Last night I was talking to a friend of mine and she was telling me about this book.

I was curious, so this morning I Googled it and came across the website. The premise is that everybody responds to relationships in slightly different ways. Although the original book seems to be intended for married, Christian couples, there is now a whole series of them for people like counsellors, ministers, singles and even military personnel!? o.O

It says that every person has a "love language’; a way in which other people can connect to them on their level. These languages are… Words of Affirmation
Quality Time
Receiving Gifts
Acts of Service
Physical Touch

I’m not sure what I think of this, since I’ve only read the website and not the actual book. On one hand it sounds plausible enough, but on the other hand it sounds as if it’s a rather generalised way of looking at relationships, and as if it’s trying to squash people into specific boxes.

I’ve formed this opinion because when I tried to do the quiz to find out what mine was, I couldn’t. None of them fitted me perfectly. I seem to be combination of 2 or 3, as opposed to one obvious answer, indicating the type of attention I value. If I HAD to pick one, I’d probably pick "Physical Touch", but it’s not an easy call!

Am I the only fence-sitter here, or do other people feel the same? If you did the quiz, what was your result?

Without a word of a lie, this sign is on the library window at university. A warning that the window is not an access route. This might not seem so strange, if it weren’t for the fact that as I was taking this photo, I was ON THE 10TH FLOOR!

It would be logical to think that the vast majority of university students are reasonably intelligent beings, so why on earth do the administration feel it necessary to stick a warning sign, complete with demonstrational picture, on the window!?

Do they honestly think there are people here who would be foolish enough to try to climb out, or, for that matter, would be small enough to even be able to FIT through this (tiny!) window to begin with!? o.O

I suppose it’s most likely that they HAD to stick it here, to clear themselves of liability should there actually be an accident, but still, it struck me as bizarre, and funny enough to be worth taking a photo of!

Yup. So that was my daily entertainment! What’s the most ridiculous sign you have ever seen?

Last night was the premiere of the documentary/film I was in at the end of last year. I didn’t write about it TOO much at the time because I wasn’t sure how much I was allowed to say on a public blog, but it was a really cool experience!

It was funny when I got the invitation in the mail, since it seemed like it all happened such a long time ago that I’d almost forgotten I was in it, even though I was told at the time that the opening would be in May 2008!

It was awesome though, a group of us went; me, my parents, my aunt and uncle and Jenny and Brooke. They all enjoyed it too I think, especially mum, who although she didn’t really know what to expect going in, said that it was an interesting "snapshot" of a side of life that we don’t normally get to see, considering none of us are part of the "rainbow community".

I guess in some ways it was an odd thing for me to be involved in. It started because I got an email from the drama administrator at uni, telling me that this production company needed people to play school girls in a scene related to the Parker and Hulme murder case. At this time I was in the middle of a Daughters of Heaven based assessment, so I thought this sounded interesting.

At first I was only supposed to be in that part, but they ended up deciding they liked me, and asked me back to do more and more, slotting in wherever they needed young women of my description! Of course this is really different to how most other people got involved. I’d say the vast majority of the cast and crew are in fact gay or lesbian, and got involved because it represented something personal to them.

The film turned out to be quite different to what I expected it to be. Considering the amount of time we spend filming the "dramatisations" of relevant historical events (like the aftermath of a school directly after the Parker Hulme case), very little of that footage actually appeared in the film, which was really more of a documentary than an entertaining movie, and probably best suited for TV. It was still good though, I think my friends thought it was absolutely hilarious to see a close up of my face looking literally like this emoticon -> , in one scene! LMAO! Yes. I WIN at acting. Clearly.

We were also amused by the "gag reel" after the credits, which involved shots of all the things that went wrong during filming, like the camera falling off the tripod, people dancing, breaking into song unexpectedly and half the crew getting almost bowled over by stray waves while filming a scene on the beach!?

Luckily no blooper footage featured me! Not that I did anything silly, I think the worst thing that happened to me was turning to run out of a room (after being thrown out by the mother of a girl I was *apparently* having a relationship with), and banging into the kitchen counter! Ow.

PHOTO 1: The directors were trying to recreate an actual school photo featuring Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme

PHOTO 2: Behind the scenes before shooting a 1960s Tupperware party scene. I’m near the back in the dress with the teal collar. I joked that I felt like a flight attendant in this costume!

PHOTO 3: Some of the crew setting up for a scene at the school. We had to do this scene SO many times, because we were an extremely large group, and there was always somebody doing something wrong!