performative church

You know, I've always objected to those churches where worship becomes a performance.

Now I realise I'm in one.

It's not that Curtis is an attention-seeking singer- quite the opposite! He skulks about in the back with his microphone where no one can see him. Nor are Ashwin and Steve particularly attention-seeking pianists.

The performance on show at Ultimo evening service is me, the clown act on the overhead projector. People seem to think it's a good idea to watch me, and they seem to find it funny when they do. I don't think this is necessarily a good thing.

Consume with Eating Utensil

i've just ventured into the wonderful world of microwave meals, somewhere i've not been since Will moved in with his mother :p
it isn't so bad. It isn't fantastic either, but then neither is college food.

Anyhow. I was very glad to see that my cardboard box of food contained, according to the specifications on the box, a "plastic eating tray", the food, and one "eating utensil".
As the instructions told me to, i heated the rissotto and stirred it with the eating utensil, which happened to be a plastic spoon.

At first i thought the utensil was so denoted because it might be a fork or a spoon- but 'fork or spoon' would actually have taken up less space on the packaging, so that can't be the problem.
Perhaps it really could be any eating utensil. Anyone fancy eating risotto with a fondue fork? A skewer? A fish knife?

Words Gmail is afraid of

Getting sick of gmail ads?

Amy's research conludes that certain words will banish them.

These include:
*Porn, just once
*Whore, if repeated twice in four emails

or possibly
* "Gmail ads", if repeated three or four times in as many convos (hard to tell, since in the case of porn i wrote that i wanted to see what it did to the ads, and with whore we were trying to identify the cause of some whacked out gmail ads- i can only assume we guessed right, becuase after the second whore they vanished altogether).

for keeping them banished, we're currently researching the most effective terms. Thus far the words 'orgasm', 'masturbation', and possibly 'avocado' have proved most successful