Long Day Out In The Rain and Notes on the Who Trailer (SPOILERS!)

I started out this morning early. Went to Parker and Otis and had a lovely sesame-seed bagel, and then I walked round and got presents for Sara's birthday next month (I have to ship them so I wanted to get them now.)

Then I went to the public library, met the head children's librarian. Sat in on storytime. I really liked the place and the people and I think I'll like volunteering there.

Then I walked the other way and went to the Indian restaurant I've been trying to get to for a month. The food was good; but I was disappointed to find out that the rogan josh isn't made till later. Damn. Now I'll have to go BACK.

THEN I went to Whole Foods and bought some stuff for stuff.

By the time I got back, I had literally been in the rain for HOURS. Right now I'm sitting here wrapped in a blanket in a sweatshirt trying to get the last of me warm again. I was wet clean through all my clothes and had to shuck them into the basket.

I also lost my cell phone somewhere here and I need to find it. Scuse me.

Oh, dippy me. I had them in my wet jeans that are hanging in the bathroom. At least I found it. Ha!

I'm going to sit here and snack on these things until someone interrupts me.

Ta,
Bec

PS: I have seen one of the newest trailers for Doctor Who, and boy oh boy are we in for it this year...





SPOILERS MAJOR!





There is rampant and justified speculation going on about a particular bit of the trailer, as everyone has seen the previous TARDIS desktop theme and a blinding light which people are hoping means that Ten may be returning. It's a possibility; Tennant's doctor was a much-loved figure and since he's given Eleven a year to establish himself, it wouldn't be TOO far-fetched to see him return.

If and when it happens, of course, I will be crying buckets.

The SECOND thing that I will hash on about is River's statement about the Doctor. She says something to the effect that he will rise as high as he ever has, and then he will fall.

What I get from this is, the Doctor will rise up. Something good will happen to him, something majorly, awesomely good that gives him an opportunity to stop running and maybe settle down with River and maybe even have a couple of Time Tots. It'll look like the end of his TARDIS days, the end of his travels. Maybe he's offered a deal with some form of the devil and even he can't see around it and takes the deal, not knowing what it will cost him in the end.

Either Amy or Rory won't agree with it and will advise that he do something else. The Doctor will probably send her and him home in anger.

Then something, a small thing probably, will screw up that balance and throw him back into the fray, where he loses something so vital and so precious that it will send him almost back to where Ten was when he lost Rose (I mean suicidal when I say that, and if you don't believe me go back and watch the first 7 episodes of Series 3 and watch him attempt to kill himself a dozen times. For such a tough guy, at least one of his hearts stopped TWICE in TWO episodes?) I would assume he gets so high and mighty and aloof that when the carpet's ripped out from under him, he's going to plunge into one hell of a depression. The only way for him to put his life back together will be River. Remember that Donna, not Martha, put Ten back at least close to where he had been in the earlier part of his life. River will do something similar.

Recall that our favorite Time Lord can't STOP running. If he does there isn't much point to this show, now is there? He HAS to run. He HAS to flee something in the dark that he's frightened of. If he stops, he will probably kill himself (as Matt Smith has stated before) because the darkness in his soul will catch up with him.

In other words, 'saint happening.

Also:

Amy shoots someone even though she clearly doesn't want to and doesn't see it coming. She's reacting. The Doctor tried to stop her but couldn't get there fast enough.

River and the Doctor kiss (duh.)

The Evil Voice that says they've killed hundreds of Time Lords is, I would assume, the same voice that we heard at the end of last year. I've narrowed it down to Omega, Davros, or the Valeyard.

Davros makes the most sense; he HAS killed hundreds of Time Lords. But Davros also already knows what happened in the Time War, so why would he claim it? Wouldn't he do better to taunt the Doctor with how many beings HE managed to off?

Omega is a good choice; we're not that familiar with him as he's very old-school and he'd be a great enemy for future years. But did Omega kill hundreds of his own people? It's a possibility. Remember that he was angry at the Time Lords for mistreating him and he might want to retaliate against them.

The Valeyard is an interesting choice, but why he wouldn't claim that he'd killed all the Time Lords is a mystery. If he's the Doctor in evil form, shouldn't he know EVERYTHING and more of the Doctor's history (and future as well?)

Rassilon and the Master haven't killed hundreds of Time Lords so I ruled them both out here, never mind the fact that we saw both of them Christmas before last.

Add to all of this that Neil Gaiman, may he live forever, has written an episode of Who this year (my little geek heart goes major Daleks bang bang TARDIS BOOOOOOOM here) and is rumored to have brought back somebody from War Games. That would be the end of Two's era.

