Happy!

I saw a wol on the bus! Erm, Owl. Yes. I can type it the right way around even if I never can say it without slowing right down.
I see magpies often and often, but today there was a lovely big owl sitting on a tree that turned its head right around to watch the bus go past. Win!
Also I had chocolate biscuits. So I has much happy.

I started today not happy at all, grumpy, feeling ill, and with a red bill from college to sort out. Blah.

The red bill was duly sorted, ( Read more... )

Then there was a lesson on Renaissance sonnet sequences.
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And I borrowed another Ovid book, this one the Erotic Poems. Teach read out a bit in class, and the dude was not subtle. This should be fun.

... also, I kind of want to take it to the Hub, on the offchance I could get certain persons to read bits out...

... don't know yet, have only heard that one section...
... also, everyone there is Torchwood geeks, but that doesn't mean they're classical poetry geeks. Is possibly not a great plan.

I need something to keep my attention on poetry. Imagining it in a Welsh accent may well help. Or American. Certain Americans. Or... well, anyways, voices.
... I guess I can see Teacher's point about 'aloud'.

Thursday we will be studying Shakespeare sonnets, which will be fun. Also Mary Wroth, the one woman on this bit of the course. So far the crit essay we're referring back to doesn't help specifically with reading those ones because it was pre-feminism so hadn't heard of her.

... yes, got to love those up to the minute sources in English Lit.

Random Shoes

Due to being a dedicated and methodical researcher I just rewatched 1-09 Random Shoes.
Due to having seen it, and seen it again just to confirm it was that bad, I rewatched at double speed due to my handy TV box having some really useful buttons.
It's actually immensely better that way. No time to get really terminally bored.

It occurs to me this one is sort of a set with Adrift. It's the impact of the Rift on the lives of ordinary people. One moment of contact with the alien having a defining impact.

It's unfortunate this one harped on the 'geeks, so sad' thing and forgot to include Team Torchwood. Even Gwen is oddly redefined into looking all sad and pouty and then kissing the dead guy. I like that she does investigation and won't be put off, I dislike that she seems to be chanelling the Ghost Whisperer ancestral lookalike while she does it.

The ending for me fails on the basic weird science plausibility meter: One weird result that makes story we'll buy, two with no causal link and bye bye. He's invisible and following her around? Okay, whatever, lets see what you do with it. He's suddenly visible and physical and can change all the rules conveniently? :eyeroll:

Also, I realise walking in front of cars while having a moment of happy happy about the Thingness of the universe was kind of a theme, but Gwen has far too many moments of pure idiot in the first season, especially pure idiot that has to be saved by men. Blah.

The more I rewatch season 1, the more I want to get to season 2.
And yet still I miss some of the stuff they dumped between seasons.
I must try and write a medium.