surprise surprise. christian bale is hot as batman. and heath ledger is a loss to not only to hollywood, but to me. 15/10.

plus i cinelounged it up with free popcorn and seats bigger than my sofa. and i escaped work early. afterwards i baked cupcakes. basically, batman might be tthe greatest movie ever*.

*clearly this statement is not true. for so many reasons. but it might have been more true if there was one addition: danny devito as the penguin. best batman character and actor match ever.

i am in hoi an. it is beautiful. and i wonder if monty was kicked off dancing with the stars. probably. if i could be bothered i'd check stuff but i'd rather await an email update from AL (hint hint).

i love vietnam.

today i went to my son sanctuary and then climbed marble mountain, which wasn't a mountain so much as a staircase, and hung out in caves EVEN THOUGH I COULD HEAR ANIMALS SQUEEKING. i am so goddamned brave.

i have eaten a lot of great food too. oh my god, the vietnamese know how to make a salad. light on the vegetables, heavy on the vinegar and shrimps. they also know how to make bread and banana pancakes. the two things (apart from cheese) i think may be my very favourite foods of all time. the vietnamese don't really know how to run hotels yet. which is why so far we've been kicked out of one hotel and in another asked if three people could share one bed (on the assurance it was a big bed, but guess what: it wasn't). everything else though is faultless. unlike my bike riding. which if you are my facebook friend you may have realised - my cycling is crap. which is why i fell off into a tree when i was trying to find china beach. like a soldier in the vietnam war i sought refuge on the white sand shores of china beach. but no dana delany for me. only a street urchin trying to sell me beads. i showed her my injury, seeking sympathy. she told me shit happens. i bought a five dollar necklace. afterall, it was good advice.

anyway, one other thing about vietnam, it is effing hot. which is why i'm in the hotel lobby right now. i came out to get them to adjust the air-con to twenty degrees because it feels like thirty five in our room. they seemed to have done it but to be sure i'm lingering out of the room as long as poss.

tomorrow is my last day in hoi an. i will miss it, but there is so much more of vietnam to see. and since i declare whole heartedly that i love vietnam, i guess i'd better get right on now and see it.

goodnight (and i hope monty made it to the finale).

you have probably noticed that i'm an ideas person. one day i'm talking about something i've invented and the next day every tom, dick and harry is in to it.

things i have made cool include:

• justin timberlake
• bows
• sweet mother's kitchen (although i'm over this now, obviously)
• talent quests
• television
• the colour pink (about five years ago. i'm over this now too)
• waterslides
• pottery (until the potter's association started writing passive aggressive poetry about me. at that point i got over it)
• skivies

another thing i made cool was knitting at the cross (not singlehandedly, but still...) and then weeks later TADA! a knitting night is introduced. so, it seems natural to assume that a tomato sauce bottle drawing club will start from next week as i spent my evening drawing this:




sharpen your HB2 pencils because you heard it here first: drawing tomato sauce containers is the new hot thing.