Yeah.

Someone we haven't seen for, oh, 42 YEARS?

I am having a happy dance.

I vote for Time Lord! Can't be the War Chief. Isn't he the Master? Didn't I just give a very decent explanation as to WHY it can't be the Master?

This all makes sense unless Moffat whips out a brand new evil that we've never seen before, and in which case you can throw all the stuff I just said about the bad guys OUT the window.

New Glasses On My Face

The mad conversation seems to have slowed down (or we just don't have enough time to talk to each other.)

I have my new glasses. It's going to take a while for me to adjust to what I look like in the mirror. I had a bit of trouble earlier going down a flight of stairs, as my vision wasn't quite settled yet and the steps kept moving away from where my feet were. Little disorienting.

My friend from downstairs is making me watch Sherlock Holmes. I've managed to avoid it up to this point in my life and I really ain't impressed yet. Suppose I still have to watch the Cumberbatch version to see if I really hate Holmes that much.

Feeling smothered again. Time to run away and do stuff on my own again tomorrow.

Ta,
Bec

Scratched Lenses and the Conversation That Never Seems to End

So I went to the eye doctor. My eyes haven't changed much but he thinks I'm trying to see around a pile of scratches on my lenses and that's why I've been having headaches. My eyes are already battling to work together; when you toss in scratches it makes it worse.

I should have the new ones by Wednesday or so. Yay!

Meanwhile, this is going on between my two sisters and I on Facebook...I really wouldn't ask if I were you.

Sara Koshak
People who live in straw houses shouldn't throw goats.
Saturday at 4:13pm

Anna Koshak people who live in glass houses shouldn't grow trees near the house.
Saturday at 5:01pm

Bec Le Koshak People who live in stone houses shouldn't carry sledgehammers.
Saturday at 7:41pm

Anna Koshak People who live underground shouldn't carry nitroglycerin.
Saturday at 8:03pm

Sara Koshak Peole who live in wood houses shouldn't play w/ flame throwers
Saturday at 9:51pm

Bec Le Koshak People who live in hot-air balloons shouldn't shoot arrows.
Saturday at 10:21pm

Anna Koshak people who live near a gas station shouldn't smoke.
Saturday at 10:39pm

Bec Le Koshak People who live in caves shouldn't throw bears.
Yesterday at 9:29am

Anna Koshak People who live in Alaska shouldn't throw polar bears.
Yesterday at 10:56am

Bec Le Koshak People who live on spaceships shouldn't open the windows.
Yesterday at 10:57am

Anna Koshak People who live in dorms shouldn't throw roommates.
Yesterday at 10:59am

Bec Le Koshak People who live in the clouds should watch it with the lightning bolts.
Yesterday at 11:08am

Anna Koshak People who live on boats shouldn't play with cannonballs.
Yesterday at 11:26am

Bec Le Koshak People living in a raft shouldn't tempt the sharks.
Yesterday at 3:07pm

Anna Koshak People with a wax museum shouldn't light candles.
23 hours ago

Bec Le Koshak People who live in a tree shouldn't keep pet termites.
21 hours ago

Anna Koshak People who live underground shouldn't keep ants.
21 hours ago

Bec Le Koshak People who live in Area 51 shouldn't throw aliens.
21 hours ago

Anna Koshak People who live in the bermuda triangle shouldnt throw planes
21 hours ago

Bec Le Koshak People who live in the ocean shouldn't eat sushi.
21 hours ago

Anna Koshak People who live on mountains shouldn't throw boulders
20 hours ago

Bec Le Koshak People who live in stables shouldn't throw shit. Or Jesus. Or sheep.
20 hours ago

Anna Koshak People who live on a cliff shouldn't throw anything. Just in case.
19 hours ago

Bec Le Koshak People who live on a glacier shouldn't use blowtorches.
18 hours ago

Anna Koshak People who live near a volcano shouldn't make ice sculptures.
16 hours ago

Bec Le Koshak People who live in castles shouldn't throw swords.
9 hours ago

Anna Koshak People who live in Brussels shouldn't throw sprouts.
8 hours ago

Bec Le Koshak People who live in Turkey shouldn't throw stuffing.
7 hours ago

Sara Koshak people who live in libya shouldn't throw pictures of tomahawk
5 hours ago

Bec Le Koshak People who live in Tomahawk shouldn't throw Libyas.
3 hours ago

Anna Koshak People who live in Tomahawk shouldn't throw bridges.
3 hours ago

Bec Le Koshak People who live in Tomahawk shouldn't throw their watches at the wall.
2 hours ago

Anna Koshak People who live in tomahawk shouldn't drink and drive.
2 hours ago

Bec Le Koshak People who live in Tomahawk really should live elsewhere.
15 minutes ago

So far this chain of madness shows no sign of stopping. Some of these are brilliant but I wonder how much longer this thing can be kept up. Who knows with us three?

