People in the Doctor Who 'verse

Thing I noticed today while watching Doctor Who:

When The Master changes every human on Earth he ends up with

6,727,949,338 versions of himself: the number of humans on Earth that Christmas.

When The Doctor tells Craig and Sophie to go have babies he reckons there are

6,000,400,026 people in the world. That's the number to beat.

So either The Lodger is from an earlier year, much earlier given that google's graph reckons world population hasn't been as low as that since 1999, or it is secretly a clue and

727,549,312 people vanished between Christmas and The Lodger.

Or possibly more than that, since there's a small non-human population that The Doctor would consider people, and lots of people should have been getting born and pushing the number up.

I think I'd like it being a Clue. And since 1999 didn't have mobile phones like those seen in The Lodger, and world population is pretty easy to find, it probably was.

(6.727 billion is a little low for Christmas 2009, Google's graph lists mid year as 6.775, but clearly in the DW 'verse the difference is all non-humans...)

Romeo and Juliet essay

I already have more words than I need and much, much less theory.
I don't know what balance to strike between the different assessment criteria. I mean criteria 1 and 2 are about understanding the base text and the genre, which I've spent a lot of words on, but that's what all the other units are about too. Learning Outcomes and criteria 3 and 4 concentrate more on the transformed text and using the right theory words for what precisely you've done to it. I've gone through the textbook highlightering words and I'll go through the essay sprinkling them on liberally in a bit. But do I need to analyse mostly Shakespeare, or mostly me??? Or both, obviously.

Mostly I'd quite rather be done with this assignment, because Romeo and Juliet is a text all about being utterly trapped by a lack of options that has been repeating for generations, and then ending with murder and suicides and dead-of-grief. The sooner I can rinse my brain the better.


Also it is frustrating that I'm going to need to trim so radically to get this R&J essay done yet I cannot think where to start with the Jane Eyre essay at all. And the JE has the more time pressure, since I'm already in extension time.

Reasons I keep trying to not care about comics the... you know I lost count years ago

I just read that Oracle is going to be turned back into Batgirl. They will take Babs, the adult woman who coordinates information and superheroes all over the world, who is in a wheelchair but can still escrima stick your arse, and they will stuff her back into who she was ... I don't know how long ago, I was born 1977 and I've never read a comic where she was actually currently Batgirl.

I have rage. I have the kind of rage where it's difficult to breathe.
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Cleaning contrary feeling

The cleaner was here :-)
It was not the usual cleaner :-(
So, despite the fact they went through the list I made, and presumably did all the same things as the usual cleaner, I am left with the niggly feeling of things being Not Done. I don't know how the cleaner magic gets done, you see, since whenever I try it things are clearly and definitely Not Done after. So I don't know for sure how many people have the magic. Maybe this one doesn't, and just hasn't noticed yet. Then things might have gone wrong and I wouldn't know it yet.
Also, all the clattery noises were Different and in a Different Order.
Things like this, they make me all twitchy, all day.

And now I notice that they have clearly not the art of winding the cable up for the vacuum cleaner after using it, cause it's sort of a nest on the hall floor. That's not so good. I can fix that one though.

Okay, basically the problem is that I've been awake 14 hours, I've worked on both the Romeo and Juliet and the Jane Eyre essays, I'm trying to read this Eagleton book but think the most insightful comments he's made are in the intro to the second edition where he notices that people happen in two genders and it makes rather a difference and he hadn't noticed that in 1975, and everything is all... thing. So the problem is feeling all thing, and not specifically the new and different cleaner. But sometimes when I'm tired it's just all... vacuum cleaner cord, big tangle nest.
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