Going on a Quest
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beccaelizabethToday I was in such a grumpy mood I sort of yelled at the Tarot reading I did. It kept coming up 'you have an opportunity to be partners' and 'you are faced with a decision' and I'm sitting here telling it off because I haven't noticed any such things. All I've done for three weeks is sit on this chair. It's ridiculous, annoying, and stupid.
So, time for changing.
I had a bath and had a think and have decided to go on a Quest.
I decided this last year too. I decide a lot of things. Then I sit on my chair some more. This is the problem.
Time keeps happening and years keep being quite a lot like each other only less so, and it all just slips past fast as anything.
Problem is time keeps eating everything.
I know where the time eater lives. Chronophage, on Corpus Christi College library in Cambridge.
It's a scary looking thing. It's also in a place I mostly associate with paths not taken, things still not finished, and that time I fell down stairs in a skirt onto coconut matting. Scary thing in an ouch place, basically.
Clearly I must go on a quest to defeat it.
Also clearly I need a better plan than 'walk up to it and tell it to go away'. I have seen how that plan works out. Even if I take my sonic (collection) that is not sufficient plan.
First I need allies.
I was thinking of things you go on a quest for, and is obvious, quests have dragons.
Cardiff has dragons.
I shall go to Cardiff to get the dragon on my side.
... possibly in tattoo form. Except I can't decide where I'd put it. And don't know any tattoo artists. And it would hurt. And be permanent.
... it is a quest, it's supposed to involve change, in a proper permanent way. Ink would be good for a quest.
The Torchwood dragon is one fierce looking dragon. Torchwood Dragon vs Chronophage? Sounds promising.
There's other dragons though. Also, if I'm looking for a really smart dragon, the Torchwood dragon may not be it. Fierce, yes, but, well, Torchwood. And also they got blown up. I'm just saying.
Maybe a pair of dragons?
... I tried googling for British Dragon and found steroids. Do Not Want.
I found pictures of dragons at Cardiff Castle. I also found pictures of the inside of Cardiff Castle. Want!
The Labyrinth Locator reckons there's a labyrinth too, with tiles, from 1875.
There's lots of dragons in Cardiff. Including a Doctor Who exhibition at the Red Dragon center. It's a very dragon place.
Some of them must be smart dragons too.
So then there's the thing, how to get a dragon on your side.
Obviously you'd need things dragons like.
Like gold.
But gold out a shop is easy, and do you want the kind of dragon who'd turn up for easy gold?
Must be true gold, and possibly wisdom pearls. That's rather harder to obtain.
*thinks thinks thinks*
I know where they'd go once I found them. There's a place near the invisible lift.
I know some words to put on Ianto's place too. I don't think they count as wisdom pearls though.
I went looking for Labyrinths to find the one I remembered. I found King Arthur's Labyrinth, on a page that also lists many things to do near Cardiff, including a gold mine. Educational and shiny! Well, potentially shiny. Looks pretty, tours last one hour, looks like it would cost £8 ish.
Google Maps reckons it's that version of 'near' that involves 90 minutes driving and being the other side of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
I'd quite like to see some of that. I just... I'm very urban. Can you get a bus to a National Park? Yes you can, Sundays and bank holidays by the looks. Of course then I'd have to figure out what to do once there. 'Read a book' seems somehow to be missing the point. As outside places go it would be *very* outside. Hrm.
... Quests is difficult and scary. Maybe there should be walking...
I could make a quest book and write down all the good stuff I think of. But I couldn't drop it in a wishing well for the dragon, not so very well.
Huh. You know what I did not know? Pearl of Wisdom is a name for a campaign to stop cervical cancer. They sell a shiny gold pearl thing. They reckon "Almost every case of cervical cancer could be prevented by effective cervical screening programmes together with vaccination against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)." Is the vaccine really that good? Huh. £the vaccines do not protect against all high-risk HPV types so while they reduce the risk of cervical cancer, they do not eliminate it. Therefore, even women who have been vaccinated should continue to be screened to protect against cervical cancers that may be caused by other high-risk types of HPV." Okay, that's more like I heard. It's all about young women though.
So that's a pearl with associated quest, or rather test, to find stuff out that might save life. That's a useful sort of thing.
... the dragon that would show up for such an offering, I do not quite imagine...
Dragon pearl is an eating place that mentions vegetarians and extensive range on the front page. It is not in Cardiff. It is in Frome, which is nearer Cardiff than here but not very near. But it has a train station you can get to from Paddington.
... yes I know going to a place just because there's a food place that turns up on a google keyword search for something that makes no logical sense anyway is... well, it is not part of ordinary things world, no. But my ordinary logical rational things to do are the ones that are stuck on this chair staring at the television, so I'm taking the brakes off.
Still I think that true gold and wisdom pearls are not so much easy to come by. They need more questing than the actual dragon finding parts. But I have made a start thinking on them.
I could do anything. Anything at all. I have a passport so I could even go places that are not Britain. If I sort out the other paperwork and make sure I won't get ill and all that. I can't think of any earthly reason why I would... no, wait, tell a lie, Paris has art museums of AWESOME, as do several American cities cause they're rich and buy up good stuff. I could go and look at pictures in many places. That would be neat.
... ambitious though.
But a quest where I go to Cardiff and come back via Cambridge and set the dragon on the time eater? That's a plenty good worky quest.
So, time for changing.
I had a bath and had a think and have decided to go on a Quest.
I decided this last year too. I decide a lot of things. Then I sit on my chair some more. This is the problem.