I should get some work done and avoid the Facebook page for awhile.

Ta,
Bec

Bill Gets A New House

I got Bill the ficus a new pot today, as I could see even before I transferred him to a pot twice as big as the one he came home in that his roots were having trouble expanding out because there was no room. When I pulled him out of his original plastic pot, it was worse than I feared. You could hardly see the dirt for the roots. I was right; it was time for a bigger pot.

He now has lots of space to grow and put down his roots. I just hope I don't need to transfer him again or he's going to be in a pot so big I won't be able to move him in December when I go home.

See, Bill is sort of my pet, as having a furry friend in my place would mean 200 dollars more just to KEEP it and I'd probably have to move somewhere else. I seem to have this nurturing instinct that needs to take care of something, and since I can't afford a pet, let alone keep one not knowing where I'll be in a year, Bill is all I have.

My eyes still hurt quite a bit. I'll be getting THAT problem resolved tomorrow morning.

I've rewatched Doctor Who's last series up to Episode 6, so make sure to go find the Doctor Who notes from last week because they have changed a little bit in the Episode 4 and 5 section.

Ta,
Bec

Great. Now I Need New Glasses.

My eyes have been kind of painful for about a week. Nothing I couldn't handle; I thought it was because I'd been wearing sunglasses too much and it was making my eyes sensitive to light.

So I quit wearing the sunglasses, figuring it would help. And then I go to my friend's church this morning, where they have a projector screen. We're sitting in the back...and lo and behold, guess who's squinting to see the screen and getting a headache from the effort?

The headache means my eyes are working too hard to see, which means my glasses are no longer working as well as they should be, which means I probably need new lenses and fast...because the headache and eye strain will only get worse the longer I let this go.

And since my glasses are coming up on their fourth year of life in July, most likely I should suck it up and get new frames, too. The frames on glasses aren't meant to last more than about 5 years if you wear them all the time, although my first pair held out for 6 years (until they fell off my face onto the floor, breaking in two. Turns out they had rusted clean through the section that holds the eye frames together.)

Unfortunately it's the weekend and so I have to wait till 8 AM on Monday to start getting this fixed. Means I have to spend the rest of today and tomorrow with a headache or taking pills to combat a headache. Fun, fun.

I'm pretty good at knowing the difference between eye strain and a standard stress headache, and with this one my eyes feel like they're pulling in opposite directions (which most likely means that they are) and like I'm fighting to see through someone else's prescription (if you've ever tried on someone's glasses and felt your eyes struggling to cope, imagine doing it all day long with your own. Now you get it.)

I'll keep the old pair, of course. The frames are still good and can be kept for parts (mostly those tiny screws that go in the temple bar) or in case my new frames are damaged, I can still put the new lenses into the old frames and keep living.

That's about all that's going on in my world. I hate being reminded that I have to wait for anything, and that goes double when my eyes are killing me.

Ta,
Bec

9 Hours

Well, I have nearly completed my first 9 hour stint at the library. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be; it DID get broken up by a nice rest in the middle (and some creativity with Thai noodles and a lack of a fork; I resorted to using a knife until the Dean handed me a spoon.)

I got plenty done: I could almost learn to love the long hours if I didn't have class practically right on top of this afterward.

And the vending machine is busted up here so I'll have to find another place to get my dinner, because I ate the dinner earlier and so I must call that lunch.

Got my paper done for tonight.

I have watched some Who episodes and we'll probably get in another tonight. Truth is, I analyzed those episodes so well the first time around that there's literally nothing left for me to say. Believe you me, I am trying to find something.

And Spritey back home got stuck in the snow yesterday morning, while I was down here and had lovely 80 degree weather. I won't be laughing in three months when it's 90, but for now I am. Ha ha ha.

Ta,
Bec

Reviewing Last Year's Who Notes

I will NOT put spoiler lines on this; if you haven't seen it by now I pity you but I am gonna hold nothing back.

These are updated notes with everything I know. If you have any information to add, let me know and I'll toss it in. I took out the references to the cracks except for in Episode 11 (where I list them all at once) because they have been repaired.

I am gonna go back and watch the episodes again one by one and I'll add stuff as I go, so make sure to check back and see if more has been added as the weeks go on.

