This post sort of starts in medias res because I can't figure out how to start it otherwise: I managed to be a responsible adult last week in epic ways, before starting to come down with a cold the day after. It whinged for a while as my body threw things at it, but then I ended up so poorly early this week I had to take a sick day for the first ( Read more... )

I passed the Life in the UK Test. So, one wee hurdle over. (Easy, yes--I did the test part in literally 3 minutes, with checking my work--but if I hadn't studied, I would have been fucked ( Read more... )

( cut so not to squee-harsh. )

In pluses and minuses for the first time ever!
( spoilers river song voice you know the drill. )

Right, not to start a flame war, but I've left the usually interesting dw_britglish because I don't really want to hang out with a bunch of imperialist apologists. (of both the British and US American varieties, by the by ( Read more... )

Forthcoming: meta on the Torchwood US casting call that's going around, because there are multiple levels of fail there (race [any non-white person is interchangeable!], gender [she's in love], disability [he's an insane but clever criminal] and...well, what I get into in the subject line ( Read more... )

Just wanted to draw people's attention briefly to some more RPS fail, sadly, in bandom. This time we've got some negation of Jewish identity! And when it is pointed out, a massive derailing tone argument!

Sigh.

By the way, though
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