cosmic_llin

So, I seem to have quite a lot to say at the moment on a variety of topics...

( Theatre! )

( DS9 Relaunch Novels - Worlds of DS9/Warpath/Fearful Symmetry (a few spoilers and mention of rape) )

( Huge - the most adorable and perfect TV show I never knew about )

( Life and Feelings and Stuff )

OK, that might be it for now... various fandomy posts to follow...

So, we're still on our massive Star Trek kick. We watched Phantasms yesterday, and I really enjoyed it, it's always been one of my favourite episodes. What really gets me about it is Deanna at the end - like, for serious, she just got stabbed a bunch by her friend (ok, so he was in an altered mental state and not responsible for his actions, but still), and it was clearly really traumatic, so at the end of the story she bakes him a cake, and takes it round to his place, along with a big fucking knife that looks just like the one he stabbed her with?!?! I mean, that woman has some serious self-control, I wouldn't be going near him after that.

I also love that she actually is cake earlier in the episode, and Riker's weird moment of being oddly Irish, and Picard trying to get out of going to the banquet. And having his head turned by a pretty ensign. Fun fun fun.

In other news, carawj and I have tickets to see Bonnie Langford in Chicago, oh hells to the yes!!! Rather excited! Very much looking forward to having over a week off work. It snowed here loads but it's already turned into gross slush. Hmm.

So, carawj and I started a community all about Bonnie Langford:

bonnielangford

Because she's a terrific performer and lovely and awesome and there wasn't one already!
So please, if you're a fan of Bonnie for her singing, acting, dancing or skating, join up! It'll be fun, I promise!

So, yesterday was... terrific.
sashavangenius and I both had the day off. I had a job interview in the morning at a bagel place, but Sash was cross because they're fakels and not proper bagels made the proper Jewish way (apparently you boil them rather than baking them), and so she said she wouldn't hate me for going to the interview if afterwards we could go to Carmelli's in Golders Green and get the real thing.
So we went on a jolly bagel hunt, and I have to say, they were fantastic. We sat on a bench in the sunshine and ate them, and then we were going to get on the tube home, but we thought, well, here we are in London, City of Awesome, with nothing in particular to do on a lovely day - and it seemed such a shame to just go home.
So we went to the Science Museum! So. Much. Fun. We had a go on everything - I got to see what I'd look like as a man, and when I get older, which was pretty cool. There were buttons to press and cranks to turn, and I learned quite a lot about how a fridge works. We played quizzes and games, and tried simulations of what the world would be like in the future. We had a go on the big echo tube, and a roller-coaster simulator!
The best, best, best thing, though, was the Listening Post. I'm not sure I've ever been so moved by an art installation. We stayed there for like an hour. It's incredible the way it makes you feel so big, and so small at the same time. It's sort of voyeuristic and funny and sad and creepy and shocking and life-affirming all at once.
After that we went to Leicester Square to see the Mamma Mia premiere - it was much too crowded to see Julie Walters arrive, but we people-watched for a while and that was wicked fun.
Then, we went to see Avenue Q! We got last-minute tickets on a whim, and I'm so glad we did! It was great. It's a show about being fresh out of college and not really having a clue what happens next, so yes, a bit relevant, eep...
We went to the stage door afterward hoping to catch Rebecca Lock, but she ran so fast we couldn't! We met Daniel Boys, though, and he was lovely. We had a bit of a chat to him and then turned to go, only to see behind us this silent, staring crowd of autograph hunters. It was actually really creepy. We hadn't heard them arrive or anything. They were all just stood there, a few dozen of them, slack-jawed, holding out their pens and programmes in mute supplication...
Now, I love stage-dooring, because I always think it's exciting to meet the cast and hear their thoughts on the show and stuff, but this kind of thing weirds me out. Sash and I see so many people who just stand there and gaze as they get their stuff signed, and never even say that they enjoyed the show, as if the actor's name on a bit of paper is what they really came for, not the chance to talk to them and tell them what their performance meant to them.
I don't know, maybe they weren't all like that, we left pretty quick. And I know some people just get tongue-tied and starstruck, which makes it harder. It was scary, though, turning and seeing them all there, so still and silent! It was like something out of a zombie movie.
After that we went home to our cosy little flat! I can't believe we've been in London a month and this is the first time we've been to the theatre, while we've been actually living here. It felt very odd not to be going back to the youth hostel, but sort of nice, too. So we got home, watched some Seinfeld, and went to bed. And that was our lovely day.
Oh... London!

My God, when is the last time I wrote in this thing?
Yes, I am very busy. That seems to be what all of my LJ entries say now, but it's true!
Today I handed in my final coursework for this semester (I've handed in four courseworks this week - two essays and two translations), and did my second of seven exams. Tomorrow sashavangenius and I are off to London for a couple of days between exams to relax a bit, see a couple of shows, and meet up with ladyvivien, yays!
I've hardly been on LJ lately to be honest. I just don't seem to have the time for anything. But I will have plenty of time next week because I have nothing to do except take exams which I will almost certainly not revise for. So, penguin2, I will email you about that thing in more detail, like I said I would last week! Anyone else I should have emailed about stuff, keep nudging me! Next week is the time!
Next week is also the time that I may be able to actually read some of the lovely books I got for Christmas, hooray! And tidy my room. It looks like the site of some terrible natural disaster. And work on the website. I'm averaging 3000 hits a day now! And just try and relax a bit. Phew.