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ravenSo, 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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:
1. I'm listening to the Stereophonics at the moment, because Mr. Writer is on Kerrang. It's possibly the most depressing song ever recorded, with the exception of The Drugs Don't Work by the Verve.
2. One of the things my father and I have in common is that we've both been published in Time. I'm actually planning to write to the Guardian today, as I'm one of those people who has nothing better to do than write to newspapers.
3. Before I go up to Oxford, I have to find myself a fancy dress costume along the theme of "Emergency Services and Armed Forces". I foresee a trip to Woolies to buy myself a fireman's helmet.
4. I was once hit by a car. It was the best case scenario, in that the car in question was only going about five miles an hour, but how much worse it could have been makes me shiver.
5. Actually, I seem to have a passion for accidents. I can fall over more effieciently than anyone I know. And I do mean that; you want quick, painless falling-over, I'm your woman.
6. I don't like raw tomatoes, white chocolate, celery or papaya. I eat just about everything else.
7. Most things taste bland to me, so I have a tendency to put chilli sauce in everything. This is especially endearing when someone else's sandwiches are sharing the same box.
8. I missed the last part of the Big Finish audio Storm Warning and am still kicking myself about it. If someone would tell me what happened, that would be of the good.
9. I still can't find bras that fit, don't itch or stick wires into me. I don't need to wear a bra at all, but I'm paranoid and still do.
10. I haven't slept at all well for a week now.
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.
...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:
1. I'm listening to the Stereophonics at the moment, because Mr. Writer is on Kerrang. It's possibly the most depressing song ever recorded, with the exception of The Drugs Don't Work by the Verve.
2. One of the things my father and I have in common is that we've both been published in Time. I'm actually planning to write to the Guardian today, as I'm one of those people who has nothing better to do than write to newspapers.
3. Before I go up to Oxford, I have to find myself a fancy dress costume along the theme of "Emergency Services and Armed Forces". I foresee a trip to Woolies to buy myself a fireman's helmet.
4. I was once hit by a car. It was the best case scenario, in that the car in question was only going about five miles an hour, but how much worse it could have been makes me shiver.
5. Actually, I seem to have a passion for accidents. I can fall over more effieciently than anyone I know. And I do mean that; you want quick, painless falling-over, I'm your woman.
6. I don't like raw tomatoes, white chocolate, celery or papaya. I eat just about everything else.
7. Most things taste bland to me, so I have a tendency to put chilli sauce in everything. This is especially endearing when someone else's sandwiches are sharing the same box.
8. I missed the last part of the Big Finish audio Storm Warning and am still kicking myself about it. If someone would tell me what happened, that would be of the good.
9. I still can't find bras that fit, don't itch or stick wires into me. I don't need to wear a bra at all, but I'm paranoid and still do.
10. I haven't slept at all well for a week now.
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.
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on 2005-09-08 01:12 pm (UTC)If your mother ever meets my mother, we must not let them mention bananas.
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on 2005-09-08 01:33 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-09-08 02:09 pm (UTC)that is why bananas live in their own cage
danger to themselves and others (if ripeness is dangerous)
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on 2005-09-08 02:22 pm (UTC)not a UNIT blue beret?
Stalks you just a little bit. And in a nice way...
on 2005-09-08 02:58 pm (UTC)http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_bf16.htm
I'm sure i recorded it as well... Any idea how that 'yousendit' thing works?
Re: Stalks you just a little bit. And in a nice way...
on 2005-09-08 04:05 pm (UTC)Re: Stalks you just a little bit. And in a nice way...
on 2005-09-08 04:57 pm (UTC)I can upload it tomorrow morning though...
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on 2005-09-08 05:48 pm (UTC)Scary thing is I have a scar *ahem* somewhere where a wire has pinged out and stuck in me....oh yes that hurt like hell and lead to me leaping around my room, running downstairs, seeing a bit of blood on my tshirt and my mum thinking I'd been stabbed.
I cannot add how much that hurt.
btw you're missing the new classics teacher who is (in my opinion) GORGEOUS and also as Miranda said- ONE OF US
Incidentally felt ill before and you know what Mr.Evans said
"Okay stay away from me,"
Consudering the source of my ailment if he DID catch it, it would be disturbing for all involved.
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on 2005-09-08 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-09-08 06:05 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-09-08 06:07 pm (UTC)And bananas are dangerous. Didn't you ever watch Jonathan Creek?
Re: Stalks you just a little bit. And in a nice way...
on 2005-09-08 06:08 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-09-08 06:09 pm (UTC)ONE OF US
Really? Is the man mentioned earlier today as having a fictional metal plate in his head?
Consudering the source of my ailment if he DID catch it, it would be disturbing for all involved.
Ahahahahaha. Please tell me you told him that, that's brilliant.
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on 2005-09-08 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-09-08 07:09 pm (UTC)ALso, went to the beach, entire group of college people there- Samantha drooling after all college boys.
I love your icon ^_^; mines driving me nutso people keep drooling after it, I'm re-watching any episodes with Jack in also :P as well as making a jack/daniel stargate fan vid........and watching them!
See why can I not type this much in my lj????
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on 2005-09-08 08:26 pm (UTC)I get through at least a litre and a half of fizzy water when I'm in Germany, but that's because the bottles are returnable. Back in Britain, I will buy a bottle every three months and then refill it from from the tap. You just can't justify all that plastic ending up in landfill sites. It makes me sad. (And actually, I realised later that the lack of yoghurt in returnable glass jars and water in returnable bottles in the UK should have been my third thing (http://biascut.livejournal.com/254158.html), but it's too late now.)
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on 2005-09-08 09:19 pm (UTC)Most things taste bland to me, so I have a tendency to put chilli sauce in everything.
Me too. I'm not sure, though, if I put hot oil in everything because everything tastes bland, or if everything tastes bland because I have blown out my taste buds with hot oil. *grins*
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on 2005-09-08 10:37 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-09-08 10:38 pm (UTC)Plastic in landfill sites makes me sad, too. I think the German way is eminently more sensible.
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on 2005-09-08 10:41 pm (UTC)Regarding the chilli, I feel your pain. The thought has crossed my mind on many an occasion.
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on 2005-09-08 11:21 pm (UTC)And well done for 'Children of the Revolution'. I'm so confused by the number of fics out there that I don't recognise anything by name any more, so it didn't click that it was your Four/Nine, which I loved. It really deserved to win, especially that category.
And you friended me! Thanks. *big grin*
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on 2005-09-09 07:22 am (UTC)So far, nobody wants me; I've put in a couple of applications and enquired about some more, but everyone-- including the benefits people-- need a couple of weeks to process paper work. Boring. At the moment, I'm mostly poking job search websites, and indulging in things I haven't had time for for months-- family history research, reading for fun, volunteer work. So much, in fact, that I've barely got time for fic and the like.
Re: Stalks you just a little bit. And in a nice way...
on 2005-09-09 09:22 am (UTC)That took a little while... :-D
http://s47.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=26F75PRFPDXFW16QC9Y3IZZKNF
It may take a while to download; let me know if you have any problems and i'll try something else...
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on 2005-09-09 06:47 pm (UTC)Aww, thanks so much. I was very surprised at the nomination, but for the horrifying-Colleen factor alone, I was delighted. *g*
Re: Stalks you just a little bit. And in a nice way...
on 2005-09-11 07:03 pm (UTC)Re: Stalks you just a little bit. And in a nice way...
on 2005-09-11 08:21 pm (UTC)