I am a fanfic writer, and since I've been a fic writer (ooh, 5 or 6 years now), I haven't really ever won anything. Haven't even been nominated.
But apparently the Good Luck Fairies like me, since I'm up for one in the Burn Notice Fanfiction Awards (yay!) And I've only ever written one for that fandom, so even more awesomeness there.
Vote for me here, please. Story's called "Semper Fi" and it's under the pen name of Bec Le. It's on page 3 under the voting stuff.
http://community.livejournal.com/bn_fanficawards/
I have actually reached the final round, which is probably more amazing than Cheez Whiz in a can. Certainly it beats out Twinkies. And trees. Beats out trees.
Voting closes on Wednesday.
Ta,
Bec
31.5.10
28.5.10
I Have a Palm Pilot!
So, went to a rummage sale this morning. It was sponsoring the future homeless shelter of Rhinelander.
Sometimes at rummage sales, you find nothing. Sometimes you find a little something.
And then there are the days when you literally WIN the LOTTERY.
I won the lottery.
So I come upon the electronics section-a scanner, a couple cameras, some cords...
And a Palm Pilot from 2005, with the box it came in and the two cords and a little stylus thing.
See?
It cost me a whole DOLLAR. You can see the sticker's still on the box.
I have been laughing like a maniac all day long because I have always wanted one of these babies and figured I would never be able to use one enough to justify the expense.
A brand-new model of this puppy on Amazon costs 500 smackers.
This one can play music, let me write, play games, and go wirelessly onto the Internet if I choose to do such a thing.
The only thing wrong with it was that the cord that would connect it to the computer is broken. So I ordered one of those from Amazon. Should be here in two weeks.
That cost me THREE dollars (well, a penny, but then you gotta add in shipping. So it was 2.99, round it up a bit, and ta-da. Three.)
I also bought a photo album, to replace the one where the pages don't stick down and the pictures kept going everywhere but where I wanted them.
So, for 7 bucks, I have my very own PDA and a nice new photo album to display my pictures in.
I spent all afternoon playing solitaire with the stylus and writing on it. When I can connect it to the computer, I'll have all kinds of fun adding stuff to this thing.
Let the fun begin. I have a new toy to play with.
Ta,
Bec
Sometimes at rummage sales, you find nothing. Sometimes you find a little something.
And then there are the days when you literally WIN the LOTTERY.
I won the lottery.
So I come upon the electronics section-a scanner, a couple cameras, some cords...
And a Palm Pilot from 2005, with the box it came in and the two cords and a little stylus thing.
See?
It cost me a whole DOLLAR. You can see the sticker's still on the box.
I have been laughing like a maniac all day long because I have always wanted one of these babies and figured I would never be able to use one enough to justify the expense.
A brand-new model of this puppy on Amazon costs 500 smackers.
This one can play music, let me write, play games, and go wirelessly onto the Internet if I choose to do such a thing.
The only thing wrong with it was that the cord that would connect it to the computer is broken. So I ordered one of those from Amazon. Should be here in two weeks.
That cost me THREE dollars (well, a penny, but then you gotta add in shipping. So it was 2.99, round it up a bit, and ta-da. Three.)
I also bought a photo album, to replace the one where the pages don't stick down and the pictures kept going everywhere but where I wanted them.
So, for 7 bucks, I have my very own PDA and a nice new photo album to display my pictures in.
I spent all afternoon playing solitaire with the stylus and writing on it. When I can connect it to the computer, I'll have all kinds of fun adding stuff to this thing.
Let the fun begin. I have a new toy to play with.
Ta,
Bec
24.5.10
DIE!
Every year at our house, we have an invasion take place.
The ants are coming.
Big. Black. Crawling. Ants.
Yesterday morning Sara was awoken early by the little bastards crawling all over her bed. She was smashing them with a flashlight.
I have taken the remote and a water bottle after them. I've sent two down the sink.
Under normal circumstances I would be nice and let the suckers go, but this is war and I've already had enough.
The poison's on every single windowsill in the bedroom trying to control the horde.
Every year when the weather is warm and wet, they come out of the walls like some sort of horror movie creatures. And we smash them. We drown them. We try to kill off as many as are visible. And they're still everywhere.
In the meantime, we will smash them with anything that's handy.
Ta,
Bec
The ants are coming.
Big. Black. Crawling. Ants.
Yesterday morning Sara was awoken early by the little bastards crawling all over her bed. She was smashing them with a flashlight.
I have taken the remote and a water bottle after them. I've sent two down the sink.
Under normal circumstances I would be nice and let the suckers go, but this is war and I've already had enough.
The poison's on every single windowsill in the bedroom trying to control the horde.
Every year when the weather is warm and wet, they come out of the walls like some sort of horror movie creatures. And we smash them. We drown them. We try to kill off as many as are visible. And they're still everywhere.
In the meantime, we will smash them with anything that's handy.
Ta,
Bec
22.5.10
Poo Gets Brushed and Whisper Gets Special Food
Spritey's losing her winter undercoat. This means that someone, once a day, has to brush her down from neck to tail to get the loose fur up and out. It has to be itchy and hot to have a whole layer of your fur coming out, so going through her fur with a brush seems to make her a little more comfortable.
