Thoughts of an Anarchist

beinggirl.co.uk’s tip for a Happy Period:

For the past hour and a half I have been fighting for my life. My opponent? Oh, a mighty foe, strong enough to make grown men shrink away in terror, one that oppressed women for centuries; a tyrant the world over, whom everyone fears. Some, they live their lives by it, afraid of making it worse; some try to fight it, to ignore it, but its shadow only looms
darker and larger. And I have been grappling with this foe in the hopes of vanquishing it, but found it to be even harder than I expected, and I have finally escaped breathing heavily, sweating, but safe in the knowledge that I will not need to tackle it again for a while.

I am talking, of course, of housework. Or, as I like to call it, That Which Will Get You Beaten With The Hoover If You Name It. I have been dancing a merry dance with the vacuum cleaner, as it pulls me whichever way it wants to go, sucking up important objects in its quest to make me unhappy. I have been scrabbling in the dust, coughing and spluttering, trying to wipe away every dirty little smear. I have been TIDYING.

Some people like this sort of thing.

Bloody masochists.

So, I just got this sent to me:

So, looks like the time has come for me to start using this account. I can
resist it no longer! I wandered into your profile and well, I liked what I
saw.. ;p
So, my name is Samantha Cook. I think me and you should be friends, because
you seem pretty nice, and maybe even cute! (it's so tough to tell in this
digital world  anyway, i'd go on and on, but I want to get a response from you.. You should
check out my other profile on this other site, I'm usually on over there:  (my
username is saucy_kitten). Then maybe we could chat sometime! you know what
they say.. appearance captures the eyes, but personality catches the heart..
haha..
talk to you soon,
Samantha Cook

Well, I'm sold.
Abs x

HAY GUESS WHAT? THERE ARE TORCHWOOD SPOILERS BEHIND THIS CUT.

Okay, so, amazingly, I enjoyed it on more levels than ‘oh, you bunch of freaks’. More amazingly, the one who made me laugh the most was Ianto. With his little sarcastic rolling of the eyes and his ‘Don’t want you getting too excited’. Would like to see him be less useless though. SHOOT THE BLOWFISH, YOU BERK. But tops for saving everybody, cause that’s probably usually Gwen’s job.

Speaking of, why was Gwen running them whilst Jack was away? I thought Owen was second-in-command? Although I suppose he kind of demoted himself with the whole shooting Jack thing, and also a team led by Owen would be dead in a few minutes. Gwen was Quite Good, Actually, and I did not wish to punch her in her toothy gapped face, but instead to laugh at her misfortune, which I suppose is a step up in the world. Although, really, Gwen, just leave Rhys so he can go find a girlfriend who doesn’t fall in love with About Everyone Who Isn’t You.

Oh, Tosh. Tosh Tosh Tosh Tosh. I love you, Tosh. Truly, you are the best of them. Why are you actually working here? There is no justice. She flirted with Cap’n John and was useful in saving Owen and doing techie stuff, and as John said she is the beauty and the brains. Quite clearly. I hope she and Martha have lesbian adventures through time and space, and kick the Doctor out, and have a wonderful time doing science and things. Although this seems unlikely.

Doctors. Ah yes, Owen. Owen seems to have had a complete role reversal, and whilst this makes him more likeable, it also makes him less interesting. Still, character development. He seems to have learnt that using alien drugs to get someone to shag you is a Bad Thing, and also that Tosh is awesome. I predict much Tosh and Owen tension.

Also, wow, James Marsters was good. I have never seen him in anything before, and have already heard criticisms that he was exactly like he was in Buffy, but as I do not watch Buffy, this is not really a problem. I liked his costume and his innuendoes and his odd little quirk of the lip. I also really liked the bit where Jack came back (seriously, that death looked agonising) and he was all “But really, how?” because he showed what most of Torchwood rarely show, which is Good Acting.

I am being harsh. Jack was Jack, lovely and fun, with wonderful bits and wooden bits and oh, oh, I’ve just remembered my favourite bit, which was “You’re good on roofs”, oh and also “Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope,” which I laughed far too loudly at.

In conclusion: Good start, good new recurring villain (yes?), nasty lousy wooden bits, I predict downhill from here.

Also, well done for realising that Torchwood really is generally useless, guys. : )

75 words

 

I got 70 on one go. Time to watch QI now, but there’s just time to mention that I don’t think I failed my exam, even though it felt rushed and I had to write three pages in 10 minutes. Ugh.

 

*sniff*

• Shopping.
• Christmas shopping.
• Everything.
• Waterstones.
• Christmas.
• Jeremy.
• Walls.
• Builders.
• Penises.
• Jimmy’s hair.
• My tutor.
• Politics.
• Ponies.
• My hat.
• The sky.
• Straight people.
• Gay people.
• Bisexual people.
• Transgender people.
• Walking.

 As you may or may not be able to guess, I am not particularly fond of Christmas shopping.
 AAARGH.

 I am going to go and stay with my Grandma this Christmas. Also with my brother and Auntie Jin. Oh, wot larks we shall have, eh Pip?

…. Grr.

Mr Fry has a blog on his excellent website, www.stephenfry.com, and for those of you who are technically minded, it turns out that he is as well. He’s also written some rather lovely stuff on fame, addiction, and global warming, none of which are preachy. Each article is roughly as long as it takes you to have a cuppa and a biscuit, or some cheese on toast, which is just lovely.

Oh, I must get a copy of Wilde. It’s a superb film, it really is, and the courtroom scene gets me every time. ‘The love that dare not speak it’s name…’, oh, Oscar Wilde. Can’t wait for January when we start Dorian Gray, which is a beautiful book, even with that frankly irksome chapter in the middle in which we learn in great detail about various carpets Dorian buys - a fascinating look into his insanity, but still incredibly dull. Otherwise, it really is, as IMHO all Oscar Wilde’s work is, a smashing book.

Look, Stephen Fry appears to have a webcam on his mac
(image (c) Stephen Fry):

I look forward to finding out exactly why he is in America and what precisely he is filming. HIV and Me made me go out and tell some of my friends that Stephen Fry said they should wear condoms, so why weren’t they using condoms? God only knows what I’ll end up saying this time. : )

Abs x

No, nor could I, but I have playing at this very moment ‘The Wizard and I’, bless his little heart, from Wicked, which proves me very wrong. The man is completely off his head and I love it.

Why did I take so many essay-centered subjects?

All gone now.

Cut for Doctor Who Series 4 spoilers. You are advised not to read if you are avoiding them, don’t watch Doctor Who, or know the spoilers and are fond of the character they contain.

Hey, remember that optimism I had about Doctor Series 4? Well, Mr T Davies has ruined that, because the lovely Rose Tyler will be coming back, and there is sure to be kissing and hugging and ‘Oh Doctor all I have done is waited for you and not got on with my life because I am incapable of moving on despite the resurrection of my DEAD DAD’ and ‘Oh Rose you are the only thing that makes my life worth living despite the fact that I have had many companions of lesser, equal or greater worth and recently found another time lord but hey, another of my species can’t compare to a shopgirl who likes chips’ and ‘let’s make babies and have mortgages’ and seriously Rose, just GTFO of my fandom, kthnxbye.

It’s not even Rose I had the problem with, she was fine if too clingy and childish for my tastes in Series 2. But it’s the ‘ROSE IS MORE SPECIAL THAN ANYONE ELSE’ stuff they’ve thrown in since I have the problem with. Russell T Davies resurrected Doctor Who, which I thank him for. But he also ruined it.

DAMN HIM DAMN HIM
AND DAMN ROSE TYLER.

*stabs*