Because you are also a tortoise
I'm picking up my very messy house this morning and starting to learn to live around boxes, which will only increase as we get closer to Relocation Day. I'm watching Rose from Doctor Who, which is one of my favorite episodes and makes me stop whatever I'm doing to watch, no matter how many dozens of times I've seen it. Not always the most productive way to clean, since you can imagine me in front of the tv with the duster in one hand and the glass cleaner in the other, shouting, "Anti-plastic!"
Yesterday, I started watching season 10 of Stargate, and I really think I am in love with Vala. I mean, who isn't, right? But Vala studying for her psych evaluation was so wonderful because of her earnestness and confidence and our anticipation of all the ways her cunning plan isn't going to work. I love Vala because she's an earnest liar - she lies because she's good at it, sometimes, and because it gets her what she wants, and because it's easier. She believes in herself, in her ability to pass the psych exam by getting the right answers - You see a tortoise on it's back, but you don't stop to help it. Why? - and to anticipate what the examiner wants to hear in the inkblot tests. Honestly, I nearly fell off the exercise bike when she said "kindness" in response to an inkblot. I always love the Aliens Visit Earth premise, but Vala's special, because she's balancing on the edge of trying to fit in and believing she's doing a bang up job, but also completely aware she doesn't belong and always ready to throw that in your face.
I also am kind of in love with Mitchell, but that's for another post, where I go all wavy hands about Ben Browder. I mean, Ben Browder and Claudia Black in one show! Who are the crazy people who keep cancelling the things they're in?
Laundry calls. And soon, so will olivia_circe, who's in town and who I get to hang out with today! It'd be nice if I had some clean towels before she arrived.
Yesterday, I started watching season 10 of Stargate, and I really think I am in love with Vala. I mean, who isn't, right? But Vala studying for her psych evaluation was so wonderful because of her earnestness and confidence and our anticipation of all the ways her cunning plan isn't going to work. I love Vala because she's an earnest liar - she lies because she's good at it, sometimes, and because it gets her what she wants, and because it's easier. She believes in herself, in her ability to pass the psych exam by getting the right answers - You see a tortoise on it's back, but you don't stop to help it. Why? - and to anticipate what the examiner wants to hear in the inkblot tests. Honestly, I nearly fell off the exercise bike when she said "kindness" in response to an inkblot. I always love the Aliens Visit Earth premise, but Vala's special, because she's balancing on the edge of trying to fit in and believing she's doing a bang up job, but also completely aware she doesn't belong and always ready to throw that in your face.
I also am kind of in love with Mitchell, but that's for another post, where I go all wavy hands about Ben Browder. I mean, Ben Browder and Claudia Black in one show! Who are the crazy people who keep cancelling the things they're in?
Laundry calls. And soon, so will olivia_circe, who's in town and who I get to hang out with today! It'd be nice if I had some clean towels before she arrived.