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[raven]

It is much too hot. Stupidly, it is now raining and getting overcast all over the place but is still too hot, so I am beginning to wonder whether someone up there is getting it a bit wrong. I want a sea-storm, with the rolling clouds and flickering lightning and lots of rain pooling at the bottom of the garden. I hope they have good storms in Oxford.

Talking of a bombardment of positive ions, I have been watching the discs doyle_sb4 sent me and having a lovely time over the good bits of The Five Doctors. There seem to have been two versions of it, as the one hathy_col and I saw had totally dire effects, but the DVD version seems to have been remastered a tad. Also, the stock footage from Shada is different. Still, the whole thing is worth it for woobified!Five, and it actually is very much fun for an episode that basically consists of all the Doctors in a quarry where all their best enemies can take potshots at them.

The rest of the discs are a bit of a problem. They play just fine on my old desktop computer, but audio only on Loki. What does the ancient Windows ME computer have that brand-spanking-new Loki doesn't, I wonder? It would make sense just to download codecs as prompted by the media player, but the laptop hates the internet and the internet hates it back. Sigh. I suppose I shall have to make an extra effort to make it all work, as I'm taking it with me, but I'm feeling lazy.

That said, I have Done Things today. I have ordered books and been vaccinated and opened a bank account (eep, am Grown Up) and deposited cheques into it. It is all very much of the productive. I am going out tonight for a Pritchards mass exodus night out, or something, which I'm not really in the mood for but as I'm part of the mass exodus, I feel obliged.

Also in the spirit of productivity, I ought to write my Minor Characters ficathon story, as I suck and haven't written a single word of it. I shouldn't sign up for ficathons. And the university threesome fic is eating my brain in addition.

I have produced a short atrocity for dw100 this week, as the challenge was "Sherlock Holmes" and too good to pass up, but other than that, fic eating brain.

Sigh. Bored. That said, if I were still at Merchants', I would be going back to school tomorrow! There are always small mercies.

Comments

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I shall have to type out the bit from the Target, as it's quite different from what's on screen. (Maybe a deliberate attempt to get away from the crazyandwrong attraction?)

[gwynnega]

Hee. I have to wonder if anyone ever asked Peter Davison what the heck he thought he was doing, giving Susan the eye!