*tries not to yell "THE CAKE IS A LIE"* *fails*

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Life's a trifle strange lately. On the one hand, I've survived the ficathon without having to commit seppuku to atone for my shame, and there's a truly excellent story being written to my prompts to boot; on the other hand, my mother's a bit down due to the death of one of her younger cousins (whom I have never met. My ignorance of my own damn

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Thank you so much! I won't be entirely satisfied that it's happened and I've made the grades I think I've made 'till they send me my diploma. Of course, they've sold my name to all the people who sell Europe trips and special frames and hit you up for alumni projects, so that's a pretty good sign that it did indeed go through, but I'd prefer to be relying on other sources of information. ;) If I'd had to take PE courses, though, I'd have been screwed. I never even mastered the jump rope. And let's not talk about badminton. Or, well, any other sportlike activity. Whatever my university's faults, at least they didn't make us take PE classes. I'm still not chipping in to build them a prettier sign. *rolls eyes* Shameless...

Donna's definitely got her moments; I like her, and there were a couple moments in "Planet of the Ood" that started to sell me; I'm just not entirely there yet. Maybe it was missing "Partners in Crime".

I completely agree about all those scenes they stole from Nine in 'Fires of Pompeii'... Though maybe it's a sign that they've realized those were the days they were doing something right? Nah, probably not. Ten trying "Come with me", especially... The boy doesn't realize when he's out of his depth? (Hang on, he's probably twice my age, isn't he? He makes it damn hard to tell...)

And Ryder-- he was barely even a character, the way they used him. It was all "Oh, here's the guy who made all this possible!" and into the brain he goes. They put too much of the plot on his shoulders to dismiss him with two minutes of screen time. And Ten pushing the button-- they should've at least kept up some pretense that it was about the Ood getting their freedom. It should've been "Oh, look at what we got to see happen!" instead of "Oh, look at what we did!" Especially as they actually did nothing. I really can't remember seeing anything be quite that... 'narcissistic' is the word that comes to mind. Maybe just 'blatantly narcissistic', in a distressingly colonial way. It just floored me. It's not right, not at all, for the series or the characters or just in outright moral terms; how did they miss that?

Every time I think they can't surprise me anymore. Every single time. I don't have the faintest idea how they manage it. It's astonishing, really. Some arcane, unholy sort of talent.

Yeah, I live a couple miles away from the nearest small town, and a good half-hour away from Tallahassee, which you could barely get away with walking/busing on its own... So, as I'm not likely to move away any time in the immediate future, and I'll be damned if I have my mother drive me to work (though if she dropped me off at a bus stop or something on her way somewhere, I guess my pride could live with that...), I've really got to get working on that. Been years since I got my learner's permit, so probably I ought to review all that too. Ah, well. Given the people I've seen on the road, it can't be all that hard. :) Unfortunately. And as to CE, that is oddly comforting, indeed... thank you! ^^