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First day of Christmas holidays! I have to say that I've mostly spent the last two months yearning for this. It's not like things have been bad, but I've just been so tired! Every week, I've been saying, "Okay, I didn't get (this) done, but I'll do it next week when things let up," and of course, they never did. New things just kept appearing, both work-wise and RL-wise. But now we're actually done - no work until next year, and no further RL responsibilities, not even band rehearsals to attend. Yay!
Random stuff:
I forgot to gush about Good Omens getting greenlit for its third and final season on BBC/Amazon! *happy happy dance!* We were talking about it at the company party last week, my husband and I with our friend (the one who I mentioned before kept going, "OMG THAT KISS!") and his partner, bemoaning that it still hadn't been picked back up, and my husband checked his phone, and the greenlight had been announced only three hours earlier. However, don't get your hopes up for a quick resolution: they haven't yet started filming, and given that season 2 took 1.5 years of post-production, I don't expect that it'll come out before 2026.
I looked back at my discussion about the alternate explanation for the bigeneration (that Fourteen lived through his life, then returned to this point in time when he regenerated into Fifteen), and I saw that I'd written this:
"I actually have a bigger problem with believing that Fourteen starts regenerating at some point in the future and suddenly disappears from wherever he is, travels through the time vortex to this specific point in space and time, and pops out, than I do with forking him into two separate individuals."
And I realized I mis-stated. I should have said:
"I actually have a bigger problem with believing that Fourteen starts regenerating at some point in the future and suddenly disappears from wherever he is, leaving a pile of clothes behind, travels naked through the time vortex to this specific point in space and time, and pops out, than I do with forking him into two separate individuals."
Because Fifteen emerges from Fourteen and takes half his clothes, of course, he must have traveled naked. Honestly, though, I had actually been thinking about how traveling unprotected through the time vortex is supposed to be highly dangerous, if not deadly (except for Jack, because he's Jack). Then I put two and two together and wrote this because it's worth the joke. I'm picturing Fourteen trips over a brick (because that's how he's supposed to die, right? Embarrassing but painless), falls to the ground and starts to regenerate, and it's all sad and glowy, and suddenly he's gone and his clothes fall, and people's phones are just pointing at the leftover heap.
Meanwhile, in this glorious holiday of mine, the first thing I'm going to do is... put up some shelves. You see, my company is closing its local office, which has stood empty since March 2020 except for occasional "offsite" manager meetings (not exactly "offsite" when it's actually held on-site). We purchased two of the fancy-dancy push-button auto-raise/lower desks that they would otherwise be throwing out, and in order for me to get mine set up, I've been cleaning out "the hamster room", which is the spare room which we used to have the hamsters in, back when we had hamsters in, oh, 2004? Since then, it's been full of hamster detritus (old cages, supplies, etc.), then slightly cleaned and packed with other stuff we haven't cared about. Well, with the advent of a new, large desk (it's about as wide as I am tall), I've been cleaning that room out and converting it into my office (though we will still call it the hamster room - old habits are hard to break). I need to get those shelves up, as well as some framed pictures (prints of the UNIT family, John Smith and his watch, different incarnations of the Master, series 4...), before I move the desk in.
And once that's done, I'll have an actual workspace! Not just the one-meter-by-half-meter space on my crafting table that I've been working at 8-10 hours a day for the past 3.75 years. I'm also going to get two new monitors, so I won't be working on the tiny laptop screen. Omg, I'm so excited. It might actually help raise my enthusiasm for my job.
Of course, I'm not doing any of that. Steam Winter Sale means new Harvest Moon game. But I am actually really excited to put up shelves, so here I go!
Random stuff:
I forgot to gush about Good Omens getting greenlit for its third and final season on BBC/Amazon! *happy happy dance!* We were talking about it at the company party last week, my husband and I with our friend (the one who I mentioned before kept going, "OMG THAT KISS!") and his partner, bemoaning that it still hadn't been picked back up, and my husband checked his phone, and the greenlight had been announced only three hours earlier. However, don't get your hopes up for a quick resolution: they haven't yet started filming, and given that season 2 took 1.5 years of post-production, I don't expect that it'll come out before 2026.
I looked back at my discussion about the alternate explanation for the bigeneration (that Fourteen lived through his life, then returned to this point in time when he regenerated into Fifteen), and I saw that I'd written this:
"I actually have a bigger problem with believing that Fourteen starts regenerating at some point in the future and suddenly disappears from wherever he is, travels through the time vortex to this specific point in space and time, and pops out, than I do with forking him into two separate individuals."
And I realized I mis-stated. I should have said:
"I actually have a bigger problem with believing that Fourteen starts regenerating at some point in the future and suddenly disappears from wherever he is, leaving a pile of clothes behind, travels naked through the time vortex to this specific point in space and time, and pops out, than I do with forking him into two separate individuals."
Because Fifteen emerges from Fourteen and takes half his clothes, of course, he must have traveled naked. Honestly, though, I had actually been thinking about how traveling unprotected through the time vortex is supposed to be highly dangerous, if not deadly (except for Jack, because he's Jack). Then I put two and two together and wrote this because it's worth the joke. I'm picturing Fourteen trips over a brick (because that's how he's supposed to die, right? Embarrassing but painless), falls to the ground and starts to regenerate, and it's all sad and glowy, and suddenly he's gone and his clothes fall, and people's phones are just pointing at the leftover heap.
Meanwhile, in this glorious holiday of mine, the first thing I'm going to do is... put up some shelves. You see, my company is closing its local office, which has stood empty since March 2020 except for occasional "offsite" manager meetings (not exactly "offsite" when it's actually held on-site). We purchased two of the fancy-dancy push-button auto-raise/lower desks that they would otherwise be throwing out, and in order for me to get mine set up, I've been cleaning out "the hamster room", which is the spare room which we used to have the hamsters in, back when we had hamsters in, oh, 2004? Since then, it's been full of hamster detritus (old cages, supplies, etc.), then slightly cleaned and packed with other stuff we haven't cared about. Well, with the advent of a new, large desk (it's about as wide as I am tall), I've been cleaning that room out and converting it into my office (though we will still call it the hamster room - old habits are hard to break). I need to get those shelves up, as well as some framed pictures (prints of the UNIT family, John Smith and his watch, different incarnations of the Master, series 4...), before I move the desk in.
And once that's done, I'll have an actual workspace! Not just the one-meter-by-half-meter space on my crafting table that I've been working at 8-10 hours a day for the past 3.75 years. I'm also going to get two new monitors, so I won't be working on the tiny laptop screen. Omg, I'm so excited. It might actually help raise my enthusiasm for my job.
Of course, I'm not doing any of that. Steam Winter Sale means new Harvest Moon game. But I am actually really excited to put up shelves, so here I go!