I do love watching the fireworks.:D

...and now I have a cold.

It's like a flashback to my first year at uni. :s


Righto, in other news: still slumming it away behind the counter at Clumber Park. I have started doing a typing course at West Notts College I can do with my eyes shut, purely to try and get the qualifcation and therefore a better job. Failing that, I'm also thinking of an Open University course. The fact of the matter is that while I enjoyed going to university and getting my degree, I seem to have done so for just that reason because I haven't done one that is specialised for anything other than teaching.

Which I will only do when hell freezes over.

It's a bit harsh but I really don't know the fist thing about handling kids and that is a fact. And when they get older that only means they can answer you back lol.

So when my original aim was to go to uni and read biology, that's what I may end up doing anyway four years later.

Swine flu sucks. Yeah.

Right, if nothing else I'm determined I'll update at least once a week, even if it's nothing but a ramble to say I'm still alive. The short version since last time:

( What started out as a summary turned into one of my epic lists. Sorry... )

I'll write this in more detail later, maybe. But I just need to throw it out there that I actually managed to work up the nerve to go up to Paul Sackey and ask to have my photo taken with him today in Skegness. :D I was shaking like hell after I'd done it like, but I still managed it.

1) Yep, I do in fact still exist. :D

2) Slight neglect of Lj pretty much down to the fact that I have, at last, managed to get a job. One which I hate with a passion, but am putting up with in the hopes that something better will come along while I'm earning more than I did while getting Jobseeker's allowance.

3)It's in a cafe/restaurant at Clumber Park. Which brings me around to wanting to - usually on a Sunday - wanting to run out and yell that just because it is a Sunday, doesn't mean the population of Nottinghamshire has to go there.

4) Sorry about the list. Normal service should, hopefully, resume soon. :)

Your results:
You are Uhura

Uhura 70% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 60% Geordi LaForge 55% Mr. Scott 50% Jean-Luc Picard 50% Beverly Crusher 45% Deanna Troi 45% Spock 42% Chekov 40% Mr. Sulu 40% Worf 35% Data 32% James T. Kirk (Captain) 30% Will Riker 30% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 25%

You are a good communicator with a pleasant soft-spoken voice. Also a talented singer.

Click here to take the "Which Star Trek character are you?" quiz...


Although I'm kinda concerned that I'm 60% Redshirt :S

So, to sum up: good to know there's not (at the moment) going to be some sort of mass exodus to Dreamwidth. :)

I've been a bit slow to notice, but is everyone moving over to Dreamwidth?

So, managed to swing seeing it again. :D This isn't really a review or anything, but more me wanting to get my thoughts down about it.

( Extreme spoilers behind the cut... )

Here ends the geeky ramblings, other than to say that I really need another Star Trek icon. :D

Given that it's now been, oh, two and a half hours since I came out the cinema, I can't believe I've only just got around to saying: It. Was. Awesome.

!!!!!!!!!!

I'll come back when I'm more coherant. XD

*notices Highlander:The Source on BBC1*

Umm...

*studiously ignores it*

If I don't watch it, it doesn't exist. ;)

A bit delayed, I know - blame my crashed laptop for that - but I loved the Battlestar finale. And seem to be in the minority for it, but aside from the fact that I generally like everything I see and don't find much fault with it, it may also be down to the fact that there's not going to be any more (Caprica aside) and I was going to love whatever they put down in front of me.

( The rest behind the cut, because it's turned out far longer than I meant... )

Having just seen the trailer and the first few minutes of the Spanish Life on Mars, it's kind of weird to watch with the fact that they look like they literally have stolen John Simm's costume. I wouldn't mind watching it but doubt they'll subtitle it so this is probably as far as it goes for me. Still, I LOVE the fact that Spanish Sam goes back in time to Bohemian Rhapsody. :D

In regards to the US version, I did see the unreleased pilot and the remade version, as well as the episode after that. Obviously, I couldn't help but compare it to the UK version, but it did seem to be doing its best to break out and be something different while borrowing ideas. It might be for the best that it's been cancelled - and I don't say that because I don't want to see it run longer than ours ever did - but considering the basic premise of the show it's not really feasible to keep Sam in the past and the audience's attention for the duration of more than a few series. I'm just curious now as to how it'll end, because I doubt they'll go the same was as the original.

I'll be honest; not even when he played, I've never seen Martin Johnson as angry as I had during the match today. The 'lip reading' incident is the sort of stuff that's a consequence of matches on tv but after the second sin binning I would not want to be the person on the other end of his after match talk.

Your result for The New Greek Goddess Archetype Test...

You are Artemis!

The Goddess of the Hunt, Animals, and the Young

Take The New Greek Goddess Archetype Test at HelloQuizzy

I quite like this for a result, though I wouldn't exactly describe myself as a feminist. That's not to say I distance myself from it, just that that's probably a bit strong a word for me. Athena probably describes me a little too.

Title: Upgrades
Rating: PG
Words: 602
Summary: Sequel to the first ficlet in Five People Rodney Never Had To Deal With where Tony goes to Atlantis and proceeds to irritate the hell out of Rodney.
A/N: Set sometime in Season Four since Sam (though only mentioned in the original) is in charge. Sometime after the movie for Iron Man, though I've left it ambiguous as to whether anyone is aware Tony is Iron Man.
Disclaimer: Stargate Atlantis and Iron Man aren't mine, unfortunatly.

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I was originally going to leave this at sga_flashfic, but given it's the predecessor to the fic I want to post it seemed to make sense to post this in my journal too.

Title: Five People Rodney Never Had To Deal With, or, Five Crossovers That Never Happened
Rating: PG
Words: 699
Summary: In order, five drabble/fics of Rodney's encounters with characters from Iron Man (movie), House, Doctor Who, Temeraire and Discworld.
A/N: Written for the Five Things... Challenge over at sga_flashfic
Disclaimer: Five fandoms involved and not one of them is mine.

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God I love snow.

XD

Sorry to bore any non-Who fans with this.

( yet more spoilers for series five/six: )