But she HATES being brushed with a passion. The mere mention of brush can send her scurrying to her kennel to hide. When someone brushes her, she tends to get very cuddly (and Spritey DOES NOT cuddle) and tries to sit with the side you're trying to brush slumped against you. Today I was trying to push her away a little bit so that I could brush her hip, and she was pushing back trying to get back onto my lap to stop me. I had to hold her with one hand so I could use the brush with the other. When I would let go for a second, she'd zip into my lap like a little magnet.
She also whines under her breath, wriggles, begs with her eyes, and when it gets too bad, she farts. And today it was all of those because I had to do both of her hips-her fur comes off there in clumps that we can pull out by hand. She doesn't like us chasing her around to yank them out when we spot them. So it's better for everyone involved if I go through and pull the clumps from underneath before they have a chance to work their way to the surface of her overcoat. It doesn't hurt her-I'm just pulling the already loose chunks out.
Despite her resistance, we did get it done. And the pile of loose fur she produced today was half the size of yesterday's-there is progress being made. If I don't have to clean her loose fur off of the furniture, the carpet, out of the kitchen, the hallway, or pick it out of food around here, it's a plus.
And the other dog has been sick, so she's getting rice and hamburger for meals. Her stomach has taken a dislike to her regular dog food and we don't know why. She rejected her kibbles twice yesterday by upchucking them onto the carpet. Having put two and two together, I figured her tum's not liking the regular stuff anymore. Rice and hamburger it is. Not too much work-just instant rice and a bit of chopped burger to give it flavor because she won't eat the rice plain.
Sometimes these two are a lot of work, but I still love 'em.
Doctor Who stuff after the spoiler line.
Ta,
Bec
SPOILER LINE
Okay, so Hungry Earth was a part one of a two part story.
I thought it was awesome.
The Silurians literally popped up in this episode. We saw less of Amy and more of Rory than we have before. We also saw a lot of stuff that reminded me of the beginning of "Green Death" (Third Doctor) including the camera angle that mine was shown at. Looked very, very similar, but as I remember, that didn't deal with the Silurians but a big bunch of maggots and flies.
The Doctor once again wound up in the wrong place-not in Rio, but in Wales.
Amy and Rory see future versions of themselves in 2020. Really? I don't think so!
The Doctor put the blue grass in his mouth again and I was distinctly reminded of his last incarnation who put EVERYTHING in his mouth...oh, David I miss you sometimes...
The kid obviously is significant to the Silurians and possibly to their downfall because of his dyslexia, or they wouldn't have emphasized it so damned often.
Something about bioprogramming.
The Doctor calls for silence (significant?)
Clennparii defense is the defense of oneself by saying you're the last of a species. The Doctor was more than moderately insulted when the Silurian in captivity dared to claim this defense, since at this moment he IS the last of the Time Lords.
Of the three people left standing there, who would kill the Silurian? Rory, who's lost Amy to the ground? Ambrose who's lost her husband and son (where is that kid anyway-haven't seen him since he vanished), or Tony, who's been bitten and has the venom of the Silurians running through his system and has also lost his son-in-law and grandson to the ground?
Next week deals with time in flux and not fixed points.
Next week: Cold Blood!
But she HATES being brushed with a passion. The mere mention of brush can send her scurrying to her kennel to hide. When someone brushes her, she tends to get very cuddly (and Spritey DOES NOT cuddle) and tries to sit with the side you're trying to brush slumped against you. Today I was trying to push her away a little bit so that I could brush her hip, and she was pushing back trying to get back onto my lap to stop me. I had to hold her with one hand so I could use the brush with the other. When I would let go for a second, she'd zip into my lap like a little magnet.
She also whines under her breath, wriggles, begs with her eyes, and when it gets too bad, she farts. And today it was all of those because I had to do both of her hips-her fur comes off there in clumps that we can pull out by hand. She doesn't like us chasing her around to yank them out when we spot them. So it's better for everyone involved if I go through and pull the clumps from underneath before they have a chance to work their way to the surface of her overcoat. It doesn't hurt her-I'm just pulling the already loose chunks out.
Despite her resistance, we did get it done. And the pile of loose fur she produced today was half the size of yesterday's-there is progress being made. If I don't have to clean her loose fur off of the furniture, the carpet, out of the kitchen, the hallway, or pick it out of food around here, it's a plus.
And the other dog has been sick, so she's getting rice and hamburger for meals. Her stomach has taken a dislike to her regular dog food and we don't know why. She rejected her kibbles twice yesterday by upchucking them onto the carpet. Having put two and two together, I figured her tum's not liking the regular stuff anymore. Rice and hamburger it is. Not too much work-just instant rice and a bit of chopped burger to give it flavor because she won't eat the rice plain.
Sometimes these two are a lot of work, but I still love 'em.
Doctor Who stuff after the spoiler line.
Ta,
Bec
SPOILER LINE
Okay, so Hungry Earth was a part one of a two part story.
I thought it was awesome.
