(You're not gonna reach) My telephone / My-my-my-my telephone
So, I might have vanished from all the internet bar mobile Facebook updates for the last two weeks.
Um.
I... thought there would be a computer at the first hotel? And forgot to get an LJ phone thing for the second?
As to what I was doing, well-
First week with family at Val Cenis-
-second with my school at Alpe d'Huez, home to the longest black run in the world. My group (the advanced one) got down it on the first morning, and by the end of the week, we even managed to get the beginners down. Pretty much. Slowly.
(That's not all of us by the way, in either of them- my parents and sisters aren't in the first, and the second is just the advanced and beginners. I have no idea where everyone else was, but there we go.)
(Also, I'm second from left in both photos, on the back row in the second.)
So that was awesome, right up until I got strep throat on the very last day and spent the 17-hour coach journey home feeling achy, feverish and generally very sorry for myself. Which was fun.
-
Got back from that to an afternoon of Doctor Who watching, and I must say, I heart 11 and Amy so much. That scene where they're looking at the apple in the village square and something goes between them- some kind of look- they had me. And servile Daleks! And Jammy Dodgers! And pretty whale-y things! There was even a reason for Amy's criminally short police skirt (not that I was complaining about that- she's gorgeous), which made me very happy indeed.
I mean, how can you resist?
And now this series is making me such a traitor to 10 that I'm writing fic already. I shouldn't be, but I am.
-
Then after all that, news. And oh my goodness, was there news to get up to date with-
- Polish government decimated, including President and First Lady. Over Russia. Whilst going to commemorate the Russian slaughter of Polish government officials and similar cultural figures.
- Iceland's choking Europe.
- China's had a massive earthquake.
- THE LIB DEMS ARE POPULAR AT LAST
- Hetalia fans at the Chicago con were idiots/epic, epic douches.
- dn_contest is gone. ;_; (this fandom's getting so old now, it makes me sad)
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TVTROPES MEME TIME
Ganked from vashti:
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/stories/musicians and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
(12 is kind of a repeat, only not quite. Just so's you know.)
1. A bad-tempered German who wrote his best work when he couldn't hear it. Beethoven, guessed by versipellis and azuire
2. Flamboyant gourmand gains powerful friends and proves himself useless.
3. Emotionally detached law student turns vigilante calligrapher with the help of a cartoon superbeing who sustains himself on a diet of nothing but apples. Death Note, guessed by orrien .
4. Ruffians tie a constable to a bear and throw him off a bridge. The French invade.
5. In a totalitarian world, a man has philisophical discussions with himself, has sex whenever he is alone with his girlfriend for longer than ten minutes, then gets tortured. 1984, guessed by versipellis and azuire.
6. A Japanese High School class goes on a field trip. Most don't make it back. Battle Royale, guessed by versipellis .
7. Bad Ass improves diplomatic relations with Denmark by killing a man who lives in his mother's basement. Then kills the guy's mother, and eventually dies fighting a grouchy miser. Beowulf, versipellis.
8. A series about a really old man who spends his lifetime convincing young hot girls to join him inside a phone box. He is routinely harassed by tin men, giant nazi pepperpots and one of his old college buddies. Doctor Who, versipellis
9. Thanks to a discontinued sports car, a boy nearly commits incest with his mother after teaching his father how to use violence. All their lives improve as a result. Back to the Future, versipellis
10. Convict escapes justice. Valiant capture attempt by devoted police force proves futile. Student uprising ends in massacre. And then there's a wedding. Les Miserables, phoebonica, lycoris
11. Vast armies fight over a piece of jewellery. Lord of the Rings, phoebonica, lycoris
12. A man commits suicide by notebook, adopts two children and fights terrorists, in that order. L Save the WorLd, orrien, phoebonica & lycoris
13. Schoolgirl takes on a lot of extra work. Fans read lesbian subtext into Disney cartoon, creators are happy to oblige.
14. A group of colour-coded puppets try to stop a pair of green lights from destroying all life on Earth. Captain Scarlet, versipellis
15. Children learn about boar hunting and killing each other brutally. Lord of the Flies, versipellis
16. An entomologist, a former stripper, a gambling addict, and a group of nerds and geeks perform obscure activities in a lab to musical accompaniment. They Fight Crime. CSI, azuire
17. An adopted orphan sasses his teachers, runs around naked and sets fire to a cat.
18. Orphan discovers his parents enrolled him in boarding school before they died. He kills one of his teachers and doesn't want to go home for the summer. He's the hero. Harry Potter, versipellis
19. Six Germans with a fire fetish.
20. Young man suffers from mental illness, hallucinates, desecrates a grave, then plays a large part in the deaths of his family. He's the hero. Hamlet, orrien.
