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A genuine thought I had today while walking home from the next town over because I couldn't be bothered to wait for the bus: 'If I had a horse this wouldn't be happening'.

I was in the next town over checking out a kickboxing class I was thinking of attending. The class was fine, but seemed a little intense, probably because it was mixed-ability. The warm-up routine involved push-ups and skipping rope and running around with a medicine ball held over your head. I'm not sure I even can skip rope. Also there weren't a lot of women there, and at one point the (male) instructor asked one of the men doing push-ups if he was on his knees, and called him a girl. Which was - yeah. It wasn't horrible or anything, but I think I might check out some of the other local classes before deciding.

And then I decided to walk all the way back home, partly because I was suddenly worried about my fitness level. It took me an hour and 10 minutes, and I'd already been stood up for an hour beforehand watching the class, and now my legs are tingling. Ow.

I still love Handsome Jack. I nearly typed Jackl, and then realised it sounded like Jackal, and that would also be a fitting name for him. There are SO many sidequests in the game though, and I'm trying to do them all before moving on with the story, because some of them have a tendency to make no sense after a certain point in the main plot, and I'd like to level up enough to handle the main quests pretty well. I don't remember there being this many sidequests in the first game, but come to think of it the main story quests were just 'get to the next area on the map, look for the vault', so maybe I just didn't notice. I just want Jack to talk to me again, but he won't. I know he's fictional. He has a pony made of diamond. I haven't heard from the diamond pony in a while.

Also the misgendering continues. In the last few days my character has done a quest to act as a 'medicine man' and the local Irish gang leader repeatedly referred to her as 'lad' and 'boyo', among other things. Meanwhile they had a 'hilariously' sexist man get killed by a woman he was tormenting. You are the tip of the progressive spear, Borderlands.

I caught a bit of Prey tonight. ( My thoughts on Prey, spoilers )

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: My bedroom
Current Music: Panic by The Smiths

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( Tonight's Emmerdale )

( Tonight's Coronation Street )

( Tonight's Mad Dogs )

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: The flat
Current Music: Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Fleet Foxes

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The Devil's Whore, the last part

( The Devil's Whore - finale )

I will admit that I love John Simm. Love him a lot.

Christmas is two weeks tomorrow. I'm not quite prepared for it.

Current Mood: good
Current Location: The flat
Current Music: None

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( Spoiler regarding tonight's The Devil's Whore )

So far since Sunday I have: tidied up some of the rubbish around my flat, paid my rent and council tax, transferred money from my savings to pay for my rent and council tax, tidied the bathroom and cleaned the toilet, spoken to my landlords about the possible faulty wiring of my light and my broken toilet seat, and done all my washing for next week. I have not, as of yet, started Christmas shopping. Whuich is sort of unfortunate, except that I didn't really have the money to do any before. Still. Need to get started with it really.

I didn't post about the Dancing results. I loved the group dances. I love that they stole Brian and Heather's idea. And I love that he won. The quickstep was also very good, but I have made up my mind not to be impressed with the quickstep unless someone performs it to Grease Lightning. I can't remember what they danced to, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't that. Also, I was pretty sure that there would be no vid of Luke Rattigan to American Boy, and it seems that I was right. Dang.

Current Mood: thoughtful
Current Location: The flat
Current Music: None

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Work and things

Hello! My posting has been a bit sporadic lately. I started my new job, and seem to have no time in the evenings anymore.

So yes, I started my new job. I am working at a company just down the road, checking data as it is purchased from the electoral roll and uploaded to the computers. Mostly it is a bit boring, but we've all picked up the commands and rules pretty quickly (well, most of them). And it's only for a few weeks. And we get to listen to music through the day. So it's all fine. We're getting quality checked on our practice checking now, so it may turn out we're DOING IT COMPLETELY WRONG, or SOME OF US ARE, but so far it all seems to be going alright. Which is nice. I'm going to get paid on Friday. Which is also nice

Mostly I am confused by the fact the internet isn't AWASH WITH REACTIONS TO CASUALTY since ( Spoiler for last Saturday's episode ). The whole internet. Slash fans unite? Also bewildered and dismayed that BBC are probably not going to bring out a dvd of this series and the last series of Casualty, like tomorrow. I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT ALSO. Oh Toby. I love you so. Your mum should come back occasionally and wear a beautiful coat and look at you.

Tonight I got to watch Vince Vaughn and John Simm, all in one evening, which was quite win. Also Andrea Riseborough. Doing way more than she got to do in Being Human. She's quite great.

