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04:06 pm: At sea.
Today, does not exist. We set sail yesterday.

Meantime, I have a dental appointment tomorrow at 2pm, and an ENT appointment at 3:20. Oh joy, where is thy sting?

Also, I finally saw the second half of the House sixth-season opener, and I don't think this is too much of a spoiler when I say that while the West Wing season four finale/fifth season opener was more of a let-down between fantastic buildup to disappointingly-flat, that's not saying very much. I mean there was angst and trembling blue eyes and so forth, but other than that, really. It was awful.



Tags: dentist panic, house md, nose of a nose, running away to sea, west wing

11:01 am: Five Favourite TV series
Meme gacked from alixtii: Pick five of your favourite shows, in no particular order, before you read the below questions, then answer them!

1. Blake's 7
2. Doctor Who
3. M*A*S*H
4. House
5. West Wing

( Q&A )



Tags: blake's 7, doctor who, fannishness, house md, hugh laurie, lists, m*a*s*h, meme, slash, someone died, tv addiction, west wing

08:33 pm: West Wing season 1 boxed set


Has anyone else bought the 7-season boxed set from HMV? because I have a problem with season 1: there's some weird crap on it.

( From the e-mail I wrote HMV customer service )

Tags: west wing, writing complaining letters

08:08 pm: Redemption: originality...
I'm sitting in the "It's not SF but I like it", thinking about the past panel (the last one I moderated) on originality - why are there no more original TV series/movies?

And, sadly, we concluded: it's not just the accountants, it's because to a certain extent no one wants all original, all the time: we all want to just veg out in front of something we expect: and this fits surprisingly well into the discussion of what we like when we're not watching SF/F.

Which is: West Wing, House, Due South, The Professionals, M*A*S*H, Spooks, Northern Exposure - genre shows with a big overlap between their fans and SF/F fans.

Time Team, Ajay points out. Mythbusters, Victorian Farm...

(I also said: Have I Got News For You, As Time Goes By, and the novels of Jane Austen.)





Tags: house md, m*a*s*h, redemption, west wing

11:26 pm: *yawn*
( sleepy chatting )

Tags: doctor who, hugh laurie, just my life really, tv addiction, west wing

01:02 am: 10 flash fiction stories - late, argh!
Yes, yes, I suck. Sorry. I got distracted Christmas Day and couldn't focus to do flashfic, and with one thing and another have been getting distracted ever since - until tonight, when...

As requested, following a longstanding tradition:

( Moonflowerz, Xena, familiar )


( Jekesta, M*A*S*H, frame )


( Whatho, West Wing, headache )


( Melancharisbron, Mary Sue )


( Plasticsturgeon, ballad, heather )


( Bubosquared, Mickey/Jake, rain )


( Strangerian, Georgette Heyer, stranger )


( rainherder, Lord of the Rings, femur )


( solar_boat, Blake's 7, Library )


( ruthi, Ninth Doctor, duck )

Tags: blake's 7, brokeback mountain, christmas day stories, doctor who, dr who, flashfic, georgette heyer, m*a*s*h, star trek, tolkien, west wing, xena

11:25 pm: 10 flash fiction stories
As requested, following a longstanding tradition:

( Spacefall, Blake's 7 )

( Foreverdirt, West Wing/Star Trek/Drop the Dead Donkey )

( Nerdcakes, Star Trek )

( Shoshanna, Highlander/Next Gen )

( Derryderrydown, Professionals )

( Whatho, M*A*S*H )

( Angelofthenorth, Harry Potter )

( Melata_fic, Discworld )

( Thette, Buffy the Vampire Slayer )

( Coyotegoth, Harry Potter )

( Bugshaw, hamster )

Tags: bible, blake's 7, christmas day stories, discworld, flashfic, harry potter, m*a*s*h, professionals, star trek, west wing, write write write, yuletide

09:10 am: Things that have gone wrong already this week
1. My laptop charger is bust.
2. We lost humiliatingly at the Sala quiz (29 points: we only got 5 out of 5 in the Literature category, and the team that marked our questions mistakenly marked us wrong in the Dickens question that we got right)
3. I failed to successfully tape West Wing last night - my VCR got me 60 minutes of blue screen. First time I've used the timer. I don't watch enough TV.
4. My period started. (Okay, that's not "gone wrong", but as I always get cramps the first day, it's bloody annoying, all right?)
5. I got soaked last night walking home, I think I'm starting a cold (which isn't surprising, since brandnewgun has been in the office all week spreading her germs generously around), and it's still raining this morning.

...and it's only Wednesday.

On the other hand, I played with Scarlett, the brandnewgun household kitten, last night, and she is utterly adorable and does the most fantastic kitty leaps.

Tell me stuff to cheer me up.

Tags: a week in the life, being ill, kittenlove!, lists, west wing

09:55 am: Yuletide treasures, pt 3
( twenty-one tales from yuletide treasures )

Tags: fanfic, west wing, write write write

12:50 pm: West Wing
I'm about to go out and kill some innocent vegetable for food, but I checked on the spoilers-avoidable West Wing website and discovered that I had only missed two episodes in real terms ("War Crimes" and "Gone Quiet") because I'd seen up to and including "On the Day Before" thanks to brandnewgun before her VCR stopped working. I'm still furious, but I no longer want to slay TV executives who think people who don't follow sports don't matter. Because basically, providing you're not a vegetable, I'm a nice person. Okay, this may not reassure any TV executives who are having this read to them.

Remember, I am not a vegetarian because I love animals. I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. [A. Whitney Brown - thanks coolstring for sourcing it!]

Tags: i watch tv obsessively, west wing