Mondays - SBS - 9pm - 'Drawn Together'.

You must see this, it's animated,  reality, 'Big Brother' style show and it's piss funny.

Wednesday September 21st is the United Nations International Day For Peace. It is the one day of the year when all the member nations (say they) will put aside their differences and work towards peace. This includes unilateral cease-fires on all war fronts. Is it pathetic that we work for war the other 364 1/4 days of the year?

In other gnus, a wonderful thing happened to me the other day that prompted a weird thing to happen. More on that story later, first let's talk about the weird shit that happens that makes you think there really is a spirit world and stuff.  

So I am up late on Sunday morning at about 03:00 and they are re-playing the first episode of 'Survivor Guatemala' I am totally uninterested in the show but am also too tired and lazy to get up and go to bed. Eventually I am forced by the banality of the show to do so. The next day (or later that day actually) at about 13:30 I switch on the TV for some background noise and guess what is on... the very same show at the very same spot! I did a double-take, I was feeling very 'Twilight Zone', could this really be happening? Were they playing the same show again and had I switched on at exactly the same spot I had switched off the previous night?

AHA! I thought I had it figured, I must have taped it! I checked the remote, no tape in the machine. This was really happening! This happened to me once before, many years ago when I was driving along one night with the convertible top down. There was no moon and it was a warm summer evening. I had a tape in the player and was cruising along a dark highway with stars all over the place. It was a really great night. I switched the tape off to listen to the radio and ... the same song was on the radio at exactly the same spot! I double checked to make sure the tape had popped out and sure enough, it had. That was spooky. Thank goodness I had a friend there to witness it. Anyway that was one weird thing this last week but there was another one too.

The wonderful thing: A friend of mine asked my opinion about something very special to her. I gave her my thoughts on it and then asked her why she had asked me when she has plenty of friends with more expertise. She looked me straight in the eye and said it was because: " you have better taste and a better eye for detail than anyone I know and I trust you to be honest with me."

I was shocked for a second and then began to laugh. She was obviously 'taking the piss'. My friend looked at me and then said: " I just shared something very openly with you and you laugh at me?" It then occurred to me that she was being serious! She had a hurt look on her face and I didn't know what to do. I apologised. People just don't compliment you like that, it doesn't happen. It brought us a lot closer than we have ever been and I really felt good at that moment and grateful for a friend like her.

The other weird thing: Later that afternoon I took a nap (I'm a shift-worker, we do that) and I had a dream that I was in a large room with someone else I couldn't quite see. I believe now that it may have been my brother, who died at birth. He is sometimes in my dreams although I can never see his face and he never speaks to me. There was an opaque window off to the side and on the other side of the room there was door with a small window in it. In the window of the door were two people who I know but I have no idea why they would have been in my dream. The two faces at the door window smiled at me and nodded. I woke up feeling really good some reason and still feel it now. Weird shite.

Anyway, that is all I have for today boys and girls, you may leave us.