What imitates what?

Happy Belated Valentine's Day, everyone!

So, everything seems right in reality TV world, at least with the beauties and the geeks. On the final episode of BATG, Nate halfway redeemed himself by urging a lot of the eliminated contestants to vote for Megan & Scooter, the other team who deserved it much more. I liked Megan the more I saw of her, she was always in good humour, joked about herself good-naturedly and really seemed to throw herself into new things and expand as a person. I don't know if Cecille is really that deluded or if the producers just told her to be so hateful to make good TV. On The Bachelor reality TV series, they always seem to have a villainess-type girl who makes it to the final 3, and BATG seems as formulaic in that sense as the other reality TV shows I've seen. Wait, is the reality TV formulaic or is it reality itself that's formulaic and TV is just imitating life?

My creative juices are stewing. I've been thinking about light and colour and space, and wish I had a large room, time, video equipment, and a few thousand (thousand?) for materials to make any installation I wanted. I'm not great with tools and building, so maybe these things will never exist in reality... I need to learn to use technology better than it uses me.

I hope Oscar Wilde was right when he said: Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

What's My Sex?

Watched the new episode of the BATG tonight and was sorry to see Jennylee & Neils get eliminated. Niels got a bad break on this episode, left with no choices and a question hard enough to be on Jeopardy!, unlike the other trivia they've asked on BATG. I suspect the show's producers leave the most obscure questions for last no matter what number is left, just so they can avoid a tie.

Actually, I'm not so attached to J&N winning, but I didn't want to see Cecille advance in the game, much like how I imagine Kerry voters in the 2004 Presidential election were voting more against Bush than for Kerry. Well, at least this means Megan & Scooter should be a shoo-in next week when BATG gets the old contestants to return and judge which of the 2 final couples has grown more and deserves to win. I wouldn't want to vote for either heartless Cecille or Nate, after he stole Mario's thunder and numbers, a stunt that ultimately got Mario & Nadia eliminated last week.

I hate it when people take credit for someone else's work.

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Apparently my post yesterday wasn't sufficiently revealing! I got a comment asking me for the basics, like whether I am male or female. The answer to that age-old question is "Yes, yes I am."

For a more telling truth, let's play a game of maieutics... The name of the game is "What's My Sex?" and you're the next contestant!

• Do I look more female or male?
• Are my attitudes more masculine or feminine?
• Have I mentioned any details or engaged in any activities more typical of either sex?
• Do my language patterns make me more likely to be a masculine male, a feminine female, a masculine female, or a feminine male?

Eligibility: This contest is open only to residents of the star system Sol. Entrants must be a minimum of 18 Terran years of age or have the written consent of a legal guardian. Employees, friends, relations of the writer, and their immediate families and individuals living in the same household as such individuals are ineligible. Void where prohibited.

Who I Am

I started blogging not too many posts ago and I got a comment here yesterday asking me, "Who are you?" There's no way I can do it all in one post, or even in a blog, but I figured I'd fill in some blanks. Seven, to be exact.

Things that grab my attention:
1. Ethics, morals, principles.
2. Sustainable living. Vegetable gardening.
3. Art and creative expression.
4. Learning about the world around us, education and critical thinking. Play. Wonder.
5. Good food, great friends, meaningful conversation.
6. Kindness and love. Giving and receiving.
7. Happy endings and beginnings.

The best compliment I ever received was when a friend told me that he thought I did what Gandhi said:

You must be the change you want to see in the world.