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Technical Difficulties. And Torchwood. OMFG, Torchwood.

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In which I complain a little.

First of all, at the new job I still don’t have a desk or computer of my own, or logins for everything I need to be logged into. But there’s a computer now with my name on it, and a space that I’ll be moved into by the end of the week! Whee!

Then the construction guys will come and knock out a wall and eventually there will be space for a proper desk, and if I’m lucky they’ll order a proper desk sooner rather than later and give it to someone so that I can have their desk and then I’ll be able to bring the R/C Dalek to work. Finally!

Second of all, I can’t send images from my cell phone to Flickr. I could go into excruciating detail about this issue – you know I could! – but I won’t because it’s boring and I love you too much. I’ll just tell you that yes, I’ve done all the basic troubleshooting and I even went to the Sprint store (it’s next door to my new office) for help, but they didn’t know what to do beyond calling tech support and having them delete and recreate my Sprint Picture Mail account… which has three years’ worth of images in it. Boo. Hiss.

I’m carrying a USB cable in my purse now because not being able to send pics is seriously cramping my style.

In other news, I watched the long-awaited five-episode Torchwood extravaganza Children of Earth this weekend (if you haven’t seen it yet, it airs on BBC America next week) and it was all of the following:

* really, really good TV!
* riveting
* very dark
* response-generating

But. [SPOILER ALERT!!!] I mean, we all knew that working for Torchwood is the most dangerous job in the world and that everybody was in danger every moment, but hello?! You’re just not supposed to kill off OVER HALF YOUR MAIN CHARACTERS in a mere seven episodes! Seriously! People can’t fucking handle it!

The only person who hasn’t died at least once is Gwen. Tosh died once, Ianto died twice, Owen died twice, and I quit counting how many times Jack had died by the end of the first season. I mean, the M*A*S*H characters were in the middle of a goddamned war for eleven years and only one or two of them ever died… which is hardly authentic but people don’t like it when you kill off their beloved main characters.

The Torchwood fan base is going absolutely batshit and it really sucked knowing that there wasn’t going to be a bad dream reset in episode 5. And then! The last four minutes! Please! “Six months later” and Jack leaves the planet. WTF?! I realize that Torchwood is a vehicle for Jack, but he has to be on earth or it isn’t Torchwood – it’s The Jack Harkness Show. Additionally, I read that RTD is moving to the States, so I don’t have high hopes for the franchise now.

Which is why my torrent client is currently running at home, downloading the episodes I need to complete my collection.

Ah, Torchwood, Torchwood, Torchwood, how I love to hate you.

I am bummed with Torchwood.

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In which there’s MORE about a TV show. Kill me now.

Teh BF and I watched the last two episodes of season two of Torchwood last night. They killed off two of the characters. WAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

In other news, Happy Halloween! I’ll be playing with most of the Coyote Kings (and a sub drummer) at Woody’s in Dayton tonight which means hard alcohol, a cover of In A Gadda Davida, and drunken rednecks in costume screaming, “DON’T YOU KNOW ANY COUNTRY ROCK?!?” I won’t be home until two or three in the morning, but I’ll probably get a hundred bucks for it.

I am obsessed with Torchwood.

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In which I go on and on and on about a fucking TV show. Srsly. Me, the girl who loathes television. Don’t even read this.

I have a BF who has satellite and an HD television and we could spend all kinds of time just watching what’s on, but we don’t. We watch DVDs of Torchwood.

Torchwood, if you’re not familiar with it, is a BBC show. It’s a spinoff from the Doctor Who universe, with several characters appearing in both series. It was created by the new Doctor Who’s producer, Russell T. Davies. The show was developed almost entirely as a vehicle for John Barrowman (who first appeared as Captain Jack Harkness opposite the ninth Doctor). Harkness is the first acknowledged non-het character in the Who universe, and he makes up for it by basically shagging everything he sees, be it girl, boy, or alien.

I love Torchwood because it’s total entertainment crack.

It’s British, which means accents (which means that any and all utterances sound more profound than they truly are). It’s sci-fi, so not only do we get to examine deep themes but we don’t notice we’re doing it since there are monsters and aliens and gadgets and wonderfully cheesy special effects. (This is actually why I love sci-fi: I think it’s the bestest context for playing around with existential questions.) And, best of all, it’s got more snogging and shagging than any other sci-fi series I’ve ever seen… and I’ve watched a million hours of sci-fi so I know what I’m on about.

For instance, in last night’s episode (season 2, episode 11) Gwen rushes back to The Hub to speak with Jack about a case. She bursts into his office, only to find him half-dressed and snogging a similarly unclothed Ianto. She backs away, stammering, but they pull themselves together and rush out after her.

Jack: Gwen! There’s always room for one more! We could have used you an hour ago for naked hide-and-seek.
Ianto: He cheats. He always cheats.

Ianto is my favorite character and gets all the best snarky asides.

The good news is that Torchwood didn’t get axed after its second season, and will be returning for a partial third. The bad news is that after we watch episodes 12 and 13 tonight, we’ll have only the special left until the third season is aired NEXT SPRING! OMGWTFBBQ!!!1!! What am I supposed to DO with myself until then?!?

The name ‘Torchwood’ is an anagram of ‘Doctor Who.’ (The name was used on the dailies and rushes when the ninth Doctor’s show was in pre-production so people wouldn’t know what they were and leak clips to the public. Davies later wrote the name into the Who series in preparation for the spinoff.) I love Torchwood and will probably begin the series again at the beginning and watch the whole thing again twice before Spring!

Apparently, the folks at CERN are also huge Torchwood fans.

Big! Brown! Bento! Sweater!

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In which there are two things! Two exciting things! Two!

The first exciting thing is that last night, while watching an episode of Torchwood, I completed the Big Brown Sweater. (You may cheer; I will hear you even over the Internet.) It spent a year and ten months on the needles, but it’s finally finished and it rules.

(The pattern is Abigail, the yarn is Decadence in chocolate, and both were from Knit Picks. Teh BF was forced at gun point by my pointing my coffee cup at him to photograph it this morning so I could put it on the intarwebz.)

It fits, it’s soft, it’s brown, I made it myself, and I intend to wear it every. single. day. from now until summer returns next year! Yay!

The other cool thing is that yesterday I decided to become obsessed with bento. (I believe it was this page that finally decided me, but I’ve had bento boxes on my wishlists for quite awhile now.)

Today I ordered the! cutest! bento box set! ever! and a few other necessary bento accoutrements (vegetable shapers, mini sauce bottles, a boiled egg shaper, resuable silicone food cups for separating wet from dry foods, and an onigiri mold) from jbox.com. They should be here late next week, and from then on I shall spend a little time after dinner every night cleverly packing leftovers for the next day’s lunch.

This new hobby will not only satisfy my cooking creativity to a certain extent (I hardly ever cook any more!), but will stop me eating at the Mexican restaurant across the street from work like twice a week. It will help me control my caloric intake, something I desperately need to do because I’m forty and built just like a brick these days, and it will have the added benefit of being way totally HELLA COOL!