Today I got hopped up on Benadryl and watched The Five Doctors while eating tons of fudgesicles. This has scientifically been proven to be the best way to watch old timey Doctor Who.
I've learned the following from this little movie about the first five Doctors:
1) Gallifreyans can be identified by their funny hats.
2) Martha was the new Teagan, sortakinda.
3) There was once some ginger dude traveling in the TARDIS.
4) Beware of giant, 2-D triangles spinning in the sky because they are actually the 2-D triangles of DEATH.
5) The first Doctor could kick all the subsequent Doctor's butts. With words and a cane whacking.
I was so scared I wouldn't like Old Who! But I did! It's like reading golden age comics, and some silver age stuff-- a great, funny, enlightening, cracky product of its time. Though this was far more recent than a lot of Who.
What was the name of that silver thingy that guarded the entrance where Sarah Jane and 3rd Doctor were trying to get in? The one that was the universe's most efficient and ineffectual killing machine in a silver skin-tight jumpsuit? That thing is begging to be revamped and brought back.
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The Five Doctors: Gabby learns some important Who facts!
Posted: July 11th, 2007, 2:48pm MST
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the update of My Life
Posted: May 26th, 2007, 2:17pm MST
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1. Graduated from college. ...huh.
2. On account of 1, and both my jobs being student jobs, am currently unemployed. ...double huh.
3. Got BUNAC Blue Card and ticket to UK, departing Sept. 3. ...WOOOO!!
4. Bought I Like Food, Food Tastes Good and discovered a latent love of cooking delicious meals. Tim Curry, a curry of tofu and sweet potatoes, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Also lime/honey fish tacos.
5. In writing up new CV, found self to be both more, and also somehow less, impressive than I'd previously thought. I now live in a paradox of wondering why I haven't yet been hired at high-flying fiction editor, and wondering if I'm smart enough to work at, say, Kinko's.
6. Mmm. Fish tacooos. -
radio silence
Posted: May 6th, 2007, 1:11pm MST
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Haven't been posting, and barely looking at my flist, because each time I do someone else has graduated and I have to QUICK! close my eyes! Because I still have papers to write and big work thing to do, and cannot allow myself to think too much that the end's in sight or else I may not get there.
BUT!
CONGRATULATIONS, EVERYONE! Who's made it there already! Don't tell me how it feels just yet, though, I want it to be a surprise.
In other news, I've got my ticket and my BUNAC blue card all ready to go, so minus the summer months, I actually have vague plans for that misty "after school" time. Who knew?
Also, Doctor freakin Who, y'all. Aw, yeah. -
dear everyone, I am still a geek.
Posted: April 26th, 2007, 9:25am MST
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So apparently y'all can change my daemon with this, but I'd prefer you didn't because he's a fuckin WOLF biznatchos! Aw hells yeah! He would eat your puny daemons!
And, serious, it would be really embarrassing if I come back in a few hours and he's a mouse. -
life: it's silly!
Posted: April 3rd, 2007, 10:59am MST
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View Poll: For real?
In the plus column, I am totally seeing The Hold Steady in concert a couple days before graduation. Perhaps I could wear my cap and gown there, get them nice and beer-soiled, and thus become uniquely smelly in a long line of identical graduates.
Watched four episodes of Lost among the six or so that I've missed. Sadly, I'm still not really interested anymore? WTF's up with Locke these days? Why could Rosencrantz and Rodrigo Santoro do everything the rest of them did, in half the time, with less whining and mishaps? Where have all the polar bears gone? Why haven't they eaten Vincent yet?
American Idooooool tonight! -
so here's something i didn't know i was missing until i wasn't
Posted: April 1st, 2007, 9:28pm MST
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How freaking awesome is it to see a smart, action-taking, heroic, female, person of color lead on a mainstream sci-fi show? With a real family and job and sense of humor and being a person and stuff and getting to kiss the dude? How awesome? So awesome!
And she has amazing eyebrows! Have you noticed? She also has huge eyes that rival the Doctor's. They could have contests.
But mainly: so awesome! And the rhino thing was okay too. -
battlebattlebattlebattlestaaaaar!
Posted: March 27th, 2007, 8:11am MST
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You know what would be really funny? If they arrived at Earth and it was the 1960's and bigoted folks are all "Why are you worried about robots? There are black and Asian and Latino people all over your fleet!" And Athena's all "What's an Asian?"
And then they all hold hands and learn an important lesson about acceptance. And something. Yep.
And now I'm writing papers again, I am I am...! -
senioritis: a serious medical condition
Posted: March 25th, 2007, 5:05pm MST
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So in the next two-ish days, I will write three-ish papers, totaling around 18-ish pages. ...What? I was busy for the rest of spring break, alright? I bought some very time-consuming spring tops and worked the whole first half of the week and napped yesterday. Okay? Sheez.
Now that someone has explained that I have enough accumulated credits for this semester's grades to have little to no effect on my GPA...I'm having a lot of trouble with motivation. I want to pass. But that's about it.
Case in point: of the three papers I have to write, I've started on one. It's for my "ethnic diversity" class, Asian American Literature. We're meant to write papers on each of the books we've read so far. So far, I have two-and-a-half pages about how problematic and troubling it is that we're still reading The Joy Luck Club and looking to it for messages about "what it means to be Asian American" (the Prof's words). Meaning, the only work I've done so far is venting my frustrations and I have yet to crack an actual book.
Yeah.
Things I'm Excited About
1. graduation
2. new Doctor Who
3. wearing my new warm-weather clothes
4. September
Not really in that order. Well. Close to that order. Can it be the future already please? -
Famine in Milwaukee Linked To Gabby's Total Eat-o-Thon
Posted: March 16th, 2007, 12:18pm MST
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Seriously, everyone, make me stop eating everything.
Supposedly, this is spring break. Supposedly because it's really just a week where I can work more during the daylight hours and write a thousand papers and prepare a PowerPoint thingy for a class presentation. I'm one of those mysterious people who's so far avoided every opening up PowerPoint. Um. I'm sure there's a manual somewhere...
Grapefruit would like you all to know that purrrrrr purrrrrr snort purrrrrrrrr.![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
sarkastic - VM canceled: good? bad? out of its misery?
And, a poll of lots of importance.
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Dear Everyone Ever Who is Printing a PDF Document,
Posted: March 13th, 2007, 10:58am MST
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File -> Print -> Advanced -> Print As Image -> Print.
Regards,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Computer Lab Consultant
Serious, is that so hard to grasp?
In other news, I remembered at 7:30 last night that there wasn't going to be a new episode of Heroes. So sad! Instead I watched PBS with John Cleese who looks rather a lot like my dad. He does! When I get home I am going to construct an elaborate photo proof thing where John Cleese may actually be my dad, or the other way around perhaps.
In other news, for the duration of our wacky pre-Daylight Saving Daylight Savings, I am an entire hour closer to England! We should do that five more times! Come on!