Episode 1: Eleventh Hour

Starting 14 years ago would mean this episode starts in 1996, spends a lot of time in 2008, and ends in 2010.

Questions:

Prisoner Zero's species is never really determined. The Atraxi seem a lot like the Judoon in the way they handle escapees (who cares if everyone ELSE dies as long as the case is closed?) I doubt we've seen what the real Atraxi look like; I think they probably look very different and that was just their (bad pun coming here) “eye in the sky.”

Duck pond with no ducks?

The universe is cracked. Pandorica will open. Silence will fall. The Doctor certainly doesn't seem to know-or if he has he's forgotten.

We can neatly dismiss the first two statements as they have already occurred. The Universe has been cracked and put back together (but may be cracked again-keep reading.) The Pandorica has opened (and been blown up.) But silence, apparently, has yet to fall. In the promos for series 6, it's been titled as “The Silence.” Whether that's a state of being, a species, or some sort of fuzzout signal interference, I don't know.

Prisoner Zero also taunts the Doctor on his lack of knowledge about who opened the cracks in the first place. At this point I would assume it's either him or River, and their past selves then fix the problem.

How does the TARDIS key get into the Doctor's pocket?

One thing I did NOT spot and that someone else did is Rory's ID. Rory is Amy's boyfriend in 2008 and he's her fiance in 2010. They've grown up together-she's known him all her life in Leadworth.

BUT something is NOT right with Rory's nurse ID, issued from the hospital.

(Ta to alienpanda for the sharp eyes)

NOTE THE DATE. 1990? We assume Rory is standing there 18 years later (in either 2007 or 2008.) Something is NOT right here. It's perfectly obvious to me (having had it pointed out) that there's more to Rory than meets the eye. And the Doctor knows more than he's letting on, since we only saw this ID in his mind's eye.

The head writer is a stickler for details-on the making of, the crew were placing postcards with the name of the town on them in card racks-so this isn't a mistake or a goof. The fact that the director focused on it for a long while in the Doctor's mind is another clue that this is terribly important.

Recall from watching this Doctor all 14 episodes so far that sometimes he sees things and misses it, and comes back around to it later and puts the pieces together. This might be one of those times.

Another thing that seems to bother some of the Who fans is the high amount of coma patients in the small town of Leadworth. They don't even have an airport-so why do they have at least 6 coma patients (may be more in the next room over that we couldn't see) in a HOSPITAL no less? Wouldn't they have all been moved to a long-term care facility? I don't know how many coma patients an average town should have but 6 seems a tad high.

Episode 2: Beast Below

How'd the Queen and her entourage know the Doctor was coming?

I thought Magpie got eaten by the Wire, so why is his business still around in the year 3295?

Episode 3: Victory of the Daleks

How did Amy not know about the Daleks?

The Doctor seemed very pissed at the Daleks here, and it seemed a little out of place. Certainly previous Doctors have treated them with distaste and loathing, but his wooden malleting of the Dalek in front of him was almost an overreaction. I wonder if he took a spin out in space before he went to see Amy the third time around in the first episode and ran into them, thereby setting him up to be angry here.

Or maybe I'm reading too much into it.

Episodes 4 and 5: Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
River acts very much like a first-season Jack here (reckless, ruthless, a lot flirty) which makes me think she might be from the 51st century herself (could even be related to Jack.) Remember, we assume her name is River and we assume she's from the 51st century (a good bet, seeing as she has knowledge of future tech like Jack does.)

Who wrote the diary? Was it the creator of the Angels? Did his dreams get away from him and become the infinite evil that is a Weeping Angel? Will we ever meet the poor sucker that wrote the book?

There is probably a connection to Prisoner Zero here, boosted by this picture:



(thanks to the people over at digitalspy for the photo)

Is that an Atraxi looking over River's shoulder, watching her? Does River know Prisoner Zero? Were they in the Stormcage together? Did River help them escape?

We find out here that:

River can fly the TARDIS. She states here that she didn't learn from the Doctor, but later on in Episode 12 she will state that she did. She might not be lying either way; it's possible for a time traveler to have both events occur. So she might have not learned from him in one timeline but learned from him in another. It certainly would explain how she flies it so neatly compared to the way he does it, but the question remains: If she didn't learn it from him, WHO'D SHE LEARN IT FROM?

River knows Old High Gallifreyan. She has yet to say who she learned that from.

She has pictures of all his faces (wonder if she got the book from his human episodes or whether she went to UNIT or whether she nagged Jack for them?)

They are married but River states that it's more complicated than that. I assume Timelord marriages are deep and complex things that involve a linking of minds. It also would mean that she would know his real name, the one we don't know. Human marriage would seem very shallow by comparison.