The Silurians literally popped up in this episode. We saw less of Amy and more of Rory than we have before. We also saw a lot of stuff that reminded me of the beginning of "Green Death" (Third Doctor) including the camera angle that mine was shown at. Looked very, very similar, but as I remember, that didn't deal with the Silurians but a big bunch of maggots and flies.
The Doctor once again wound up in the wrong place-not in Rio, but in Wales.
Amy and Rory see future versions of themselves in 2020. Really? I don't think so!
The Doctor put the blue grass in his mouth again and I was distinctly reminded of his last incarnation who put EVERYTHING in his mouth...oh, David I miss you sometimes...
The kid obviously is significant to the Silurians and possibly to their downfall because of his dyslexia, or they wouldn't have emphasized it so damned often.
Something about bioprogramming.
The Doctor calls for silence (significant?)
Clennparii defense is the defense of oneself by saying you're the last of a species. The Doctor was more than moderately insulted when the Silurian in captivity dared to claim this defense, since at this moment he IS the last of the Time Lords.
Of the three people left standing there, who would kill the Silurian? Rory, who's lost Amy to the ground? Ambrose who's lost her husband and son (where is that kid anyway-haven't seen him since he vanished), or Tony, who's been bitten and has the venom of the Silurians running through his system and has also lost his son-in-law and grandson to the ground?
Next week deals with time in flux and not fixed points.
Next week: Cold Blood!
18.5.10
Tuesday
Watching Merlin this morning (Series 1: To Kill the King) purely to see Morgana get herself chained up in the dungeons by Uther.
Have lots to do today, but only after Mum leaves.
Muse put out a new song for the "Eclipse" soundtrack. It's good; I like it well enough.
Ooh, she's getting herself locked up. Gotta go.
Ta,
Bec
Have lots to do today, but only after Mum leaves.
Muse put out a new song for the "Eclipse" soundtrack. It's good; I like it well enough.
Ooh, she's getting herself locked up. Gotta go.
Ta,
Bec
16.5.10
9 On A Sunday
Mom and Dad have taken Anna to Minnesota so that she can hop a train and go to the Big Easy. She'll be gone for a week. Sara's still sleeping. Dogs have been fed. I haven't been. I am about to stop typing this and go stuff my face, but before I do: episode notes from yesterday's Doctor Who.
SPOILER LINE
Amy's Choice.
I thought this was a pretty damn good episode.
First off, we DON'T find out who the father of the baby is (though I'm assuming since it really doesn't exist it's no one's.) One thing that bothered me was Amy not feeling much attached to her child, although that could be explained by 1) peril and 2) it was all a dream! By the time Rory "dies," she's decided that the world around her is a dream and so the child within her doesn't technically exist, but I would have wanted to see SOMETHING there...
Wonder if the aliens popping out of the old people were Prisoner Zero's captor's relations, because they certainly looked familiar. According to Whowiki they are Eknodine and they DO exist in the Whoniverse because the Doctor knew who they were. These could be related to the Atraxi from episode 1.
Lots of doors in the butcher shop. Does a butcher shop need that many damn doors?
And we find out at the end that it was all psychic pollen and made the Doctor make a Dreamlord and two false realities. Something about this just doesn't sit right-did he do this on purpose to drive Ames toward Rory? Because two episodes ago he SAID he was going to fix it and NOW he has. Hm. Convenient, no?
Once again, we see a possible manifestation of the Valeyard, or the "nasty charismatic world-smashing baddie that the Doctor is supposed to turn into around his 12th or 13th body and which he fears becoming." He showed a small hint of it last year in "Waters of Mars" when he decided he was in charge of time and space and could do as he pleased. It's the evil half of the Doctor, the demon with the face of an angel. He may look nice, but can manipulate and charm you into walking off a cliff or blowing up a planet. Hence, he's a lot frightening and not someone you want to let out.
Which would explain why when the Doctor saw him in the last seconds of this episode on the console of the TARDIS, he seemed afraid of him.
Apparently there's no break next week so see you for "Hungry Earth."
Now some clearing up! More spoilers here, some possibly for 12 and 13, so I'm going to put ANOTHER spoiler line to keep people safe from knowledge if they so choose.
SPOILER LINE
Okay, so I've been snooping around and stuff, pondering and sticking my pointy nose in places where it probably shouldn't be. And I found this:
(thanks to Cameron K McEwan over on Flickr for this one)
I dunno what it means, but some have supposed that Omega is returning. If you know your Who history, there were three greatest of the great Time Lords-Rassilon (who we saw at the end of last year's series) the Other (who the Doctor's supposed to be a reincarnation of) and Omega. Omega is apparently pretty damn bitter towards his own people (who technically no longer exist thanks to the Doctor) and it wouldn't be a far stretch for the Doctor and him to stand together and battle something pretty big, seeing as Omega might have gotten out of the time lock...
Omega was also apparently power-hungry at one point, which would put him at odds with the Doctor if he still feels the same.
Anyway, some other person supposed River's gonna just chuck the Doctor into a time crack and fix the whole problem. That's too easy, people-do you really think Moffat would make it that simple?
Feel free to debate me-I love discussion.
Ta,
Bec
SPOILER LINE
Amy's Choice.