Time keeps happening and years keep being quite a lot like each other only less so, and it all just slips past fast as anything.
Problem is time keeps eating everything.
I know where the time eater lives. Chronophage, on Corpus Christi College library in Cambridge.
It's a scary looking thing. It's also in a place I mostly associate with paths not taken, things still not finished, and that time I fell down stairs in a skirt onto coconut matting. Scary thing in an ouch place, basically.
Clearly I must go on a quest to defeat it.
Also clearly I need a better plan than 'walk up to it and tell it to go away'. I have seen how that plan works out. Even if I take my sonic (collection) that is not sufficient plan.
First I need allies.
I was thinking of things you go on a quest for, and is obvious, quests have dragons.
Cardiff has dragons.
I shall go to Cardiff to get the dragon on my side.
... possibly in tattoo form. Except I can't decide where I'd put it. And don't know any tattoo artists. And it would hurt. And be permanent.
... it is a quest, it's supposed to involve change, in a proper permanent way. Ink would be good for a quest.
The Torchwood dragon is one fierce looking dragon. Torchwood Dragon vs Chronophage? Sounds promising.
There's other dragons though. Also, if I'm looking for a really smart dragon, the Torchwood dragon may not be it. Fierce, yes, but, well, Torchwood. And also they got blown up. I'm just saying.
Maybe a pair of dragons?
... I tried googling for British Dragon and found steroids. Do Not Want.
I found pictures of dragons at Cardiff Castle. I also found pictures of the inside of Cardiff Castle. Want!
The Labyrinth Locator reckons there's a labyrinth too, with tiles, from 1875.
There's lots of dragons in Cardiff. Including a Doctor Who exhibition at the Red Dragon center. It's a very dragon place.
Some of them must be smart dragons too.
So then there's the thing, how to get a dragon on your side.
Obviously you'd need things dragons like.
Like gold.
But gold out a shop is easy, and do you want the kind of dragon who'd turn up for easy gold?
Must be true gold, and possibly wisdom pearls. That's rather harder to obtain.
*thinks thinks thinks*
I know where they'd go once I found them. There's a place near the invisible lift.
I know some words to put on Ianto's place too. I don't think they count as wisdom pearls though.
I went looking for Labyrinths to find the one I remembered. I found King Arthur's Labyrinth, on a page that also lists many things to do near Cardiff, including a gold mine. Educational and shiny! Well, potentially shiny. Looks pretty, tours last one hour, looks like it would cost £8 ish.
Google Maps reckons it's that version of 'near' that involves 90 minutes driving and being the other side of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
I'd quite like to see some of that. I just... I'm very urban. Can you get a bus to a National Park? Yes you can, Sundays and bank holidays by the looks. Of course then I'd have to figure out what to do once there. 'Read a book' seems somehow to be missing the point. As outside places go it would be *very* outside. Hrm.
... Quests is difficult and scary. Maybe there should be walking...
I could make a quest book and write down all the good stuff I think of. But I couldn't drop it in a wishing well for the dragon, not so very well.
Huh. You know what I did not know? Pearl of Wisdom is a name for a campaign to stop cervical cancer. They sell a shiny gold pearl thing. They reckon "Almost every case of cervical cancer could be prevented by effective cervical screening programmes together with vaccination against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)." Is the vaccine really that good? Huh. £the vaccines do not protect against all high-risk HPV types so while they reduce the risk of cervical cancer, they do not eliminate it. Therefore, even women who have been vaccinated should continue to be screened to protect against cervical cancers that may be caused by other high-risk types of HPV." Okay, that's more like I heard. It's all about young women though.
So that's a pearl with associated quest, or rather test, to find stuff out that might save life. That's a useful sort of thing.
... the dragon that would show up for such an offering, I do not quite imagine...
Dragon pearl is an eating place that mentions vegetarians and extensive range on the front page. It is not in Cardiff. It is in Frome, which is nearer Cardiff than here but not very near. But it has a train station you can get to from Paddington.
... yes I know going to a place just because there's a food place that turns up on a google keyword search for something that makes no logical sense anyway is... well, it is not part of ordinary things world, no. But my ordinary logical rational things to do are the ones that are stuck on this chair staring at the television, so I'm taking the brakes off.
Still I think that true gold and wisdom pearls are not so much easy to come by. They need more questing than the actual dragon finding parts. But I have made a start thinking on them.
I could do anything. Anything at all. I have a passport so I could even go places that are not Britain. If I sort out the other paperwork and make sure I won't get ill and all that. I can't think of any earthly reason why I would... no, wait, tell a lie, Paris has art museums of AWESOME, as do several American cities cause they're rich and buy up good stuff. I could go and look at pictures in many places. That would be neat.
... ambitious though.
But a quest where I go to Cardiff and come back via Cambridge and set the dragon on the time eater? That's a plenty good worky quest.
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Date: 2010-06-21 12:33 pm (UTC)Sounds like a good general sum-up of what "Questing" means, at least in my head. Possibly also I could do anything. Anything at all. is part of that definition.
I look forward to hearing where your journeys take you!
~ c.
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Date: 2010-06-21 01:31 pm (UTC)... if my journeys take me further than Norwich, that beats all the other years...
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Date: 2010-06-21 01:30 pm (UTC)http://www.thestonehengetour.info/
they would have done a bus run to the summer solstice thing, but that already happened, while the Doctor was there. which is pretty neat timing really.
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Date: 2010-06-21 02:29 pm (UTC)Have fun on your quest, because fun is also important.