DERREN BROWN GETS TO WARP MY MIND IN PERSON HURRAY!

I HAVE DERREN BROWN TICKETS (well, not in my hand but I have the confirmation email). Sitting in the dress circle (nearer the back than the front; not only will I be broker than broke by then but this is Derren Brown. The further you are away from anything he can throw at you the better - and now having said that, I'll no doubt get a face full of cuddly monkey or whatever he choses this time. Maybe I should practise ducking) for the Tuesday after we go to Wimbledon. I ACTUALLY HAVE TICKETS TO A DERREN BROWN SHOW; DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT'S BEEN?

I'm glad there's such shiny (and paid for already) things to look forward to after Australia. I expect after a week back at home in rainy Cumbria with no money I'll need cheering up. Wimbledon and Derren Brown are kind of more than cheering up; they're more something you plan your year around. Yay!

On another money-related note (don't all my posts have this these days?) I realised yesterday that I'm worrying so much about my money for Australia that I'm not worrying about the flights, about getting lost, about not having any plans for NZ, anything. So that's one good thing. I mistyped a number when trying to estimate my daily budget yesterday though and got £5420. *wistful* Yeah, maybe if I married Roger Federer.

(no subject)

There's an official Top Gear 'How hard can it be?' t-shirt!

Oh Top Gear, why are you not on my TV right now?

Now I think about it, isn't Mirka six years older than him? This might make more sense then.

I have to quote the general response on tennisslash and go HOLY SHIT.

Both make_a_move and kindoftrouble texted me LITERALLY SECONDS APART going omgwtfhaveyouseenthis?!, which I hadn't because I've spent the last three hours on The Sims 2. Which reminds me; I have an Andy/Roger couple on there and I'll probably amuse myself by having them adopt later. Or make a Mirka and get Roger to have an affair. THERE ARE ENDLESS HOURS OF ENTERTAINMENT TO BE HAD.

But seriously? I've never been more floored by a piece of tennis news. I would've bet my signed copy of Good Omens this wouldn't happen for at least another two or three years until Roger's career was winding down [a few losses don't mean it's winding down, he's still number two and was in the last three...four... several Slam finals, so shut up] and that it's now... does this mean Mirka won't be at Wimbledon? 'Summer' would suggest that's likely, because a hasty Google says 36 weeks is the absolute cut-off date on flying while pregnant and it's apparently 27 weeks without a doctor's note. I can't imagine Roger risking anything just for the sake of having her at courtside, so my money's on her skipping Wimbledon. (Roger if you skip Wimbledon to have a baby so I don't get to see you after paying £72 for a ticket, I'll... well I'll understand but I'll be really pissed. You could've got a cat! Or a dog; you could've hit tennis balls for it and it would've brought them back for you to hit again! It would've been amazing practise! By the time you've trained your kid to do that, you'll be retired, not to mention that you'll get no sleep for months and it's hard to play good tennis after no sleep for months. Or a monkey! You could've trained a monkey to go and rearrange Nadal's water bottles to freak him out; it would've been hilarious. But no, that just wasn't enough!)

...Okay, I am actually kidding. My well-documented feelings on the newborns of our species aside, I'm very happy for him. Just confused, because I really didn't think I'd be saying congratulations for another few years Roger, and if you quit tennis to have children before I get to see you play some more in person, I will actually be mad. I'm all for you breeding up the rogerus federus subspecies of humanity that can all play amazing tennis with their eyes closed but you still have those records to beat. Don't think that spawning lets you off the hook.


I guess I have to stop telling my parents that I fully expect him to come out when he retires now huh? Wow.

(If anyone feels like doing for the tennis fandom what A Farm in Iowa did for SGA? I would totally approve. Only you know, with a fictional kid because after that it gets a little weird.)

(Also, anyone taking bets on girl/boy/non-humanoid lifeform?)