I thought this was a pretty damn good episode.
First off, we DON'T find out who the father of the baby is (though I'm assuming since it really doesn't exist it's no one's.) One thing that bothered me was Amy not feeling much attached to her child, although that could be explained by 1) peril and 2) it was all a dream! By the time Rory "dies," she's decided that the world around her is a dream and so the child within her doesn't technically exist, but I would have wanted to see SOMETHING there...
Wonder if the aliens popping out of the old people were Prisoner Zero's captor's relations, because they certainly looked familiar. According to Whowiki they are Eknodine and they DO exist in the Whoniverse because the Doctor knew who they were. These could be related to the Atraxi from episode 1.
Lots of doors in the butcher shop. Does a butcher shop need that many damn doors?
And we find out at the end that it was all psychic pollen and made the Doctor make a Dreamlord and two false realities. Something about this just doesn't sit right-did he do this on purpose to drive Ames toward Rory? Because two episodes ago he SAID he was going to fix it and NOW he has. Hm. Convenient, no?
Once again, we see a possible manifestation of the Valeyard, or the "nasty charismatic world-smashing baddie that the Doctor is supposed to turn into around his 12th or 13th body and which he fears becoming." He showed a small hint of it last year in "Waters of Mars" when he decided he was in charge of time and space and could do as he pleased. It's the evil half of the Doctor, the demon with the face of an angel. He may look nice, but can manipulate and charm you into walking off a cliff or blowing up a planet. Hence, he's a lot frightening and not someone you want to let out.
Which would explain why when the Doctor saw him in the last seconds of this episode on the console of the TARDIS, he seemed afraid of him.
Apparently there's no break next week so see you for "Hungry Earth."
Now some clearing up! More spoilers here, some possibly for 12 and 13, so I'm going to put ANOTHER spoiler line to keep people safe from knowledge if they so choose.
SPOILER LINE
Okay, so I've been snooping around and stuff, pondering and sticking my pointy nose in places where it probably shouldn't be. And I found this:
(thanks to Cameron K McEwan over on Flickr for this one)I dunno what it means, but some have supposed that Omega is returning. If you know your Who history, there were three greatest of the great Time Lords-Rassilon (who we saw at the end of last year's series) the Other (who the Doctor's supposed to be a reincarnation of) and Omega. Omega is apparently pretty damn bitter towards his own people (who technically no longer exist thanks to the Doctor) and it wouldn't be a far stretch for the Doctor and him to stand together and battle something pretty big, seeing as Omega might have gotten out of the time lock...
Omega was also apparently power-hungry at one point, which would put him at odds with the Doctor if he still feels the same.
Anyway, some other person supposed River's gonna just chuck the Doctor into a time crack and fix the whole problem. That's too easy, people-do you really think Moffat would make it that simple?
Feel free to debate me-I love discussion.
Ta,
Bec
12.5.10
One Measuring Set To Rule Them All...
So nothing going on in my world, save that Mum got her new measuring cups and spoons this morning and was very pleased with them. Now I can get rid of the ten other sets she had in the cupboard....
The regular entry is gonna end here, cause boy, oh, BOY have I got some STUFF to show the Merlin fans...
Okay, so I have something for the Merlin fans, BUT I'm putting a major spoiler alert on this. Not kidding. it's a potentially MAJOR, HUGE, SPOILER for Series 3 (which they're still working on.) If you haven't seen Episode 8 of Series 2 or if you really don't want to ruin the fun of finding out in Series 3, DO NOT LOOK.
Okay, having given fair warning to all of you, here is a lovely photograph of Igraine Pendragon (nee Dubois), Arthur's mum, that I found:
Note the dress, please, cause this next pic is gonna blow you away...
(My dearest thanks to yavannauk at Livejournal for this picture. Kudos!)
Yeah, that's Katie Mcgrath, the one who plays MORGANA, wearing what appears to be the EXACT. SAME. DRESS.
See, THAT would be why there was a large warning before I posted these pictures. This is a pretty big spoiler. Imagine the hoopla if Morgana was wearing this dress in front of people like:
Merlin (who'll remember the dress from the vision last series)
Gaius (who'll have to remember Igraine originally wearing the thing)
Arthur (who thought the whole dead Mummy (no pun intended) thing was a fakeout by Morgause to get him to kill Daddy Uther. Guess NOT!)
and last but not leastly, UTHER, whose face I'm dying to see when he sees Morgana wearing it. Ha ha ha...
I assume that either Morgause has told Morgana the whole story (so now she knows the circumstances of Arthur's birth) or just gave her the dress as a gift but Morgana doesn't have a bloody clue whose it was or why Uther's looking at her like that...
You gotta hand it to Morgause, though-psychological warfare will probably work better on Uther than trying to get Arthur to kill him...
But it does lend weight to my running theory of "they're all family!"
The regular entry is gonna end here, cause boy, oh, BOY have I got some STUFF to show the Merlin fans...
Okay, so I have something for the Merlin fans, BUT I'm putting a major spoiler alert on this. Not kidding. it's a potentially MAJOR, HUGE, SPOILER for Series 3 (which they're still working on.) If you haven't seen Episode 8 of Series 2 or if you really don't want to ruin the fun of finding out in Series 3, DO NOT LOOK.
