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[magnitudes]

G'day g'day, this is Sarissa Theron, local hero and devastatingly good looking rural.

( She seems in a better mood than last time she posted, and better form - and sure, she is, but it's also Sarissa trying very very ahrd to be Okay, and definitely not actually being Okay. Still, there's a healthy flush to her cheeks, and unlike last time she's got a smear of mud on her cheek and is looking like she's been working outside. Wherever she is, she's definitely in a field, and there's a shed nearby. )

I know, two posts from me, in one month? Overkill, definitely. But this is so important. Or, should I say,

( and she grins, brightly, before turning the camera... ) sow important?

( Yes, viewers. In-frame is a very large sow, pink with black patches. Around her are nine little piglets, varied from all pink to speckled to covered in patches, and one that is totally black. )

I just rescued these guys from a bit of a situation. Got them a special shed and I just finished the fences on the fields a couple days ago, so good timing, but I gotta head back into town to pick up some more supplies and that. If anyone has any fruit and veggies or pig feed or straw or - I mean, anything that you wanna donate to the rescue pig extravaganza, lemme know.

( A thumbs up; she is so excited. Pigs!!! ) And I need help coming up with names, because they can't all be Hamlet or Francis Bacon.

Comments

[helpline]

Not really. Rory's the sort that if he played an instrument, it'd probably be something like the piano. And not any fun piano like jazz piano, not any Herbie Hancock piano skills, it'd be boring scales piano. Something practical.

[ practical is said in the same tone that most people would say "absolutely bloody awful" ]

[magnitudes]

Ugh, I hate practical people. They're the worst.

( blergh )

[helpline]

They are. [ said as he makes a blergh face as well, complete with sticking his tongue out for a moment like the most immature 2,000 year old ever. ]

They're good for some things like making certain you have laundry detergent but they're not good for fun.

[magnitudes]

Well, you know, my fiancée— ex-fiancée, I mean, I guess, anyway she is so practical and responsible and stuff, but my God it was hard getting her to remember to pick up the laundry detergent without palm oil and that was more environmentally friendly and that. Drove me mad sometimes, I swear to Christ.

[helpline]

Did she buy the one that she had a coupon for? They only print out those coupons when they want to get rid of the things to begin with, a coupon doesn't mean something's necessarily good.

[magnitudes]

No. I think she got the kind for extra sensitive skin, or something.

( Definitely not for Sarissa.

(Definitely for Sarissa.) )

Snob, I tell you.

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[helpline]

Yeah, but that's a snobbiness that makes sense! At least that way nobody gets hives. It's not a snobbiness that doesn't make sense like thinking McDonalds is beneath you or being too good for off-brand cola.