All these things that I have done

So, while in Canada, we bought some actual physical books. I realised that bookshops have become things that I only go into when on holiday. In fact, that's practically true for any sort of shops. I can't be bothered to go to the city centre these days. Anyway. We went to a lovely bookshop, we browsed, I bought actual books!

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As well as books, one evening I decided I didn't have the energy to go out and requested an evening of TV. aveleh suggested that she'd been planning to try out Orphan Black and oxfordslacker had already seen some and liked it so we went for it. We ended up blitzing the first four episodes that night because the moment I saw episode one I was totally addicted. It has some amazing characters, incredibly acted and I really enjoy the plotting as well, although I can imagine that the more scientifically inclined might find that snagging them. I am slightly bemused that no-one had put me onto it beforehand - I have mentioned that I'm interested in good genre TV shows, right? I obviously need to improve my recommendations system - does anyone know anyone who was reccing it? UK people I'm letting off on the grounds that it hasn't actually aired here yet (despite being a BBC thing - I didn't realise BBC America made it's own stuff too). It's actually coming to BBC3 in the autumn, apparently and everyone should watch it!

What toys should the IT Crowd set include? I think they should also solicit T-shirt recommendations for Roy :)

ETA: Actually, they are soliciting T-shirt suggestions!

So, recently I have started reading fanfic*. I have also started enjoying Torchwood**. These facts are not unconnected and they're connected in an interesting (to me) way so I thought I would write about that. In a very rambling way.

( rambling about fic and me )

( the point, more or less )

* yes, alright, you can all just pull faces and move on if you like, but I'm enjoying it
** see *

I'm watching Ugly Betty and I quite like it but to be honest, she's not really ugly. She's just wearing braces. Which rather undermines the concept.

My new TV is cool :) It even gets Al-Jazerra (sp?) - the 'afghan' TV station which broadcasts the Osama bin Laden tapes. This evening I watched Charmed, Ground Force and Powerpuff girls! And I missed Poirot!

Good thing: Have finally (fingers crossed and touch wood) shaken off the squits.
Bad thing: Whole week of being ill/insurance woman/etc has meant that I haven't got any revision done at all

While obviously that's not a huge problem because I haven't booked my exams yet, it's not good because I really need to get on with it and finish the MCSE.

Good thing: Sky have sent me my viewing card for my forthcoming satellite dish
Bad thing: They haven't sent me my contract yet.

It's always possible that the phone conversation etc was sufficient but I'm sure I remember the guy saying that I'd have to send a photocopy of my tenancy agreement with the contract so that they could be sure that I wasn't the previous tenant trying to sneak in under a new name. Hmmm.

Update They have now sent me my contract. Phew. Sorted.

So here I am again. At work if not exactly raring to go. I am so fed up with being ill. It sucks. I had a panic attack last night when I drifted off to sleep then became unable to breath through the nose which woke me up in a panic - I nearly hyperventilated and had to call Alex over to calm me down. Luckily he was just down the road visiting some friends of ours so he was there really quickly and got me sorted out and stuff. I felt bad for having worried him but glad he was there. Maybe I'll try and pop along to a GP and see if they can suggest anything I can do. I already eat a lot of veg and stuff so I doubt it's vitamins but maybe I'm missing something else out.

As a result of illness, had v. quiet weekend. Rented Josie and the Pussycats and X-men to watch again and enjoyed both (I must buy Josie when it's available). Other than that, generally slobbed about at home and then wandered over to Jeremy's on Sun evening to watch Samurai Jack - it's so stylised :) We like.

Grrr. The CPL are away until Jan 2nd and NTL haven't run cable down the gravel drive/path leading up to my house so I can't have cable. Bugger.

Finally, I have found their weakness! They may have blocked mail.yahoo.com but they haven't blocked geocities.yahoo.com! Now theres a chance I'll actually update my website instead of just saying that I will! I plan to write a few rants - maybe even the one on apathy that I'm (you guessed it) to apathetic to actually get round to. I might even put some book reviews up or something. What I really need is either a scanner or a digital camera to put my photos up. A friend of mine had borrowed a mavaka from work over the weekend which was fantastic - saves your photos straight to floppy. I really wanted one but I think I'd better buy the laptop first.

Everythings a bit up and down at the moment. I'm still unsure about where I'm going to live next year - the last minute opportunity of sharing a house with a friend of mine has thrown out my plans. It would be really cool if it comes off but up till now I have been looking at houses for 1 person, not 2 so I have to sort it out all over again. Plus I've just heard that I'm not getting a free car from my grandparents after all - a bit of a pain, but not too bad as after the move I wouldn't have used it much anyway and on the plus side they feel a bit guilty about it and so they're going to buy me a TV for the new flat.

I'm dithering about whether to get cable for the new flat when I get it. On the one hand, it would be cool to be able to watch cartoons after midnight and watch the new season of Buffy before the videos come out but on the other I don't actually watch that much TV at the moment and in a way thats a pretty good thing - leaves me plenty of time for actually doing stuff. I suppose it depends where the house I end up getting is. If its in the Cowley Road then I won't bother because I have 2 sets of friends there who already have cable so I can just go up and watch it there but if not then I'll have to get it myself. Ho Hum