I am the one who lives with the ocean

[raven]

Stargate SG-1 has been cancelled. I have to say, I'm not exactly disappointed; at one point "Full Circle" was supposed to be the last one ever, and I remember thinking how it was a good idea they were ending it when it was still good. That was four years ago. Sigh. I don't think I've seen a single episode since RDA left, and while I've heard a lot about the new cast and characters, I've never mustered up the enthusiasm to check them out.

Anyway, enough negativity. Here's to you, Stargate - my first fandom, my first fannish friends, my first fanfiction, my one thing to look forward to every bloody week during one of the more horrendous years of high school - thank you for that. And rest in peace.

Interesting day today. It was my last day in work - well, supposedly; apparently I've got another one this week - and I spent it wandering around the village running errands for the shop. I get paid for sending parcels and buying kitchen roll. And for swatting flies. I will never stop being impressed by this. Anyway, the notable event of this morning was one of my favourite customers, a retired doctor with a wicked sense of humour, coming in looking for a book for his wife. "I don't know what it's called. Maybe The Stepfather's... Sister? Mother? The Stepfather's Daughter!"

Obediently, I tried all these combinations, and found out quickly that there's no British or American book with that title. I tried wildcards and shortened forms and hyphens, to no avail. He went off to call his wife, and Tony and I overheard him say, "Yes! I knew I nearly had it!"

"What was it?"

"Yes!" he said proudly. "The Time-Traveler's Wife!"

Apparently it is not a good idea to burst out laughing at your customers. But I just couldn't help it. And then he said, with perfect solemnity, "I have provoked great hilarity," and that just made me laugh harder. I sold him the book in between gasping for breath. Thankfully he is a very nice man and did not take offence. (The closest I'd got to laughing at a customer before was the woman at Christmas, who came in, looked at the counter and demanded, "Don't you have any girls working here?"

When I came forward, she whispered confidentially in my ear, "I'm looking for a book called It's Okay, I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers!")

In other news - actually, in news of small people and the other tribulations of a doctor on rotation - my mother got halfway through her brand new clinical handbook of paediatrics this evening and said, apropos of nothing, "You had femoral anteversion!"

"Er," I said. "What?"

She was getting very excited about the symptoms. "You learnt to walk late! And you have the funny sitting thing!"

"Wouldn't it have been more helpful," I suggested, "if you had reached this conclusion in 1988?"

(Regarding the funny sitting thing: get off your chair and sit on the floor. Legs out in front of you at first, then bent back so you're sitting on your feet. Now shift each leg outward so you're sitting on the floor, with your feet bent back so they're both sideways against the floor, at ninety degrees from your body with toes pointed. Does it hurt like hell? Congratulations, you do not have femoral anteversion.)

"It says here," she went on, "that it corrects itself by age eight years. Why didn't yours correct itself by age eight years?"

"Um," I said, "because I'm a bad person?"

Hell, at least she isn't pricking me with needles any more.

Right. Tomorrow, I write my feminism paper. I mean, I finish it. Also, I'm going to walk to the beach and into the water. Right now the tides are low and the waves are barely making any impact; one day last week I was standing there for ten minutes, staring out to sea, and I barely noticed the tide until I realised I was standing in water rather than wet sand. I'm going to miss the sound of the sea when I leave, and I'm leaving soon.

Goodnight, all.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Heeee. Stepfather's Daughter, Time-Traveller's Wife - they're practically the same thing! :-)))

[apestaartje.livejournal.com]

I did the funny sitting thing and it didn't hurt. I might be doing it wrong, of course. I used to sit with my feet bent inwards and it made people freak out because everybody else apparently sat with their feet bent outwards. I had to force my poor feet to bend outwards and I suppose I got used to it because I always do that now. But it doesn't hurt to sit the feet inwards. Maybe I'm still 8.

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I don't have femoral anteversion. Too bad - that sounds like a good party trick. At least I can pop my arms over my head.

