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[July 03 2009] |
so it's like quarter to eleven and I was thinking I should go to bed soon, and then I thought I should give Holly some more food. So I opened his cage and he went "o thx!" and jumped out. And now he's running around having a grand old time rubbing his chin on things and occasionally coming over to lick my leg and he just makes me smile.
I also broke my not-writing-things spree and finished a fic, though I may write a smutty coda, and then I have my Ianto/Jenny follow up to write. Plus there's the potential for Torchwood Five ridiculousness (though today's new canon implies that T5 is - was, rather - Torchwood India. I don't care, James Goss, I had http://www.torchwoodfive.co.cc already.). And apparently my father, my older brother and I all have the same sweater because it's fleece lined and warm and only cost $37 even if the smallest size they had was a men's M which is way too big for me. I don't care. I'm wearing another style in a men's S right now, which is just plain too big, but I kind of like being swamped in oversized sweaters and shirts.
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[July 01 2009] |
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More spoilers zomg. I'm not doing one of these for Into the Silence because I just... didn't take any notes when I was reading it. It was good, but of the three it was the weakest, I think, though it may just be that it was the most Gwen-heavy and I wanted more Ianto.
( SPOILZ I HAZ THEM )
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[June 30 2009] |
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Oh my god so many spoilers behind the cut including excerpts from the actual text.
( SPOILZ I HAZ THEM )
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[June 30 2009] |
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I HAVE THE NEW TORCHWOOD BOOKS.
*scurries off to read*
ETA:
MOTHERFUCKING ZOMBIES. AND ANDY. FUCK YES.
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[June 30 2009] |
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Holly broke into my shopping and stole my parsley.
And now he's looking at me funny coz I'm cracking up at something that just happened in the last ep of Sarah Jane Adventures.
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[June 28 2009] |
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[on Transformers the movie]
Zeborah: The important thing about that movie is--
Sass: Megan Fox is an enormous hypocrite and I hate her.
Zeborah: No, the important thing is, they don't have the theme song!
Dad: I think the important thing is that it ends.
Zeborah: Well no, because that means the people who go to see it eventually come back out.
God my family is so harsh, it's amazing.
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[June 28 2009] |
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I'm watching the first ep of The Sarah Jane Adventures (and I kind of want to icon Alan and Maria Jackson and maybe Kelsie for random ethnic goodness) but I have to say.... "Okay, we've just moved in, I'm suddenly a solo dad for the first time - of course, the first thing I'm going to do is let my child run off into town with a random kid who just turned up at the doorstep who I haven't been introduced to or anything!" She didn't even freaking ask permission or tell him she was going until he stopped them to say goodbye.
The first conversation between Alan and Sarah Jane was pretty hilarious though. "Thanks for making us feel welcome!"
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| only tangentally related to the warnings drama |
[June 27 2009] |
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Just now come across a fic with this warning:
Warnings: A touch of slash (in a loving way !), a hint of het-slash and one moment of extreme violence.
I am confused. Violence I understand, obviously, but what is this "het-slash" and why does slash need to be specified as "in a loving way"?
BEWILDERED.
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[June 26 2009] |
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how can such a teeny animal, that in and of itself doesn't actually make any noise louder than a murmur except when screaming in extreme pain, be so noisy? it's the thumping and clomping... the websites on rabbit communication say they thump when there's danger to alert the rest of the warren (/people), but holly has not read these websites. he thumps to tell me he's bored of his cage now and wants to come out. today it was at 8am, but he's done it at 4am before. and then he runs around going "clomp clomp clomp" all over the floor. i also have a fairly impressive bruise on the inside of my forearm where he was giving me lovebites.
though somehow unexpectedly expensive / unexpectedly noisy / expectedly messy / occasionally painful with affection < FUZZY AND DARLING. especially coz he is alive and able when by all rights he shouldn't be.
have been playing sims - the doctor set the kitchen on fire once already and keeps burning his food, took many days to find a job and is generally a rather incompetent father, while jenny has top marks, more friends than him and is capable of actually cooking a meal - and working through the completed fic from tardis big bang. novella-length torchwood fic for the yay! and, you know, basically guaranteed that they're going to be of decent quality, unlike some of the many-short-chaptered epics that get posted to the fic comms I'm on.
i should really be writing my own fic. have to figure out how they track their dude down for the chase scene and get into jack's headspace for the swimming bit.
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[June 26 2009] |
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Incidentally, my mother (because she's nice) went to the pharmacy yesterday to pick up my medication refills, because the pharmacy doesn't want anyone to come in if they have flu symptoms.
Pharmacy: Sick people, DO NOT WANT.
We were discussing this just now while I got my breakfast and that doctors' clinics have the same signs up and mum reckons they're running the risk of someone dying of meningitis or something coz they didn't go to the doctor. Which actually isn't implausible, it seems to be more common here than in the states (I've seen it used as an "omg wtf uncommon!" illness on medical shows) and I can see someone mistaking stiff neck for general muscle/joint aches, and stiff neck is the one symptom that EVERYONE knows is linked to meningitis.
