I've actually got round to doing the drabbles again this weekend. Wasn't inspired by Farscape Friday's, but the other two I wrote while waiting for the train. Almost handy, this waitiing for trains thing - gets a lot of things written.

Stargate 100 - Tefnut

TPM 100 - Heat

Sometimes I wonder why I bother with Stargate fandom. OK, so I am on a Jack/Daniel slash list, so I probably only have myself to blame But what with all the politics going on, groups really shouldn't wind each other up. Although doing it on your own lists is fine but there were people pointing out that Sam/Jack fic abuses Daniel. Huh? I've never read any of it myself. Hell, it was reading Sam/Jack fic that made the character my favourite. Perhaps I've been lucky and only read the good stuff.

It took me a day and a half to watch the episode I'd downloaded because I couldn't work up the enthusiasm. Once I see them I remember why I like it but in between I wonder. I'm still in the fandom because I have friends in it. And it would be harder to keep in touch with them if I wasn't. But then I think - do I really want to go to SG7? I mean Paris is another country. If it was Blackpool then I definitely wouldn't but London. I'll have to think about it. Perhaps I'll see what SG6 is like - what I'll see of it before I jet off to America anyway. I think I have the better deal frankly.

No more Smallville for a while! How am I going to cope? By reading Clark/Lex fan fic I think. And trying to get hold of the other 30-odd episodes I've missed.

I really hate car drivers who stop to let me cross the road. Well, that's not entirely true. If there's a big queue of them and I'm going to be there forever, then that's fine. But if you're the last car and I'm thinking I'll cross after that one, stopping really screws that up. Then I get all confused about whether I can cross or not.

It doesn't help that some of them have a tendency to inch forwards at the same time. Well, I'm sorry, I don't cross in fron of moving cars unless they're far enough away. And, amazingly enough, I'm not going to cross if there's a car coming in the other direction. There seem to be far too many drivers who just don't get that.

I've been discovered Clark/Lex fic this weekend, which is handy because I really can't be bothered to do anything else. I haven't even been able to work up the enthusiasm to watch Stargate tonight. I'm not especially enthusiastic about it being renewed for an eighth series either. Stop before it goes downhill!

I think the low 20s is a pleasant temperature. 25 degrees C is hot. Today at 1pm it was 29, according to Fox FM. So, oddly enough, I'm a bit hot. The battery of my laptop is helpfully located just below the left side of the keyboard, next to the trackpad. So, sitting here, typing this, my left wrist is hot.

Work is horrible. Once it gets to around 4pm my back sticks to the chair, my shorts got wet where they were between my legs and the chair. My hand sweated everytime I touched the mouse. My arms sweated everytime they touched the desk to type. I honestly felt like I was in a small, dark, hot box that was getting smaller and hotter by the minute. Then, when I finish at 5.30 I go outside and am hit by a blast of hot air. Boots is really lovely and cold though.

I am planning to actually watch CSI tonight. But I can't get too attached to it because it's on Channel 5, which I won't be able to get a decent picture on come winter. Or at all, at home.

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I got so pissed last night. Technically, I only had two drinks but they contained rather a lot of vodka and I definitely remember downing the equivalent of a shot. And some more. All in an hour and a half. At which point the world was spinning rather fast and I thought bed would be a good idea before I threw up. Then woke up at 8.30 and couldn't get back to sleep. Felt too ill to get up till 11am though. Am only just now waking up, which is typical. Really, really don't want to go back to work tomorrow.

I started watching Smallville two weeks ago. I've now seen seven episodes, thanks to Channel 4 showing two at a time. I just need to catch up on what's going on (it doesn't help that I've never seen any of the Superman films all the way through. I have seen the odd episode of Lois and Clark, but that doesn't really help). Now, Michael Rosenbaum looks much better with hair than without. If only they let him have hair in the series I wouldn't be trying desperately not to fancy Clark's dad. It's not good, it really isn't.