If you need anyone to look over your paper, I love editing stuff, and I went to a college that lives and breathes feminist thought, so I've got a vague grounding, I suppose.

[rosariotijeras.livejournal.com]

I did the thing, and it hurt, but I'm pretty sure that was because the nintey degree angle caused my bare feet to press into the wood floor. Just a guess.

And bon voyage, Daniel Jackson. Bon voyage.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

I did and I don't think it hurt; but I cannot reliably report because I have this thing where muscles in the soles of my feet randomly start spasming, and that just set it off. Ow ow OW. Um, so I can't OW tell if any of that pain's from the position itself. OW OW OW STOP PLEASE.

In other news, I haven't watched SG-1 in years, not since RDA left, but I still feel vaguely sad about the cancellation. I loved that show, in its good years.

Good luck on the paper! (I, too, have to write finish a paper tomorrow. Oops.) When do you go back to school?

(ow)

[thiswaltz.livejournal.com]

seems like everyone is buzzing about the sg1 cancelation. I for one am only vaguely sad about it, it's not really the same show at all but I love Claudia Black and I really hate when any of my shows is canceled. Especially the early loves.

Is the funny sitting thing this http://www.superdollfie.net/en/sd/limited/msd/yuni2nd.html ? if it is I can do that, if it isn't then I can't can't quite picture it.

[ladyvivien.livejournal.com]

Being able to sit like that isn't normal?!

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh my Mum has read that book. And I just heard about stargate on ONTD I am extremely upset as over the summer holidays thanks to sky one repeats I've really got into it.

Gcses results tomorrow wish me luck XD

BTW that thing with the legs? is that the weird way I sit all the time that everyone freaks about?

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

Your Time Traveller's Wife story reminds me of a bit in one of my favourite comic books. The main character is recalling all the horrid jobs she has had and remembers a customer coming into the bookshop where she was working and saying, "I'm looking for a book. I think it was blue..." The thought-bubble for that scene show the girl putting a gun to her head, so I'm glad you take that sort of thing in much better humour. We get students in here all the time: "I'm looking for, uh, a children's book?" I patiently ask "What sort of children's book?" while Sue tries not to laugh.

I raise my coffee-cup to Stargate... With 10 seasons under its belt, I suspected it had attained immortality, but I suppose I was wrong. A wonderful show with wonderful characters that had a very good run. I broke the news to my family last night, and they all made disappointed noises until I reminded them that we have seven-and-a-half seasons left to catch up on. I don't even know why or when Daniel started looking someone who puts steroids on his breakfast cereal, yet.

Also: O*M*G. Sosoon!

[marymac.livejournal.com]

I can do it too. But apparently my joints are hyper-mobile and I am weird.

[ressie-noldo.livejournal.com]

Your mum's snap-diagnosis reminds me rather a lot of my own mother, who religiously updates herself with clinical medicine handbooks for a month every year, and then spends the remaining eleven months poking and prodding at me in order to determine whether or not I have various afflictions which I can't pronounce and almost definitely will never be able to spell.

Also, 'The Stepfather's Daughter' and 'The Time-Traveler's Wife' are very much the same thing. Definitely. *fervent nod*

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

I think I used to be able to do the funny sitting thing before my joints decided that hurting was a fun hobby. On the other hand I'm possibly the only person I know whose achilles tendons are pingable. I can go right over on my ankles if I'm wearing shoes instead of boots and not feel it at all.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

1. Borrow her copy and read it! You will love it, I guarantee it.

2. SG-1 was, at one point, complete and utter love. It's a great show. RIP, Daniel Jackson!

3. CALL ME. If you don't, I'll ring you at lunchtime and demand to hear how they went!

4. It's how I used to sit on the library chairs, remember? With my bag in my lap, usually.

[tau_sigma]

Ooh. I'm not sure I'm doing it right, but that was painful. Then again, I am possibly least flexible person ever; even as a very small child I couldn't sit comfortably cross-legged. (Maybe I have anti-femoral anteversion *g* femoral version?)