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| What I've been doing instead of writing (again) |
[June 25 2009] |
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First off, I finished reading Skypoint today, which means I've basically read all the tie-in novels except for Slow Decay, and I have the three that are coming out soon pre-ordered.
Mostly, though, I've dug out my Sims game again. 2, not 3, because I'm not cool enough (I need an Intel duo core processor, which I decidedly do not have - but then again, I shouldn't even be able to run Sims 2 on this machine, let alone the four or five expansions I have installed.)
Much of the neighbourhood is comprised of myriad characters from RP games in the HPverse, but today I was mostly focused on the Jones house, which is home to: Jack Harkness and Ianto Jones, who are going steady but definitely not engaged or married kthx - Jack has the popularity aspiration and his lifetime want is to reach the top of athletics career, and Ianto has fortune/business. Martha Jones has the knowledge aspiration and is going for the top of medicine, though she has already been fired once (don't drive ambulances on the footpath, kids) and then stayed in the hot tub too long, overheated, set herself on fire and died. Luckily!!!! Ianto ran downstairs and begged for her life. She was very grateful. Also Owen and Toshiko Harper (who aren't married, I just couldn't be fucked messing around to get Tosh's surname right) - Owen has knowledge and wants to be a mad scientist and Tosh has fortune (IIRC?) solely so her lifetime want can be maxing the criminal career. Aside from Martha being a tool with no self-preservation, things are going pretty well, with no unexpected offspring, etc.
Then this evening I started the Who house as well, which, obviously, is the Doctor and Jenny (Tennant's version, though Sims 2 is still pretty shoddy for recreating faces on). Jenny's only a teenager so she's gonna have to go to school, and her aspiration is pleasure - her lifetime want is 50 first dates but I'm gonna change that coz it's fucking impossible. The Doctor's aspiration is knowledge (of course) and his lifetime want is to reach the top of - get this - adventurer career. So perfect. I couldn't actually remember if that career was even tied to an aspiration and was going to reroll it until I got Mad Scientist, but I like how it is. All that's actually happened at that house so far is a pillow fight, the Doctor failing to find a job in the paper, and Jenny settling down to study cooking.
I'm about to go to bed though and while I'm waiting for sleep I'm gonna try and focus on, like, solidifying plot and shit. So that I can write more. Coz I want to finish my stories.
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[June 23 2009] |
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( images )
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[June 23 2009] |
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Holly had an actual vet appointment today and his last antibiotic shot. No more twice weekly visits! Thank god, I do not like the cold and he's heavy when he's wriggling around in his carrier. I just have eye drops to give him a couple times a day. He does actually seem to be holding his head a wee bit straighter, it was at about a 45 degree angle at one point this morning. So now it's pretty much just see how he goes.
Apparently they had another one come in recently that died of kidney failure. :( They've had like three deaths in the last month.
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[June 22 2009] |
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I am DYING.
No, I'm not, but I am not feeling well. We have a vet appointment in the morning and then I'm staying in.
Had Holly upside down on my lap today clipping his nails and petting his tummy and found a few mats, which I guess makes sense coz I never stroke or brush there and his fur's reasonably thick. I got a fair few out though. And he is so so cute when he's on his back. He's all feets and belleh.
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[June 22 2009] |
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Nightmares all night and couldn't pull myself out of them until now (ten am). I feel half dead still. My bunny licked my feet and stood on me while he ate parsley which was cute but I feel so sluggish and my brain is heavy.
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[June 19 2009] |
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My bunny is five months old. :D He is the cutest evah still. He's so flopsy!
Also, I left my bag on the floor today and he keeps licking it. I don't know why. He's weird. He had to get stuck with needles four times today because the first needle the vet tech tried wasn't injecting properly for some reason. Poor baby. He's got another check up on Tuesday morning and I just hope it's not too cold I hate going out on cold winter mornings. :(
Why is it that every Torchwood AU one-shot I write decides it wants to be a series? I need Jenny and Ianto to stfu so I can finish the Mutual Service-verse fic I'm halfway through.
ps: Children of Earth to air in the UK sometime during the week of July 4-10. Want. Want now.
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[June 16 2009] |
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See how pretty. :D Not sure if I should add more interests or leave it as everlasting peace and damn fine coffee.
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[June 15 2009] |
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I always feel so bad when Pepper bitches about people, esp the Longbottoms. I promise I do not hate you really!
( Neither does Tweak )
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[June 11 2009] |
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After posting in some rabbit places and spending lots of time cuddling Holly I have decided that I am going to keep trying. On the advice of internet-people I got some rolled oats today and he seems to be happily eating those now, and he's also been reasonably active today, throwing things round, being affectionate and generally enjoying himself. Tomorrow I'm going to take him to the vet and tell them what's up and ask if they can do a culture or try a different antibiotic or something, and see if I can get something similar to Oxbow Critical Care (the only place in NZ that seems to stock it if I do an internet search is in Auckland). I'll probably also pick up some alfalfa hay since I need to go in for another bag of litter anyway. At the moment my main priorities are making sure he eats and secondly that his eyes are alright.
