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( Here be spoilers for Primeval ep 5.1 )

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In real life news: today in work I was typing comments on a colonoscopy referral while two different people talked at me and I was so distracted that I instead of "changed by Dr Davies" I typed "changed by Doctor Who".

Thankfully I reread it immediately and went "...Wait. I see what I did there!" and changed it before I saved the thing, though I'm sure it would've been amusing for the next person to look that patient up. When I confessed to the nurse who was talking to me she laughed and laughed, and then went away to tell Dr Davies.

He has yet to tell me his opinion on being confused with a Timelord but I'm pretty sure he'd find it hilarious (and then reflect mournfully that even if he was a really cool Timelord, they'd just get him to do time science as an unpaid extra).

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There has been no news on the job front. It makes me sad, so much so that I ordered Ice Road Truckers season four today to keep myself from thinking about it. It's comforting to look at my potential future jobs and know that, no matter what, they most likely won't involve jacknifing on an ice road over a snowy cliff. So you know, it's not so bad.

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They haven't taken any money off me for Olympics tickets yet. I am so far undecided about how this makes me feel (paying for Olympics tickets means spending money I'd really like to spend on a new iPod or a Kindle, or just putting into my moving-out-of-my-parents' fund. But, Olympics. So I don't know).

I bet they take the money out tomorrow now that I've said this. Damn them.

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This makes two not-meme-related updates in under a week. If I keep this up, you might be able to say that I'm actually keeping an LJ again. Shock.

Was informed by parental earlier that Primeval was coming back in 2011. Didn't believe her totally until I just googled it but YES. MY WONDERFULLY SILLY LITTLE SHOW ABOUT MADE-UP MODERN DINOSAURS IS BACK. I AM SO EXCITED. EXCEPT I NEVER WATCHED THE LAST EPISODE BECAUSE OMG, CLIFFHANGER AND NOW I HAVE TO FIND IT.

Primeval!! *glees* It got really good in the last series and I was so, so gutted they cancelled it without wrapping up all the beautiful plot arcs (possibly they did for some of them and I missed some by not watching the last ep. I shall fix this). Also taking a year out AND a confirmed fifth series...maybe Douglas Henshall could be convinced to come back in clone form. OH MY GOD STEPHEN. STEPHEN CAN COME BACK AND CONNOR OR ABBY'LL HAVE TO EXPLAIN ABOUT CUTTER. OH. OH. I WANT THIS.

Basically, my faith in British television has been renewed. I remember my parents calling me in uni and saying "Are you watching this show? You need to be watching this show." And my response of "Giant whats in the sewers of London? Hah hah no." And then I watched it anyway and loved it and spent three years trying to explain to everyone why a bunch of adorkable pretty people chasing random dinosaurs around London was worth watching.

...Actually, why did I even have to explain that? PRETTY DORKS AND DINOSAURS. ALL IS GOOD. Especially in the latter 2nd-3rd series when they started coming up with plot arcs as opposed to random monsters-of-the-week. Well, they had that too but also, plot arcs!

So. Yes. Roll on 2011. :DD Now I just have to decide if this makes me want the Primeval DVDs more than Merlin. Hm.

(I don't have my Cutter/Stephen icon anymore. FAIL. This must be fixed!)

edit: Fixed! :D

So today the sun came out and there was much Yay! Me and another girl off my bus tour went on an exploration around Whitianga, which is a little seaside town in the Coromandel Peninsula.

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Then we caught the ferry back hoping for some sunset pictures over the beach nearest our hostel but it was facing the wrong direction so we gave up and came back. Now I'm going to have a cup of coffee, a two some TimTams and relax with Bloodhound which I still have to finish. And then maybe watch some Primeval (ggrr) or some New Zealand telly.

It's been a good day. :)

I downloaded Primeval 03x03 a few days ago but just now got around to watching it while I wait for Planet of the Dead to download (part four of six!) and holy crap cakes, when did this show go from "vaguely silly Saturday night dinosaur insanity" to "holy shit, they just did what now give me the next episode immediately or I may die of the waiting"?

Seriously. This show just took a step up. There is a reason I'm bothering to download this while Robin Hood isn't even getting recorded back home; take note BBC. You make have hit everyone's fun and fabulous gaydar-mad dragons-Anthony Head being an awesome tyrant-kinks with Merlin but watch Primeval for tips on how to make a show that forces you to sit up and pay attention.

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Yeah. I'm going to bed now, with my buzz totally killed dead. You know what the problem with TV shows is? Actors.

(But in Torchwood's case it's the scriptwriters. Or occasionally the camerawork. Or...

...okay, okay, tangent. I'm just bitter. WATCH ME DOWNLOAD ROBIN HOOD INSTEAD NEXT WEEK ITV...except Jonass is leaving at the end of this series too.

SEE. ACTORS ARE THE PROBLEM. DAMN THEM ALL.)

Whoa. An idle click on tennisslash when I'm not expecting the different layout? Should not freak me out as much as it did. That's... weird. Not that I go there much or at all hardly, anymore or ever really, since that's what flists are for. It's just... weird.

