Programming Note

[mtemplar_fic]

'The Ten Doctors', a special DW Confidential program, will be airing on BBC One (UK) tomorrow at 17:35.

Description: It has been 45 years since the TARDIS first landed on BBC1. Join us as we look at the lives of the ten Doctors, their most heroic moments and terrifying adventures, as well as the monsters, costumes and companions which have defined them.

Link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00gqgtw

Plus, we'll be finding out who Eleven is! *is nervous*

Link here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7807742.stm

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[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

May I say selfishly that it would be nice to get a chapter to ease the hurt of the wank we'll be enduring from the Big Announcement? :) (You knew I'd say that, didn't you?)

Heh. We'll see how good my powers of concentration are tomorrow after The Big Announcement. I'm already making stupid typos all over the place.

And oh noes - you are not feeling well either? We had flu going around, now the usual upper respiratory stuffs. I'm still nursing the Cough of Doom, and baby has a fever today. D'oh!

(Aside: Did you note that in the various announcements about/from Moffat in the last month, it's noted that he's writing an "entire new bible for the series"? That's highly unusual for an established series, changing the bible. I mean, he needs to write one for the particulars of the 11th Doctor for the upcoming scriptwriters, but the bible for the series itself should have been carried through. Rewriting it completely is bizarre. And oh, so Moffat. Bodes ill.)

I saw that and cringed, yes. Not that DW has much canon left, but still....

[editrx.livejournal.com]

Well, there's the whole canon that RTD wrote; for instance, the Time War, the end of the Time Lords and assorted other races and planets that were affected by whatever was done to obliterate them from all time and space; stuff like that. Which, if Moffat fools with ... gah. Means no more Lonely Angsty Doctor, means no more I Killed Everyone Doctor, means no more Doctor as we had for 9 and 10 -- because there was continuity there even though we clearly had different bibles for 9 and 10 themselves as personalities. Imagine throwing all that out. ::barfing noises::

(Added:) Yeah, it's the bronchial infection that's going around, which means coughing until 8am (well, I did get some sleep between 8 and noon, so all was not lost), snorfling like that British boyfriend I had in college who had adenoid problems (yeeechhh), ears so clogged they actually went all OOOOWWWWW! when I drove down the hill from my house to the lake (which is like all of a 50-ft drop in altitude!), and of course the I Can't Breathe If I Walk Across the Room problem, for which I luckily have an inhaler anyway (asthma, but usually only during the summer). I gots myself good drugs (inclulding a Medrol pack, which I dread but given the inflammations going on, I agree with my dr is a damn good idea this week), and with a hot bath (Oooooo -- I have this luscious bath gel I got for Christmas from a certain LJ person...! :) ) and lots of steam, I actually don't feel too badly. But I sound like a dirty phone call still. Heh.

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

Granted, RTD has fooled with his own canon to bring the Daleks back a few too many times, but on the whole? I like his canon. I like having lonely, loss-ridden Doctor as one of the central themes of the show. *sighs* I really do not want to see lonely, angsty Doctor pining away after the woman of his lives (for that week, e.g. MdP, RS) dies at the end of the episode. DO NOT WANT!!!!

Oh dear. Do you have a humidifier? Either that or a warm, steamy shower or a boiling pan of hot water on the stove? That would help your breathing as well. I'm not a huge believer in cough medications - one of the best one around, really is keeping things wet with water. Otherwise codeine, but that's another thing entirely. *grins*

Isn't the bath gel lovely? If it came in oil form, it would be perfect. Scratch and sniff THANTH! *laughs*

[editrx.livejournal.com]

Yeah, having the lonely, angsty Doctor suddenly turn into something that is the polar opposite (or, worse, just plain wrong for the character) of Nine and Ten would be horrible. But ... we shall see.

(And ::whispers:: I do have news about NG. I'll email.)

No on the humidifier front: every one we bought in the last ten years broke after one or two seasons' use, and we finally gave up. It's something about us and humidifiers, I guess. (And these were the wazoo, expensive, "you'll never need to buy another one" kind -- feh. Not that I can afford them anymore, anyway.) And it's a very dry old house with baseboard heating, so I can't even put a pot on a radiator (oh, how I miss radiators in my old apartments back when I was single!).

However, I do have the shower and the bath. So, at least once a day I get the hot, humid air for a few minutes at least. I think tomorrow I'm going to just sit in the bath until I prune up, keeping the hot water fresh and the humidity in the air. But I have things to do during the day, so it'll have to wait until evening. Alas.

And yes! Scratch 'n Sniff THANTH! You should TM it! :)

(ETA: Oh, yes, the cough syrup. Codeine. FTW. I'll sleep tonight. But I'm going mad with the nasal drip and congestion, and I'm not to take decongestants because of my BP and what I didn't notice him writing down -- it's pleurisy and some pericardial rub sounds again. Fuck. I hate lupus. Medrol FTW -- it'll take care of it pretty fast. And yes, I have a followup. He'll have me scanned if the sounds are still there. Good guy -- he's an internist who's known me for years now; proofed part of my book for me when I was writing with the rheumatologist. He's an ex-lawyer [IP law] who was sick of working without ever coming in contact with people on a daily basis and so went back and got an MD and then his internal med. I jokingly call him an underachiever to his face. :) )

I'm unworried. I've felt far worse and I've been far worse. This is nothing. Just annoying and snorfelly.

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

(And ::whispers:: I do have news about NG. I'll email.)

*waits patiently*

It's darned dry where I live, so we ended up installing a whole-house humidifier. I love that I don't have to worry about it, except cutting it off from the furnace when the AC goes on in the summer. Otherwise, I think pots on radiators are awesome (had radiators in grad school).

And oh noes - pleurisy and possibly some pericarditis? That's not good - I'll bet you're very noisy to auscultation. I'm glad your internist is on top of things. I had some interesting classmates of that sort when I was in school - it really skewed the age range of the class (21 - 40), but those who were coming in from another career were usually much more motivated and made better study-buddies.

Feel better! *hugs carefully*