[23/09/08] Daleks, Davros and the Shadow Proclamation

I have watched this episode of Doctor Who twice now. Yeah, yesterday morning I watched all the TARDIStacular reaction videos for the episode (Rosi made three) and then decided to watch it again. Then I watched two episodes of Torchwood. Anyway, needless to say, I loved it. How could you not? It had Rose, Martha, Jack, Gwen, Ianto (unfortunately something has happened to Tosh and Owen - even though I didn't like Owen, it's still sad), Sarah Jane and her kind of cute son - as I'm a fair few years older than him I wouldn't go for him, and HARRIET JONES, former Prime Minister. Yes, we know who she is. Oh, not to mention Daleks, Davros and the Shadow Proclamation, which I decided would be an awesome title. I didn't include the Doctor and Donna because it's kind of a given that they're in it

So it started with the Doctor and Donna landing on Earth, going back to the Tardis and then the Earth disappears! That's completely normal. I liked how they had different shots of the different companions and how they reacted. I have to say that I love Wilf, Donna's grandpa. He's the best. I want Jackie Tyler to come back, she is by far the best of the mothers of the companions. Rose was awesome with "Do you like my gun?" I do not like the use of guns, but that was an awesome moment.

I love Martha. I don't care if you don't, I think she's great. Also, another awesome moment was Wilf with the paint gun. It really sucks that it didn't work, because it was such an ingenious idea. I also loved seeing everyone's reactions to the Daleks. I mean, of course you'd be worried. But particularly Jack (I love Jack, in one of the episodes of Torchwood there was this great Jack moment), and how he kissed Gwen and Ianto like they were his children (though there was that episode of Torchwood - same one - where Jack and Ianto have this "there are many things you can do with a stopwatch" conversation. Hmm). I love this show.

THE SHADOW PROCLAMATION!!!!!!! That was amazing. It was all white and kind of scary. And there were Jidoon! I was wondering too about the Tardis not translating things properly, because the Doctor was speaking Jidoonese. It was also really exciting with the Doctor saying things like "Who'd want Klom?" and "The lost moon of Poosh!" mainly because I just like the phrase "lost moon of Poosh". And then the bees disappearing. "What, bees are aliens?" "Don't be so daft, not all of them". I love Donna too. Actually, the only companion I didn't like was that American one from the old series. And classic Doctor, when he is told "you will lead us into battle", he just leaves anyway.

Oh, that whole thing with Rose not being able to get into the network was heartbreaking. And I love Wilf saying that he couldn't get a webcam because "she says they're naughty". And then Harriet died, which was horrible.

Daleks are awesome. My favourite ever Dalek moment is from series 2, with the cybermen. I'm glad that Dalek Kahn made a reappearance, and there was Davros! I want to see this time war, I just want to know exactly what happened. Oh, and the Earth was referred to as "The Crucible". I don't know if what they're doing is anything like the way the events of the play occur. The Daleks are physically attacking, rather than the whole spread of fear and hysteria so that the population collapses and turns on each other. That's more like what happened in Midnight.


Finally (though I may have forgotten something), there was the Doctor/Rose reunion, which was so sad. I quite like Rosi's re-enactment of it with her action figures. And regenerating? What? NO! I do however know that David Tennant is still working on Doctor Who next year, so I wonder as to how it will be figured out. That's all from me, I might go and play around on the BBC website or something.

[12/08/08] Librarians are made of awesome

Except that someone else has borrowed Specials by Scott Westerfeld and it's not due back until the 25th. I just looked at my calendar to see which day of the week that was, and I'm fairly sure it's a Monday, not a Friday. My calendar is still on July. Maybe that's why I subconsciously told Kat that I'd turn up for her 21st six months late. But anyway, they have SUITE SCARLETT and I was all OMGZ about it, and they told me that if I'd gotten it from Scholastic Book Club it would have been $10. They don't distribute Book Club to year 12. If they did, I would have bought it. But I'm ordering it online regardless. The librarians said that when it had been processed and catalogued that I could read it first. They also did this when I asked them to order John Green's books last year.

