Notes and queries, in handy numbered format.

[raven]

1. My flatmates are talking again, which never stops being of the good. I'm still spending a lot of time out, but still. They seem to have made up over the last couple of days, while I was alternately in the library, moping in coffee shops and sprawled on jacinthsong's bed. Which I seem to do a lot.

2. Claire, upon seeing me wander into her room armed with books, paper, pens, keys, two pillows and the red blanket off my bed: "Are you planning to be cold?"

"Yes!" I said. "As a matter of fact, I was planning to be cold."

Why is it so cold, I ask you? There was sunshine at the beginning of Trinity, but then - RAIN. Rain, rain, more rain. There reached a point where I was sure I hadn't been properly dry in days. I did a short piece for Cherwell on "whatever happened to rhe weather?", which they returned on the grounds that it's still raining so can you make it feature-length, please. I complied. But it used to be warm beneath the water, and now it's just... not. The BBC tells me it's currently six degrees, which, okay, isn't that cold, but we have no heating on the grounds that it's, er, almost June. The temperature inside is six degrees. Pat is sending a very rude email to the Domestic Bursar, and in the meantime we all wander round the flat with blankets on our shoulders in manner of WW2 evacuees.

3. While I was writing the above, Claire again, standing at my door holding a large, squashed, and very dusty chocolate muffin: "Look what I found under my bed."

Ewwww.

4. Speaking of which - well, speaking of chocolate - why is it impossible to get dark chocolate in Oxford? I've been craving it for a while now, mostly because Maria has made the startling disovery that VAT is not levied on cooking chocolate, and thus you can buy oodles of it for less than a pound and take student joy in cocoa solids. All I wanted was one, lunchtime bar of dark chocolate - didn't Cadbury's used to do Bournville bars? - but such a thing is apparently just not possible, unless you want lots of it or, indeed, want to cook with it.

5. DOCTOR WHO. Okay, so I've missed most of it this year, and haven't been all that bothered - I thought it wasn't fab, though Martha is quite good - but jacinthsong made me watch The Lazarus Experiment, and Human Nature, and I have just watched The Shakespeare Code, and oh, oh, Doctor.

Human Nature. So much LOVE. Oh, sweet human John Smith, so much a product of his time, casually racist, casually sexist - and urgh, he tells the boys to go and beat the crap out of the little one - but he's still the Doctor and oh I really liked this episode. Lights in the sky! Pretty sketches! Martha pwning everything! And I didn't even know it was a two-parter, so I was just sat there breathless with squee when the credits rolled. I hope so much that Family of Blood doesn't suck, because ohgod, so much LOVE.

Ditto The Shakespeare Code. I don't remember there being lots of squee about it when it first aired, but ooh, I loved it. All the period details, the Doctor as Shakespeare fangirl, Martha as the Dark Lady, Shakespeare flirting with the Doctor - heee.

Yes, I have huge enormous Martha love. She is GREAT. And no-one told me she had a myspace! (Naturally, you are all fired.) It is also great. It's like Eurovision crackfic, but canon! Love.

Actually, I think I'd just forgotten why I like the show so much. Yes, it's silly a lot of the time. But it's the Doctor, and it's David Tennant, and yes. It is deserving of love and obsessive fangirling.

I babble. See me babble. I am going to bed yes.

Comments

[cedara]

You didn't know Martha has a blog? O_O

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Er.... no?

[such_heights]

Yes, love the Who! And Martha, especially. She is made of every variety of win.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

SO MUCH WIN.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think I'd just forgotten why I like the show so much. Yes, it's silly a lot of the time. But it's the Doctor, and it's David Tennant, and yes. It is deserving of love and obsessive fangirling.

Did you notice the sketches of previous Doctors in Mr. Smith's notebook? :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

YES. Oh-so-fabulous. There was a lot of squee.

[tau_sigma]

Martha is love! And, err, I was going to mention the blog in my post of Things About Mr Saxon, but it didn't quite happen with the links an' all, so, um. Yes. She has a blog! So does Mr Saxon, I think, and Vote Saxon, and read them, do, because there are so many old skool references. I was quite squeeful.

And oh, so cold. I went home for the weekend, expecting not to need any jumpers or anything particularly warm. And oh how wrong was I? *shivers*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Martha is love! And she has a blog! Which is also love! It is possible I may be getting overexcited about this.

Also, I am freezing to death. In fact, I think I need to take my laptop to bed with me. Siiiigh.

[pinkishmew.livejournal.com]

I DID LOTS but clearly you weren't listening. I also ranted wildly about having my fansquee published on Mr Saxon's MySpace, on one of his blog entries.

I didn't know it was a two-parter either! :D

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

No, no, I was! You're the one who actually made the penny drop. Have been being teensy bit thick, though, clearly.