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Yup, it didn't take long. In my last blog, I was wondering how long I could stand not owning the series on DVD. I had the Thursday night screening to look forward to until, well, Thursday night. By Friday afternoon, I had the DVDs in my hot little hands. And I am ashamed to confess that I did not order from Amazon through the link on 3f.net. I'm sorry, but I just couldn't wait that long. I bought them at the local Barnes and Noble. I really don't act this way in real life. I rarely make impulse purchases. I _never_ buy DVDs for myself. Why should I, when we pay every month for a Netflix membership? When "Reduce the clutter, Travel light" is my general mantra in life? When my unwritten dissertation makes me feel guilty about watching movies the first time, let alone multiple viewings? But, as my 15yo and I have taken to saying, this doesn't mean I'm obsessed like SOME people. Oh, and the evening after I bought the DVDs, I had my first Firefly viewing party. But that doesn't mean I'm obsessed. I mean, not like SOME people. Really.

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OK, I feel the need to balance last blog's guilty giggles with some grander thoughts. I've been thinking about the whole premise of the Firefly solar system, with the 500-years-from-now timeline and all those terraformed planets and moons. How's this for a grand thought: 500 years? Emigration from a dying Earth-that-was, colonizing the first planet, establishing the melting-pot civilization, accumulating adequate wealth and resources to terraform another planet, and then actually transforming its entire atmosphere, ecology, etc? Times how many planets and moons? In 500 lousy years? Nah, I don't think so. Maybe 5000 years. Here's my other grand thought: Terraforming a lifeless rock into even a harsh but survivable environment has gotta be incredibly expensive, requiring an enormous upfront investment before anything remotely profitable could be undertaken there. It would have to be undertaken by a large government or huge corporation. Whoever paid for it, they wouldn't be likely to then walk away and leave it open for whatever roughneck pioneers feel like establishing a stake. Yet by all appearances, this is precisely what we find on all the border worlds where Firefly does its petty-crime jobs. How does someone like Patience get her grubby little hands on an entire newly-terraformed world? Economically speaking, it is not making sense to me. Suggestions welcome.

UNCHARTEDOUTLAW

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ROMANCHASE

So, am I to understand that I have blog privilages? Can I write about anything? Or do they have to be about Firefly? If I'm doing something wrong, someone please let me know.. because I plan on using this to blow of some serious steam. I've started other blogs in other services, and they just didn't work out. Okay... biggest stress in my life... puppy beagle. Why? Well, because it's a puppy beagle. I may be setting myself up to be a real jerk to you guys, but I don't like the puppy, and I don't want it. I'm not a dog person by any means, and this puppy has disrupted my life. 'Why did you get the puppy' you ask? Well, my fiance really wanted the puppy, and I thought it would be fun to have... until this one word called 'housebreaking' came to my vocabulary. It's been almost 3 weeks now, and I'm not sure if I've made any real progress. I keep sayng 'I' because my fiance works 12 hour shifts (she's a nurse) and ...as it turns out, I'm STUCK with taking care of this dog... and I know NOTHING about training dogs. Early last week I broke down. Puppy was wreaking havoc, and I couldn't take it. I called Fiance at work, and she calmed me down, and said that it can ONLY get better from here. Since then... it's been up and down. Puppy Kindergarten didn't really work. I know I'm doing something wrong in raising her. In any case, new classes are starting, so we'll see how these go. Whew... blew off a lot of steam there. Thanks for listening.

CASUALTY

These days I seem to be finding more and more examples of life being circular. Situations and people are connected to other people and things in ways that astound me. As I wrote my last blog I thought that finishing University meant that particular chapter in my life had been closed. How wrong I was. I'm back in Canterbury looking for a job (which by the way is harder that I had ever imagined). I've been asked to work in Freshers week and I now know I'll be living here for at least a year. It looks like they wont be able to get rid of me that easily. I'm also preparing for my birthday on Friday, when I turn the big 2-1! Yes finally. I am incredably excited, I'm going to see War of the Worlds, I can't wait. I love birthdays, be it mine or someone elses I'm not fussed, thay just make me happy. I like giving gifts just as much, if not more so, than recieving them. I'm having a BBQ so wish me sunshine. I got my degree result a few weeks ago and I got a 2/2! Yay. My graduation is on the 12th of July and I wonder if the ceremony is as boring as I keep being told it is. I don't mind I just want to wear my cap and gown. After that I'm off to Spain for 10 days so I guess I wont be around these parts much. I just thought I'd say hi to all the new people who've found their way to this fantastic site and hello again to everyone else. Manwithpez how's the job coming along? Zol, Fray101, Psychicriver when's the next UK meetup? I'll be showing up here every now and then, don't forget me! Take care Alison x-x-x-x

DUCESTECUM

Hi Browncoats. If this has already been posted, Sorry! Just wanted to let you know I was reading the July 4, 2005 Globe (has JFK, Jr. on the front) and I can't pass by any news about him. Anyway, I digress, I am flipping through the mag and there is a pic of Mal and Inara and a blurb about we Browncoats and the forthcoming film. I'm excited! Happy days are coming. :biggrin: