It's cooler today, but about a 100 times more humid. It's truly, truly disgusting and like living on a planet with unscented pea soup for atmosphere.
Today's goal: Letting a bunch of anger go because it doesn't matter if it's right or justified or if I'm entitled to my emotions. It's not solving anything, it's not going to solve anything, and it's just distracting from pretty much everything else in my life. Ah, parents.
Another hard day of work today, but then things ease up and Patty and I have dance tickets tomorrow and there's a vintage beach thing we're going to on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Last night Patty and I had a hilarious and sort of bizarre conversation about how Cardiff will be good for her career as a pirate.
In the UK does anyone have a feeling about Easy Hotel vs. Travelodge?
Having done a bit of reading on Tomorrow's Joe yesterday, I think I'll be able to manage writing my proposal for the D*C academic conference today.
Also, this just crossed my radar. There's adapting the death stuff (current paper isn't just about Ianto at all, but there's plenty of room to do something on death and mourning across DW properties, because yo, regeneration), and there's the deromanticization of immortality across Jack's arc thing I've been screwing with. I'll come up with something.
I'm also being a responsible person and joining The Popular Culture Association (today) and The Science Fiction Research Association (actually in 2011, since they run their membership by calendar years and it's stupid to join now, grrr). 'Cause like I should, or something.
A non-scientific poll on body image and geek events. One thing that popped out at me: over 40% of respondents (who are overwhelmingly female) report having experienced unwanted touching at cons. Check it out.
A man who sleeps with a prostitute is not allowed to donate blood for one year. A gay man may not donate blood ever. Debate on blood donation rules heats up.
Last night on Buffy: I'm so glad that Dawn shoplifting thing is finally out. Because that was so awkward and looming. Not sure how I feel about Willow refusing to do magic when it was a pragmatic solution to a potentially life and death problem. And then fucking Riley comes back! Like the wife. Riley's still boring. Spike is "the Doctor?!?" I like Buffy's acceptance that dumb-ass schemes are just part of who Spike is. Love her calling him William. Don't necessarily believe she was just using him or that I would have written her walking away there and in that way. Was grateful for the break from Evil Nerd Conglomerate.
It's interesting that immortality is often sort of a curse in sci-fi (Jack, Fellig - a one-shot X-Files character)when sci-fi fans are sort who would like to live to see something like routine space travel or communion with aliens.
Also, the Whoniverse argues that heroism is sacrificing your life for a cause. But because of regeneration and Jack's immortality, two of the biggest heroes in the (new) Whoniverse, don't actually get to be, unless you buy, in Jack's case, Face of Boe.
I was totally thinking of radioactive spiders when I replied. GEEKISH!
True, and I think that's why Jack's "deaths" are painful and disturbing, because he does sacrifice himself (and most of the time when he dies, there's someone around who doesn't know he can come back, to display the appropriate amount of "OMG HE'S DIED TO SAVE X!" reaction -- or fool the nemesis).
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Date: 2010-05-27 03:37 pm (UTC)Which is why the vamp!Ianto fic happens. It's more romantic than: "OOPS. An industrial accident made me immortal!"
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Date: 2010-05-27 03:40 pm (UTC)Er, sorry. Just... geek moment.
Also, the Whoniverse argues that heroism is sacrificing your life for a cause. But because of regeneration and Jack's immortality, two of the biggest heroes in the (new) Whoniverse, don't actually get to be, unless you buy, in Jack's case, Face of Boe.
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Date: 2010-05-27 03:45 pm (UTC)True, and I think that's why Jack's "deaths" are painful and disturbing, because he does sacrifice himself (and most of the time when he dies, there's someone around who doesn't know he can come back, to display the appropriate amount of "OMG HE'S DIED TO SAVE X!" reaction -- or fool the nemesis).