Also...
...this. Pretty thing, technically, but hey. There's more where it came from?
Um.
I... thought there would be a computer at the first hotel? And forgot to get an LJ phone thing for the second?
As to what I was doing, well-
First week with family at Val Cenis-
-second with my school at Alpe d'Huez, home to the longest black run in the world. My group (the advanced one) got down it on the first morning, and by the end of the week, we even managed to get the beginners down. Pretty much. Slowly.
(That's not all of us by the way, in either of them- my parents and sisters aren't in the first, and the second is just the advanced and beginners. I have no idea where everyone else was, but there we go.)
(Also, I'm second from left in both photos, on the back row in the second.)
So that was awesome, right up until I got strep throat on the very last day and spent the 17-hour coach journey home feeling achy, feverish and generally very sorry for myself. Which was fun.
-
Got back from that to an afternoon of Doctor Who watching, and I must say, I heart 11 and Amy so much. That scene where they're looking at the apple in the village square and something goes between them- some kind of look- they had me. And servile Daleks! And Jammy Dodgers! And pretty whale-y things! There was even a reason for Amy's criminally short police skirt (not that I was complaining about that- she's gorgeous), which made me very happy indeed.
I mean, how can you resist?
And now this series is making me such a traitor to 10 that I'm writing fic already. I shouldn't be, but I am.
-
Then after all that, news. And oh my goodness, was there news to get up to date with-
- Polish government decimated, including President and First Lady. Over Russia. Whilst going to commemorate the Russian slaughter of Polish government officials and similar cultural figures.
- Iceland's choking Europe.
- China's had a massive earthquake.
- THE LIB DEMS ARE POPULAR AT LAST
- Hetalia fans at the Chicago con were idiots/epic, epic douches.
- dn_contest is gone. ;_; (this fandom's getting so old now, it makes me sad)
-
TVTROPES MEME TIME
Ganked from vashti:
Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/stories/musicians and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
(12 is kind of a repeat, only not quite. Just so's you know.)
1. A bad-tempered German who wrote his best work when he couldn't hear it. Beethoven, guessed by versipellis and azuire
2. Flamboyant gourmand gains powerful friends and proves himself useless.
3. Emotionally detached law student turns vigilante calligrapher with the help of a cartoon superbeing who sustains himself on a diet of nothing but apples. Death Note, guessed by orrien .
4. Ruffians tie a constable to a bear and throw him off a bridge. The French invade.
5. In a totalitarian world, a man has philisophical discussions with himself, has sex whenever he is alone with his girlfriend for longer than ten minutes, then gets tortured. 1984, guessed by versipellis and azuire.
6. A Japanese High School class goes on a field trip. Most don't make it back. Battle Royale, guessed by versipellis .
7. Bad Ass improves diplomatic relations with Denmark by killing a man who lives in his mother's basement. Then kills the guy's mother, and eventually dies fighting a grouchy miser. Beowulf, versipellis.
8. A series about a really old man who spends his lifetime convincing young hot girls to join him inside a phone box. He is routinely harassed by tin men, giant nazi pepperpots and one of his old college buddies. Doctor Who, versipellis
9. Thanks to a discontinued sports car, a boy nearly commits incest with his mother after teaching his father how to use violence. All their lives improve as a result. Back to the Future, versipellis
10. Convict escapes justice. Valiant capture attempt by devoted police force proves futile. Student uprising ends in massacre. And then there's a wedding. Les Miserables, phoebonica, lycoris
11. Vast armies fight over a piece of jewellery. Lord of the Rings, phoebonica, lycoris
12. A man commits suicide by notebook, adopts two children and fights terrorists, in that order. L Save the WorLd, orrien, phoebonica & lycoris
13. Schoolgirl takes on a lot of extra work. Fans read lesbian subtext into Disney cartoon, creators are happy to oblige.
14. A group of colour-coded puppets try to stop a pair of green lights from destroying all life on Earth. Captain Scarlet, versipellis
15. Children learn about boar hunting and killing each other brutally. Lord of the Flies, versipellis
16. An entomologist, a former stripper, a gambling addict, and a group of nerds and geeks perform obscure activities in a lab to musical accompaniment. They Fight Crime. CSI, azuire
17. An adopted orphan sasses his teachers, runs around naked and sets fire to a cat.
18. Orphan discovers his parents enrolled him in boarding school before they died. He kills one of his teachers and doesn't want to go home for the summer. He's the hero. Harry Potter, versipellis
19. Six Germans with a fire fetish.
20. Young man suffers from mental illness, hallucinates, desecrates a grave, then plays a large part in the deaths of his family. He's the hero. Hamlet, orrien.
Also...
...this. Pretty thing, technically, but hey. There's more where it came from?