Dentistry

So, I woke up this morning and I was single, and then I went to the dentist to get my teeth drilled and now I can't feel my tongue.

...yeah, good day.

But in more cheering news, the MAD award winners have been announced and are being encouraged to post acceptance speeches into m_a_d_awards. Here is my sole triumph:

(I actually made this banner. The incestuousness of fandom never ceases to amaze. And all the winners are free to email me and moan about the crappiness of the buttons.) And, and, Colleen, the uncommon pairing in question is Four/Nine. I am vindicated.

In all seriousness, thank you everyone who nominated and voted for me. I was shocked at the amount of nominations I had, because, oh-muh-guh, this is the most talented fandom ever (perhaps save one). Due to popular demand, we left all the nominations up because the list serves as a wonderful fandom resource. Everything on it is fantastic, no pun intended. I am still peeved that my own favourite DW fic, I Speak For Gallifrey, couldn't be nominated because it didn't fit any categories. It's an amazing piece but very difficult to summarise without spoiling.

Moving on, I have another girl!Doctor snippet on the go, and my Minor Characters fic is nearly finished, but I am in the mood to proctastinate and do memes.

So, ten random things about me: ( ... )

And, three things that bug me.

1. Mineral water. I think most people have heard my rants about mineral water, but never mind, here we go again. Britain is a rainy country. You go out and water just falls from the sky. It is amazing. And they collect the water in reservoirs, and let it sediment out, and screen it with mesh and chlorinate it, and it comes out the tap cool, clear and fresh. And people spend money on bottles of mineral water that take up space in the fridge! I've spent an inordinate amounts of time in countries where tap water is a thin brown trickle, so when you have it so good, why do you need to buy water?

2. Fanlistings. You get into a new fandom or a new ship, and you google it and the first hit looks promising, so off you go and the site looks very pretty with lovely graphics, but really, all it is is a list of names. I don't get it! I know some fanlistings are also lists of resources, but so many of them aren't. There is no point.

3. Bananas in the fridge. At which I hear you cry, well, who puts bananas in the fridge? To which the answer is my mother, of course, and I don't get that either. Not only are the bananas cold enough to hurt your teeth when you eat them, they're nowhere near sweet. As bananas ripen, I assume they get sweeter because the enzymes within the planet cells catalyse the conversion of the stringy starchy stuff into sugar. But most enzymes' optimum is forty degrees Celsius. Why, why, keep bananas in the fridge?

And after all that unecessary vitriol, more Red Dwarf. And reading The Language Instinct, which is one of my reading-list books and is frankly fascinating. No sarcasm. It really is.

Fic:: The Sanctity of Ordinary Things

This is already horribly late, and although I'd have liked to do more with it, I was afraid I'd suddenly decide it needed a whole new section or something and really, I don't have the time (I wrote this in three days. Groan). Anyway! This is my entry in mireille719's Minor Characters ficathon, for katemonkey, who wanted Nancy and Jamie, post-war, urban legends and growing up after being saved. All mistakes are mine.

Fic:: The Sanctity of Ordinary Things
by Raven
PG, Doctor Who, gen

( The city stays lit up after dark. )