Katy Perry - "One Of The Boys"

I think this song has replaced "Thinking of You" as my favourite Katy Perry song:



Mostly because it's one of my favourite high school fantasies (get hot, hot guy/best friend realizes he wants me super bad, learn to shave my legs... Something I still haven't mastered).

I watched Kick-Ass 2 last night (illegally. Yolo). It was bad. I hate it when actors don't want to return to sequels so they just show up for two minutes and break up with the main character or something equally out of character or shitty. What was the point of bringing back Lindsay Fonseca at all? The break up didn't really make sense at all. There were also too many character deaths. One meaningful character death is sufficient. Too many and the plot feels cheaply strung together.

But perhaps my least favourite part was near the ending when (spoiler alert) Hit Girl/Mindy kisses Kick-Ass/Dave. I think it was meant to be one of those bittersweet, not-really-romantic/sexual kisses even though it was on the lips. However, earlier was a scene in which Kick-Ass is shirtless in Hit Girl's presence and she gets heart palpitations and sexual urges. This all feels very wrong to me. She was a child in the first movie. Not an adolescent. A straight up child.

I bought a Kobo Glo e-reader today. Such a nightmare. I have a $50 Officeworks gift voucher (end of financial year "bonus"). The standard Officeworks price is the lowest available and I can get a further ~$11 off with my employee discount (even though I don't have an employee card and thus would have to borrow someone else's). The unfortunate thing was that literally every Officeworks in the state is out of stock on the product. But oh wait, not just every Officeworks in the state but also every Harvey Norman and JB Hi-Fi. What is up with that? Not that many people even use e-readers. I am very confused.

In the end, I price matched at Big W (one of the only places in the whole of freaking WA that has it in stock and after literally calling every Officeworks in WA and being on hold for a good cumulative 30 minutes). Did you even know places like Big W and K-Mart price match? I did not (and, not surprisingly, they do not advertise this fact). They won't beat the price by 5% like most tech places but they will match it. If you bring in the catalogue. Except the e-reader isn't in the current Officeworks catalogue. Furthermore, the Big-Wpolicy says they won't match sale prices.

Is it just me or is that completely convoluted and ridiculous? Basically, they're saying they won't price match sale items but, to price match, you have to prove with a catalogue which is basically advertising sale items. What is this nonsense?

Regardless, I sweet talked/cleavage bared the acne-ridden technology guy at Big W and got him to price match. High five for mammary glands (jokes, mine are ineffective in the art of subtle or not-so-subtle persuasion). And now I have acquired a Kobo Glo e-reader. It's not for the $142 I could have gotten with my employee discount (and I also would have been able to use up my gift card which is burning a hole in my pocket) but I still got it for a decent $153.

My dad also bought me a Kindle case for it (the Kindle case fits the Kobo) for $10 on sale at another Big W. Can we talk about how disgustingly overpriced tablet/e-reader cases are? Some of them run for upwards of $50. For a case. For a case! That is freaking ridiculous. I need to start my own tablet/e-reader case business and sell that shit.

In R related news, I have proposed we have a farewell dinner for me, A and R as we are all leaving around the same time (mid/end November). It shall happen. I'm not really sure how I feel about him anymore. I'm pretty sure I've outgrown my sad little crush. I mean, I still enjoy "flirting" with him (which is basically just conversing with him like a normal person except, in my head and heart, I'm jumping around and having a panic attack) but I'm not utterly-devastated-Lord-save-me that he hasn't asked me out like I used to semi-be.

There are more fish in the sea, my friends. And I will have my fishing rod ready for when the time comes.

Study hard and stay cool.

J