In other news, I didn't remember until about 10 o'clock last night that it was Heroes day, so I haven't actually watched it yet. And I haven't been reading the Twilight books. I saw them and thought "oh, usual vampire novel" - actually I thought "Oh, pretty cover!", but after that - and I read a little bit of them and wasn't impressed. But it seems a bit like I have been missing out. I'm fairly tempted to go see the movie. I was anyway, just to see what it's all about. But more so.

I have to go Christmas shopping, also. Pretty soon, really.

Current Mood: rah
Current Location: The flat
Current Music: None

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And things

Mostly I've been having very good taste lately. In that everything, almost everything, I want and pick up and then put back down again until I've proved it's not just a wild impulse, is gone by the time I go back to get it. I saw a necklace in a local art gallery that I really really liked, and I went literally the day my parents came up with my birthday money, straight after that play we went to see, and they'd sold it that morning. I've got in touch with the woman who made it actually, who's based in Nottingham, and she's kindly agreed to make another like it, and she said it would take about a week depending on how long it would take to source the materials. It has now been about three weeks. But oh well.

Cornwall was sold out. There was another holiday for the same weekend, but it was only two nights, which means two days of travelling and one day of holiday, which was slightly more expensive. So no. The next holiday they had similar was in June, when they will no longer be having the special thing with the bulbs flowering at the Eden Project. I told myself that I wasn't going to (finally) get Castle, Waiting from the comic book store to cheer myself up about this, because I wanted to get it on its own merits. When I went back the next day, they'd just sold out, and it would be another week before it might be back in stock. Another week was Thursday, and they didn't have it, so now I should wait until next Thursday, or the Thursday after that. Castle, Waiting is becoming quite apt. I was going to get Angela Carter's Book of Fairytales last night, but was already buying something else, so didn't want to splash out too much. When I went back today, it had sold out. Another week before the new order gets in. Also there are no Flamenco classes in Nottingham, an interest in which was the main thing I took away from Happy-Go-Lucky. Hmph.

But the mail is still working, and what I do have, as of Wednesday, is the DVD of the John Simm version of Crime and Punishment. Not released in the UK, but released in the Netherlands. The front is all in English, and the back is almost all in Dutch. I love it a lot. And I was so right to love John Simm's Raskolnikov. He wanders around staring at things. He has the most beautiful messy hair I've ever seen. He shouts in police stations then faints. He is great.

I also got the first series of Peep Show because it was £4.

( Spoilers up to 1.3 )

And stuff. I still have to buy flat shoes and two new pairs of jeans before the gig in two weeks' time. Hmmph.

Current Mood: crazy
Current Location: The flat
Current Music: None

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Doctor Who 3.12: The Sound of Drums

( Doctor Who, The Sound of Drums )

Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: Cannonball - Damien Rice

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Things

I wanted to go see Mirrormask tonight, since it is finally released in this country. Is Birmingham the nearest place it's showing? OH, I THINK IT IS.

Bought the new Dr Who magazine today, with Mickey on the front cover. I love paying for things with my debit card, you can pretend they didn't cost anything at all. But Mickey. ( Slight spoilers for DW 10 )

And now I need to go home before my retinas burn out.

Still no word on the Crime and Punishment DVD.

Probably I'm going to keep talking about it, in apathetic protest, until there is.

Current Mood: bored
Current Music: Cheers Darlin' - Damien Rice

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Also I suppose I'll post

( Housemate stuff )

Otherwise:

It is so bitterly, bitterly cold. The back of my left hand is so chapped it woke me up last night with itching. Except that it's also sunny, so I wore my sunglasses yesterday out in town, and people looked at me a bit, and I sort of paused and wondered about it, but it is sunny, and I occassionally can't see. So I think sunglasses are justified. Even mere centimetres from my scarf.

I totally emailed the BBC to say they should release the John Simm version of 'Crime and Punishment', despite all their '...Check the FAQ...We cannot always tell you anything about DVD availability!...'. Reasons why I want them to release it can be found here. In those little pictures down the side. LOOK AT HIS COAT AND EYES AND HAIR AND COAT AND HAIR! Is there a person in the world who wouldn't pay money, without even realising it, to own such pictures?

John Simm is also apparently utterly adorable in an episode of Cracker, if something of a killer (I must stop liking his killers...). But there are no DVDs. At all. I cannot win at John Simm fandom. :(

But skimming around imdb.net, I found out that the fabulous social worker from the John Simm (that name again, it's...) episode of Chiller was totally in Sea of Souls, as the woman who tried to seduce Douglas in a restaurant! Did she mention she has a mirror demon haunting her that tells her to kill? OH, I THINK SHE DID NOT.

Apparently there is fandom for The Tribe, though. And DVDs. This is slightly seductively terrifying.

I can't think of anything else.

Finishing everything with /li> makes is sound a bit like I'm calling everything I say a lie.

