"The Sontaran Stratagem" is pretty much one of my most favoritest things in the whole world. That is all.

...for now.

(Also, I have never had to WAIT for Doctor Who before. I'm dying, omg.)

I appear to wish to ramble on and about and to everything/everyone that/who is not my assignment or my papers and is fiction and/or is my friends and/or very interesting statements and statements that invoke v interesting topics and ...

... fail. Only sort of. Except not really entirely only sort of.

Insert another ellipsis here, I would. Except that would look unbalanced. If it were actually just here.

Really defending myself well, aren't I.

Also, I keep feeling stupid because it is like I am - balancing myself out. My intelligent-sounding language is going to the sentences I am composing in my head and not writing, and everything else I am not realizing that I am...squishing or making sound superficial as if on purpose, and then I jump to correct except sometimes original point is lost. Sometimes it is not. Sometimes it is. So many times today. I have not the slightest idea how it got to be 9 pm already.

I am not very good at controlling myself, apparently. Not like this is evidence or anything. DUDE, glaikery, FAIL. Why is not procrastinating productively (?? heh) so difficult, this is good Q.

I have not posted la in weeks. Except I keep - it doesn't seem like that, so it is probably really weird.

...

Oh well. I don't think I can avoid that at this point. Or ever, come to that.

( c'est comme ca qu'il veut... )

p.s. sorry, haven't set up my international keyboard yet. *...swears more and continually* Must, for reasons beyond song lyrics in lj-cuts.

hmf

I love Shakespeare, but I have read the plays on which I am supposed to be writing, and I have got the ideas in my head and have even written them down in unofficial form (re: paper), and I am now afraid that if I do not begin reading these books LITERALLY STACKED ALL AROUND ME (v. literally), or looking for the ones I want to find and have not, I will die. Of longing. *shifty eyes*

It is quite possible.

Except.

...

Yeah, uhm. Siiigh.

Having to cut 400+ words from something sucks a lot. *hates cutting*

Oh, I do not mean 400 from a 2000 word paper. I mean cut 400, so that it is fewer than 500 words. Did I mention that even on my college essays, so long as they did not have character limits, I could not quite abide by any of them even when I came extremely close?

That is one example of how much I hate cutting. And I have to cut 400 words. Dammit. Well, I have to so I will.

I am reading instead of working on that midterm now, though, and it is elanid's fault, unshockingly.

I keep having a strange urge to list all these books I want to read and have here and dsaghdskghl, but that would seriously take the rest of my life. Probably. In the full sense of the list. I won't do it, anyway. Heh!

On the bright side, Chinese history really is fucking awesome even though I really, really don't want to cut more than 200 words from this thing (I am going to minor in Asian Studies For Definiteness. Not major; the major is Asian Languages and Cultures and while I want to take Chinese someday v. badly, I don't want my major dependent on that because I want a few other languages first and *other things of complication*, and Asian Studies is a really awesome minor; basically I get have to take three or four more classes of awesomeness).

*procrastinates avidly* I was doing so well until now. ...ish. XP

[/interlude in insanity. Hah]

(total uselessness abt unimportance!)

( but lightning might strike me tonight )

Needful repetition of fact: You know what wins? Life of Brian wins. It WINS. Always look on the briiiight side of life...

Why We Write

Writers and supporters of the strike and readers and TV-watchers and artists and fans and people should take a look at these.

-

I don't think I can blame only that for the fact that my French paper isn't finished. Nope, that's just my fault. Damn.

I maybe want to major in Asian Studies as well as ALL THE OTHER THINGS I ALREADY KNEW I WANTED TO DO. This makes my head hurt. EVERYTHING DOES, IN FACT. Wah. (Not literally at the moment, just MUCH STUFF and stuff. Eh.)

Kind of I want to quit homework and read and write and read more and also do a few other things. And...learn shiz, esp. languages, and also other things -

LOSE. Or win, while losing, while winning, while -

...

