So not what I'm supposed to be writing. So no change there. There's a Bugs piece that's about 1600 words. Unbeta'ed because there's basically no fandom, so no-one to beta, or to read. But, hey, it's good practice. And two Doctor Who pieces, both only about 500 words. Also unbeta'ed because I'm not in the fandom, I'm not entirely sure about being in the fandom, and I don't feel I can go into it and ask for betas. So these three are unlikely to end up anywhere except for my LJ, website and ff.net.

Bugs: Happily Ever After

A Happy Ever After post-ep - which is the one where Ros decides, at the last minute, not to go to America with Channing. Ros's new flat is sort of jossed by the next episode, but we'll just gloss over that.

Happily Ever After

Doctor Who: University

Ages ago, actually it was nearly a year ago, I had an idea about Ace and the Doctor going undercover in a modern-day (ish) university. She could pretend to be a student by going to lectures (no-one's actually going to notice) and the Doctor can be a lecturer. So Ace can call him Professor for real.

This was the only scene I wrote and when I came back to it I realised that's because that was what the whole plot was for. I certainly didn't have any more plot - like why they were undercover for a start.

This is inspired by the Big Finish audio 'The Harvest', at least in the idea of the Doctor and Ace undercover.

This is set not that long after Survival, and Ace is about 18/19ish.

University

Doctor Who: An Ordinary Morning in the TARDIS...

This was inspired by a line in 'The Veiled Leopard' where Ace threatened to confiscate Hex's favourite marmalade if he didn't do as he was told. After that, I can just imagine Ace and Hex as squabbling siblings and the Doctor the much put-upon parent.

Warning: this is not to be taken seriously.

This is set after 'The Veiled Leopard'.

An Ordinary Morning

A reading my height in books update:

21.2cm / 155cm (13.7%)

The books I've read are:

The Chalet School and Jo/The Chalet School in Camp
I like the Chalet school books, they feel like adult children's books. It's very strange with Jo as Head Girl, though, I still think of her as a naughty middle.

Useful Toil
This is one of mum's and it's short autobiographies of working people from 1820s to 1920s. The introductions to the book, and to each section had useful information but were really boring. The autobigraphies were really interesting, though. Some of the domestic servants were so badly off: they worked unbelievably long hours and were treated quite badly. Some of the people were so badly off they were admitted to hospital with malnutrition. What some of the women did during the First World War was interesting as well, as they found new lives working in factories.

Doctor Who: The Domino Effect
This was free with the SFX Doctor Who special. I got all excited with it being the Eighth Doctor, but then I remembered I was thinking of the Big Finish version with Charley. The actual thing was quite interesting but I didn't understand the mystery there, or whodunnit, and I felt like I missed something important before the book started, and it didn't quite finish either. Perhaps that's why they gave it away.

At lunchtime the other day someone was talking about organising her upcoming wedding in July, and how she didn't have many more weekends left to do it in. And her and someone else agreed you don't want to do that sort of thing in the evening because it's too much like work. I was slightly stunned at this because:
a. what else can you do in the evening (you can't go out every night unless you're made of money)
b. that's actually what I do, specially when it comes to Rotaract.
If I didn't do that, I'd be bored, though. When I wrote a meeting down in my diary the other day I realised I've got Rotaract meetings on the last three Mondays in May.

Anyway, I'm off to the Lake District on Friday, and not back till St George's Day, so you won't be hearing much from me till then. I'll be avoiding all Doctor Who spoilers until I've seen the episodes as well (probably first thing I do while I'm downloading my spam emails).