One of those GD mornings....
It's 6 AM, and I CANNOT get back to sleep. I've availed myself of the sleep-inducng meds I have in my apartment, and, nada. Oh, for the carefree days when sleep was something that just *happened*, other than needing to be FORCED upon oneself.
In the meantime, I've watched two episodes of Doctor Who (Comcast In Demand is reshowing the David Tennant series in what seems to be absolutely NO order in particular...), including the one with the Abzorbaloff (Can't remember what name that episode actually has), which monster was developed by some wee child in the UK for the classic children's show Blue Peter. How do I know this? WAY too much time spent at the computer, looking random crap up. :) And now, of course, I must look up the name of this episode for completeness' sake. Grr. BRB.
OK. According to one of my favorite "random bits of information that some people might find fascinating, yet other people might find useless or even damned annoying," websites (Wikipedia),
The Abzorbaloff is a monster designed by nine-year-old William Grantham of Colchester, Essex for a "Design a Doctor Who Monster" competition held by Blue Peter.[2]
The competition was announced in July 2005, and received 43,920 entries. These were judged by Blue Peter editor Richard Marson, presenter Gethin Jones, Doctor Who producer Russell T Davies and Tenth Doctor David Tennant. The first prize for the competition was to have the monster appear in an episode of Doctor Who. Tennant announced the winner on Blue Peter on 17 August 2005. Conditions of the competition meant that the monster had to be able to be made from prosthetics and not require CGI.
The name of the episode, incidentally, is called Love and Monsters.
These are the things that my brain becomes nigh obsessively involved with when I cannot sleep. Just ANYTHING to keep me interested, awake, and amused. Now, if I actually had the DVDs, you couldn't tear me away, I promise you, until I'd seen seasons 1-4 (the Ninth and Tenth Doctors respectively - four years of rather wonderfully quirky, yet thought-provoking cinema) unless you had to.
OK. Guess it's time to TRY valiantly to go back to sleep, as I have MUY IMPORTANTE stuff to do tomorrow, which requires me to be out of the house from, say, 11:00 til about.... oh, sometime after 3 (then the bus ride home, making round-trip stats about five to six hours).
In the meantime, I've watched two episodes of Doctor Who (Comcast In Demand is reshowing the David Tennant series in what seems to be absolutely NO order in particular...), including the one with the Abzorbaloff (Can't remember what name that episode actually has), which monster was developed by some wee child in the UK for the classic children's show Blue Peter. How do I know this? WAY too much time spent at the computer, looking random crap up. :) And now, of course, I must look up the name of this episode for completeness' sake. Grr. BRB.
OK. According to one of my favorite "random bits of information that some people might find fascinating, yet other people might find useless or even damned annoying," websites (Wikipedia),
The Abzorbaloff is a monster designed by nine-year-old William Grantham of Colchester, Essex for a "Design a Doctor Who Monster" competition held by Blue Peter.[2]
The competition was announced in July 2005, and received 43,920 entries. These were judged by Blue Peter editor Richard Marson, presenter Gethin Jones, Doctor Who producer Russell T Davies and Tenth Doctor David Tennant. The first prize for the competition was to have the monster appear in an episode of Doctor Who. Tennant announced the winner on Blue Peter on 17 August 2005. Conditions of the competition meant that the monster had to be able to be made from prosthetics and not require CGI.
The name of the episode, incidentally, is called Love and Monsters.
These are the things that my brain becomes nigh obsessively involved with when I cannot sleep. Just ANYTHING to keep me interested, awake, and amused. Now, if I actually had the DVDs, you couldn't tear me away, I promise you, until I'd seen seasons 1-4 (the Ninth and Tenth Doctors respectively - four years of rather wonderfully quirky, yet thought-provoking cinema) unless you had to.
OK. Guess it's time to TRY valiantly to go back to sleep, as I have MUY IMPORTANTE stuff to do tomorrow, which requires me to be out of the house from, say, 11:00 til about.... oh, sometime after 3 (then the bus ride home, making round-trip stats about five to six hours).