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I have just visited the cat. While she is still not eating on her own and is still jaundiced, today she sat up, meowed, try to come out of her little hospital enclosure and was otherwise more interactive with me. She also seemed less bloated and seemed to be breathing better. While we could still get a lot of bad news tomorrow, this is the first time in days I've had actual hope for her, and it's good to see her less miserable.

Jack's back. Actually, I just chopped off all my hair. Thank god. I feel about a bazillion times better. It's cute (at least it was until the fucking hairdresser tried to make it flouffy -- LEAVE IT ALONE -- I AM NOT A POODLE). Once I wash it it'll be near perfect. I'll get a little trim before Gally, and we'll be good to go.

Okay, so the response to expensive cat illness shouldn't be retail therapy, but I caved and bought myself a new pair of eyeglasses. The frames are Ray-bans, god help me (only funny if you are a child of the 80s, I think) -- fairly rectangular, gunmetal grey, and really, really, REALLY awesome. I spent more than I wanted to, but hey, they'll be ready tomorrow. Transitions lenses too -- so sunglasses and not!

Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death: Terminal Sedation. I tried to read this last night, and failed, which is unlike me. Got through it this morning.

The NY Times on marching bands. But really? It just makes me want to watch Drumline again. I love that movie so much it's embarrassing.

Really need to order/get a stud set for my tux like five minutes ago. If not today, tomorrow. I resisted the urge to traumatize Patty with the easy availability of one celebrating her alma mater. Her alma mater is like a fandom. It's really scary.

cupidsbow is doing this brilliant thing of 12 Days of Cliche with Torchwood fan offerings. Day 2 was mpreg, which is weird in TW fandom, since a) it's canonically relevant (I say relevant as we don't know if Jack was lying or not) and b) it actually can be used to address a lot of other stuff that is central to TW canon. I find TW is the first and only fandom I'll read mpreg in, and I wonder why that is. It's not erotic to me, and it's certainly not making these men seem more familiar to me or my experience. I suppose it's the unlikeliness -- and that is familiar. Jack or Ianto having a damn baby is only marginally more absurdist than my having one. Or something.

marchek sent me a remarkable little poem, 221B, by Vincent Starrett about Sherlock Holmes, that in its first couple of lines really speaks to what I'm doing for the Bristol paper, and I think would also be of interest to many Torchwood fen.

While I didn't much care for Part 1 of The End of Time I gotta say the new trailers for Part 2 (especially this one) give me chills. I normally don't consider trailers spoilers, but these are pretty spoilertastic. I have a lot of hope that RTD's habit of making the second half of two-parters too big manifested in the first half this time, and that the second half is going to be cold and chilling. Also one of the other trailers has the sentence "he must stand at arms or lose himself and all this world." HELLO THEMES FROM CHILDREN OF EARTH, I SEE YOU.

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[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, I haven't thought of "221 B" since college, when I had it posted on the door of my dorm room.

Part one of EOT felt so overstuffed to me. They kept throwing all these plot elements at the viewer -- Saxon coven! Yet another crazy rich guy chasing immortality! Disguised aliens! -- that normally would get individual episodes. Plus, the end felt like "The Empty Child: Mad Timelord Edition." That said, I cannot wait to see how it all plays out.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping this was a case of RTD frontloading the stuff that, for me, normally makes his episodes fall-down and that the second half will be filled with the stuff I think he does very well (and which was there, but obscured in the first half of EOT -- the stuff with the Doctor and Wilf, the quiet scenes with the Doctor and the Master, etc.).

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

I loved the cafe scene, especially the "Someday I'll die" / "Don't you dare" exchange, which came just as I was thinking, "Cheer up, emo Timelord." (I can't help comparing Ten's mid- end-of-life crisis to Four's quiet trepidation when he spots The Watcher.)