But mostly (hah), the problem is that there are so ridiculously many books that I desperately want to read right now, and they simply cannot all be read at once, nor immediately in a row, if in a row of some sort, because...

Barely avoidable frustration! WAAAANT.

The gigantically record-big library is missing books I need (well, I think I need them. My professors may or may not agree. Some are just that I need them, which is perfectly valid, but also some elanid will kill me if I do not read AND SOON, so it is a Serious Need, because my very life is at stake), too, and I don't know why! because the catalog says they have got them!, not that I don't have many I am dying to continue reading within arm's reach at the moment and and and *smashes keyboard?*

The fact that my lamp is broken makes it bit difficult to read anything after about 11 pm anymore, as the computer light is well and good but not quite good enough to read a book by comfortably, and not at all so if the book is not pretty much on the laptop keyboard. Ergh.

Anyhow.

There are so many things I should do; some things good some things less so as always. Yep!

John Simm is amazing. Life on Mars is flipping awesome. I am definitively in love, and I just finished 1.02.

I really. OMG!

I had no idea; I can't imagine how people who were Life on Mars fans first must have thought seeing him as the Master. OMFG.

It's so late. I should really do what I must do tonight (heh, heh) and go to sleep. :-/ I really don't want to. I really just want to watch more Life on Mars.

[/more non-intellectual squee]

Also, the dork version of Never Have I Ever with people of similar mindsets - well, dork!version, obviously XPPP - is the coolest kind. By the way. ;) Even though my brain is messed up somehow and I kept mixing up the point of the game, over and over (I have no idea why, but I did), e.g. "Never have I ever been to Mexico." ME: "Oh, I've never been to Mexico! ...oh, right ["right" = "right, you only 'lose' if you have done things. MY BRAIN FORGOT THAT AGAIN"]. Oops." Etc etc!*laugh*

Anyway.

John Simm, I love you a lot!

( Anyway, there is a list of bit-random and also hey, what is existence? ...no, really. And things! )

Also, I still intend to post Yuletide-after-reveal recs, just because. I will look through my bookmarked ones and see how many of them I haven't seen recced several times and do those + the lovely stories written for me, which I should've had linked already.

Now I have got a headache. I suspect this is caffeine-related. I am so addicted; it is not funny at all. :( I didn't...mean... this is a long story as well, actually. I would like to tell it, but I think this is an example of the procrastination that does not fit very well with this goodstudentishness I had intended. It does not matter, and one of you who I 'know' I am sort of kind of speaking to has heard it many times over! XPP I will go to think about what I have to do now. And then do it.

Oui.

Oh, and! I finished Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman the other day, and - expectedly - it is lovely and wonderful and you should read it! Aaah! I think I have two particular favorite stories in it, but I have to think about it; most are very good. ^^ I mean, I know those two are up there, but I have to think about others. Anyway, it is wonderful Neil Gaiman-ness.

I want the sequel to Empire of Ivory.

OH AND! I watched the pilot of Life on Mars the other day. Holy damn, John Simm, you are so good! I am very excited for the rest. I am very tempted to watch more tonight. (Also on a continual quest with The West Wing, but that's different <3. And a longer endeavor! *is in middle of s5 of TWW* But I really, really shouldn't begin - ANYWAY.)

My list sort of died, didn't it. Oh well, there were seven points; that is okay. Good number, seven.