She would have to be one special human for him to do the marriage thing with her. A human-Timelord marriage would most likely be a difficult thing for both as it's cross-species, and probably would not have existed if the Timelords were still around (unless we're sticking to the stupid theory that his mum or dad was human, which I don't.)

She killed someone (a good man, the best man she'd ever known) and was put into Stormcage for it. If the Doctor knew who she'd killed, he would most likely stop working with her at this point in his timeline. He hasn't experienced the incidents yet and when the events occur WILL understand what has happened and therefore accept whatever she does as all right.

What remains to be seen is who she killed and why. It's not probably the Doctor (too obvious) and she cares nothing for Rory at all (if she'd killed him she might have reacted a little bit more than she seems to have so far.)

The interesting thing about this is that those Church guys know she's a murderer. All of them do. Yet they follow her lead into the catacombs, no question. They seem to have no problem working with her and trusting her, despite knowing that she has done serious wrong.

I also wonder to myself WHY they let River keep her gun and hallucinogenic lipstick even when she was KNOWN to be a murderer? I can see her wearing the lipstick in, but she couldn't have gotten in a gun without them searching her.

My theories after these episodes were either that River was a spy for the Church or a researcher/archaeologist for the Church. I surmised that at some point in her life, she may have met and hung out with a Timelord who was allies with the Doctor at one point or another. My most likely theory was that she had met Romana, as she acts a hell of a lot like her sometimes.

I do NOT believe she is Time Lord in any portion (as he would have figured that out already) and I don't believe she's fobwatched because she'd have the ditzy thing going on because she couldn't remember who she really was (and River's not ditzy.)

It's also possible that she could have hooked up with Omega and may be working under his orders to get under the Doctor's skin. More on that when we arrive at Episodes 12 and 13.

Episode 6: Vampires in Venice

"In memory of the children lost to the silence..."

You could travel to other worlds through the cracks but they would snap shut behind you. Might be something to consider, since it hasn't happened to the Doctor yet and it probably will.

Rory acts oddly when he gets into the TARDIS. He says he's done research and seems to know quite a bit, but the blank stare throws me a little.

At the end of this episode, 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. It might be the voice we hear at the end of the series.

Episode 7: Amy's Choice

Wonder if the aliens popping out of the old people were Atraxi relations, because they certainly looked familiar (indeed, if that's what the Atraxi look like.) 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.

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 with Ten 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.

Episodes 8 and 9: Hungry Earth/Cold Blood

The Doctor calls for silence (significant?)

Clennparii (sp?) 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. This might be important as the Doctor might have to use this as an out at some point along the line.

We're gonna skip over Episode 10: Vincent and the Doctor because while it was a great episode, there wasn't much that hasn't been explained about it.

Episode 11: The Lodger

This episode still bugs me, mostly because the whole plot rests on a TARDIS sitting UPSTAIRS sucking people into itself, trying to find a pilot and causing time loops every time it does. The Doctor's fairly nonchalant reaction was kind of wrong. It was a TARDIS, dammit. He should have been wondering who parked the thing THERE and WHY. Not just anyone could have parked it there (River? Omega?) He couldn't POSSIBLY have known it was up there, otherwise he would have just sent Sophie and Craig up there together and had the two of them fix it. He wouldn't let a bunch of innocents die just to satisfy his curiosity.

Since the guy who played Craig is coming back for another episode, it's a good bet that we're going to catch up with him and Sophie in Thailand with the monkeys and we might get a glimpse of who parked that damn TARDIS on the roof of Craig's old flat.

Cracks in the year 1580, 1941, 1996, two in 2010, 2020, 3295, and the 51st century.

Episodes 12 and 13: Pandorica Opens/Big Bang

The ship in space with everything headed towards it looked a lot like the one that just got vaporized last episode. Possibly the same one before it disappeared?

The Doctor mentions the Trickster and the Warrior. Tricksters have shown up a few times recently-there was the beetle on Donna's back in Series 4 and the whitefaced thing that tried to kill off Sarah Jane in her show. The Warrior could be the War Chief or Omega (if indeed it is a Time Lord we're facing here-and how could we not be with all these damn time cracks?)

Someone claims the loudspeakers in the ship and causes CRACKS across the SCREEN and says SILENCE WILL FALL and bloody hell, that sounds like Davros if I'm not mistaken.

Well, that was my first impression, and of course we have no earthly idea who the being behind the voice is, but here's a few theories...

