Ganked from queenfaithie .
Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don't cheat!

1. Doctor Who

2. Firefly

3. Farscape

4. Dollhouse

5. Life on Mars


(spoilers for Doctor Who series 4 general, Firefly general, Farscape through the Peacekeeper Wars, Dollhouse through s2e12 "Hollow Men" ish, and Life on Mars series 1 general.)

( Saving your f'list. )

SPOILERS in case you don't read post titles.

( And again... )

If you haven't heard David Tennant and Catherine Tate sub for Jonathan Ross over here yet, I recommend that you do that kind of NOW.

So my new favorite kind of joke is the new business kind. It goes like this, just for explanation purposes.

Person A: Hey, I've got a new business!
Person B: Oh, really? What's your business?
Person A: I'm a parking enforcer.
Person B: Oh, how's business?
Person A: Fine.

See? You get it, I know you do. David and Catherine asked for people to call in with their new businesses, and these are MY FAVORITES.

Catherine: Oh, Andy's got a new buisness!
David: Oh, really? What's Andy's business?
Catherine: He's the landlord of a shop selling Doctor Who merchandise.
David: (laughs) And how's business?
Catherine: Okay, hold all of those things in your mind. It's really terrible. If they go out of business, he'll need a new tenant.

Catherine: Oh, there's no name on this one, just a phone number.
David: Don't read it out.
Catherine: I wouldn't! All right, I've got a new business.
David: What's your new business?
Catherine: I'm exporting trampolines to Prague.
David: And how's business?
Catherine: Business is sterling, but the checks are bouncing.
(Come on. Read it out. There you go!)

Yes, this is me displacing all of my fear about Saturday.

I was just on the Doctor Who News Page, and saw these kinda close together.




I can see the family resemblance, can't you?


Don't ask about NaNo. stay awayyyyy!

Dear Ewan,
What's your greatest fear?
I mean right now, not after you've fallen for Millie.
lots of love
The Author

Here's something not to do with NaNo: the slightly +100-word story I wrote for my French journal on Halloween. And I'm actually translating it, because I used carats for dialogue (like you do) and LJ is getting html-confused. 
( Enjoy. )

 Dear Ewan,
Dude, help me out here. I know where the story ends, but where does it start? Briefing the department? Preparations for leaving? Alice having a meltdown? Chester escaping onto Merton's playing fields? Lecturing Michael? Getting lectured by Professor Magambo? 
I really don't know, man. I want to start this thing in Oxford so that we can at least have symmetrical frames, but past that I'm lost.
Bewildered,
The Author

 You know what that means, kids.
I'll post up the bits of my novel as I write them, and each post will stay open for three days, at which point it becomes friends-locked.

The kickoff part was good... though I thought the swing dance was even better. I Lindy'ed to a 230 bpm polka!

One of the roomies got Michael Buble's new album for her birthday. This is very much my song. (Yeah, I'm aware of the accent aigu (english?) on his name. Too much trouble when I can't get the international keyboard to work)

Hint: for added fun, say that where someone who likes you might see. No, this is not what I am doing.



In other news, NaNoWriMo is getting closer! Things I should really do, in relation to that....
Clean this room up.
Run diagnostics all over the computer
Get answers for my plot questions
Write the Drouais research paper.
Schedule the Kickoff Write-in... like, with the host.


Also, I need to finish my Halloween costume! I only have the trainers and the tights. That doesn't really make a costume.

 Dear Ewan,
Thanks for piping up! You're a peach, and yes, I recognize that isn't the slang where you come from. So, your name, your educational history, your sister, your cat, all good. Can we get a little deeper? Maybe start with the coffee thing? And just for the time being I've said your parents live in Edinburgh. Really, though? Come on.
No rush, we're not nearly there yet.
Much love,
the Author
PS--what's your favorite book? You know, the one that you're inevitably going to relate everything back to. I know you think Millie should read Persuasion... anything else?

Dear Dr Baldwin
My congratulations, sir, on your career. Not nearly enough people have given you the recognition you deserve for your life of service, and for all the lives  you've saved and improved. 
I apologize most sincerely about your wife. It would be extremely disrespectful to lie to you, so I won't say it was for anything more than convenience and thematic consistency as regards your daughter, which is why I am sorry, I am so sorry.
I hope you can take the offered olive branch when the time comes, and let things be the way they need to.
Yr Obt Srvt,
the Author

Dear Millie, 
I hope you like reading Austen, my dear. Well, if you don't, you probably will. Who are your favorite authors? I do rather hope you don't read Mrs Radcliffe, because I haven't. Does your father even let novels in the house? Just what is it you like to do?
That's all for now, dear. Please do ask Charlotte to pipe up a little.
Love,
the Author

Dear Mike,
Well, aren't you the lucky boy? All the way from America, studying at Oxford on scholarship, and intern to a professor-- please tell me what his name is. I really need to know. And you better learn to do a passable Cockney accent pretty quick, or a lot more lying than strictly necessary is going to be involved.
Why haven't you talked to this Claire yet? She's cute.
Love,
the Author