*goes*

no order

1. Shakespeare is fucking awesome, ys, and...Shakespeare
2. Know fabulous people, I do!
3. I was given a disc of Life on Mars today. *won't tell story lol is not really one anyway!* Haven't looked at it yet, but hey exciting! (Also super!nice; was watching DW with said person and he was Being Impressed at my Knowledge ahahaha this is totally good for SO MUCH, and he goes "have you seen Life on Mars?" and I said I knew about but hadn't seen so he told me about and said I should and I said would have to look into and then I came back from dinner to my roommate informing me that he dropped off a disc of "...Life on Mars? Something with 'Mars' in the title" for me. Srsly!)
4. Same person owns Hartnell era on DVD. !!! Yay college?
5. s3 of New Who really, completely pwns everything else!NewWho except select s1 and s2 episodes and I hesitate to say the latter at all, not because not good but because others - DAMN GOOD
6. I've definitely gotten someone addicted to DW; it is so much fun to watch someone else decide s/he loves something you already love that you showed her/him
7. I may have lied about the less fandom-ly, but sort of not I guess
8. I'm purposely not putting punctuation at the end of some sentences
9. Good DW macros FTW
10. I wish I were fluent in French already, but as for - I am not doing so badly! *practices intently* Rly. I am so serious! I am really doing it, and I am enjoying it! The next Step Forward will be the hardest since a while, although I'm not entirely sure which it is yet. Getting There!
11. Languages are so ridiculously fucking cool
12. I hate this rating bit on LJ; I do not want to register my age in order to watch a community; that's ridiculous, and I don't have enough time to talk entirely about why
13. I think I live in a cool place also, ys
14. I have so many excellent books lined up to read; on similar subject, Neil Gaiman wins life, though this was a given already (I'm not quite done with Fragile Things yet, but it is wonderful, unsurprisingly but just wonderfully wonderful!)

*more DW things, because is self and stuff*

*other things*

Back to either that or French travail or ratings of horrible writing for Responsibility Reasons or what else I have promised to do! Must get off bed to do either of the two former, though, because roommate has turned light off and behind desk/bookshelf thingy can turn light on for myself.

Yah, anyway. Maybe someday I'll write moar fic. Maybe someday! ;) Writing rather, anyway, thanks to the usual suspect!

Anyhow.

So. My Yuletide Reveal! story is...well, quite a story, omg, complete with delicately constructed ;) lies and drama and concealment and surprise!

(I wrote Curiosity for the Scott Lynch - Gentleman Bastards fandom, missed defaulting by literally a minute or so, and am awfully glad I made it!)

I am too tired and annoyed to tell the Good Story properly, but since I was in the midst of Yuletide!thanking (rest of replies to comments to come; lateness means nothing, I promise you; I am so sorry, if you happen to be reading this) -

Basically, elanid wins the galaxy and the whole universe for reasons beyond that - well, I mean, kind of obvious, huh? XPP Anyway, it is all a longer story than fits here, but anyway again, totally ys. It still hardly fits in my mind well enough LOL; OMG OMG does not do it justice but is all I can come up with, pretty much!

sahiya/Stacy also receives a star cluster's supply of gold medals and trophies and applause. I never expected an extra gift, especially not one like (and she is the author of excellent stories beyond the one she wrote for me)!

And my recipient, cdeacon, deserves a special mention for just in commenting and so on being obviously awesome; it is as if an 'if you are a v. v. lucky Yuletider, this is the reaction that will occur' sort of thing went on. I am v. grateful/glad!

Thanks go everywhere. ^^

And so many lovely stories; I meant to get to recs but didn't. Perhaps I will eventually anyway, but nevertheless. Excellence FTW.

Happy 2008; happy Yuletide, hurrah. :)

(eta - accidentally flocked this when first posted; oops!)

I love Yuletide.

Since it is still long before reveal and much too late early in the morning for anything resembling proper reccing, The End.

I love Yuletide.

I just thought it should be noted, that's all.

Given that there are things that must be done that I cannot even TALK about right now (:D) and skhskghslg and I am only up right now because I have a paper to finish by tomorrow/today, obviously I must make a haphazard list of books I must read and books I want to look for and leave out tons of things that my tired mind is forgetting. Because books are always far beyond exciting, but right now - I dunno, it is one of those - anyway, I dunno! Exciting and happy and worthy of posting about if only to remind myself of scattered thoughts regarding books I have at 3:30 am!

Part of this is thanks to mistful. Part of it is thanks to someone else whose fault things always are! Ys, they are. :D And Other People probably. The rest is me! ...And what not enough reading through two weeks of final-y things does to one glaikery.

Who will talk about her first full re-watch of s1 of New Who and how angry she is at R.T.D. some other time!

