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- When 88 degrees means the heat has broken, life is a little cruel.

- The iPod is working again. And, having added airspaniel's awesome Torchwood playlist to my awesome Torchwood playlist I am a very happy girl.

- Fencing tonight.

- Terrible work schedule over the next five days.

- I have an extra ticket to the Regency Ball in NYC on June 28. $20. Let me know if you want.

- I know I mentioned letters from Patty last night, but letters from Patty! Mailing another to her today.

- Worked on book with Kali yesterday. Now that we've rewritten the religious history of Western Europe for the last 2000 years five times, I think we've solved the problem. That we've managed to do this while constantly interrupting the conversation to say something about as cogent as "Jack -- oh my god!" or "Chris Eccleston!" isn't just surprising, it's alarming. Now we just need named for everything.

- Saw my parents last night. This revolved around them insisting I had dyed my hair again when I haven't (this is the parental version of people insisting I am ten years younger than I am when I'm not) and my mother being confused when I told her I think Keith Olbermann is hot.

Let's pause for a moment to discuss how that can be possible, shall we? Because the ideas of general aesthetic appreciation, wishing I looked that good in a suit, bisexuality (a term I'm admittedly less enthused about these days but is useful to the discussion) and hey, his sentence structure turns me on were really lost on her. Although she thinks he's hot too. But she's straight, so that's apparently not confusing.

On the plus side, at least they always ask about Patty now and like stories about us being cute and romantic.

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[redstapler.livejournal.com]

I think people of our parents' ages can't accept bisexuality. It's too complicated for them.

My mom has no trouble with homosexuality, but bisexuality, even female bisexuality is beyond her.

This information comes to light, usually at family dinners with her best friend. They insist that a) people have to choose ::eyeroll::, and that b) if they, in their thirty-odd years of friendship, and mutual appreciation for each others' beauty never wanted to have a romantic relationship, no one else possibly could have the same happen. (Which is extra funny, because thinking on it, my friendship with Hilary is most similar to their friendship. Heh.)

I think--I hope it's a generational mental block. I can't entertain the alternative, because it will just make me angry.

[rm.livejournal.com]

At my mom has graduated to confusion over an assumption of sluttiness.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Ah,me! Well if you like more than one thing you must be gluttonous.;(
(There's a glutinous joke in there somewhere, and that's why we don't go in the cellar after dark...)

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

About the weather - things should equalize after the weekend. I know that's a time to wait, and you guys downstate in The City are always way hotter than we are. I wish I could send you some of our PERFECT weather today.

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

But that storm last night - did you see it!? I kept expecting the TARDIS to swirl through the sky.

God, I have a one track mind these days.

Did you watch the youtube thingy?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, you know I hate storms, right? Like loathe them? Lightening scares the shit out of me and I hate water on my face. Yeah, well, I thought I knew that too, because my parents called me (I was just leaving their house as it started) freaking out and telling me to come back to their place for shelter, and I was like "no" and then stood on the corner of 106th and 1st in it for ages, because it was just the most awesome thing ever. What the hell?

And yeah, watched the thing this morning. Wow, so like, at some point Rose needs to pause from the "omg, what" of the regeneration and be like "but Jack...." which is a moment we definitely need fic for since canon bungled it.

Also, there's a bit of new TW news out. Nothing spoilery, but when they say the new season is going to turn Jack's life upside down, I'm just like "oh god, not more!" Poor bastard!

[marchek.livejournal.com]

I was somehow completely oblivious to the storm last night, didn't know anything happened until coworkers mentioned it this morning. I spent the entire evening watching the Doctor Who Season 2 special features disc. My apartment must be like the TARDIS, completely insulated from the outside world.

[rm.livejournal.com]

But is it bigger on the inside than it is on the outside?

[marchek.livejournal.com]

I wish. Having lots of wasted space doesn't really count.
In other news, it's official I've hooked Alan and Doctor Who. He insisted on staying up past midnight last night to watch the David Tennant video diary on the special features disc, I've caught him searching for John Barrowman on youtube, and just this morning he sent me an update on Billie Piper's newest tv gig (a show that revolves around her being a call girl).

[rm.livejournal.com]

Hahahahaa. That YouTube search surely yielded some hilarious results, as people have sent me to some seriously insane talk show appearances Barrowman has made.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

Yes, he has stumbled upon many a crazy talk show appearance.
While he will never involve himself in any fandom, I'm glad that he will at least know what I'm talking about when I make various DW or TW references. I'm hoping to cultivate something akin to how he is knowledgeable enough about HP to know what an unbreakable vow is but scared enough of fandom to let it remain my world.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Well, the weird thing about Doctor Who is there's a very mainstream, full of guys fandom for it too. And then there is the Livejournal contingent. What really fascinates me though is all the straight guys I know who are really invested in Jack and Ianto's relationship on Torchwood.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

He's mostly interested in David Tennant as the Doctor. The actor is what hooked him on the show. He didn't care for Eccleston and ignored the first season when I was watching it.

I think his fascination with Barrowman is primarily for his past singing career (and the fact that he's married to an architect). He has only seen the first three episodes of Torchwood and isn't terrible invested in the character yet. I'm going to reintroduce it to him soon, I just can't bombard him with too many things at once. He's latched onto Doctor Who and that's good enough for me right now.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also, once you get to Season 3, Jack's back on Doctor Who with Tenant so maybe that will help.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

A couple of years ago, when my mother told a neighbor who had met previous of my boyfriends that I was living uptown with Mira, and the neighbor asked if I was bisexual, my mother said "no, she's just attracted to both men and women."
And you know she's a fairly enlightened parent, as these things go.
So yeah.

[00goddess.livejournal.com]

On the plus side, at least they always ask about Patty now and like stories about us being cute and romantic.

That is a HUGE step forward. Huge.