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[June 10 2009] |
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Last night I was holding Holly in my lap and his breathing was so snuffly and laboured and I thought, okay, tomorrow I think I'll make the call. But today... at least I can't hear him breathing, and his pellet bowl was almost empty for once even though he's ignored the carrot tops that have been there for a day and a half (he is eating spinach, though) and I don't know. I don't know. Maybe I will take him in on Friday for his shot and say I'd like to give him a week or two. If he gets even worse during that time, or if there's still no improvement after, then I will have to let him go while he's at least still able to move around on his own.
He should at least live to be five months old, if nothing else.
edit: His breathing has been a little better for most of today, but I've been trying to get him to eat something other than hay and a few pellets without much success. He went for the spinach and nibbled on the banana but he hasn't touched the apple or carrot. Then when I turned the vacuum cleaner on he freaked out in a way he never has before - he used to be fine with the vacuum, curious if anything - so I had to switch it off in a hurry and go to get him out of his cage to hold him and calm him down. He was turning rapidly in circles digging in under the hay and toppled over a couple of times. He's also trembling, which isn't a temperature issue.
On the upside... his cage is a little cleaner and my room is a lot cleaner? I ended up using a brush and shovel to clean my room.
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[June 09 2009] |
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Have returned from the vet.
Holly's headtilt is not improving. Despite the antibiotics, antiparasitics and steroids his eye's started weeping due to the difficulty in closing it, and he's started snuffling because the weeping is trickling over his nose and making it harder to breathe. He's still active and eating, but he's getting underweight and beginning to turn in circles more.
Dr Heather is recommending he be put to sleep and sent me home to think about it over the next couple of days. I don't know what to do. I haven't stopped crying for the last hour. I just want to give him a cuddle and make it all better and I can't even though I've done everything right, above and beyond the necessary. RIght now I'm just watching him grooming and wishing I could get inside his head and know how he feels. I don't know if he's happy or not. He chases me round and cuddles me but is it really enough to keep him alive? I don't want to let go, but if he's suffering I can't put my own selfishness ahead of his wellbeing.
I almost wish he would die quietly in his sleep so I don't have to decide but he isn't unwell enough for that. I have to make the choice for him and I don't know how.
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[June 05 2009] |
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I love being a bitch to people on Yahoo Answers. It's their fault for asking stupid as fuck questions.
I have read two more Torchwood books and I like these ones that are set in mid season two because they actually have Ianto in them. I was expecting to like Trace Memory more than Pack Animals, but Pack Animals was so much fucking cooler. That shit was awesome. (Though Ianto's "I am bored, barefoot, eating pizza and having a James Bondathon" moments in TM were pretty neat. And him and Jack "having the place to themselves", but only as long as it didn't interrupt his James Bondathon. I'm imagining Jack doing distracting things to him while he watches Goldfinger, now...)
( and a fucking meme )
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| Curiosity I has it |
[June 04 2009] |
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What weapons do police officers in your country of origin/residence typically carry?
There was an article on the front page yesterday about how two injuries incurred in the line of duty were good examples of why it would be smart to train our police to carry tasers. In both of them they defended themselves with pepper spray, though in one incidence it just wound the guy up. I'm fairly certain some of our police are allowed to carry guns, and I'm not sure about nightsticks, it just seems that pepper spray is a wee bit pathetic.
Holly is onto me, he wouldn't let me pick him up this morning to give him his medicine. I had to get the syringe in his mouth long enough to use it while he was sitting on the floor in front of me, having lured him over with pettings.
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[June 03 2009] |
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( song lyrics )
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[June 03 2009] |
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Vegetables and treats: $25
Toys: $30
Rabbit ignoring them all to tear up a piece of cardboard: Priceless.
eta:
He is, however, now eating the treats I got him that are good for preventing hairballs. I only got them (and another variety of the same brand that helps control odor) because they actually do some good and he's only getting a few a week. I was rather more unimpressed by prettily dyed "rabbit and guinea pig fruit and vegetable treats" with "high protein and fibre" - 9% protein and 4.2% fibre. FOUR POINT TWO? That is not high! Fat was 6%, and personally I try to feed things that are more like... 20% fibre, 3% fat. This is why he lives off hay, pellets and vegetables.
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| Overheard at home |
[May 31 2009] |
(on tv) Merlin: The future isn't set in stone!
Me: But some points in time are fixed. Like Pompeii.
Dad: But if you go back far enough you could change it.
Sister: Not Pompeii, it's a fixed point.
Mum: According to who?
Me+Sister: Dr Who!
Sister: He should know, he's a Timelord.
Me: And he's the one who blew it up.
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| I jizzed in my pants :( |
[May 30 2009] |
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[May 28 2009] |
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GD. I WISH I HAD JELLY. WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG TO MAKE. OMG.
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