You know, I need to start writing tennis slash again so I could open a tennis slash comm on IJ. A proper one, not just mine. Which I will finish shifting fic to...sometime. Later maybe. On a tangent note, I finally got the internet working on my desktop again yesterday and my IJ layout doesn't work right on this screen. Dammit. This is what comes of working in percentages instead of pixels. I wonder if it would work if I changed it to pixels? Mmm.*

(If the interweb explodes in the next five minutes I think we can safely assume the answer to that is 'no'.)

The only other thing of note I accomplished yesterday, besides spending the entire day in my pyjamas because I'm lazy, was working out how to make my own wallpaper and floors for The Sims 2. Much glee was had. This at least puts off me spending money I don't have and shouldn't spend on more expansion packs for a while longer.

Which means I can spend it on a new duvet cover if I find the one I like when we go shopping later. I doubt I will because it was months ago I saw it and I missed the sales but I can hope until we get there and there's no sign of it.


ETA: * It worked. This makes me pissed that I faffed around with percentages for ages the first time I did it.

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ETA again: I watched Derren Brown's The System last night and oh my *god*, he played us all for suckers. And it worked. (Though howinhell did he apply that 'system' to those journalists and racing people? Was that just him being freakishly clever?) I actually believed he'd lost all that poor woman's money for a second though god, what if the original horse had won? There had to be a set-up in there somewhere but I don't care because it was awesome when he explained it all with that little smirk.

Though *nine hours* flipping a coin just to film a row of heads. Nine freaking hours*. Derren you are insane and wonderful and your beard is so delightfully evil.

If I became famous tomorrow? Derren Brown is the person I'd most look forward to meeting. Not Roger Federer or Simon Pegg or Neil Gaiman. Derren Brown. Because he is just... just evilly awesome.

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I also watched Primeval which was so, so bad (slow motion? Really? You didn't hear what we said about Torchwood series one then no? You must've been some distance away because we were yelling pretty loud)except for the parts where it was actually good. You can see this show really trying to be good and having good ideas, it's just... the editing was bad last night and considering Helen and Lester are the only ones whose acting I enjoy and they have the least screen time? Yeah. Claudia/Jenny/whatever-her-name-is is awful; I thought she'd got a bit better over last series but it was like back to basics at the start of this one. I've got nothing against her with Cutter (no matter how much he comes across as married to Stephen and they were so having a lover's tiff last night, it was *hilarious*) but crikey woman, try not to make me wince with every stilted line you say.

Still it's entertaining and it's not like I was ever expecting it to be actually *good*. Throw a group of cute people together and have them hunt for dinosaurs; the acting can be as bad as it likes and I'd still be there because *dinosaurs*. Heh.

I'm always amazed at how hilariously cruel this song is. It's good therapy.

Fly-by post to ask about people's opinions on canon. I know Doctor Who has the craziest canon ever, what with all the differing books and audio stuff and spin-offs, but for shows of the less insane kind, what do people consider canon? Just the stuff that is actually *said* or *seen* on the show itself, stuff said in official interviews by actors and writers, stuff on official websites and so on?

Because Primeval has a whole bunch of stuff on the website that hasn't come up yet in the show (to be fair, six episodes is nothing in exposition terms) and I'm pretty much considering it canon until someone on the show says otherwise. If it's on the official website, then there's a good chance it'll show up eventually on the show itself and in the meantime we may as well use it in fic etc. because there's a better chance of that turning out to be 'show-canon' than stuff we randomly make up. And i hate coming up with my own reasons only to have them proven wrong every other episode.

If that made any sense. Hm. What do people think?

Got up at half nine this morning, ready to do work. And what have I done since then? Started and almost finished a Primeval fanmix.

Dear Self, YOU ARE GOING TO FAIL THIS YEAR.

Do. Some. Work.

No love at all,

Self.

EDIT: Damn. Thought I was done but one of the songs really doesn't lead into the next one. Only, I have no idea what song to put between them to bridge the gap.

Oh god, I've spent the entire day on this so far. It was meant to be to avoid spending so much time on fic, because "a fanmix'll be quicker". But no.

Dammit dammit dammit. Need a song. Hm.

How can they justify having a RRP of £24.99 for each 4-5 episodes of Torchwood while the infinitely superior Primeval has a RRP of £19.99 for the entire six episodes of the series? Not to mention play.com is selling them at £16.99 for each set of Torchwood episodes and only £12.99 for Primeval.

The mind, it does boggle. And stops watching Torchwood if the next series doesn't shape up, because if ITV can get it almost right first time round, the BBC should damn well be able to as well.

Back in Lancaster. Train journey was good, except for crazy drunk people in Warrington station but it was funny watching a cute policeman getting them to leave. Crazy. crazy people.

Putting Gonzo back in the big tank before I left seems to have been a mistake. He's now a very sick fish with half a shredded tail and I'm at a loss. His tail was all healed up and fine when I left, and I can't see Rizzo attacking him after over two years of being best mates. So. Sad. :( Doesn't look like he'll hang on much longer. Especially when I have no idea what's wrong with him and no idea what I could do about it if I did, since everything I tried last week failed.

Mediafire is running slower than a dead slug tonight. Not helpful right now.