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Bad news the fyrste: I've done something painful to my leg - about 20 minutes into my run last night, something went ping in the back of my calf and now I'm hobbling like Douglas Bader on a pair of peculiarly dodgy Ludlows* - which means I can't exercise; just when I was starting to get back into shape and feeling quite fit and chipper again I'm liberally slathered in Power Gel, wrapped in an Ace bandage and hoping for the best. ::sigh::

*See The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd.

Good news #1: I has new Palm! Yay! My old one packed in and I seem to have been waiting for-bloody-evah for the new one to arrive, but arrive it has and now I can has fic again. Yes! And so much new fic out there in all my shiny, happy, perfect fandoms.*

*Anyone looking for excellence in Doc-Master fic could do worse than a mosey over to

best_enemies where they're running an anonymous porn meme that is producing some rather lovely stuff so far...

Bad news the seconde: I'm still struggling to write (insert sad face). I finished my crappy short story - I had two days to bang it out before the deadline, which I did and posted it off, even though I know it's terrible - but since then, I've been doing a lot of staring at a blankly mocking screen. ::sigh:: I'm sure it's just a matter of poor self-discipline and not enough tea but it's a worry...

Good News #2: Morrisons have started selling Rose Pouchong tea! I no longer have to buy it online at great expense. This is excellent news.

Bad news the thyrde: I'm not going to GMOH. It hurts (oh how it hurts) but it's the only sensible decision in the circumstances.

Good News #3: At 3.22am last night, I finished reading the EDA* 'The Ancestor Cell' - a book I like, but am somewhat ambivalent about re: certain monkeying with the Faction Paradox (and I'll never forgive any of them for what they did to Fitz) - but a rollocking read nonetheless (and a far, far better Time War than anything Rusty's come up with so far). It's not only the end of the Time-War arc, but the last (for a while) of the books I've already read. I'm starting on mostly new-to-me EDAs. I've read the odd one here and there but most are new and shiny So I has new books squee! (Geez, I live a quiet life these days).

*Eighth Doctor Adventure.

Such is my life on this, the seventeenth day of April in the year of Our Lord, two thousand and eight. How about you, my lovelies? How's it going in your corner of this lovely planet?

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Man...I need a copy of 'The Ancestor Cell'. Bad.

There're several on ebay right now - one's only 50p.

Well, I suspect shipping to the US would put it in the range of EDAs I can pick up locally. Anyway, I've been trying to hold off for the time being due to a combination of lack of pocket money and an extremely large backlog of unread Virgin New Adventures that can potentially keep me occupied.

I'd got it in my thick head you were in the UK for some reason, sorry.

It's good; the plot rolls along at a terrific pace and I love the intellectual exercise of trying to fit this Time-War canon into RTDs (imo inferior) Dalek-war canon - I LOVE the Doctor in this book - he's slippery as an eel in TAC. But...

Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole have monkeyed mightily with the Faction as they were in earlier books, and as for Fitz... ::sniff::

It's good, but not that good. I'm looking forward to a fresh arc now and The Burning.

And NAs huh? Gods, it's years since I read a Virgin NA. Which one are you on at the moment?

Nope! I live in the suburbs of Washington DC, which makes me pretty thorougly American. ;-)

Huh. Well, 'The Ancestor Cell' is definitely at the top of my EDA 'wish list' along with 'The Taint' and both 'Interference' books. 'The Burning' is not bad. It's not my favorite of the amnesia arc, but by no means at the bottom of the heap for EDAs either.

I'm not actually reading NAs at the moment. I'm working on a fic set during the amnesia arc so I just re-read 'The Turing Test' and part of 'Endgame' and am finishing off 'Escape Velocity' as part of it. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of 'Father Time' because I think it would help. :(

Actually, I'm just about to post to

henriettastreet with a request for continuity help.

The Taint's your average DW romp - a not-bad, plot-led story with the added advantage of Fitz. (o: Interference is a great book, though I loved part 1 a lot more than part 2, when it all gets a wee bit too clever for its own good. Frequently arsey but definitely one of my favourites and I do rec it. You'd need to read Interference before TAC I think, to really get the most out of TAC.

I've read The Turing Test and Father Time in the dim and distant but I don't remember much about either, which is good, I guess, since I'm just about to embark on the amnesia arc. I've put in a bid for Wolfsbane on ebay - have you read that? Or Fear Itself? I'm wondering how 8 works in the framework of a past Doc book?

Very much looking forward to reading your fic.

Hrm. I seem to recall that Wolfsbane triggered my 'I don't mind fantasy or myth but would prefer you keep it out of my science fiction, thankyouverymuch' tweak. Not to mention the fact that I'm not a huge fan of Jacqueline Rayner's writing.

Fear Itself is one I enjoyed quite a bit, though. It's an odd book and kind of dark so it's not everybody's cup of tea. The Doctor spends a lot of time not being very Doctor-ish and Anji's storyline is good, but doesn't quite make sense emotionally given where she is in her 'character arc'. (Too close both in time and emotion to Dave's death for some of it to ring true.) I sound like I'm being picky, but I really did think it was a good read.

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