life, liberty and the pursuit of geekiness

( Spoilers )

Also, is anyone else not getting comment notifications by email? HP has broken LJ!!

Memories are back up. Good thing, too, as I want to add in people's Pottery reviews.

Off to read now. Royal Mail, all is forgiven!

Happy reading, everyone! Not that mine has been delivered yet, but hey...

I don't understand these people who accidently bought HBP and then returned it. In their position I should be silently gloating. I'm just hoping that my copy gets here on time. amazon.co.uk doesn't have and outstanding track record for next-day deliveries to Northern Ireland.

I feel I ought to have an appropriate LJ layout, but I'm sticking with my new Doctor Who one. I'm impressed by my banner. The TARDIS is a good graphic to work with, nice sharp edges. Doctor and Rose and the TARDIS, Doctor and TARDIS, Jack, Doctor, Rose, Rose and TARDIS, Jack and TARDIS...anyone noticing a pattern here?

*hides from spoliers*

narcissam has posted the first chapter. I vill be stronk! < /Otto Chriek>

I found this in an old notebook. By the state of my handwriting I must have been about 12-14.

( Phonology )

It looks like Irish with a bolt-on vowel system. Sadly, I wasn't using the fada with any sort of consistency. It's interesting to see the early appearance of my favourite dipthongs, ai and ei.

( Vocabulary )

I note that plurals seem to form with -an, and to my amusement, I started with the irregular verbs. Nam for man, how creative.

It didn't seem to have a name, and it certainly has no current descendants. But it's fun to see how early I started.

This is a nifty tool available from http://fawx.com/ljArchive/


The month I posted most was November, 2003 at 69 entries. Least (not counting current month) was September, 2004 with 8.

Uncommon words I used most: Harry (311)
Luke (289)
Leia (264)
[sueparsons's AIM screen-name] (229)
Hermione (180)
Ron (174) (close to Hermione :-D)
Han (168)
[ivylore's AIM screen-name] (152)
Anakin (143)
Doctor (124)
Rose (123) (It must be an OTP!!1)
Ginny (118)
anyone (112)
star (105)
fic (103)
interests (101)
stuff (100)
actually (99)
wars (98)
jediowl (95)
jedi (95)
potter (94)
jack (93)--okay, it can't all be Harkness. And I shouldn't have thought it was Sparrow either. Aubrey?
lot (86)

Okay, bored now, I'll do the highlights:

padmé is 70, hornblower 60, skywalker and keitin 50. bail is 45, so is neville and draco is 44. (By that reckoning they're a better ship than R/Hr. This is all ajhalluk's doing.) Chocolate is 41, canon, Wedge and TARDIS (!) are 40. Vader is 29, Solo 29, Adam is 27 (bwah?), natalie is 17, luna is 15, mickey is 12, artoo is 10.

I used bloody 18 times, icon 34.

Comments: ladyaeryn (87) and ravenclaw_devi (82) are in first and second place, ivylore (60), snarkel (55) and padawanroo (54) are well up there, and yubsie's (49) determined spamming campaign (no one does it like the HM's) has let her overtake doyle_sb4 (44).

It's been really hot the past two days. I've been wearing shorts but I haven't got tanned at all. I'm not burned either, I never burn, but I'm still just white. I have weird skin.

Last night there were about five eleventh night bonfires we could see from the house. Because it was still the smoke went really high into the sky.

I'm not aat all pleased about the stupid EU ruling about food supplements. I wonder how much the pharmaceutacal companies paid for that? I don't seem why I should be forced to have Lemsip when I have the cold instead of curing it with Vitamin C. And if they ban Echinacea, they've just about cut my working ability by a third.

Saturday night Tv is totally pants now. *sad face*

There was a thing on RTE (very fuzzy as always with Republic channels) about the Tall Ships. Pretty, pretty ships (and barques and ketches and stuff). They were playing the music from the end of the Master and Commander film, the jiggy sort of piece where Jack strums the violin and Stephen plays the melody and then they swap over and the crew are dashing around everywhere madly busy...

Still miss Doctor Who madly.

Conversation in a Gaol Cell
Rating: 12+ or so.
Pairings: Jack/Rose (jokingly), Doctor/RoseTARDIS, Doctor/Rose (hinted).
Spoilers: All of the first series, in particular PotW.
Unbeta'd, so concrit is very welcome. This is a companion piece to my earlier fic, Chasing the TARDIS, but you don't really have to have read it to read this. All you need to know is it's post-PotW, and Jack's back.

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"I was only saying hello," Jack complained. "How was I meant to know it was illegal on this planet?"

"Jack, the way you say hello ought to be illegal on any planet."
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