I have a mosquito bite on the bottom of my foot.

I have never had a mosquito bite on the bottom of my foot before--I didn't know that you could get a mosquito bite on the bottom of your foot, because the skin is so much thicker. Of course mine is on the arch, so that point was moot.

The problem isn't the itching, it's the lump. It feels like I have a stone in my shoe, and several times, before I realized that the lumpy annoying thing was actually attached to my foot, I took my shoe off to shake it out. It's all terribly "I'll put a pebble in my shoe and watch me walk" but unfortunately, even though I have had enough, I am unable to "take him from my shoe singing, meet your new road."

I think I'm delirious.

You can keep your frickin' Survivor and your Real World and any of those stupid reality shows that you like, for I have found the one for me.

The 1900 House.

It's a four episode show about a house in London refurbished to exactly how a house was in 1900 and a family chosen to live in it exactly as a middle-class family would have back then. With a camera crew there to capture every moment.

Exactly like in 1900.

I had no rehearsal again last night (!!) and I was able to rush home in order to see it. I haven't rushed home for anything but Buffy and Angel in ages, but the idea behind this show just grabbed me so hard, that I had to.

This episode was all about refurbishing the house and choosing the family, we haven't got to see them living in it yet, but for a few coming attractions, and it's terribly cliff-hanger-y, because I'm desperate to find out what happens.

I particularly enjoyed the bit in this episode where the health inspectors came round and found over one hundred health and safety violations, and advised them to make the house safer by re-installing electricity. Somehow I had a feeling that they missed the point.

I also liked the fact that they felt that the rag rugs were dangerous, because people might trip.

I'd give alot to be able to live there. And not because I don't believe that it would be hard and cold and messy and smelly and dreadful, and I'd miss my computer and TV and Pepsi and hot showers and toilet paper and everything, but because it would be just the most amazing experience.

The only things that I would absolutely need are my glasses, or a period recreation so that I could flipping see, and a book and pen and ink so that I could write, everything else I could do without. I can't wait until next week!

I was trying to figure out why my imagination was so captured by this show, when other reality shows not only leave me cold, but actively repulse me, and I think it's because those shows are nearly always about people being ugly to one another.

Because they are playing to not only the mob, but the lowest common denominator of the mob, the shows are made and edited so that what they mostly are about is fights and tensions and who hates who, and The 1900 House isn't. It's about a family working together, not a family falling apart.

Would you want to live in 1900? How about the 1900 House, just for three months? What would you miss the most?

Today's horoscope:
Careful, cautious and logical in your thinking today, you prefer a linear approach. Common sense wins over imagination.

One year ago today:
"I'm the wall that the other guy plays handball against"

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