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So I had a bunch of days in a row of actually sleeping - and feeling immensely better about the universe - and now I'm having a day where I seem to be On Duty and have to patrol every hour or so.

It's not helpful.

It's because earlier there was all the screaming from the fair and also a smoke alarm I think - I got as far as getting dressed and going in the hall to try and locate the persistent beeping, but then it went away. It wasn't from my flat, there wasn't smoke where I could see, and nobody ran out screaming, so call it good. Just... now I'm not sleeping.

And it's not like being scared or paranoid or anything, just this feeling I need to get up and check things quite often.

What I need is a team so someone else can be on duty and I can sleep.

If I could pick a team I probably wouldn't pick the Doctor because he's mad and manic and would go whooosh and you wouldn't quite know if he'd be there when you woke up. But on the other hand he quite possibly doesn't sleep anyway, which makes the staying awake to watch part quite a lot easier. But Jack maybe doesn't sleep neither, and he'd Get It about being on watch and definitely wouldn't whooosh when you weren't looking. And he could be the boss and you wouldn't have to worry about which planet you'd be liberating this week and you probably wouldn't have to invest in the recorder with the really big hard drive just in case the driver missed a year again.

Ianto would be good on a team too. He'd be quiet and steady and do his job. Sure, the girlfriend situation was a bit of a problem, but once you'd got that kind of loyalty for your very own he'd be golden.

Owen would not. I wouldn't sleep around Owen. No.

Ezri Dax, because any team with me in needs a psychiatrist. And she can be a whole team of her own. And she could bring Julian because double the cute and a medic we can trust and with the extra smarts and stuff.

Martha Jones would be good too. Probably can't have too many doctors. And she'd be the down to earth sensible one while he could be a bit high strung and theoretical. She'd be used to that.

Methos may or may not make a good team mate. You'd have to be *really sure* who's team he was in fact on. But he'd be bloody cool just on general principles so I'd risk it.

... I think I go try sleep now. With all of them. Be much better.

interesting angles

I dreamed a guy who came back from war with both legs missing, only to find that first the Other Guys and then his own side had made propaganda films about him. So his disability was a symbol, and a site for contested meanings. And also he was a movie star. But without anybody so far listening to him, or him getting to decide what he thought or felt about the whole deal.

Hard to get on with being stoic and heroic when everyone's asking you how you feel about it. Tricky even to get a suitable place to live when everyone thinks it's all political.

Dresden Files on DVD

Am watching the Dresden files on DVD. Have watched three eps I think. Have just started the next one. Need to get up and stretch or my head'll get stuck on one side.
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Is quite fun so far. Little bit clunky around the edges, but it's the first episodes, of course it'll need smoothing off. Could get good.

Has a whole... power and responsibility and dark sides and identity and people not being who they appear thing going on. Wonder if that'll be a Thing.

Finished watching the 4th episode. ( Read more... )

I like it.

I'd like to watch more of it but I'm real sleepy.

... though given the number of "We will rock you" repeats I've heard just sitting here typing I don't know if sleep is actually in my future.