You know, you now have your entire flist doing strange contortions all around the world... congratulations. *g* And your mother utterly for the win.

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

I would but its now...9.00am ish and I have them so HERE GOES.
A) Biology
A) Classics
A) English
A) Eng lit.
A) History
B) Chemistry
B) German
B) Physics
C) Maths.
WOOOOO!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, wonderful! Congratulations! You are marvellous! (What A-levels are you doing?)

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

Thank you ^^ and I'm doing eng lang+lit, modern history, politics and..guh Business studies.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Almost identical, really. *g*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* It sounds like you have the same thing I do. Maybe if you keep doing it, you prevent yourself from growing out of it? I can't see there's anything wrong with that!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I can definitely not pop my arms over my head. Sounds like a showstopper. *g*

Thanks very much! If I ever do finish writing the thing - groan - I'll keep that in mind.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yes, that doesn't sound comfortable. I was doing it on a carpeted floor.

Ah, Daniel. It seems like my years-long crush must finally wind down.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, owwwwww. Sorry! If it makes you feel better, I have that too, and quite often send myself into spasms. It hurts a LOT. So sorry!

I loved it too. When it was good, it was so good. And I will never get over my little crush on Daniel.

I go back midway through October, but I'm in the States and London through September, so it's nearly time for go.

(OMG!)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I loved it so much, in its early days, so I'm sad to see it go even if it has gone downhill.

That's almost it - pull your feet in so they touch your body, and that's it.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Apparently not!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* We always get those. "I don't know what it was called, but it was yellow with green bits..." You end up laughing because there's nothing else to do!

We also get, "Where are the children's books?" And then we show them three aisles' worth, and they look at the books and then at you, and back again, and blink, and you can tell they were expecting maybe three or four books.

Oh, Stargate. For its first few seasons, it was the best show on television. And Daniel - yes! What is with the steroid thing? He's meant to be a geek, dammit! A sweet, wide-eyed bespectacled geek with long hippie hair and and a caffiene addiction. Oh, I had such a crush. *g*

OMG! OMG! A week and two days to go! OMG!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Maybe all mothers have some gene that makes them do this. Mine used to put all kinds of terrible diseases on the explanatory absence slips she sent to school...

Oh, yeah. Practically identical. *g*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I can do that too. I think it might come with the territory of the funny-sitting thing.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*laughs* You have femoral version! You're special and innovative!

That made me giggle, so I had a look at the people who commented and tried to list all their locations. There are people all round England and in the USA and Canada and in Australia and India all doing the funny sitting thing! Yay! My mum will be so proud!

[leiascully.livejournal.com]

I'm all kinds of showstopping, and by that, I mean loud. :D

Excellent! You have no idea how much I love editing.

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it's obvious, though. "I'm looking for an orange book with an upside down dog on it," being an example.

As for Stargate, I don't know how I missed it the first time 'round. I think it started just when I went away to school, and all anyone ever watched there was Passions and I Love Lucy (which is why "Do you want to see Lucy's tits" in American Gods is hilarious). Either way, I love it now, and I think Michael Shanks was much cuter and much more Daniel and much more someone I could be madly in love (which I was for awhile this past spring) when he was all skinny geeky coffee-drinking reading while he walks greeting everything with amazement geek. Oh, I love him in the movie, too... That scene where he's passing diagrams around to everyone at that meeting... Augh!

Why is this so long? Because it's my last day of work is why. ;)

[tau_sigma]

Hee! *g* And you unite the world! Truly she should be proud. :)

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

http://thenonist.com/index.php/thenonist/permalink/hot_library_smut/sdk

Trust me. You need to see this ;)

[chains-of-irony.livejournal.com]

I'm glad, too. it hasn't been any good since RDA left, and when it was good it was so good.

Did you know? Anais wrote more Dr. Jackson's Diray recently! Just a little bit, but really funny! (djd_fans) Ah, I'm getting all nostalgic now...

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Heee! Thanks for the link!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. It was fab.

Hey, no, I didn't know! Thanks for the tip.