Clearly it's a man, clearly an older man. Since Davros usually liked to show up and be in the middle of the riot he was causing and since we saw him at the end of Donna's time in the TARDIS I don't believe it's him. I would be willing to bet it's not Rassilon, because why on Earth wouldn't Moffat use Tim Dalton again (and so we would immediately recognize the voice.) Besides the fact that Rassilon just showed up at the end of Ten's life. So not him.

So if it's not Davros, and it's not Rassilon, who is it? I wouldn't put it past Moffat to pull up a character from ages ago (and when I say ages I mean decades and Doctors ago) so Omega and the War Chief are currently sitting at the top of my short list of whose voice that was.

It's got to be someone who knows the Doctor inside and out, who can trick him into a spot where he would be cornered, where his enemies would be fooled into thinking it was a good idea to lock him up in a box. It has to be someone in control of time, who knows everything about it, who could manipulate it and bend it and have it at his will. And so it has to be a Time Lord, someone who slipped through the timelock and is causing problems for the Doctor.

These are important male villain Time Lords from the past who could have built the Pandorica:

* The Meddling Monk (supposedly helped build Stonehenge but totally stupid Time Lord as well...)
* The Master (unlikely because we just saw him last series as villain)
Also has been wiped off my list because John Simm as of this moment is still playing the Master (as he still holds the role according to Steven Moffat,) and that wasn't his voice we heard. Hence, the Master is out of the question.

* Omega (most likely Time Lord on this list)
* Rassilon (unlikely as we saw him last series as villain)
* Morbius (suffered severe brain damage last time he was around and had no real body to speak of)
* The War Chief (hasn't shown up since Two was around and may have turned into the Master)
* The Valeyard (Future incarnation of the Doctor himself causing problems?)

Annnnnnd: The Doctor himself in a different incarnation, not the Valeyard but knowing that at this point he needs to lock himself in a box and cause changes in the Universe. Unlikely, but hey-this is the Happy Theory Land, where all theories are allowed to frolic.

The voice is either Omega (maybe), the War Chief (kinda unlikely) or Davros (probably not, but I had to put what a lot of people are thinking.) I don't think Davros is that smart, honestly, and I don't think he knows THAT much about time and space (he's a geneticist, remember) to be able to set up a scenario/trap/prison for his greatest enemy and all that. Even with the Daleks' (no idea how to punctuate that at ALL) help (and since they hated him last time around they're not on his side or willing to work with him, even if they are reborn I would assume they remember what happened before) he probably wouldn't be able to set up the intricate series of events that have led us to this point.

I still say we're dealing with someone majorly in control of Time and Space and who knows the Doctor inside out and backwards. Someone who can make a box completely inescapable for the universe's brainiest and sneakiest and slipperiest being. He's the Doctor, for heaven's sake. He's escaped every single situation they've ever stuck him in-locks usually can't stop him or slow him down for more than a couple of minutes. He needed Rory to get him out and put Amy in, meaning if Rory had refused the Doctor couldn't have managed to get out by himself.

When River examined the Pandorica, she saw a whole HEAP of locks and blocks and timeholds...everything whoever made it could throw at him to stop him getting out anytime soon. He couldn't get out on his own on this one-who do you think could make a box like this?

I think we're soon to find out who built the Pandorica to house the Doctor...and they might not be very nice creatures.

A theory is like a good salad. There are a lot of bits, I like them tossed with a nice tasty dressing, and it should be shared with others.

Feel free to toss me a comment and mention your own theories.

Ta,
Bec

St. Patrick's Day Means Paper Writing

Trying to finish a paper. I'm not sure what length it's supposed to be or even what it's supposed to be on, so I really hope I'm doing everything correctly. I was writing bits for it on the bus to school this morning, with my ID card as a surface to write on (not easy. I had to keep moving the card under the paper.)

I'm about half-done, I hope. It looks pretty good at this point and my level of panic has dropped considerably in the last half-hour. I'll have to e-mail it to myself as I also forgot my jump drive at home this morning.

I'm kind of disappointed that I'll be working and then going to class tonight, so I won't get to have any St. Patty's Day celebrations thanks to my crazy schedule. Maybe next year.

Gotta go give this paper a bit more polish and work on it later when I know what the hell I'm doing.

Ta,
Bec

Schedules and Thumb Staples

Almost done scheduling my last classes. I'm tossing in an independent study course that I hope I'll be able to get it all worked out by May. My plan is to work at the county library this summer during June and August when I don't have classes. I'd take two classes on campus otherwise and then three in the fall, finishing my education in the second week of December.

That's the plan at the moment. Now we'll see if I can pull it off.

