Biting is excellent. It's like kissing only there's a winner.
Being home tends to be noticeably detrimental to my productivity, so I'll use that as an excuse for not having posted in a fair while. But I have been productive! Not that I really have anything much to show for it so far, beyond being chock full of odd and interesting facts concerning the female metabolic cycle, estrogen, and bulimia. Terribly useful conversation topics. But I'm writing again and it took me next to forever to get back into the swing of writing non academic things. Department, you are so so bad for writing. Now I can actually write things that I don't want to delete immediately and can stomach somewhat.
But it's nice to be home and not really have to do anything or have anything due. Except I keep getting restless and prowling around the house because I'm not really used to not doing anything. I think school may have ruined me a bit.
In other news, my grant proposal fell through. You know, that one from the end of April that I was actually kind of proud of mostly because I had so many references. The school notified us on the last possible day aka the day that the students had to leave, and I later found out from various sources that only five people got funding, and none of them were chemistry majors. Which irks me still to no end. Unfortunately, this happened after I had made plans to stay at school over the summer, so, well. There's some complications there, to say the least. And by some, I mean I have to sit down with my lab partner when I do go up to school and figure out what we can actually do beyond open Pandora's box, because dear God if you do exist, I do not want to think of every single analogue possible.
On a much happier note, Game of Thrones continues to progress very nicely though I've yet to see the last two episodes. Bones...I think Angela's line to Brennan the morning after is probably the best reaction I have. If I was a little more invested and not so irritated at retcons and how Brennan is now a wannabe Sheldon, I may have enjoyed it more. Maybe. It felt cramped.
And onto Doctor Who, because that takes up a little more space.
Curse of the Black Spot, where do I start with you, oh, I don't know. It was basically one of the weakest episodes so far, which is kind of funny since the man who wrote it also wrote Sherlock's The Blind Banker, which was also the weakest episode of the three. Only, he managed to do a bit worse with Doctor Who.The things that were wrong or bothered me-
Neil Gaiman's Doctor Who episode on the other hand, was absolutely fabulous and spectacular, on the other hand is on the list of Favorite Doctor Who Episodes ever. And possibly the best episode of this series so far. Maybe the best one of Eleven's episodes so far?
In three days, phoenix_tears89 comes home! And the day after, feu_de_circe . PARTY TIME.
But it's nice to be home and not really have to do anything or have anything due. Except I keep getting restless and prowling around the house because I'm not really used to not doing anything. I think school may have ruined me a bit.
In other news, my grant proposal fell through. You know, that one from the end of April that I was actually kind of proud of mostly because I had so many references. The school notified us on the last possible day aka the day that the students had to leave, and I later found out from various sources that only five people got funding, and none of them were chemistry majors. Which irks me still to no end. Unfortunately, this happened after I had made plans to stay at school over the summer, so, well. There's some complications there, to say the least. And by some, I mean I have to sit down with my lab partner when I do go up to school and figure out what we can actually do beyond open Pandora's box, because dear God if you do exist, I do not want to think of every single analogue possible.
On a much happier note, Game of Thrones continues to progress very nicely though I've yet to see the last two episodes. Bones...I think Angela's line to Brennan the morning after is probably the best reaction I have. If I was a little more invested and not so irritated at retcons and how Brennan is now a wannabe Sheldon, I may have enjoyed it more. Maybe. It felt cramped.
And onto Doctor Who, because that takes up a little more space.
Curse of the Black Spot, where do I start with you, oh, I don't know. It was basically one of the weakest episodes so far, which is kind of funny since the man who wrote it also wrote Sherlock's The Blind Banker, which was also the weakest episode of the three. Only, he managed to do a bit worse with Doctor Who.The things that were wrong or bothered me-
- The Doctor doesn't object to the usage of violence. Amy and Rory don't object to Toby, a very young child effectively sentencing another man to what they think to be death. Is there something wrong with this picture here?
- Rory drowns, and almost dies. Again. The Doctor seems unable to save him using simple CPR with his super advanced TARDIS. Huh?
- The Doctor leaves a space ship in the hands of immoral, murdering and plundering pirates, whose captain chose gold over the safety of his son, tried to kill him and Amy, has killed other men in the past, and effectively instructed his crew to keep Amy around for other reasons (I'm not even going to go into that. Just no). The Doctor, someone who supposedly is a man of peace and intellect and general goodness.
- The eyepatch lady. Not as a bad thing, but as a plot point that I feel like was thrown in absentmindedly and bothering me.
Neil Gaiman's Doctor Who episode on the other hand, was absolutely fabulous and spectacular, on the other hand is on the list of Favorite Doctor Who Episodes ever. And possibly the best episode of this series so far. Maybe the best one of Eleven's episodes so far?
- First off, throwbacks to continuity FTW! Ood and little telepathic mailboxes!
- Leaving the universe did bother me a little bit, since it means they could in theory, go see Rose and Ten II. Boo.
- Idris is delightfully mad and random and spastic <3 I really do wish she had a proper name beyond sexy, though, but I guess half the fun is the ambiguity of it. Also, can I just say how much I loved the idea of having the TARDIS actually be able to talk to the Doctor and interact with him? Especially how she considers the whole theft of the TARDIS- she stole him, not the other way around.
- Eleven's face when he found the cube cabinet, augh. He had such high hopes and then it got dashed away from him so quickly. Also, EMOTION :D
- Eleven's dance at the end just made me really happy for no reason whatsoever. Matt Smith knows how to twirl.
- Crimson. Eleven. Delight. Petrichor.
- Pull to open.
- We got to see more of the TARDIS! Albeit, it was only corridors and Ten's old control room, but it's nice to see that there are in fact other rooms and spaces inside the TARDIS, particularly old control rooms.
- The segments with Amy and Rory in the corridors freaked me out; that's been the first and only time where I actually just pushed pause for a moment. There's just something so strangely frightening about seeing Rory aged 2000 years and how he behaved and then the writing on the wall and the corpse. I won't lie, I half expected it to jump up and attack her.
- 700 years she's waited to just say hello :D I'm still unsure how to characterize their relationship, because I don't think it is as simple as saying yes, this is an OTP, because it isn't in the strictest sense of a pairing. I don't know. She's definitely the One True Companion, though.
- The only water in the forest is the river. That line has me baffled, well, because it's been an entire series since we heard that, and for that matter, we now have Amy Pond in addition to River.
- Basically, it was everything right and awesome.
In three days, phoenix_tears89 comes home! And the day after, feu_de_circe . PARTY TIME.