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TV tonight? Has made me a happy bunny. Beyond words.

Doctor Who was exactly as awesome as the supremely awesome trailer and then had sprinkles of fantasticness on top. I may implode waiting for next week. Am too hot and too-much-cider-on-top-of-no-food giddy to write anything coherent right now, other than omg that was more awesome than anything. Right up there with Blink and all the other superb episodes.

Am giddy with glee. Who! I love you so much when you are on top of your game, because you are truly fantastic. Now just don't screw up the second part as you have been known to do. Don't you dare.

Also I actually voted on I'd Do Anything for the first time. For the first time ever on any of these shows, I think (I might've voted for Lee last year but I don't think I ever got round to it). The lady who says "You have voted for Jessie!" has an Irish accent. It was very cute and vaguely hilarious.

Also, I hope Gwion is the Oliver if we do go to see the finished musical. I may have spent ten weeks laughing at his accent but he makes a really, really, really fantastic Oliver. I loved him singing with Jessie so much that I rewound it and watched it again. Aw.

On an unrelated note of happiness, it's finally far enough into summer for all the trees outside my window to be green and, my favourite, bright yellow. There's a dove sitting in the yellow one which is catching the last sun and is all lit up. My parents are going on holiday tomorrow morning and I'll have the house to myself for a whole week, which makes up for having to catch the bus every day. I actually don't hate work right now. I am a great big bubble of happiness.

Though it's entirely possible that it's the cider talking. Mmmm.

I spent two hours of my night sleeping because I literally had no energy to do anything else - and now that I need to go to bed, I'm properly awake. Sigh. Not that I'll have trouble sleeping because I sometimes wonder if I couldn't sleep through the Apocalypse but why couldn't I be awake earlier? I was too tired to even watch a DVD. Hmpf.

I knew there was a reason I'd been putting off buying Clerks and I guess this was it. Not that I have any money to buy that either - was a little floored by the price of postage today. If I had a first-born I would've sold them by now - but I'll stick it on the list. I've just caught the last ten minutes of Clerks II, finally, and it was actually funny. Even with Kevin Smith I was dubious about a sequel but no, I eat my words. So that's something else. I just wish I'd splashed out on that pretty, pretty special edition of Dogma which it doesn't look like I can get anymore. Dammit. I should pick up the pretty special edition Dark Crystal before my procrastinating makes it too late for that too.

Oh right, no money. But sometime I will buy all these things.

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kindoftrouble, did you know they have loads of the fun ducks on Amazon? I'm particularly fond of this one but this smiley faced one is also full of lulz.

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I was so busy being useless over the weekend that I forgot to shout about David Tennant on Trick or Treat. It was really really really awesome and as for the girl who had David Tennant bouncing up to her on the street going "Can I read your mind?", so much envy. David Tennant and Derren Brown all at once! I would be flailing incoherently on the floor, which is why it's a good thing I am not on television. I can't see how flinging myself at Derren and clinging to his knees while whimpering over how awesome he is (while also, no doubt, fighting off Security) could make a good first impression. It's probably for the best that I stick with this side of the TV screen.

Still. The Tennant and Derren. I couldn't speak for fifteen minutes after The Barrowman; it'd be a week with those two together.

But anyway; DAVID TENNANT ON TRICK OR TREAT = EXCELLENT. It's bound to be repeated or be on Four On Demand (teh interweb informs me that it's repeated on Channel 4 at 11pm this Thursday) I command you to watch it, even if you've never heard of Derren Brown in your life, or only from me ranting on about him with slightly creepy levels of enthusiasm. Awesome awesome awesome.

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I think it was fair that Niamh went off I'd Do Anything this week. I winced through her singing Don't Speak, which I love. That said, Samantha irritates me more every Saturday; she always seems a little outside on the group hugs, as if everyone else is a bit dubious about her too, and I've seen her smiling more than once when singing people off the show. Also her and Rachel seem to have something going on; every week when they ask them who isn't Nancy, they say each other. I still find Rachel a little dull but I'm with her all the way over Samantha. She at least comes across as a nice person; Sam, I'm not so sure. No one who smiles that much is natural.


Is it on next week around Eurovision? (don't get me started on Doctor Who being moved back a week to make room for freaking Eurovision of all things; the only reason it's worth watching these days is for Wogan's sarcastic commentary and they replaced Doctor Who with it, bah). I can't see them skipping it for a week.

'Who was better this week though. Apart from GIANT FREAKING WASP I enjoyed it (though WHY A WASP? I already have a complex about them, honestly). I got quite excited about the trailer for the next episode because it looks like it could be really fantastic if done well. All the more annoying that we have to wait an extra week but I guess I'll be coming back from Hay Saturday anyway so there were worse weekends for it.

Have to go to bed now. -_- I only came up to check song lyrics and that was an hour ago. I wanted to watch TV for a while but no, I don't have time to watch TV or read or even think so much, anymore. I would love to introduce whoever invented the five day working week to a blunt object, preferably at some speed. No one can have a life around this. It's ridiculous.

Sigh. Bed then.

There's hardly anyone in the office today so I'm listening to Radio 2. In a discussion of ITV's rigged phone-in competitions, one man had a rant about His Webbyness' temper tantrum on I'd Do Anything a couple of weeks ago; his exact argument was "Andrew would've got his way if the public hadn't called in, leaving us with a Nancy we didn't like no matter how good Andrew thinks she is. The intellectual idiots need the public's opinion." He was quickly cut off a few sentences later; you could almost hear the panicked flailing of the radio staff in the background.

Heh. I love crazy radio callers. Though I'm a little disappointed he wasn't ranting over how Nancy's totally rigged anyway, because I'd love some sort of official discussion on that.

I? Am not amused. In the least. Because Francesca was good and had the acting and experience to do the part, much better than at least half the others. And I thought she was better in the sing-off. But do you know what? I think Webbyface thought "It's going to look really bad if I get rid of Ashley after I've been so against her for weeks and I don't like either of these two anyway, so I'll just get rid of Francesca and avoid any repercussions for me." That or he just followed the plan they have set out to get rid of anyone but the girls they want in the final. At this point, namely Jessie, Rachel and Samantha.

This is the first decision this series to make me wonder again just how much of a set-up this is and what suckers we're being taken for. They at least got a couple of shows further in than with the Josephs, when they kicked off Seamus in the third week. Who is now off playing Che Guevara in Evita, so obviously he was so terrible that he deserved to be kicked off in week three.

I'm just sad for Francesca. :( She was so good and had a much more unique voice than nearly all the others. I loved it; I would go to see any musical she's in for it, and yet she had stick from the panel and from Webface and now this. I really don't get where he was coming from on this one.

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I'm off to watch I'd Do Anything now. We were ten minutes behind with 'Who anyway, due to faffing parents. This is why I now record everything even if I'm planning to watch it, because I always end up a parentally-induced twenty minutes or so behind.