Nerds to the Grave. And beyond. I already have that T-Shirt designed in my head. Speaking of which, I managed to fit both references to Doctor Who and Harry Potter into an English class. We were reading 'A Man for All Seasons', which is a fantastic play. I love philosophy discussions. Black and Gold is an awesome song.

I forgot to take my phone to school which is actually the most inconvenient thing that's happened for a while. Because the photo lady from the formal came in today, and I didn't have any money with me. (Blow Up the Pokies by The Whitlams is also amazing) So I ended up using my own Visa debit card (yay online purchases - Amazon here I come! Books!) to buy them and mum might pay me back. She was also going to buy me an outfit for the funeral on Thursday. Which I am singing in. I definitely know one of the hymns, apparently know the second and will have to learn the third. And I wanted to Tweet about the awesome librarians.

7 things is an interesting song. The seven things she likes about him are kind of superficial. Although there's that 7th one. Let's count the nerd references in this blog shall we? Or not, I'm too lazy. Em and I also told Ms Barnes that we ate all the soprano ones today. That was hilarious. Particularly her response "oh, you ate them, okay". Now I'm singing sop one for Cantique de Jean Racine which I guess is okay. I've worked out what I'm getting Em for her birthday.

Uhm... something happened in regards to French today. Oh yes, we had a reading SAC (I got so distracted, I hope I do okay) and I was looking up (I shouldn't have driven. You shouldn't have driven, but we got there) some word in the wrong section of the dictionary, and the first word I saw was 'boobs', which was hilarious. There were also some stupid questions, and my 'study', not that you can study for reading, was to attempt reading some of Harry Potter and the Chamber (Bedroom) of Secrets in French. I got sidetracked by the fact that toast in French is toast. Only I would find that funny. Well it's just that the sentence is "Harry recommença à manger son toast" and there's all this nice French language and then TOAST. I can imagine someone saying toast with a really bogan accent too. Anyway, there's some more rimbly rambly scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat (aren't you glad I don't write Nursery Rhymes. Au revoir!

[26/07/08] SUGAR HIGH!!!!!!!

Hell, I've already blogged today for Jane on Nerdy Strangers. But because I am a blog addict and on such a massive sugar high, this needs to be documented. WOOP WOOP WOOP. Jane will be thinking "God this chick is fucking crazy, she should be locked up". Or that's what any sane person should think about me right now. I'm in a strange mook* I have never been drunk, and in my current state, I worry about what I would be like drunk. As we all should. You should see my wide eyes. And now it's time for dinnerz. Pizza-izza-izza!!! That's what I do to words when I'm excited. Must be off! *whooshes*

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I don't know if I still have a sugar high, though I will admit that I had quite a lot of fun when I was. I was literally running between my room and the kitchen/living room. If you look at the twitters I made... wow. I can only say that I have not had one of those moments for a while. Though the last day of Central before breakfast was a bit like that. Randomly doing the nerdfighter sign when no one knows what it means is fun, though I wish I knew some nerdfighters IRL.

You know something about Hairspray? I can never get sick of it. It's more the opposite. We spent the better part of two hours in rehearsal for choir today learning choreography to "You Can't Stop the Beat", so when I got home and was horrified at the state of the football, I put on Hairspray. I've only watched it four times, but I listen to the soundtrack a lot. When my familamilamily (I've decided that that's better than the word family. Some words just sound better when you repeat the middle part) came home from the football and I was quoting it and singing along they asked how many times I'd seen it. They should be worried about watching Rent with me though. I haven't seen that in ages.

Sometimes I wish I lived in musical land, so long as I don't drift over to Fleet Street to see Sweeney Todd. Also, the Chaser's segment "If Life Were a Musical" is one of their best, so I'm putting a clip here.


I hate it when you do that thing where you were going to write something but then you get distracted so you can't remember what you were planning to write. Oh yes. We realised that our choir song is about Doctor Who. I wonder if I can find a clip of it on YouTube. Actually, it was composed fairly recently, so I'll be surprised if I can find it. No, I can't. And it's a choral piece; not what you normally find on YouTube. Woop woop woop! I will be off now in my Tardiiiiiiiiis! *clicks fingers and the Tardis door opens*

*Enters Tardis, which disappears making Tardis sounds*

So maybe my sugar high hasn't worn off. All I know is that the earrings are sparklarklarkling.

