This morning, I watched Robin Roberts decide that she wasn't going to wear her wig anymore on Good Morning America. She's finished with her cancer treatment, and her hair is starting to grow back, so no wig needed. Pretty damn courageous. You can also watch her make her runway debut sans wig.
Here's a fun video of an engineer's guide to cats. Make sure you watch the credits.
This weekend, I worked on the draft of the first two chapters of what will become my thesis. It's great that the university lets us get a head start on the thesis while we're still in the workshop classes. I also had a fit of cleaning frenzy. What remained of my weekend was spent indoors because we had bouts of rain so severe I could barely see the tree outside my window. I kept myself out of trouble by crocheting a new blanket and re-watching the third series of Doctor Who, with a break to watch My Boy Jack, which was excellent. If you get a chance to see it, do.
I recommend the following episodes from the third DW series:
"The Shakespeare Code" - all about Love's Labors Won, the Dark Lady, and where those great one-liners could have come from
"Gridlock" - There are lots of cats in this one, and you think YOU have a bad commute.
"Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks" - This gives an alternate reason why the Empire State Building was built. And why not have Hoovervilles and showgirls and pig people, too, and a nod to Frankenstein to round things off?
"Human Nature"/"Family of Blood" - This is what happens to the Doctor when he becomes temporarily human (temporarily fully human? He is half-human, after all.) to escape detection by The Family. Hopefully, this one will satisfy everyone who's wanted a love story for the Doctor - it reminds me of the X-Files episode in which Mulder kisses Scully, but it's not really Scully. This episode also has a psychic boy with a cool pocket watch, stalking scarecrows, and some foreshadowing of World War I.
"Blink" - This is probably my favorite episode from the third series, and yes, you CAN combine Gothic and sci fi. It features a creepy abandoned house, a plucky, can-do girl named Sally Sparrow who is the heroine of the story (the Doctor is only helping her remotely, literally), weeping angel statues that can send people back in time (you'll never look at statues the same way again after you see this episode), Easter eggs, and events in seemingly the wrong order, but really the right order because time is not linear. I'm still a little confused about the message on the wall, and who threw what at Sally, but perhaps a re-watch will explain it. This is a particularly creepy episode, and I dreamt of stone angels all night.
Here's a fun video of an engineer's guide to cats. Make sure you watch the credits.
This weekend, I worked on the draft of the first two chapters of what will become my thesis. It's great that the university lets us get a head start on the thesis while we're still in the workshop classes. I also had a fit of cleaning frenzy. What remained of my weekend was spent indoors because we had bouts of rain so severe I could barely see the tree outside my window. I kept myself out of trouble by crocheting a new blanket and re-watching the third series of Doctor Who, with a break to watch My Boy Jack, which was excellent. If you get a chance to see it, do.
I recommend the following episodes from the third DW series:
"The Shakespeare Code" - all about Love's Labors Won, the Dark Lady, and where those great one-liners could have come from
"Gridlock" - There are lots of cats in this one, and you think YOU have a bad commute.
"Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks" - This gives an alternate reason why the Empire State Building was built. And why not have Hoovervilles and showgirls and pig people, too, and a nod to Frankenstein to round things off?
"Human Nature"/"Family of Blood" - This is what happens to the Doctor when he becomes temporarily human (temporarily fully human? He is half-human, after all.) to escape detection by The Family. Hopefully, this one will satisfy everyone who's wanted a love story for the Doctor - it reminds me of the X-Files episode in which Mulder kisses Scully, but it's not really Scully. This episode also has a psychic boy with a cool pocket watch, stalking scarecrows, and some foreshadowing of World War I.
"Blink" - This is probably my favorite episode from the third series, and yes, you CAN combine Gothic and sci fi. It features a creepy abandoned house, a plucky, can-do girl named Sally Sparrow who is the heroine of the story (the Doctor is only helping her remotely, literally), weeping angel statues that can send people back in time (you'll never look at statues the same way again after you see this episode), Easter eggs, and events in seemingly the wrong order, but really the right order because time is not linear. I'm still a little confused about the message on the wall, and who threw what at Sally, but perhaps a re-watch will explain it. This is a particularly creepy episode, and I dreamt of stone angels all night.
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