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[pellucid]

1. Met with supervisor for the first time in six months, since I've been avoiding her to establish what we might call a home stretch timeline. If all goes to plan, I shall be Dr. pellucid by the end of March

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[cnidarian]

March! Woot, that's great news for you, not least of all because it's so soon, though I'm sure it's terrifying for the very same reason. Best of luck with it all! Dr Realsurname even sounds suitably scholarly, I reckon! ;)

Interesting article. Our convenience cultures breed this kind thing as well I think and it's the same here, though I was a little gobsmacked by how much stuff in the US is uber processed. The jam where I couch surfed didn't taste of jam, for instance.

If it helps any, I thought the R/A ending was rather icky too. Though I confess it didn't irk me as much as the tones of colonialism.

[pellucid]

I'd been expecting early next year sometime as a defense date, but to have it all laid out in a real timeline is kind of thrilling. And actually not at all terrifying--at this point I'm just ready to be finished! There are other terrifying things (like whether I'll get a job, and what the hell I'll do if I don't), but simply finishing isn't really one of them

[pellucid]

Thanks! It's kind of fun to have an actual date to aim for!

As for Mac/Stella, I'm not sure what it is that I find so appealing about them! The show is just awful, and every ep I see I think, "why am I watching this?!?" But they hit a few of my buttons, I guess: the best friend thing, the independent woman + somewhat inhibited man thing (I'm not sure why I find inhibited men so attractive, but I really do; I think I have to date it back to Lawrence Selden in The House of Mirth), etc. So I've got to get this out of my system, I guess. It's kind of fun, though!

As for the disappointed shipper thing, apparently the BSG science advisor (Kevin Grazier or something like that?) wrote something over the weekend about how all the people who didn't like the ending didn't like it because they didn't understand it, and they didn't understand it because they were stupid girls Kara/Lee shippers who couldn't see past the fact that their pairing didn't get together. At least that's the impression I got from the ranting about it I saw on the flist;

[beccatoria]

OMG DR YOU! XD That's pretty amazing, you know

[pellucid]

See, I didn't actually read Grazier's interview, so

[beccatoria]

Along the lines of not providing easy answers, I think that even the kind of show it was was so marvelously fluid until that final season. There was STILL space to view it as a mystery, a soap opera, a hard SF style look at the ethical and societal implications of AI.

You're also so right about HeadSix. Up until really, really late in the series, I believed that she was just Baltar gone crazy. Even with the other head!characters, you know? I don't think we ever really needed an answer to her.

But I think that perhaps the thing that most exemplifies the ways in which BSG failed me, personally, is what it ultimately decided should be left as "unanswered, ambiguous and open to interpretation" (though often I felt that was not the case, because, GOD), and what should be answered absolutely and with no wiggle room

[jammer0307]

Dude, Mac/Stella? Yay! Another ship we have in common! I'm familiar with canon up to the present season. I love the show, why, I'm not sure.

Yay on Dr. Isa!!!

J.

[pellucid]

I had something of a revelation yesterday that Mac and Stella remind me somewhat of Doggett and Reyes from X-Files (whom I loved a lot, despite various reservations about whether the last two seasons of that show should ever have existed in the first place), so they're definitely pushing a certain pairing button I have. But the show as a whole...yeah, I have no idea! It's really not a good show in any way, but it is weirdly addictive!

Anyway, the draft has gone to my regular beta, and there may be some rewriting involved when she gets done with it and all that, but she's not familiar with the show. Would you mind at some point reading over the story to tell me whether I'm forgetting some major thing that happened in some season I haven't seen, or that I'm writing them wildly out of character, or anything like that?

[jammer0307]

Yeah, sure, not a problem!

[pellucid]

As I mentioned to Becka above, I, um, did not actually read the Grazier interview. So probably I should not post about things I have not read! Though I probably would have read it if it didn't seem to be SO FULL OF FAIL!!!

And, well, you know we agree about the A/R thing. Emphatically.

Bah! Stupid show!