sundries

- Patty is in Damascus shopping.

- Tonight's plan? Lots of cleaning and, oh yes, finishing Doctor Who, series 3 so I can have that freak out and be here and now for tomorrow. I know, I've never been here and now in my life, but what passes for it for me.

- That's it. Gotta zooom.

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This is an astounding piece of writing. Astounding. I don't even know how to talk about, where to place it on the true/real/false/fake Venn diagram or why exactly after reading it, I can't tell you the one relevant thing I have to say about it, even though I've told you that story before.

http://www.esquire.com/features/heath-ledger-last-days

I'm so cool, but also an idiot

Weirdest result of the Torchwood fixation?

Hideous/difficult/traumatic household tasks no longer phase me.

Climbing up to our ridiculously high ceilings to change lightbulbs (I am deeply afraid of even minor heights) -- no problem.

Throwing my shoulder into the jammed window about 20 times to get it to open? (after I had to take a razor blade to the paint that had sealed it as well) Sure.

Moving the unfuckingbelievably heavy airconditioner out of the office and into the bedroom? Yeah, why not? (although I should have climbed out on the fire escape, pushed it across and them climbed back in -- would have been more efficient, but I only thought of it after the fact).

Figuring out how to make the air conditioner not fall out the window? Well I whined to you guys and Kat and, after getting her advice, braced it against the fire escape with a couple of bookshelves and a 3lb dumbbell. What a mess.

And somehow I decided to do all this while wearing white pants, which certainly aren't white anymore. Because I am nothing if not inappropriate lygung ho.

ANYWAY. These are minor, stupid tasks. But they are not within the realm of shit I would have been willing to do or thought myself capable of doing a year ago. Hell, the stuff that actually took strength, I probably couldn't have done pre-fencing.

It's amazing what a bit of arm strength and a lot of bullshit can do for a life.

Seriously.

Because NO ONE wants to ask their gf to install an air conditioner for them when she's just gotten home from a 2+ month dig.

Fucking hell. This just leaves with the dishes and other such things. Waaaaay less fun.

DW, series 3

Right. So just finished Human Nature/Family of Blood.

I can't decide if I can't articulate about it or don't wwant to. But among, many, many other things, there was a moment that so perfectly captured my experience of anguish as a writer (specifically what I was trying to describe after I wrote the first Annie story and couldn't do anything for a couple of days after) ....

*shudder*