? I thought so! But I must squee anyway!!!

Internet woes....the hits that kept on coming!

1) The jackass who lived in my new place did not disconnect their ADSL connection and I had to beg phone companies for weeks to cut it off because THEY DON'T LIVE HERE before I finally found a customer service person who was helpful (or it had finally lasted long enough that they didn't pay one of their bills - who knows?).
2) When it was finally connected it was the day before I went on study leave. I asked my new modem to be sent to my work address because I was not sure my roomie would be at home to collect it when it was delivered. Naturally it was delivered while I wasn't there so we waited until I could manage to get out there without failing my classes (did I mention I work a long way from home?). Although, the way things were going, I expected them to refuse to deliver it if I wasn't there to sign for it. Thank God they did not do that, I would have screamed.
3) I plug in the modem once I got it home and...drum roll...it doesn't work! Took hours to figure it out, but apparently they hadn't set me up under their company, but their wholesaler so everytime I type in @internetcompany.annoying.com their company thinks I'm putting in the wrong details and refused to accept my registration.

I spoke to customer service reps all night who were boggled by the fact my modem was not working when it was in perfect condition until I finally got someone senior who recognised the problem straight away. Sigh.

Goes to show you it's all about who you talk to. If you get someone unhelpful, just keep hanging up and calling back, eventually through statistical averages, you have to find someone useful, right?

I am so relived since I thought I'd have to move back into my mother's for a few days in order to post my assignments (they have to be submitted online).

After running around all day today, I'm not sure how well written my assignment will be since I basically lost twenty hours but I have the internet!! Who cares if I barely pass!! I have the internet!! lol

Drive-by post!!! Currently at the mother's waiting to pack more furniture. I have my own place. YAY! Can you believe that in this rental crisis, with people biting each other's legs off for a rental house in Sydney, the first house I liked and applied for (that's right my very first rental application at all), went through and I won???? I got struck by lightning luck!! The agent did give me a nudge though because he let slip that no one else had seen the property at all, it was just listed, and I was seeing it late Saturday afternoon. Which meant no one would be seeing it until Monday so if I got my application in on Monday and the owner was sweet it was all mine. My roomie was working flat out that week and hadn't even seen it when we won and paid the bond. Now THAT'S trust. I suppose she knows how anal I am and that I wouldn't get all excited about fixer-upper property (I may not lack imagination, but I am LAZY, lol).

Yay! Goody goodness.

Almost.

It does cut both ways since my roomie's lease doesn't end until the end of the month so I'm currently taking on the full rent by myself and that is tight to say the least.

On other things, I got to train in a couple of different and mind expanding things at work. Which is good. The job still has major low points but I'm not complaining at all. I'm happy to be stable at work at the moment even if I have to get up at six every morning (gah - HATE mornings).

I have no internet and it's a bit strange. I had no computer at all for several days. Getting bruises all over your body from being rammed into walls by couches just doesn't have the same meaning when I can't whine about it to my internet friends. Am I right? :)

I just wanted to say, I miss you all, and I'm doing my best to get hooked up so that I can catch up with you all and, hopefully, be able to research my dang university assignments online again. INTERNET I NEED YOU. Signing up with iiNet may have been a mistake, maybe I should have just gone for the standard Telstra and paid them a kidney for a decent, fast connection. Sigh.

I am stressed (in a busy, semi-positive life way) and in need of a fic. Has anything I read been updated in the last month?? Do you know?? I probably will never find them on my friends list now but if there are big names I should hunt for let me know. Also, right before I lost my internet connection, ContraVeritas went down. And I had just received an alert in my e-mail that Sage had updated "The Fallout". I still haven't read the last chapter. AHHHH! It's like the one dramione multi-chapter fic I still follow religiously. And I'm hanging. Does anyone have a copy of this last chapter? I am willing to offer fic snippets? Or write chapters?? I wants ittttt! Hook a fellow fanatic up!!

Must go, getting the glares, hopefully I'll talk to you all soon!!

Things overheard on a Sydney train:

He says: "Who does she think she is anyway? I introduced her to everybody who matters; she would be nothing without me. It won't take much to make her nothing again."

Wow. Who knew GG was right? Private school kids really are evil.

I'm not kidding. That's exactly what he said, captain to captain with another private school girl.

I gotta stop listening to people from the north shore. lol

I give up. There's no way I can catch up with all the comments I've missed. I'm a terrible LJ friend but after hitting the 400 mark, it felt weird to be butting in to stuff people talked about ages ago.

My bad.

Just a response to some things yfrontz brought up regarding the Victorian bushfires and the investigations into how it happened.

( I think that no policy will unanimously save lives because hindsight is 20/20 and people can't KNOW when they make the decision to stay or go how bad the fire will be until it's on top of them and then it's too late to leave. )

Here's an idea of how much of the state is or has been on fire, thanks to Google. The embedded map doesn't appear to be working.

As you can see that is not a small amount of ground these fires covered in such a short amount of time. Don't forget to donate whatever you can to THE RED CROSS BUSHFIRE FUND.

The kiwi and aussie cricket teams are donating all their pay from todays game to the cause which is awesome. The kiwis may "hate" us but I do love how our relationship is like a great sibling rivalry. We give each other heaps, but when we're in trouble we are always there for each other. The kiwi boys certainly didn't have to follow the aussie cricketers lead but they did. There are cricketers walking around in the crowd with donation buckets and they're also donating their shirts so they can be auctioned. We have assholes arsonists living here but it's good to know that so many people are willing to make sacrifices to help other people too.

Jesus Christ Victoria...

I have no idea what to say.

108 people...

Footage of the fire is out of this world hellish. The coverage is just gut wrenching considering two journalists got caught in it so it's personal for both news channels I normally watch. The channel nine veteran didn't make it, but the channel seven journalist's wife made it (they kept playing this gut wrenching mobile phone 'interview' with him trying to get through the road blocks to where his wife was trapped in the middle of the inferno - she'd just rung him 'screaming'...*shudders*). There were so many towns that got swamped from all angles because of those fierce hot winds making the fire jump all over the place and change directions. There was nowhere to run and no warning. I knew it would be far worse than Ash Wednesday because they didn't have access to a lot of those swamped towns and the body count was already at 50 yesterday. But 108 and still counting???

*shudders*

What a horrible task: going from car to burned out car, house to burned down house looking for bodies and trying to figure out who is missing.

I'll never forget images of those burned out pile ups. All those people whose cars got swamped on the road, whole families wiped out as they tried to outrun the fire. What a horrible way to die.