Okay, having given fair warning to all of you, here is a lovely photograph of Igraine Pendragon (nee Dubois), Arthur's mum, that I found:
Note the dress, please, cause this next pic is gonna blow you away...
(My dearest thanks to yavannauk at Livejournal for this picture. Kudos!)Yeah, that's Katie Mcgrath, the one who plays MORGANA, wearing what appears to be the EXACT. SAME. DRESS.
See, THAT would be why there was a large warning before I posted these pictures. This is a pretty big spoiler. Imagine the hoopla if Morgana was wearing this dress in front of people like:
Merlin (who'll remember the dress from the vision last series)
Gaius (who'll have to remember Igraine originally wearing the thing)
Arthur (who thought the whole dead Mummy (no pun intended) thing was a fakeout by Morgause to get him to kill Daddy Uther. Guess NOT!)
and last but not leastly, UTHER, whose face I'm dying to see when he sees Morgana wearing it. Ha ha ha...
I assume that either Morgause has told Morgana the whole story (so now she knows the circumstances of Arthur's birth) or just gave her the dress as a gift but Morgana doesn't have a bloody clue whose it was or why Uther's looking at her like that...
You gotta hand it to Morgause, though-psychological warfare will probably work better on Uther than trying to get Arthur to kill him...
But it does lend weight to my running theory of "they're all family!"
8.5.10
Snow and Green Leaves?
When I got up this morning, there were two inches of snow on the trees. Most of it has been shaken off by the wind but for a while in there it looked pretty strange.
Spritey's in a silent rage because I won't let her go play outside (35 degrees is too cold for her and she knows it.)
And so! Vampires in Venice :)
SPOILER LINE
I liked this episode a lot, although Rory needs a bit more work.
Why is Amy so damn attracted to the Doctor? I'm beginning to think she's confused.
What's up with Rory and the very blank stare when he's standing in the TARDIS?
Rory=Mickey. Anyone else getting this vibe?
Mention of chasm by the lead space fish/vampire.
"In memory of the children lost to the silence..."
Crack info-some were tiny, some were as big as the sky. Through some of them you could see worlds and you could travel to other places, but the cracks would snap shut behind you.
Saturnine lost?
Rory hears silence but the Doctor hears a voice. Even after two runs over the spot I couldn't get WHAT was being said or WHO was shouting but that was definitely a voice.
Crack in the TARDIS keyhole. PS: Correction. The crack was apparently in the sunny blue sky ABOVE Venice at some point in the episode. We could see the Vortex in the keyhole. There is also another possible one in the dark clouds above Venice but we could be wrong about both of these (I would say the sunny sky one is more legit but remember that everything in the series is a potential clue)
Once again, Rory shows at least two instances of something being WRONG with him. First the blank stare when he was in the TARDIS-he didn't seem impressed at all but covered by saying he'd been studying up.
He also hears NOTHING when us and the Doctor hear something. How unusual.
This episode made BIG mention of the cracks and the possibility of zipping between them and getting stuck someplace.
And Amy is really, really needing to get her mind straight on either Doctor or Rory, cause she's driving them both nuts.
That's it for my notes on this one! Next week comes "Amy's Choice."
Ta,
Bec
Spritey's in a silent rage because I won't let her go play outside (35 degrees is too cold for her and she knows it.)
And so! Vampires in Venice :)
SPOILER LINE
I liked this episode a lot, although Rory needs a bit more work.
Why is Amy so damn attracted to the Doctor? I'm beginning to think she's confused.
What's up with Rory and the very blank stare when he's standing in the TARDIS?
Rory=Mickey. Anyone else getting this vibe?
Mention of chasm by the lead space fish/vampire.
"In memory of the children lost to the silence..."
Crack info-some were tiny, some were as big as the sky. Through some of them you could see worlds and you could travel to other places, but the cracks would snap shut behind you.
Saturnine lost?
Rory hears silence but the Doctor hears a voice. Even after two runs over the spot I couldn't get WHAT was being said or WHO was shouting but that was definitely a voice.
Crack in the TARDIS keyhole. PS: Correction. The crack was apparently in the sunny blue sky ABOVE Venice at some point in the episode. We could see the Vortex in the keyhole. There is also another possible one in the dark clouds above Venice but we could be wrong about both of these (I would say the sunny sky one is more legit but remember that everything in the series is a potential clue)
Once again, Rory shows at least two instances of something being WRONG with him. First the blank stare when he was in the TARDIS-he didn't seem impressed at all but covered by saying he'd been studying up.
He also hears NOTHING when us and the Doctor hear something. How unusual.
This episode made BIG mention of the cracks and the possibility of zipping between them and getting stuck someplace.
And Amy is really, really needing to get her mind straight on either Doctor or Rory, cause she's driving them both nuts.
That's it for my notes on this one! Next week comes "Amy's Choice."
Ta,
Bec
7.5.10
Was Up Late But I'm Here Now
Went to visit my sister yesterday. Ate at that lovely Chinese restaurant again. Got to see a nice concert and it's going to be a whole half-hour before Spritey gets her food.
