My trouble when I'm ill is I tend not to want to talk to people, mostly because I have to be polite and I don't have the energy for that extra thinking. So it's usually better just to shut up and ignore everyone. Which has extended to me not wanting to post in here either, although I do have things I want to blog about.

I am getting better, if slowly (and don't have concussion, which is good after I hit my head on the kitchen side on Thursday night) and this has been marked as unread in my emails for a while:

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your blog and elaborate on the subjects given.

tanaquilotr gave me Doctor Who, Elrond, food allergies, Davis Cup, fencing:

Doctor Who
Doctor Who was always one of those programs that I'd have watched if it'd been on telly, but just never was. And I didn't have UKGold. I happily saw the three stories the BBC showed while I was in my third year at uni and the 30th anniversary night with the Paul McGann film. But apart from that I could take it or leave it. Although I was quite annoyed that the BBC started the new series the first night I was in Australia and I didn't get back to England till the fourth episode.

But I watched it and I liked it and it was all good. And then I watched some episodes with the Seventh Doctor and Ace and then bought all the audios and books (although not the New Adventures), which was also good. I think it all went wrong somewhere around School Reunion and I ended up in a fandom I hadn't intended to...

It occurred to me, mostly at Redemption, that Doctor Who has now turned into another Stargate for me. By which I mean, I'm happy to watch the episodes and enjoy them, but discussing them ruins the enjoyment. So I read and write fanfic for bits of it and roleplay a couple of the characters and run a ficathon, but I'm happy to stay the SJA/Sarah part of the fandom these days. Course it helps that the people in it are great people that I've met

Elrond
I kind of miss Elrond sometimes. I joined LOTR fandom thinking I'd be a hobbit person, given that the only bits of The Two Towers and Return of the King I'd found remotely interesting were Frodo and Sam's story. Except somewhere along the line I discovered the Appendix and with it a wonderfully angsty Half-Elf. And his foster son.

The only trouble was that I ran out of things to say about Elrond and it felt like all the fanfic I read about him was the same as what had gone before. I want to get back into the fandom and read & writing Elrond, I just don't know what'll do it. Although if they do actually make The Hobbit, that ought to have Elrond in it...

Food allergies
I actually don't have any of these. It's my skin that seems to be allergic to most things. I do have lots of food intolerances, though, which is possibly what Tanaqui meant. Most people don't understand the difference, which is why I tell people in restaurants I'm allergic. Plus it helps if they think I might die, then they might actually do what I ask.

I share some of the same food intolerances as my mum, so I've definitely inherited them from her (and it's just another reason why I don't want kids). I keep hoping some of them will go away but I just seem to gain more. They all affect me slightly differently, but tend to go along variations of tired/dizzy/ill/sick. None of which is fun.

But I can tell people definitively that denying yourself a food will make you crave it. I really, really want pie and pizza. And when I first couldn't have milk I really craved cornflakes with milk.

Davis Cup
This is the (male) tennis equivalent of the FA Cup (women play Fed Cup). Or whatever it is football has these days. We are currently a bit rubbish because we haven't got enough good players and are currently in Euro/Africa Zone 1. The premiership equivalent is the World Group, which only has sixteen countries in it. And Spain can win that without Rafael Nadal, which tells you how good they are. (We can't win a Zone 1 match without Andy Murray).

But Davis Cup is great for seeing tennis when there's a home game at Birmingham NIA or Wimbledon. Because the players are playing for their country rather than just themselves the atmosphere is so different from Wimbledon - it's very loud for a start! There's nothing quite like it for a bit of patriotism - when we win. Unlike last weekend's appalling performance where we lost 3-0.

Fencing
I started fencing at uni, mostly because we almost had it offered to us in sixth form, but did archery instead (which I was rubbish at). I thought I ought to do some sort of exercise while I was there and picked fencing. And I liked it. When I moved up here I looked up the nearest fencing club and I was glad for it because it was the one thing I could do that was familiar. My best friends from uni, that I'm still in touch with I either know from the Modern Sci-Fi society or from fencing. I miss it, I just need to get better before I go (and when I go and decide which car I want, I will be taking my fencing kit to make sure it fits inside).

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