week in review

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Movie happy (started on the plane)

-Rock star

-Hearts in Atlantis

-Serendipity

-10 minutes of bubble boy (BAD)

-Charlies Angels

-Thunderball

-The Others

-From Hell (about half)

-Riding in cars with boys

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Decidedly there is something about the Russian male figure skaters...

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L:"Look. At home I put up with your keeping the thermostat at 13 degrees while you sleep, with the fans on and windows open, but now we're in a warm country for a 'warm' holiday we're not sleeping with the air-conditioning on."

D:"Why can't you have the air-conditioner on? You go to ski holidays but does that mean you have to be cold all the time?"

L:"No, because there is a difference. We came here for a 'warm' vacation, so it makes sense to be warm as much as possible. With a ski vacation, you go for the skiing not for the cold. Since it needs to be cold for there to be skiing, yes you may be cold, but the point of the vacation is the skiing not being cold."

D: "Still you go to ski holidays but that doesn't mean you have to be cold all the time. You come here you don't have to be warm all the time. Logic."

L: "No, because the intention is different. You intend to ski, and the being cold is an effect of the climate. Here you intend to be warm, which is because you came to warm country. Directly warm weather because it's a warm climate."

D: *Laughing* "Thanks for pointing out that the weather is warm in a warm climate."

L: "Shut up. Okay so I lowered the credibility of my comment there, but I still consider the argument won."

D: "Whatever."

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Tuesday I played the best 9 holes of golf that week (37 - 4 par), and the worst 9 holes of the week (51). When I'm tired I get grouchy, and when I start messing up shots, it goes downhill very quickly.

Overall, yeah golf!

I still really need to get out to a driving range

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solar dermatitis / photoallergic dermatitis

...is seen as small, reddish blisters or small or large spots in areas that have been exposed to sunlight. This rash usually appears after minutes' exposure to the sun and can be extremely itchy. ie. an allergic reaction to strong sunlight.

Due to all the different acne medications I used to take, namely tetracycline. It can last indefinitely.

Ever see the movie The Others? It's a milder drug induced version of what those kids had.

Not very serious, but very very very itchy, and 'interesting' looking.

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On Olympic sports and high rates of falling on skiing

"What a pain to fall and kill yourself right at the finish line."

"Yeah, dead skiing."

"Yeah instead of medals, gold, silver and bronze body bags."

*laughter*

"That is sick."

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On the hamoc with Andy after dinner

"Look, stop squirming, you're going to make us both fall out."

"Well I'm just trying to make us swing okay?"

"Fine, you stay still and I'll push us okay?"

*swinging*

"This is nice"

"Yeah."

"You can see the stars a lot better here than in the city."

"I think those are fireflies, because we're under a tree."

"Fine. Well, it's nice... Glow in the dark butts and all..."

"I bet I know what you're thinking."

"What?"

"Girly thoughts about how romantic this thing would be if I was some older hot guy..."

"Who wasn't my brother."

"Exactly."

"Actually I wasn't..."

"You'd be talking about the stars..."

"thinking anything..."

"And I'd be sleazy..."

"stupid like that, and..."

"You probably wouldn't notice..."

"even more that's really disgusting..."

"That I'd be looking up your skirt or something..."

"WHAT? Can you see up my skirt?"

"I was making that up, I wasn't actually looking."

"You are weird."

"But it would serve you right wearing a skirt."

*Pushes off hamoc*

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Overheard at breakfast

"The Canadians are all sore losers who can only win a medal by complaining."

Said by an American, but that's not the bit that really irks me.

No comment needed.

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Quote of the week:

"Fetché la vache" -Monty Python

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Evesdropping in on my parent's socialising during the bus ride back to the airport.

"Where are you from, Scotland yes but..."

"Edinbourgh"

"Okay. Sounded something like that, but I guess you're accent must be slightly different from the other Edinbourgh accents I've heard."

"Probably. I've been living in London for almost 15 years."

"Okay."

"Where are you from?"

"Canada." *pause* "But we live in London."

"Oh okay. We heard you ahead of us in the early baggage check-in line up today and was wondering if you were actually on the same flight as us."

"Well we've been living in London only 4 years so our accents haven't changed much. At the pool the other day I was talking to another Canadian couple, and they asked where we had flown in from. I said London and the first thing they said was, "But you sound just like us!" Then I went on to explain to them..."

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Running blank. Photographs at some point.

Am very tired, sort of hungry and slightly tanned. I am happy.

Laura | 13:16