PS: It is SNOWING. UCK. And not just a couple little drifty floaty flakes. No. This is full-on coming down couldn't miss it SNOW. My sister's got rain, my other sister has nothing at all. But I get snow.
PPS: Okay, funny little thing that happened. Spritey was walking around under the table again. She happened to get the little metal ring on her collar looped on a loose rung of one of the chairs. She got herself stuck well and good, but before I went over there to figure out what she'd done the chair was shifting around like there was a ghost in the house. I went over and I did get her off the rung of the chair so that she wasn't stuck anymore, but before I did I rolled over on the kitchen floor and laughed till my ribs hurt. She gets in the oddest predicaments (foot stuck through a link of a chain, twisted up in her leash until we have to unhook it just to get her off...)
Meanwhile, I am having a debate about Episode 7 (this would be NEXT week's) because someone assumed something that just raised my fur big-time...
SPOILER LINE. If you don't want to hear anything about next week's episode, then don't look!
FIVE YEARS GONE
Five years later, Amy is pregnant and about to give birth. Apparently the kid's origin is in question because it isn't Rory's.
http://www.tvovermind.com/doctor-who-tv-news/doctor-who-spoilers-five-years-gone-and-pregnant/23236
This article supposes it's the Doctor's.
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
Here's why (deep breath in:)
1. TIME LORDS ARE STERILE. No Time Lord is capable of having a child and the race actually had to find new ways to reproduce once they lost the ability.
From Wikipedia
However, (before the Pythia) died she cursed Rassilon and all future Time Lords to sterility. Rassilon's unborn daughter was one of the deaths. In later New Adventures we are introduced to the concept of the genetic Looms, from which new Time Lords were created.
2. NO ROMANCE HERE-just buddies traveling the stars together. The way it should be.
Matt and Karen interview where they talk about their characters relationship:
But if you ask them, it's all about the adventures their characters have together, not the way they feel about each other.
"I don't think that's what it's about," said Smith. "It's about adventure together."
"It's about mates — best friends," said Gillan.
"...Traveling the universe!" added Smith.
3. IT IS COMPLETELY AGAINST CANON.
For years on years, the Doctor was seen as asexual-or at least above those sorts of impulses. We have no idea if he's even CAPABLE of mating with a human (mostly because this is a children's show and it's never been necessary to have that discussed on screen.)
The Doctor is supposed to be above animal impulses. He didn't even kiss anyone until his 8th life-33 years after he debuted-and it caused a ruckus because he just didn't DO that sort of stuff.
To write an episode where he is the father of a human's child is crassly against canon and would tick off a LOT of Who fans. Since he knows the Whoniverse pretty well, Steven Moffat would never do it.
Even if it were possible, the Doctor has had children and grandchildren (thanks to the Loom) and wouldn't want a child of his own now (recall Jenny, who was made from a sample of the Doctor's DNA? He rejected her at the beginning because he'd had kids before and no longer wanted to suffer with the pain when they were ripped away from him.) He is a very dangerous and lethal being to be around-any child would be at risk around him and he knows it. He also is the only member of his people left alive-what kind of culture and identity can any kid have when their whole race has been obliterated from time and space before they were even born?
4. Even if the sterility was gone, even if the Doctor did have a child with Amy, the baby probably wouldn't be viable. Some assume that his DNA has three strands instead of two (probably slightly different from ours on two and then the third strand controlling distinctive aspects of the Time Lord race like regeneration, a binary vascular system, and (from Wikipedia) The Rassilon Imprimatur is the name given to the symbiotic nucleus of a Time Lord's cell structure which allows them to withstand the molecular stresses of time travel and grant them a link to their TARDIS time machines.
Either the child would be completely Time Lord (mother's DNA overwhelmed by the superior DNA) or it would be a confused mix of the two, unable to regulate body temperature and probably unable to regenerate even if it did survive.
So there you are. Feel free to debate. I certainly gave you enough to work with...
Ta,
Bec
PS: It is SNOWING. UCK. And not just a couple little drifty floaty flakes. No. This is full-on coming down couldn't miss it SNOW. My sister's got rain, my other sister has nothing at all. But I get snow.
PPS: Okay, funny little thing that happened. Spritey was walking around under the table again. She happened to get the little metal ring on her collar looped on a loose rung of one of the chairs. She got herself stuck well and good, but before I went over there to figure out what she'd done the chair was shifting around like there was a ghost in the house. I went over and I did get her off the rung of the chair so that she wasn't stuck anymore, but before I did I rolled over on the kitchen floor and laughed till my ribs hurt. She gets in the oddest predicaments (foot stuck through a link of a chain, twisted up in her leash until we have to unhook it just to get her off...)
Meanwhile, I am having a debate about Episode 7 (this would be NEXT week's) because someone assumed something that just raised my fur big-time...
SPOILER LINE. If you don't want to hear anything about next week's episode, then don't look!