I did something stupid today. Got into work this morning, was stapling the newspapers like I was supposed to and realized I didn't staple in the other part of the newspaper. I went to staple it in and jammed the staple, so I worked on it until it popped out. Then I had to put another line of staples into the stapler. Then when I went to test its stapling capability...my thumb got in the way.

Lucky for me, only one end sank in to the hilt but it didn't curl under, so I just yanked it right back out again. Clean and straight as a pin. If the thing had curled under I probably would have had to go to Student Health and have the stupid thing removed.

I am very much fine. I bled for a bit and put a bandage on for an hour or two until it sealed up. Doesn't even hurt now. Not much of a wound. I can barely remember which thumb it was.

So not much damage done, but I FELT stupid, which is why I mentioned it.

I have a paper to write now, so ta,
Bec

Tuesday

Registration for summer and fall opened yesterday. I was all ready to go; had my classes listed and everything...

I needed a registration PIN.

I got that last night, and I was all ready to go again. I had my classes listed and everything planned out...

AND there's a HOLD on my account. When I asked why, it told me my IMMUNIZATIONS are not up to date.

Now, when I was in there last MONTH, I turned around at the desk after turning my forms in and said, "Is there anything ELSE you need?"

"No."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, we have everything we need from you."

Now today, it seems, the records have vanished off the face of the Earth. They're saying they don't have them.

Let me note: This is the third time in two weeks that someone has "lost" some papers of mine that were important.

I turned those in. I made them make a copy. I watched a copy being MADE in front of me.

So you can see why my frustration with this whole business is at an all-time high.

I am sitting here with the two copies on my LAP as we speak, in case I need to...

Ah, they just called. Resolved.

If any more papers go missing, someone's going to get their head bitten off. It's like a damned conspiracy.

Ta,
Bec

PS: Something of note happened today, and I'm going to have to run a test and see if it was a fluke. I stood on my feet for a half-hour today and didn't notice it.

You may scoff, but every time I have stood for longer than a few minutes in the last two years, my back has ached like hell. If I stand long enough, my back hurts for days.

So today was terribly significant when I turned to my friend and remarked that we had been standing around for a half-hour and I didn't hurt yet.

Maybe the reflexologist back at Harlaxton was right. Maybe my kidneys were blocked. Maybe this little detox unblocked them and I'm suddenly having no back pain thanks to things being set right again.

I'll never be cured of fibro. That I'm sure of. But it doesn't mean I'm not going to fight it every stinking step of the way.

Possibly today was just a good day. It might be that I stand for a long period tomorrow and find out that my back hurts just as much as it always has. But I'm hoping a little bit that it won't.

Detox Day 3

Doing well. Expecting trouble apparently is keeping it away.

Meanwhile, I have researched (half-hour on Google Images IS research) a second tattoo.

Oh, listen to Mom screaming up in Wisconsin. Hush, you.

I have one, for those who don't know it, on my left wrist. It's my middle name written the way I usually write it, with the L and E linked. It DOES tell me left from right and it's nice and small. I got it when I was on the cusp of 21 and I love it very much.

I said I'd wait 5 years to get the next one, seeing as I waited 5 years for the first. That means I have one year, approximately, to get the second. Five years is plenty of consideration time.

So my time is running out (cue Muse here) and I am starting to kind of sort of figure out what I want to get.

There are many, many options, but I have rules. Anything fluffy is no. That includes butterflies, fairies, and poofy little animals. No pop culture references, including the Stargate point of origin and Jack Sparrow's bird. No names besides mine (and I've already got one of those) and no humongous pieces that I have to cover with a parka to hide.

I decided on my right ankle a long time ago, which gives me a good sense of how big this thing is going to be (in other words, bigger than the last one but tiny compared to SOME of the others I've seen.)

I looked at tigers, as that's my Chinese zodiac symbol. The problem is that every tiger piece I've seen is HUGE and has tons of color in it. Color is a problem-it costs more, it fades and will eventually have to be redone, and you have to come back to have your tat filled in with it. Hence why I got the black only the first time.

The Greek zodiac one is a bull. Enough said.

I've narrowed it down to dragons and phoenixes (griffins are just too damn ugly.) The "which mythical creature are you?" quiz was no help (labeled me a unicorn. Seriously?) and the "which tattoo are you?" quiz was worse (BUTTERFLY?)

I have 17 images I have to find some fault with and rule out. This may take awhile.

Okay, a few minutes later, I have it narrowed down to 10 and there are two favorites as frontrunners at the moment. I'll put their pictures here for your consideration:


Tattoo by Frau Kruspe.