I'm still trying to work out what type of fanfic I want to read though. I'm not sure about some of the pairings. Well, most of them really. Lana is annoying because she's just perfect, and she and Clark and Chloe and Clark have so much less chemistry than Clark and Lex. *sigh*

I was going to do some writing this weekend, but couldn't be bothered yesterday before I went out and couldn't type earlier today. I don't think I'm going to be doing any drabbles this weekend or the HA list challenge. On discussing Jack/Daniel with someone else yesterday we were saying how FDAS tend to be into sex and not UST, and I like Sam/Jack UST. I have half a mind to write some Jack/Daniel UST just to prove a point, but that's quite hard to think about, never mind write. The only way I can read it is when I get to the point where there's feelings or something else going on, I have to stop thinking this is Jack and Daniel. I might get used to it though, I seem to remember doing something similar with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan at one point. It's actually getting quite hard to get back into TPM slash, but then there's only so much mushy child stuff you can take.

There I was thinking I was bored, and needed to watch some TV lying down as my back was hurting and I remembered I still had some Blakes 7 to watch. Some Blakes 7 meaning the last one.

There I was thinking it was particularly funny (Orac not allowing Slave to interrupt, Slave resorting to the alarm and then not telling them they were in fact under attack) and then Avon was pointing a gun at Blake. It was almost the David Beckham syndrome as I wanted to tell Blake that Avon was dangerous, more so when aiming a bloody great big gun directly at you. Of course, he didn't know this, having not seen him since the end of series 2. The number of gun shots over the credits were greater than the number of people in the room, and since they were all close they couldn't have been that bad shots. I suppose we didn't see blood on Dayna, Vila, Soolin and Tarrant for the same reason they showed them in slow motion - for the effect.

It couldn't have ended any other way though. The Federation was just a force too great for a few people to ovecome. And now I don't know what to do with my evening again except be hot (which isn't difficult in this heat).

Whoever says Spooks is not as good as 24 is wrong. The proof? Tonight's episode. Now that's an exciting 24 hours.

Can't believe I've decided 11.30pm is a good time to do this but still. :

1. Can you think of one single decision you made that changed the course of your life. A decision where if you had done something else, everything would be different now?

Not off the top of my head, no. There are some different decisions I might have made, but they'd only be small ones, frankly.

2. Or maybe you think "the fates" have it all planned out for us. Do you think every life has a pre-determined course, that we will wind up at point X regardless of the decisions we make?

I totally don't believe in fate. There is no higher being, there is no grand purpose, there is no reward at the end. This life is all we have and it's ours to live.

3. Do you think that it is that left up to us and random chance to decide who we are with? Are we are guided to the person we were meant to be with or could you be with the wrong person while "the one" is still somewhere out there?

When I was little I remember worrying what would happen if you never met 'the one' person you were supposed to be with. Mind you, I also thought that when you grew up you got married and had kids because that's what everyone did.

4. Do you like to drink and get drunk? When was the last time you were drunk or hung over? What was the occasion? How did it feel at the time? How did it feel the next day?

I like to drink but not to get drunk. It tends to take a rather precise amount of alcohol over a period of time that's quite difficult to achieve. Going straight from sober to asleep isn't nearly as interesting. I prefer being merry, really, that way I do at least still have some self-control. The last time I was drunk was my 20th birthday. That was also the last time I was hungover. It felt crap, and that's an answer to both questions.

5. On the same topic, have you ever done anything you regret while "under the influence?" What happened? Do you remember it or did you have to be told?

Not really. And I remember everything.

6. Were you/are you able to resist peer pressure in school/college? How? If not, what did you do that you wish you hadn't?

Pretty much, yes. For a while I wanted to be like everyone else, but that phase soon passed.

7. What things are better left unsaid?

Er, lots, but nothing I can categorise.

BONUS: Isn't this world a crazy place?

Well, d'uh!

Today's Comment Question: What can make you smile on a grumpy day?

An e-mail from someone I haven't heard of for a while or a nice comment someone makes.

I am not going to watch The West Wing purely because I'm awake when it has started. I'm not. I am going to bed and save it for later in the week.

What am I going to do after tomorrow and there's no more tennis?

Friday Five, cos I wasn't in much last night to do it:
1. What were your favorite childhood stories?

I definitely remember Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass. Enid Blyton - I remember Noddy, the Secret Seven and the Famous Five. There were some others about some kids at boarding school, and another series about kids at the Royal Ballet school, but I don't remember what they were called. Thomas the Tank Engine as well - they came in odd-shaped books with different colour covers.

