Dept. of End of the Weekend

[kaffy_r]

Very Quick Things

• Cold on the way out, back spasm threatening. I will threaten it back, and frighten it way the hell out away from my muscles.
• BB's thyroid biopsy came back negative for cancer. Since the tests indicate some thyroid problems, there may still be a connection to his ongoing fever, etc. We will find out when we talk to his doctor later this month. In the meantime, we are glad it isn't cancer. If that sounds less than ecstatic, it's only because we still don't have an answer to what is making his life miserable. Sometimes you can get so desperate to find out the reason for an illness that you begin to eye something definite with something uncomfortably close to approbation.
• Saw the first half of the Who finale, Dark Water. I am willing to wait to see what the second half brings; I enjoyed it more than BB did, and he didn't not enjoy it. Was not surprised by the reveal, since I (and practically everyone else) had spotted that one from, oh, the first episode of S08. I'm reasonably pleased by it although I have never had the great affection for the character in question that others have. (Fascination and appreciation, yes, and some thoughts on the character's evolution, but not affection.) Why am I being this obtuse when everyone on my list who wants to see it has seen it? Because some of them may not have, so I'm trying not to be spoilerific.
• And, out of nowhere, and thanks to posts elsewhere, all the scattered thoughts I've been having, the "I know there's a meta inside me waiting to get out" thoughts, the ones that have been swimming around aimlessly and without direction throughout this season (one I've regarded as extremely variable in quality, one I've been surprised to see viewed as a near masterwork by a lot of people I respect), have finally started coalescing. Mind you, that could be a mistake on my part. I thought they were coalescing around episode 3 and they didn't. So I shouldn't promise anything ....
• Tomorrow, I get to go down to the legendary and fearsome Tribune Tower, to meet my new owners. Yes, it's on a deadline day, but they did at least apologize for making the mass meeting a last minute thing. More, after that happens.

Comments

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

When you consider that the PTSD I was thinking about has to do with a) being splintered across multiple timelines - being a good soldier to save the Doctor - and put back together (who knows how well), is akin to Danny's, or any soldier's, situation of being taken apart by war and imperfectly put back together. (I think all soldiers risk this, although many, thank god, do not suffer. Others, sadly, do.) And I think all Companions also suffer, or run the risk of suffering, some weird type of PTSD. Think about the things she has been through just traveling, even on the "successful" adventures!
*nods* I agree with all of this…

In fact, I've been comparing her in my head to Tegan, at least in terms of the problematic relationship she has with the Doctor.
Ah well, that is one I won't be seeing before a while ;)

[kaffy_r]

I was just looking at the paragraph I wrote there, and realizing that it was completely ungrammatical. I'm glad you were able to decipher it, missing objects, subjects, clauses and all. Heh.

Tegan is a fascinating character, at least I think so. She can wear on one, but she's memorable.

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

Yes, that happens when you start sentences a certain way and then finish them with a completely different phrasing because you got sidetracked by the content in the meantime XD No worries, it was still very understandable!

I think I'd heard about her before. Can't wait to get there—but I'm starting the Third Doctor right now and I think that he, Liz Shaw and the Brig could keep me content forever ;)

[kaffy_r]

Oh, the Third Doctor is amazing, and I'm not at all surprised that you could be content with that fantastic trio!

As for the run-on, incomplete, and meandering sentences, I'll probably doing that again and



*g*

[flowsoffire.livejournal.com]

I really adore them! :D I loved One and Two, but this… *flaily hand moves* :D

Oops! ;)