[20/07/08] Four msn conversations and a text message conversation...

Are a lot to keep up with! Though I let Em go back to school work, and Mike's gone to bed. He wasn't too emo today, which was nice. What sucks is that so far I only have three right in the footy tipping. And I don't think I can see what my closest rival has tipped. This has been an atrocious round. At least most of the time you can assume that Geelong will win. Which they did. And wtf was wrong with Hawthorn? They shouldn't have lost to St Kilda. Please understand that my interest in AFL is completely shallow, as I have been number one in the tipping competition every week except Round 11.

So onwards from sport, which is not so much fun. Except netball. I miss netball (though not when we only have 6 players and I have to try and play Centre and Wing Defence). And dancing.

On Friday night I went out with Laura, Cath, Kim and Scotttrick Wolfsonson. Laura said "I have to take you to this really awesome pub!", so we went to ELSTERNWICK, which is of course where Scott lives, and went to this place and got hot chocolates that had the consistency of custard. If I liked custard, this would've been more enjoyable. Then we drove past Daily Planet, and I made some sort of stupid remark about how we should go in, before going to the tattoo place. In the words of Cath, it "smelled like something illegal", though I don't know what. The pub wasn't that exciting, and Kim was the only person who got something to drink.

The most exciting part of the night was christening Laura's new car by taking it through its first drive through at Macca's. Actually, speaking of Laura's car, I don't know if I want to get in a car with her for a while. The starts are a bit weird. My mum was pretty worried about it too. She was going through all this stuff about ordering at bars and keeping her updated on my status (alive or dead - now I realise I should've sent her a message saying that I was dead). Anyway, Scott got out of the car because he saw people he knew, and we drove up to the drive through now knowing what we wanted to order. Cath then ordered a McFlurry because she felt like she needed to order something, and then just before we drove off said "I hate McDonald's", which was hilarious. I have no idea why it was so entertaining.

Heather-Lynn and I also had an epic MSN conversation, of which I can't reveal the details, but it was one of the best ever. Because of this, I am planning on reading several books that are analyses of social structure, governments, and corporations. Wow, my sister's rubbed off on me. Most of the books are hers. Damn the politics student in her. I want to go to Melbourne Uni partly because of the PIS. Mostly because of their courses. Either way, that conversation was up there as one of the best I've had with her. The other being the one time it was us, Ella and Mike, and Mike and I took it as our responsibility to give her the Talk.

Yesterday was the party in My Pants. That joke literally never gets old. Ever. Anyway, we celebrated the year anniversary of Accio Deathly Hallows, and when we saw Hank's video, I think we were Happy Dancing, because he's fixed the banning problem, and they're encouraging people to come back, which is exciting. My Pants will live again! I would hold a competition to see who can come up with the most exciting phrases using My Pants, but I'm not sure if anyone actually reads this. And Kat would probably win. So the party was rad, and I got to talk to some people who I don't normally talk to, some I'd never talked to and some I've talked to a lot.

Oh, for some reason I wanted to talk about going shopping with my mum. It was for birthday presents, because there are July birthdays. Maddy's party is tomorrow, and Megan and Emma have their birthdays on Wednesday. Seriously, I think everyone I know is either turning 18 or 21. I don't know why I'm talking about this, as I have nothing to say. Actually, the ABC shop has some awesome Doctor Who merchandise. There was this sonic screwdriver/psychic paper set, as well as a DALEK HELMET which has a voice thinger winger like Michael Buckley's so when you speak you sound like a Dalek. But we didn't get those. Seriously, if you need to buy me a Christmas present, the ABC shop is a good place to start. Also, the lady at Borders is a Doctor Who fan, which made my day.

There was a very uninteresting blog post, and I have an hour and a half on public transport tomorrow to get to Maddy's, which should be fun. Me and Em on trains and buses for an hour. Watch out world! We haven't seen each other in over three weeks.