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wiseacress wrote fic for me. I'm happy. :) Read it here.

Last night, jaydk and I went to Central Park and listened to opera. For someone who hates being outside and has no interest whatsoever in opera, I actually had a decent time. I'm sure it was the good company. Some guy gave us a helium balloon, and I carried it around the city as we wandered around afterward looking for a restaurant. Balloons are cool. We ended up at a Spanish/Italian place, where Jane had pizza and I had gazpacho. Yummy.

It was really funny how, as Jane explained the story of the opera to me and we discussed it, we kept drawing parallels between it and BtVS. Yeah, we're obsessed. (Sorry; I forget the name of the opera. I utterly lack culture.)

I was going to post about BtVS and gender again, but I'm fairly certain that everyone else is sick of me talking about it, and I'm actually sick of talking about it too (for now; I'm sure I'll be ranting again in a week). So I'm just going to link to Kristen Smirnov's essay, which covers my thoughts quite well. If you haven't read it yet, check it out here.

Dammit, now I have to actually go work. Today at 3: World's Most Boring Meeting.

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It's disgustingly hot in here. I'm going to have to turn on the air conditioner, aren't I? Damn. I was putting that off as long as possible, because whenever I run the A/C, the electric bill becomes painful to look at. But unfortunately my apartment is on the top floor and all the heat in the building gathers here. :(

Anyway, so I bought this DVD player, which says "This player is compatible with everything: DVD / DVD-R / DVD+R / VCD / SVCD / CD / CD-R / MP3 / jpg kodak cd / .mpg / .mpeg, / .vob files / Mini DVD."

So, I put in some of the Buffy stuff I've burned to CD, and most of it works, but AVI and WMV files don't. I would have assumed that those formats are included under "everything," but apparently that's just hype? Anyone know if it's possible to get them to play, or convert them, or something? I'm pretty clueless about this, but any help would be appreciated. I'd like to be able to watch those files on the DVD player too.