I CAN HAS INTELLIGENT TIGERS! *freaks*

So, um.  First off: I really can get a lot accomplished when I, y'know, do it.  Someone should've told me this earlier.

Firstly, I decided to face my fear/ignorance of the Post Office.  How?  I did what my friend rather sarcastically recommended and sort of held out my scholarship application with puppy-dog eyes and said "this needs to be in Toronto by the 8th.  How do I do that?" and the lady at the counter looked at me like I was crazy and took some of my money and gave me a special envelope.  And then she realized that I really didn't have a clue what I was doing and mailed it for me.  Phew.  (There's this thing called e-mail, y'see, and you can send things instantaneously.  I realize it's a tricky concept and all.  *grumbles about those whippersnappers and their postal service*)

Next, I popped online and did the scholarship application thingie and renewed all my library books.  Fixed!

Then I spent four hours reading about music.  Good times!

Anyhoo, stuff is better, so I've rescinded my self-imposed LJ exile!  I also bought food.

Oh, and I finally checked out www.whona.com.  Holy cow. There goes my Paypal account.  It's incredibly cheap, and the shipping is freakishly reasonable.  So I bought "The Year of Intelligent Tigers", the Eighth Doctor book that's out of print and that I can't find anywhere.  And I was willing to pay up to thirty dollars for it.  How much did I wind up paying, you ask?  Ten dollars.  And that's counting shipping and taxes.  Yikes!  So that was a real huzzah moment.  And they were polite and shipped immediately and it's just plain wonderful.  I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship...  Oh, gosh.  A Dalek beach towel?  TARDIS COOLER MINIFRIDGE?  And... a talking Dalek watch.  I love the internet. 

...Dalek bath and shower gel?  EX-FO-LI-ATE!

Deja vu who?

So I just finished reading "The Domino Effect" - yet another Eighth Doctor novel.  Excellent idea, really clever and all, but the writing was a definite weak point (and, uh, characterization?  hello?) and the potential for awesomesauce sort of wound up wasted with repetitive and wonky plots from the midpoint on.  All it really did was increase my desire to read "The Turing Test".

That said, I did have a totally bizarre and extremely intense sense of deja vu at one point - the little bit where it's all let's-talk-about-Turing and he mentions that he used to plant his broken toy soldiers in the ground, hoping they'd grow back fully healed.  I mean, yes, cute image and all that, but for some reason it really hit me.  In fact, I almost fell out of my chair - though that could well have been because I have the terrible habit of putting my feet up on the desk beside my laptop and leaning too far back, and therefore tend to fall over every few minutes anyway.  Anyway!  I get the impression that I saw some cartoon as a kid that had this specific image in it, and that it made a powerful impact on lil' old me (or, uh, lil' young me).  I've got a sort of freeze-frame in my head that's all lugubrious blues and dark oranges and a hand planting toy soldiers.  What the heck was that from?  That'll bother me.

Anyway, random deja vu aside.

I bought all that junk food and then sat down at the computer and had the overpowering urge to eat an apple!  Quelle décéption!  And the plot thickens.  Will those Glosette raisins ever get eaten?  Or will they, like so many others, merely melt away in the cruel, cruel heat?  Who will mourn the chocolate-covered goodness?  Tune in next time for all the answers!  (Ooh, and the Friday Five!)