Backstreet’s back! All right! (It’s sad that I’m excited about this.)

Shock! Horror! The hosts of SBS’s Movie Show, David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz, have defected to the ABC! To an Aussie, this is pretty much as big a deal as when Letterman jumped to CBS.

Have any of you ever had a wart? I never have but I noticed this morning I’ve got a very small, shiny little bump on the side of my thumb. It’s tiny, like the size of a pencil point. It doesn’t hurt or anything but now that I’ve found it I just can’t leave it alone. I don’t know what it is. It might be a burn from an oil splatter while cooking dinner, or it could be a friction blister from my knitting wool. Or – as my paranoid brain guessed this morning – it could be a wart. Any ideas?

What?! Apparently the founder of IKEA has overtaken Bill Gates as the world’s richest man. Sorry Bill, that’s what happens when an administration voluntarily runs the dollar into the ground.

A co-worker pointed me towards Petalia today. It’s an Australian pet site with loads of information on cats, dogs, fish, and everything else.

Hmm, it looks like we’ve got two new competing Australian reality shows in the works! We saw a commercial on the ABC last night asking for contestants for “Outback House”, which will be similar to previous PBS and BBC shows. They’re going to take a group of “modern Australians” and see if they can live like it’s 1860. It looked pretty neat. Up against it will be “The Colony” (which I discovered thanks to a comment by Ben). That one will actually send people from the UK on a voyage by ship to Australia to start out as colonists. Some will even be convicts!

The spring issue of Knitty is here! I was amused to see that someone has repurposed the old Geek Code into a Knitter’s Geek Code. It’s a little messy and complicated but still kinda fun. Here’s mine:

—–BEGIN KNITTER’S GEEK CODE BLOCK—–
Version: 1.1
KER++$ Exp+ SPM++ Steel+ Wood Pl– Den++ Nov- Cot+ Wool+++ Stash Scale++ Fin– FI++ Int– Tex>++ !Lace Flat- Circ+++ DPN ML+ Swatch KIP+ Blog+++ SNB+ EZ+ FO+ WIP+ GaugeW+ ALT Q+ X Sw-
——END KNITTER’S GEEK CODE BLOCK——

Even Merle Haggard admits he’s “not all that happy” with Bush.

I’m better. The wedding was beautiful. Snookums emceed the reception and did a wonderful job. Congratulations to Major and Steph! I’m goin’ to bed.

I feel bad for bitching about my job now after how nice they were today. I woke up feeling sick to my stomach but forced myself to go in anyway since I’d already taken two days off this week. (I don’t think it’s food poisoning as nothing has, uh, moved; it’s more like nausea and cramping and pain in general. I think it may be flu-related. This has happened to me several times before.) I was doing all right until noon, but then the smell of other people’s lunches hit me. I came as close to puking as it’s possible to get. I decided to get on out of there. My friend Kevin couldn’t leave yet though, so I decided to catch the bus back. I staggered out to the stop and waited in the hot sun. Within five minutes, my legs start shaking and my face went clammy. There was no way I could last the 30 minute trip home. I managed to get back to the office where Kevin took one look at my white face and put me to bed in our “sick bay”. That was nice. He also evidently called my boss and told him what had happened, because before too long the HR chick showed up with a Cab Charge so I could take a taxi home. That was even more nice. I rested for an hour and then caught my cab. Now I’m home and Dr. Amy Jones has started her ultrasonic kitty healing process (i.e. she’s purring in my lap). Hopefully I’ll be recovered enough for Major’s wedding tomorrow!