Bloody hell. See what happens when I stop posting. I should have been using my influential blog status to stop everyone voting for Howard and counter Andrew’s curse. Is assassination a crime? Suppose, and this is entirely hypothetical, there was this national leader who was moderately successful on economic matters, which seemed to excuse his grave injustices concerning human rights and the environment in the eyes of the people, would it be ethical if said leader caught fire? Accidentally of course. I’m concerned that the americans are going to vote conservatively too. Kerry doesn’t seem to be having a very good campaign.

What else was I going to say? If I don’t post every day, I get like Tom and having nothing to say. So now it’s Wednesday, no Saturday or maybe it’s Monday again. Anyways, how about some gamecube news.

Megatron’s recovered nicely. His stitches are out but we haven’t noticed any increased intelligence yet. Maybe I should give him a slap on the side of his head. It works for the tv.

I might stay with a geeky theme today. Dawn of War is a fun game. I like it better than Warcraft 3 because there’s less micromanagement in fighting and gathering resources. Also, THERE’S 3 CDS IN THE ONE CASE! 3CDS! An amazing feat of modern engineering. Online gaming is sweet too. My win/loss ratio sucks but the beauty of seeing a giant column of orks, space marines and eldar lead by an Avatar storming into a chaos base is beautiful. It’s the best massed army I’ve seen since Lord of the Rings.

The nica audition was good. By good I mean I could do all the stuff they asked of me. I just have to wait until mid November to find out how good. It started at 10 am with some stretching. We were told details of the course and what would be expected of us. We were then told not to push ourselves today, and if we hadn’t done something before then not to attempt it. Which is stupid, because obviously the more skills you can show the better your odds. The first test is flexibility: splits and some wierd lying on your stomach and lifting up your arms and legs as high as they can go. There was only a dozen people there so things move quickly. Next is tumbling: backsaults and stuff. Only one other guy and I can do more than a cartwheel so it didn’t last long. No one else can do handstands. I feel embarrassed by Perth’s poor showing. With some encouragement, Jess manages the 10 seconds required by the manipulation stream. On to strength exercises like push ups and chin ups and v-snaps which are like sit ups lifting the legs at the same time. Then we stopped for lunch and the tv news people came and filmed us. The afternoon consisted of our performance pieces, some impromptu dancing and brief individual interviews. So it all went pretty well.

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