Watercooler Sub Zero: Ice Capades

Happy new year! Happy New ILX (though I've not seen it yet - please can it be the old trad interface, I resist change) and happy new crush!

I am deeply ashamed of my new crush so I am not ready to speak of it yet though I think everyone knows.

Hurrah! I had a good xmas. My mum and I managed not to even fight. Well, not properly at least. We didn't go to Herts in the end, so we stayed home and ate a fry-up for our Xmas meal. No leftovers and the washing up done by 3pm.

A a nice New Year - my mum decided at the last minute that she didn't want to go to Poptimism, she wanted to stay home and watch more Doctor Who because she has a massive crush on C. Ecclestone. And then we watched some Austen and argued over who was cuter, Colonel Brandon or Mr. Darcy.

Hey kate. Does anyone know where that musical water sculpture is?

Clearly.

Next day was a catch-up 'christmas day' with my mum/sister, and the karaoke hilarity mentioned upthread.

Oh, and Alice got a kiddie type guitar. Which actually had real strings and a small amp, and was light enough for her to do guitar superhero poses as she does. (the Fender Mustang's a bit heavy). The only downer being it doesn't stay in tune long.

I heard about it on radio4 a while back and I want to try and make use of this car to go and see it possibly on saturday if they let me out of belgium.

Oh yes! Walking on Sunday! Count me in! I will email you my mum's email address - though her house sitter rang me in a panic last night and told me the boiler had exploded or something strange. Though the phone kept cutting out argh.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y161/MarkGrout/AmberAliceNewGuitar.jpg

Some rock chicks, recently...

Too bad it doesn't stay in tune. That's a bit rub.

The services? Woodhall or Trowell are better, if you ask me.

Now I know why. Tis rub.

Like Donnington more now.

Fancying actors is always gonna land you into trouble for exactly that reason. Watching old Doctor Who last night reminded me how hott Romana is/was. I rushed to the internet to find out about her and pics and stuff, then hauled myself back at the last minute, knowing that it's all self-destructive and I'd end up feeding the crush rather than sating it. Fancying Doctor Who assistants is the first step in a direction I really don't wanna go.

Hi emsk! Are you back to your bouncy self?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/gallery/tamm/images/340/tamm11.jpg

Sorry you've been poorly, Emsk. When you are recovered, you must come round and eat some curry, which will cure everything. Until then, ginger tea for you.

http://wheelinspace.com/images/Companions/RomanaI-2.jpg

There, now I feel a lot better.

I'm very disappointed in my new crush - mainly for the OBVIOUSNESS of it all. And I was so proud of myself for being the only person I knew who wasn't crushing on this person, and now I've succommed.

It wasn't even the pointy nose or the anime eyes. It was the FRECKLES.

http://www.sentinelmountainsafaris.com/images/safariwolf.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/580000/images/_584169_edwards_lions300.jpg

Ha ha, I just checked the Shimura Curves email and there was a physicist from Stanford asking for the lyrics to "I'm Not Afraid"! Awesome! (Now I really hope all the physics is correct. But honestly, who really knows what happens to the GUT in a black hole? Apart from Time Lords, natch, as they invented them.)

I wrote a song about non-Euclidean geometry last night, because I had to explain to my mum about Great Circles and how the shortest path between two points on a globe is *not* a straight line. (And wondering what would happen about travel within a 4-dimensional curved surface, such as the post-Einsteinian universe... hrmmm.)

It's not like the IRL ones ever go anywhere anyway. :-(

Anyway, who cares. La la la la, I'm not afraid of the family Slitheen. Sycorax, Cybermen, or even Dalek Queens. My new ambition is to be the new Delia Derbyshire. I've got to get a theremin. If I hadn't spent all my money over Xmas, I might go and get a kit.

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mine never go anywhere but that is because i am RUB. hm, perhaps i have found a new year's resolution!

...I, or my accurately my ribs, made it thru my boxing day match unscathed apart from being totally knackered. I was planning to play a half only, but we only had 15 turn up, so had to do the whole game.

I'm finally getting around to watching Babylon 5 again, too. I can't belive I've had the first series for over a year, but never had the time to watch it. It's so intimidatingly long - not like short British serieses. But that's good, I suppose.

Kate - I have the Jazzmaster!! OMFG, aren't they great!! The vast array of sounds you can get is just amazing from crazy garage-surf to wall-of-shoegaze noize. I love love love it, and now I want a JAGUAR!!