FIVE YEARS GONE
Five years later, Amy is pregnant and about to give birth. Apparently the kid's origin is in question because it isn't Rory's.
http://www.tvovermind.com/doctor-who-tv-news/doctor-who-spoilers-five-years-gone-and-pregnant/23236
This article supposes it's the Doctor's.
WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
Here's why (deep breath in:)
1. TIME LORDS ARE STERILE. No Time Lord is capable of having a child and the race actually had to find new ways to reproduce once they lost the ability.
From Wikipedia
However, (before the Pythia) died she cursed Rassilon and all future Time Lords to sterility. Rassilon's unborn daughter was one of the deaths. In later New Adventures we are introduced to the concept of the genetic Looms, from which new Time Lords were created.
2. NO ROMANCE HERE-just buddies traveling the stars together. The way it should be.
Matt and Karen interview where they talk about their characters relationship:
But if you ask them, it's all about the adventures their characters have together, not the way they feel about each other.
"I don't think that's what it's about," said Smith. "It's about adventure together."
"It's about mates — best friends," said Gillan.
"...Traveling the universe!" added Smith.
3. IT IS COMPLETELY AGAINST CANON.
For years on years, the Doctor was seen as asexual-or at least above those sorts of impulses. We have no idea if he's even CAPABLE of mating with a human (mostly because this is a children's show and it's never been necessary to have that discussed on screen.)
The Doctor is supposed to be above animal impulses. He didn't even kiss anyone until his 8th life-33 years after he debuted-and it caused a ruckus because he just didn't DO that sort of stuff.
To write an episode where he is the father of a human's child is crassly against canon and would tick off a LOT of Who fans. Since he knows the Whoniverse pretty well, Steven Moffat would never do it.
Even if it were possible, the Doctor has had children and grandchildren (thanks to the Loom) and wouldn't want a child of his own now (recall Jenny, who was made from a sample of the Doctor's DNA? He rejected her at the beginning because he'd had kids before and no longer wanted to suffer with the pain when they were ripped away from him.) He is a very dangerous and lethal being to be around-any child would be at risk around him and he knows it. He also is the only member of his people left alive-what kind of culture and identity can any kid have when their whole race has been obliterated from time and space before they were even born?
4. Even if the sterility was gone, even if the Doctor did have a child with Amy, the baby probably wouldn't be viable. Some assume that his DNA has three strands instead of two (probably slightly different from ours on two and then the third strand controlling distinctive aspects of the Time Lord race like regeneration, a binary vascular system, and (from Wikipedia) The Rassilon Imprimatur is the name given to the symbiotic nucleus of a Time Lord's cell structure which allows them to withstand the molecular stresses of time travel and grant them a link to their TARDIS time machines.
Either the child would be completely Time Lord (mother's DNA overwhelmed by the superior DNA) or it would be a confused mix of the two, unable to regulate body temperature and probably unable to regenerate even if it did survive.
So there you are. Feel free to debate. I certainly gave you enough to work with...
Ta,
Bec
5.5.10
On Another Bread-Making Kick
Here I go again. I'm planning on making bread, after doing it yesterday.
I mean, I love the whole "domestic goddess" label but this is just downright confusing.
Meanwhile, leg's still sore. I'm on ibuprofen so it hurts less than it did, but I'm still going to be careful. No reason to go crazy.
I'm off to make bread!
Ta,
Bec
PS: So the bread did its thing. Was supposed to be a rectangle but wound up being more of a lump on the cookie sheet. I roasted up some desensitized garlic cloves and mashed them in the food processor with butter, oregano, basil, and grated parmesan cheese, then spread the whole mess on the bread I had just finished baking to make garlic bread.
So it was fresh bread with fresh garlic-none of the usual cheap stuff.
You'd think after all those hours of effort that SOMEONE would have at least nibbled a small piece besides ME. No. Neither of my parents even touched the stuff. I should have gone with the frozen shit downstairs and saved myself the pain and effort of working so damned hard when my leg is out of whack...
Maybe someday, someone somewhere will appreciate the amount of work I put into something. For now I guess I'm just as unappreciated as the people in the back of a fast-food joint.
I mean, I love the whole "domestic goddess" label but this is just downright confusing.
Meanwhile, leg's still sore. I'm on ibuprofen so it hurts less than it did, but I'm still going to be careful. No reason to go crazy.
I'm off to make bread!
Ta,
Bec
PS: So the bread did its thing. Was supposed to be a rectangle but wound up being more of a lump on the cookie sheet. I roasted up some desensitized garlic cloves and mashed them in the food processor with butter, oregano, basil, and grated parmesan cheese, then spread the whole mess on the bread I had just finished baking to make garlic bread.
So it was fresh bread with fresh garlic-none of the usual cheap stuff.
You'd think after all those hours of effort that SOMEONE would have at least nibbled a small piece besides ME. No. Neither of my parents even touched the stuff. I should have gone with the frozen shit downstairs and saved myself the pain and effort of working so damned hard when my leg is out of whack...
Maybe someday, someone somewhere will appreciate the amount of work I put into something. For now I guess I'm just as unappreciated as the people in the back of a fast-food joint.
4.5.10
Body Parts Playing Hooky
My right knee is killing me and I don't know why.
