I have been enjoying Good Days lately -- a whole string of them, which is lovely, and un-looked for. The air is brimming with October and possibility, and when it isn't, I have been trying my best to keep myself busy.

Sunday: Jonathan's parents and younger sister came to dinner. This I think was a resounding success. The dinner itself went well, ( Read more... )

So, I've realised an interesting fact about myself. Most of you will probably not be surprised.

When I enter a new fandom, or am rediscovering an old one, I attempt to connect it to Eliot somehow. Um, yes. While I was waiting to get sleepy last night, I paged through my Complete Eliot and decided that Angel (so far the most likely candidate for ( Read more... )

I was going to write about how (as is generally the case) I'm a bit embarrassed about being emotional, and I'm inexpressibly grateful for all of you, and then I was going to throw in something witty and exciting, but I feel wretched and am not very up to dashing turns of phrase. I've been under the weather most of the week, and it's decided to be ( Read more... )

So, I sort of disappeared for a bit, then, didn't I? Well, I went carolling with the girls, and that sort of mutated into me spending the night at Victoria's, which was great fun. Carolling was also great fun, and it motivated me to sew the buttons back onto my tweed coat. Unfortunately it also required me to wear a skirt which is more or less ( Read more... )

So, I'm watching "The Shakespeare Code", because Doctor Who is the best therapy ever, and I've got to the bit where the Doctor is talking to Peter Streete in Bedlam, and he says, "Go into the past. One year ago. Let your mind go back -- back to when everything was fine and shiny."

SO NOT ONLY DO WE PRACTICALLY HAVE PROOF THAT THE DOCTOR HUNG OUT ( Read more... )

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Well, I have been trying to write a fairly gloomy entry about how I do not feel fantastic and circumstances not to mention hormones seem to be conspiring against me and huddling in dark corners with lots of mysterious maps and papers and whispering in code, but today has not been the sort of day that inspires great moaning from me. (Here I could ( Read more... )

So, have been functioning and not functioning in rather dizzying succession, and have been mostly scanning the internet in a sort of haze and not getting anything done. (Sounding familiar yet?) The good news is that I saw Serenity and it was fantastic (and I really really do need to say something more concrete about both Firefly and Serenity ( Read more... )

I keep opening a tab to post, and then I find I'm at a loss as to what to post about. I've been puttering along as usual, the thoughts in my head have been fairly benign, and I'm not feeling particularly bad or particularly good, all in all. I want to say something interesting and clever but there doesn't seem to be much of the interesting or ( Read more... )

Oh, I've had such a lovely day, and I'm so sleepy that the wrongest of words are all tumbling about arbitrarily in my head and out of my fingers, but I feel emotionally refreshed. I've spent lots of the day romping with several of my chums; we mucked about at the Goodwill and played a 1980s edition of Trivial Pursuit and gabbed and went to a ( Read more... )