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icepixieNothing like being too busy to even pop up on LJ and say, "I'm really busy! See you all next week!" Which, yes, is exactly what's happened to me. I have:
- A 750-word document analysis due for P&T on Friday (which I have to rewrite most of as I wrote it before he explained it in class on Tuesday, and of course it was wrong. I'm getting a mite irked at the history department's lack of advance warning/explanation on things like this, because some of us have multiple obligations from Tuesday-Thursday, and like to get as much done as possible over the weekend and Monday)
- A 1000-word paper for Mongolian also due Friday, the requirements of which were just e-mailed around today (*headdesk*)
- Comps due on Monday, OMG
- The proposal for my P&T paper due a week from Friday.
So, yeah. Busy. If you see me here before Tuesday, yell at me, 'cause I need to be working.
(BTW, for anyone new here, or if you've just missed the explanation of comps: these nine poems I'm submitting, along with a big-ass test over a long reading list in April, are what determine if I graduate or not. Thank you, vestigial organs of the British academic system. Okay, so it's very, very difficult to fail English comps, from what I hear, but I want distinction, dammit, and I want these poems to be good just for my own pride, so I'm freaking out JUST A BIT.)
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However, in my desperate attempt to avoid productivity Sunday afternoon, I ended up watching the first episode of the new Doctor Who. "So bad it's good" does not begin to cover it. I mean, plastic mannequins coming to life, controlled by a lava monster who uses the London Eye to send radio signals which control them. How much more campy do you get outside of an episode of The Avengers? But the best part is that the everyone connected with the production seems to know it falls into that category, and gives out sly nods to it, such as the trashcan burping after it eats Mickey. Ha! The silliness is a nice counterpoint to, say, BSG. I think I need to watch more. Perhaps after comps. Although I hear it gets less silly as it goes along, which is kind of sad...
- A 750-word document analysis due for P&T on Friday (which I have to rewrite most of as I wrote it before he explained it in class on Tuesday, and of course it was wrong. I'm getting a mite irked at the history department's lack of advance warning/explanation on things like this, because some of us have multiple obligations from Tuesday-Thursday, and like to get as much done as possible over the weekend and Monday)
- A 1000-word paper for Mongolian also due Friday, the requirements of which were just e-mailed around today (*headdesk*)
- Comps due on Monday, OMG
- The proposal for my P&T paper due a week from Friday.
So, yeah. Busy. If you see me here before Tuesday, yell at me, 'cause I need to be working.
(BTW, for anyone new here, or if you've just missed the explanation of comps: these nine poems I'm submitting, along with a big-ass test over a long reading list in April, are what determine if I graduate or not. Thank you, vestigial organs of the British academic system. Okay, so it's very, very difficult to fail English comps, from what I hear, but I want distinction, dammit, and I want these poems to be good just for my own pride, so I'm freaking out JUST A BIT.)
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However, in my desperate attempt to avoid productivity Sunday afternoon, I ended up watching the first episode of the new Doctor Who. "So bad it's good" does not begin to cover it. I mean, plastic mannequins coming to life, controlled by a lava monster who uses the London Eye to send radio signals which control them. How much more campy do you get outside of an episode of The Avengers? But the best part is that the everyone connected with the production seems to know it falls into that category, and gives out sly nods to it, such as the trashcan burping after it eats Mickey. Ha! The silliness is a nice counterpoint to, say, BSG. I think I need to watch more. Perhaps after comps. Although I hear it gets less silly as it goes along, which is kind of sad...
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Date: 2006-02-12 02:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-12 04:09 pm (UTC)"City of Death", with the 4th Doctor and the 2nd Romana (the ep with the original handporn!)
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"The Pirate Planet", with the 4th Doctor and 1st Romana, part of the Key to Time season. (That season had a very loose plot arc, but the individual stories still stand alone fine.)
Also...they redid the unfinished episode as an audio drama...with the 8th Doctor. And it's got Manuel from Fawlty Towers and Oliver Wood from the first 2 Potter films in it. *g* You can listen to it for free on the Beeb's Who site here...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shada/
Enjoy! *g*
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Date: 2006-02-12 10:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-13 04:44 am (UTC)(Scroll down a bit here: http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=spockette )
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Date: 2006-02-15 09:47 pm (UTC)