I like the delicate lines of the phoenix in this one, although I think if I designed my own tattoo based on this that funny swan face would probably change to a sharper, more determined beak pointing UP.

I want a more determined phoenix if I'm going to get it. If this is going to represent ME, I need it to look pretty fierce.


Tattoo by Sumad Artson.

I just love the sharp and pointy lines of this particular dragon. He's simple and won't require a lot of effort from the artist, and he can be shrank down to a reasonable size to be put where I want him. The problem with this one is: Does he fit my personality well enough to be inked under my skin?

I have lots of time to decide but would love some feedback.

Ta,
Bec

Detox Day 2

Still on detox. It's been really good so far, which makes me think that one of these days something will go wrong.

Meanwhile, despite being on detox, I am eating a hell of a lot of junk food. I'll stick to better stuff tomorrow.

I've taken a really nice rest this weekend and I hope I get another small one next weekend, or I'll be too tired to manage anything. Next week is going to be a nightmare and I can feel it coming already.

I'm gonna crash after this show's over, so

Ta,
Bec

Detox

I have started a full-on detox. I'm sick of having IBS and I'm sick of being lactose intolerant and I hope this makes me feel better.

I just took the first dose; I have to wait about a half hour for the next one. Then I take another tonight.

We'll see if this works. So far I don't really feel anything.

In other, more important news, Japan seems to have been bashed pretty good by first the ground moving and then the ocean. I'm watching the news and it's pretty damn awful.

I don't say I will pray for people; most people are hypocritical and don't bother to do it anyway. But I will hope that things can get better.

Ta,
Bec

No Bipartisan Participation AT ALL in Wisconsin.

The Republicans got fed up with the whole bipartisan democratic negotiating thing and just voted without the Democrats. What a low and disgusting thing to do, Walker and GOP. You should be fired from your jobs right now. You refused to get along, you refused to compromise, you refused to bend even a little and you passed your damn union bill anyway. Shame on you.

One of my friends did tell me it isn't legally binding but that really doesn't matter here. It's the fact that Walker is a slimy git who keeps overstepping his boundaries and trying to push through his agenda regardless of the laws he's breaking in the process. Wisconsin is a state based on unions. A lot of towns are dependent on the paper mills, WHICH are run by unions. If you take away the rights of those unions you are facing a major riot, thanks to the workers going on strike. Same goes for manufacturing. Walker is trying to shut down the whole damn state. If the state manufacturers go on strike, he will have done nothing but send the Wisconsin economy into freefall, for as long as the holdout lasts. No paper products. No teachers. No lumber being cut and sold. EVERY job will be affected, from grocery stores to chemists.

So I say to Scott Walker and his Republicans: Do you REALLY want to watch the entire state go under just because you HAVE to have your way?

And I really hope the voters impeach your asses for the stunt you just pulled.

Ta,
Bec

Bill

I was feeling smothered by my friend downstairs constant attentions and today was my day off, so I took off on my own this morning. I do not like being caged for long.

I went to a local Walmart to cash some checks and to shop around a bit. Didn't buy much. Sunglasses (they had to fit over my glasses or what was the point?) deodorant (no matter how much Mom tried she never got me the kind I wanted. Independence has its advantages.)

After I got those things, I decided to have a look at the plants. I've been wanting a plant to hang out with me (and talk to, but don't tell anyone) so I walked over there. There were many cute little plants I wanted, but some of them were kind of high-maintenance and I wanted something I couldn't kill easily.

Then I spotted a little plant with green and white leaves.



He was medium-level maintenance and honestly, look how CUTE he is.

His name, within about three seconds, was Bill. Don't ask why. If I'd done it right he would have been Ben, as he's a Ficus benjamina. But in my mind, Bill fit him better.

He's sitting here hanging out on the floor by the couch. The place just feels warmer and more like home with him here.

I had one other thing I wanted to do today but because I had to take Bill home, I decided to postpone my plans. Not the right day for them anyway.

I have things to do, so

Ta,
Bec

Rain's Coming, But Who Cares?

It's going to rain today, but I really want to walk down to Whole Foods and get some salsa for all the chips I've got lying about. I don't care about a little rain. It's just water. Some people are stuck in the Dark Ages and think that getting rained on will kill you or melt you or turn you into mush. I don't hold with such nonsense.

I would go NOW, except that I'm watching this movie called "Cavalcade" from 1933. It's interesting and I kind of want to finish it. Eh. I'll go to the store soon.

I've also got homework to finish today. Busy, busy. Spring Break week my tush. I still have to work and I still have to do homework.

Ta,
Bec