No order for any lists. They might HAVE an order, but they are not written in said order! Also do not ask me what the difference between these two lists is; they both include various categorizations and I do not answer to anything; it is past three in the morning (damn paper) and also I am a morally ambiguous, sekritly evil detective with magical powerz; seriously I am!


Books I Have Got to Look For, I Think

( la! )


Books I have Got to Either Read or Reread or Reread for the Millionth Time

( la la! this list is a bit longer! )

Buffy-related, not DW, but dark!Willow's "see what I did there?" in "Grave," to Giles, has made me want to say "see what I did there!" all the time. Um. Thank you, Alyson Hannigan.

I...

I am constrained to short meaningless things for fear of feeling guilty, for I am being buried alive by things to do.

I am writing this here now almost solely because I do not want to do them. I don't right now, anyway, and most of them I don't want to do at all. As we speak I type.

And because I am now hearing phrases and even TOTALLY RANDOM SHIT in my head instead of - er, along with - songs.

My copy of "Aliens of London" got screwed up, which I discovered when trying to watch it with someone for whom it is the first time watching Doctor Who. It was sad.

I can't talk about this. I shouldn't be talking about anything. Clearly something is seriously wrong with me, or something.

I am probably losing my mind. I wonder whether this would count as an excuse for -

Well, anyhow. AHEM.

...

...

I realized recently that I have been - er, "was," I guess is the appropriate term - writing meta without knowing it for a very, very long time. At least to some mild degree...and sometimes to a not-so-mild degree...I suspect.

Too bad I can't seem to find time in which I am not too tired to thoughtfully! write! it in, because I sometimes enjoy.

I sometimes enjoy writing a lot of things. This is a badly-concealed grumble, in case that was not obvious!

I mean, broad topic, sure -

Basically, I dunno. I'm not sure whether it counts as not having the time - in fact, it rarely really does - but it's essentially the same result except not quite thanks to -

Well, anyway. Someday. Goes for lots of things (and I do mean it, omg...since the deadline has passed for me not to. No, but I really am excited for it all!). *distinctly shifty eyes*

elanid and I watched Fenric again the other day. FENRIC (the serial...and everything else about it!!!!), YOU ARE FANTASTICALLY WONDERFUL AND I LOVE YOU ENTIRELY! 'course.

I gave up and gave in to the "plus" account. I needed icons, okay!

Speaking of, see my icons. <3333 Beauty, they are!

Moar later of Various Subjects. ^^

*spies around for elanid* :D

- I finished my Yuletide letter! *pleased*
- I have a horrible paper to finish writing and then other homework to do :(
- I really do <3 school in theory, I just...don't like dumb homework. At all. And I am so sick of history papers I can't even tell you, which is Quite a Feat for me, trust me. I very nearly miss calc homework a lot, that is how bad it is (and I like to wistfully stare at theoretical math from my not-yet-knowledgeable-and-very-short pedestal; I took MidEast Studies instead of the second half of calc). I want to argue, I want to talk about philosophers and real impact on history; this analyzing the tip of an engraving in a specifically non-controversial way is boring and irritating at this point. It makes me sad; I love the class itself! But French makes me HAPPY, as do lots of interesting things. Just found out what French seminar is offered next semester; it is on the long list of coolest classes EVER IN THE WHOLE WORLD maybe, and when I am an upperclassman, there is this OMGAWESOME class on translation I want to take NOW but couldn't this year anyway, so
- I read The Blue Angel! Review to come...or possibly A Post about EDAs to come, as I own more than I've read and am curious about them in general, a lot
- Also I read Empire of Ivory! Ah <3! (Thanks to the wonderful elanid for telling me to, like, RIGHT NOW instead of waiting; I am so glad I did!)
- I would really rather write or read things or at least do OTHER HOMEWORK than write this paper
- I want to skip to next semester's classes this week, plz
- Only sort of, but eh
- ...
- LJ is so v. distracting! I must go away nao

So much to say and do and read and watch, so little time

^^