There I am, minding my own damn business as usual (sitting DOWN. Not even dancing or tripping or falling or ANYTHING), and all of a sudden it begins to do whatever it wants to do.
I have a bag of veggies pinned between my knees trying to calm the thing down.
Once again, I have no clue why it's doing this-I supposedly got health insurance two days ago (so that could be a cause) but other than that I haven't done anything remotely stupid.
If I went in for this I would again, get no answers. My blood will show no evidence that anything's going wrong. My knee will LOOK normal. Blahdee Blahdee BLAH.
Hope this clears up soon. I'm sick of having one leg not working!
Ta,
Bec
There I am, minding my own damn business as usual (sitting DOWN. Not even dancing or tripping or falling or ANYTHING), and all of a sudden it begins to do whatever it wants to do.
I have a bag of veggies pinned between my knees trying to calm the thing down.
Once again, I have no clue why it's doing this-I supposedly got health insurance two days ago (so that could be a cause) but other than that I haven't done anything remotely stupid.
If I went in for this I would again, get no answers. My blood will show no evidence that anything's going wrong. My knee will LOOK normal. Blahdee Blahdee BLAH.
Hope this clears up soon. I'm sick of having one leg not working!
Ta,
Bec
2.5.10
Sunday Again
Dad and the neighbor are having a fight. The neighbor called the cops on our dogs the other night, but he riled them up in the first place so the cops told him to lay off.
Let's just say they're not getting along real well right now...
SPOILER LINE
Doctor Who Week 5!
Second half of the Weeping Angels stuff.
Crack: In the hull of the Byzantium-the Doctor closes this particular crack up but probably doesn't fix the root problem, which he seems to believe is Amy.
River stuff:
She was in a thing called or a place called Stormcage, which I rightly assume is a pretty secure prison. She was there because she killed a man (which she admits to) and she says he was a very good man. She refused to tell the Doctor the man's identity and Father Octavian said that the Doctor would more than likely stop working with her if he knew who she really was.
This tells me it's probably the Doctor, since this episode had the running theme of "time can be rewritten." I suspect it's going to all get rewritten at the end of this series when he lives instead of dying.
River says she'll see him next at Pandorica (so it's a place and not an event) and he says that Pandorica is a fairy tale. Betcha it isn't NOW...
Prisoner Zero and River could be connected. What's to say that that was Prisoner Zero's true form? What's to say that she isn't part of the whole shebang that started at Episode 1?
PS: Another boost to that theory-take a look at this picture someone posted from the episode:
(thanks to the people over at digitalspy for the photo)
Is that an eye or are we seeing things? Is River Prisoner Zero? Does she know Prisoner Zero? Is Pandorica a Stormcage jail for criminals and when it opens a hell of a lot of bad people come out and start causing problems?
We still don't know what she is (besides a doctor and an alleged murderer of "good men") but my two theories from both weeks are 1. Spy working for the Church 2. Researcher/Archaeologist for the Church.
I noted this also: The clerics followed her lead despite knowing at least some of the details on who she is, and that bishop was willing to follow her lead despite knowing she was a criminal trying to win her pardon from custody (she did the Weeping Angel trip because she was trying to win her freedom.)
Next week: Vampires in Venice (one of my favorite cities in the whole world!)
Ta,
Bec
Let's just say they're not getting along real well right now...
SPOILER LINE
Doctor Who Week 5!
Second half of the Weeping Angels stuff.
Crack: In the hull of the Byzantium-the Doctor closes this particular crack up but probably doesn't fix the root problem, which he seems to believe is Amy.
River stuff:
She was in a thing called or a place called Stormcage, which I rightly assume is a pretty secure prison. She was there because she killed a man (which she admits to) and she says he was a very good man. She refused to tell the Doctor the man's identity and Father Octavian said that the Doctor would more than likely stop working with her if he knew who she really was.
This tells me it's probably the Doctor, since this episode had the running theme of "time can be rewritten." I suspect it's going to all get rewritten at the end of this series when he lives instead of dying.
River says she'll see him next at Pandorica (so it's a place and not an event) and he says that Pandorica is a fairy tale. Betcha it isn't NOW...
Prisoner Zero and River could be connected. What's to say that that was Prisoner Zero's true form? What's to say that she isn't part of the whole shebang that started at Episode 1?
PS: Another boost to that theory-take a look at this picture someone posted from the episode:
(thanks to the people over at digitalspy for the photo)
Is that an eye or are we seeing things? Is River Prisoner Zero? Does she know Prisoner Zero? Is Pandorica a Stormcage jail for criminals and when it opens a hell of a lot of bad people come out and start causing problems?
We still don't know what she is (besides a doctor and an alleged murderer of "good men") but my two theories from both weeks are 1. Spy working for the Church 2. Researcher/Archaeologist for the Church.
I noted this also: The clerics followed her lead despite knowing at least some of the details on who she is, and that bishop was willing to follow her lead despite knowing she was a criminal trying to win her pardon from custody (she did the Weeping Angel trip because she was trying to win her freedom.)
Next week: Vampires in Venice (one of my favorite cities in the whole world!)
Ta,
Bec
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