There's a penguin amnesty stall in uni on Monday, where you can bring an old book and get a brand new penguin classic in return. Which is great, except that I don't think I have any books here except school books and things I haven't read. Woe.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Leif Erikson - Interpol

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John Simm-aganza

( Life on Mars )

And, because it's actually not that bad: Chiller: 'Here Comes the Mirror Man'. ( Essentially a patchwork quilt of spoilers. )

And now, since it's such a rare, hard-to-get-hold-of ~~rubbish~~ video, I get to be all paranoid about losing it/breaking it. I can't even rip or screencap it! Rubbish.

Current Mood: fine
Current Music: Out of Touch - Uniting Nations

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Skip 120 on the flist. That was fun.

I commented hardly at all. I'm rubbish at commenting. I know that. For some reason I either don't know what to say (this usually applies to icon posts, from which I would FLEE WITH THE SHINY TREASURES, if only my conscience would let me. Um...more often...), or I just sort of open the comment box and witter for ages. I try to stop, but the fingers won't let me. And then it seems like it's just not ending on the right note, so I just keep going till it does. I have paranoia that sometimes I just horribly intimidate people with the sheer size of my comments. Though you probably don't care. I'm probably not going to stop any time soon though. So feel free to spam me back in impotent rage.

The weekend has been quiet. J has been mostly keeping to his room. With my televideo. Which has become basically communal, and we only watch videos on, and I hardly ever use. But still. Mine. In his room. For three days. Except for when I stole it back to watch my single video on Friday night. About which I felt very awkward. But yeah, we've basically been in separate parts of the house, not speaking much. My parents came down and took me away for a bit on Saturday though, which was nice. We went for pizza, and watched Seven Swords at the UGC.It's a new and hideously confusing martial arts film, and not in a 'complex' way. In a shoddy editing/'who's that guy?' kind of a way. But I still really enjoyed it, and recommend it if you like that kind of thing. I need a fabulous sword from Mount Heaven, dammit. ( The fannishness, possibly with slight spoilers )

The single video, by the way, was that Chiller thing with John Simm. I'll probably talk about it tomorrow. I'm still really annoyed they haven't brought out the DVD of the Crime and Punishment he starred in. Yet. I'll probably email the BBC at some point and hint that he totally made their Monday Night fortunes, and now is the perfect time to cash in. For the sake of his career, of course. And the fact it was slashy as hell. But for now I have to a) go food shopping, b) finish Great Expectations, c) watch the last episode (::sniff::) of Life On Mars, and d) welcome K back from The South, without seeming to be doing too much of b and c if she needs attention and such. Which should be wild.

I always want to dance like a crazy person to this song. I don't know why.

Current Mood: confused
Current Music: All That You Have Is Your Soul - Tracy Chapman

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House Update

K went home yesterday, and texted me to say thanks for being nice (not sure I was all that helpful, frankly), and that she'd like to go to Cuba with me this summer if I still wanted to (I do)...and that she was going to Venice with J, anyway, platonically, as friends. Platonically as friends in Venice days after they broke up. J later told me she'd be coming back today, so they could go tomorrow. However, this morning K texted again to say she'd decided against Venice as it 'would be madness on her part'. We had sort of wondered together if J was being nice now so he wouldn't have to move out, which is quite bitchy, but, y'know, possible. Anyway, she said she was going to stay at home for the weekend, till Tuesday, and that J would be staying there till then, and then moving out for a week, and then she didn't know, we'd have to wait and see. So...yes. Here we are. Somewhere.

I called my parents to update them (sort of) again, and talked them into coming down on Saturday, when I thought K and J were still going to Venice and I'd be alone all weekend. But now they're not, although God knows what J will be doing. But I can't really tell my parents not to come. Despite the fact that I still have a third of 'Morte D'Arthur' to read, a presentation to plan, and, ooh, 379 pages of Great Expectations to read. I have not started the monologue thing yet. Which I will need to read aloud probably tomorrow. Picking a real person to 'inhabit' is not as easy as once I believed. Why did I never write RPS? Why?

I'm still in love with the Mighty Boosh. And might try to get tickets to see it in Nottingham with K. Also with DI Sam Tyler. I was randomly in a charity shop the other day, and found an odd little video of a BBC show called Chiller, which I think I watched once, one of whose two stories stars John Simm. Which is nice. Apparently he's an odd young man who lives in an abandoned church, and has a 'friend' called Gary, and they both have horrendous secrets of some kind, and a spooky attachment to each other. I have Life on Mars crossover ideas already.

I don't know why John Simm more often than not stars in things that sound really, really slashy to the trained ear - but I'm not complaining.