2. What books from your childhood would you like to share with [your] children?

Alice, I suppose. And I think all kids should read Enid Blyton - and not through the cynical/sexual eyes of an adult either.

3. Have you re-read any of those childhood stories and been surprised by anything?

I've been surprised by how much I've forgotten.

4. How old were you when you first learned to read?

Don't know, but I knew how to read by the time I went to school at 4.

5. Do you remember the first 'grown-up' book you read? How old were you?

No, but I suspect I was quite young as my teachers thought I should read more improving (ie boring) books with lots of hard words that made no sense at all. I definitely remember being told that at middle school and rebelling by reading a series about cheerleaders and Sweet Valley High.

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You were probably really bored and, you know,
everyone else was so you thought you'd just
have a go. Have you tried the TV? Something
good might be on. I hear interesting things
about MacGyver.

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I will now attempt to write a coherent, interesting post before dinner (when, it has to be said, I'm not at my best).

Friends
And going out. Reading other people's journals and listening to tales of other people's lifes I want the one back I had at uni. I mean, the one where I went out. But I can't have it. Not just because my friends live all over the place (although that means I can still go out at weekends) but also because I get ill and have to wash all my clothes. Once they ban smoking in public places (and I have no doubt that they will) then I'll be there! It'll be great. What would be cool for now though would be to live with someone cool (ie that I have lots in common with).

I've almost gone back to wanting what I wanted when I was at school - the whole idea of one best friend. It doesn't help that you get it all the time in books, films and on TV. I have to remember that's not actually what I want, and there's nothing wrong with having friends who have different interests in common. If that makes sense. I must get myself over to the Genesis sci-fi group in Basingstoke actually. Assuming I can work out how to get there (and they so have a tendency to meet on a Sunday) and I do know at least one person there, so I can't use that as an excuse. We need to have more Rotaract socials as well.

Wimbledon
I'm living west of Wimbledon. And weather goes from west to east. So how come it hasn't rained here since a few spots at 9am, and yet they started late and are on another rain break? Admittedly, it is getting a bit dark but all the rain clouds must be collecting between here and there and then raining on Wimbledon. And if, as someone estimated, it costs $50,000 a year on the ATP tour, then how can they ever stop tennis from being thought of as elitist, since only the rich can possibly afford that? The Williams sisters story not withstanding, but I don't think that's likely to be repeated any time soon. Although I suspect plenty of people are trying, and have tried in the past.

Slash
I'm really inconsistent. I can't put my finger on which slash pairings I'll read and which squick me. For example:
I think of Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan as having a student/teacher relationship, bordering on father/son. How far across that border is up for debate. I will quite happily read slash for these two though, even by my definition it is incest, or at the very least an abuse of power.
Elrond and Aragorn are father and son, despite being technically uncle and nephew about sixty times removed. I can't even bring myself to try slash for them. Nor Elrond/Elladan or Elrond/Elrohir, although that really is incest. I can read Elladan/Elrohir though and Aragorn/Arwen, if I think about it too much, strikes me as incest.
I came across some Sam/Al (Quantum Leap) the other day, which just struck me as wrong. They're friends, why read more into it than that?
I actually managed to watch some Smallville last weekend (must watch it in future, it is really rather good) and there's more chemistry between Clark and Lex than there is between Clark and Lana or Clark and Chloe.

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Why is it that now blogger has changed everything to make it all easier, I can read significantly less of this post as I write it than I could on the old version?

I see they are warming up again on Wimbledon, so I'm hoping the Venus Williams/Kim Clijsters match will be interesting because I could do with actually watching one of those today.

The Daily Double:

1. What time do you wake up?

On a weekday it's usually 7.50 when my alarm goes off. Sometimes I wake up at 7.45 notice my clock says 7.50 and lie there waiting for it to go off. At the weekends it depends on if I have to be somewhere and how much sleep I've had in the week. It's usually 9 or 10am though. Occasionally 8am to be really annoying or 11am if I'm really tired.

2. What's the first thing you do when you wake up?

Work out what day it is. Then get out of bed and turn my alarm off if it's a weekday. If it's the weekend then decide whether to get up or stay in bed longer.

I really have nothing to say, I just posted because I remember I needed to change the template to put this month on the archives. Really need to fiddle with the template some more. And update my website when I get my photos back on Friday.