Quickest possible costumes

Midnight is on Friday.

I need to pack, so I need suggestions for
PARTY THEMES

Friday Night:
Idiots Lantern / 1950's

I have no ideas. None. Do I have to rewatch the episode? I don't think I have any 1950s clothes at all at all.

Saturday Night:
Aliens Of London

This ought to be the chance to wear the coolest things. I just don't happen to have any cool things.
Two old bluetooth things to go in your ears = cyberconverted. I don't happen to have any, but that would be pretty simple.
What else... make face extra shiny and call self an auton replica? Even easier, Rory wasn't plastic looking at all. Can't make my hand fall open, would need extra parts.
... I'm not drawing a zip on my forehead, I'm not that wide. Though it would be super simples. I even have silver from last time's eyepatch. And later episodes have skinny zip people too...

any more?


Sunday Night:
The Christmas Invasion

This one's simplest. I was thinking sword and robes and skull mask, but I'll never get around to all that, also it's the Sunday so nobody else will. There's always the Doctor wandering around in pyjamas, but they're specific pyjamas. But there's other people in pyjamas and fuzzy robes and such, when people are going up on the roof. So wearing whatever you like and stumbling around in a daze is all that's required.
That, I can do.

Dream bunnies

I dreamed I sold my soul to the King of Hell last night. I don't watch Supernatural so I don't know why said King was Crowley, probably cause I met the actor at a con. I listened to the first bit of Dorian Grey on the radio yesterday, and I was thinking before bed about horror campaigns and how everyone's got something they'd sell their soul for. So, I found out mine.
I sold my soul in return for the King of Hell being happy.
... he was fine with that deal, pounced right on it. Also there was a whole demon pregnancy thing that is not the traditional result of deal making on Supernatural as I understand it, but he reckoned was covered in the happiness clause.
The thing is, from a Buddhist perspective, to be properly completely happy it requires you to be enlightened. All beings seek happiness and avoid suffering, and enlightenment is the only way.
So I'd sold my soul in order that the King of Hell would swear to become a Buddha, and he hadn't noticed.

Very good trick.

Of course there were multiple possible outcomes.
He might just use his own definition of happy and call it deal done. Then I'd end up in hell, but that's okay, bodhisattva vows about helping all living beings and the hardcore version about sticking around until all the hells are empty would continue to apply even if I didn't have a choice to leave hell. If I was enlightened I would be able to leave and help others leave, and if I was only still seeking enlightenment for the good of all living beings, I'd have a pretty good reason to pay that a lot of attention. But mostly, if he tried to cheat by my standards, I could hang around with the King of Hell and try and do the enlightenment thing for both of us. Pretty good outcome, albeit uncomfortable.
He might be unable to fulfil his side of the bargain, and then he wouldn't be proper happy and I wouldn't be in hell. Status quo but with the shallowness of his pleasures revealed, so possibly a bit enlightening for him.
Or, he might accidentally commit to making himself a Buddha and then realise how to do it. Hell is suddenly ruled by a Buddha. Things would get much better for very many beings very quickly. Big win.

Usually if dream me does something egregiously stupid in the oaths line with supernatural beings I get a bit worried. This one I can live with, cause it's just a logical extension of things awake me has decided. Still, I'd really rather everyone got enlightened before going to hell, hell doesn't sound like it would be any fun at all.





After that I dreamed that Mulder and Krychek working together destroyed the global conspiracy. There was a huge great explosion of a secret base with all the conspirators in it, The End. Scully nearly got blown up, but the fire stopped about an inch in front of her as if it were a wobbly waterbed sort of surface instead of an explosion. She reached out to poke it and it rippled, a very thick very clear surface rippling in neat rings on her side and boiling bubbles on the toehr, containing the fire. ... which should bring into logical question how exploded the conspiracy people got, but, Mulder and I thought they got pretty well exploded and the conspiracy was over.

So then I found a working computer terminal and got Mulder to log on... and he got greeted as the new head of the conspiracy. He got all their files. It was like, hello there person smart enough to end us, now you have to deal with it all instead. ( Read more... )

It's weird, I keep going to bed at night and waking up in the morning. That hasn't happened for years. It'll probably wear off soon, but at the moment I sleep when I'm tired and wake up when I happen to wake up and I'm still getting up before 0800.

Today's jobs:
Actually mostly done, since it is cleaner day and I have filled the dishwasher and started it, and started the laundry, and made sure everything is in the right bins or at least above them. Cardboard stays in a stack in the corner while I read the instructions and I keep forgetting to put it in the recycle after.

I could also do with going out as far as the hairdresser's, or possibly using the telephone but I've never got the hang of that. My hair is... well, if I can't get it cut I'm planning to wear a hat all weekend :-( Stupid big hair that went all long and keeps trying to tangle. The grey showing I can live with, I'm 35 and it's true enough now, unlike when I started going grey. The brown showing is just weird. Goth black must happen.

Plus I need to go in to college to do paperwork stuff. But since I need to be in my flat for the cleaner at lunch time I can't even think about doing the going out parts until this afternoon.


Today's studying: Same as Saturday's, which I didn't do on Monday.
... there is a detectable theme in my study plans.
I mean I did do some studying, it just didn't result in finished assignment or in doing the dissertation work.


Breakfast went beep some time ago, I should to get that and get on with the day.

Assignment is in!

I just uploaded a draft of my last assignment. I very much hope to have another go at it and check all my sentences actually have a beginning and end, but I'll have to leave it for a day or two before I can try that, and I don't want to go and forget to upload the thing. I have until midnight monday, but since I'll be at a three day party before then, forgetting is not beyond the bounds of possibility. This way I can upload a new draft if I make one or leave it be if nothing needs changing (hah). It's insurance against things going binky, basically.

I think it's also the first time I've been early in all the years I've been at college. And I started in 2002.

Usually I get a two week extension for being a me.

So, that's the last assignment for the last taught lessons for the last year of my epic, epic studyings to get a BA in English with Cultural Studies.

Now I just have to do my dissertation to get the (Hons) bit.

... think I'll take a minute to bask in the sense of accomplishment first...

... or possibly wait to bask until I know I passed, since there was epic not turning up for lessons this semester. *sigh*

(I need the mood to be accomplished and worried at once)

And in local census news

Norwich had the highest proportion of respondents in England and Wales reporting "no religion", 42.5% compared with a figure of 21.1% for England and Wales as a whole.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20679514
The article mentions how there's a church for every Sunday and a pub for every day (or there were, and the saying persists); two cathedrals and 32 medieval churches, not to mention all the newer boxes. Then it gets a lot of quotes from religious people being surprised, because they have a lot of business. Well if population goes up then percentage of religious people can go down and numbers attending church still go up, or if a larger proportion of said Christians are church going Christians in Norwich than in other places you get the good attendance. Don't mean the census is wrong.

With 42.5% no religion and 7.2% not answering, that probably means Christians are less than half of Norwich.
Yep, poked the website, found Christians in 2011 44.9%

Times change.