I hope everyone on my flist who does things for Christmas had a holiday that was less eventful than mine. Things went swimmingly with the family (or as swimmingly as family things can)--except that my cousin Michele brought a dog she was dog-sitting in addition to her own dog, and the addition of a betesticled male into the mix caused a fight to ( Read more... )

511, The Lodger. HIGHLY ENJOYABLE. I don't think it's too spoilery to say that I'm really glad that adorable tubby Craig got the girl at the end and NOT ONCE was it made a big deal of that "HURR HURR HE'S A CHUBSTER." It was never even suggested that his spare tyre (British!) would be The Thing What Made The Girl Not Like Him. Maybe next season. ( Read more... )

Freaking out pretty epically about what I want to do with my life. Ph.D.? Neuroscience? Biochemistry? Being a PI is definitely out--work at a corporation? For the government? As the editor of a journal? Or, get a Master's in Science Writing? Am I good enough? Am I a good enough writer to be a journalist? Could I write books ( Read more... )

So today was a pretty good Friday. I got a gift card for Borders (to be spent on GRE books, the original Stargate movie on DVD, or possibly both) in the family secret Santa, the shawl I knitted for Grandma as her secret Santa was a huge hit, and I got to spend several quality hours with my favorite three kids under age four (my cousin's kids, ages ( Read more... )

So I watched it last night, and then this morning I was like "OH. That's NIMUEH."

( haha. spoilers. )

First and foremost, I would like to blame technosage for this, because before I read her meta regarding Heroes and Supernatural, I never thought about this kind of thing.

( 'midnight' meta: race, gender, pseudoscience & cultural commentary )

( streaming meta; forest of the dead spoilers & future speculation )

So who else thinks the external view of the library looks eerily similar to Atlantis? And more to the point, where is that crossover?

( spoilers. *snerk* -- including casting spoilers for the rest of series 4. )

The time has come for me to leave the home of my childhood and embark on a new journey... so I am naturally goofing off on the internet instead of getting ready ( Read more... )

Running commentary and relatively meaty meta on Doctor Who 3.13, "Last of the Time Lords" ( under the cut... )