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(Apologies for the impromptu hiatus - wound up taking a bit of a holiday from the intarwebs, with the exception of various and sundry fannish requirements. No bad stuff going on! Very good stuff on the whole, spending time with family + cats and reading and playing piano and doing some of that crazy writing thing every now and then. Just needed to take a bit of a step back, apparently.)

First, a quick pimp: tardis_view has 103 members! That's craziness! For those of you who've not heard me go on about this yet, it's a comm in which you can give people tours of various localities around the world. Thus! Join the community, and you've got a TARDIS of your very own, complete with tour guides wherever you might wind up. There's a gorgeous tour of The Cloisters in NYC, as well as a beautiful log of a trip to Gambia. Come on in and start travelling!

Pimp number two: livelongnmarry ends at midnight Pacific time, which is in about 10 hours. It's your last chance to buy up all the great stuff around! Last I checked, the comm had raised over $30,000 for marriage equality. SO COOL.

I've offered:
- 5 lots of 1,000,000 NP, the currency in Neopets, which is a guilty pleasure of mine and features about a billion online games, such random things as a stock market and auctions and trading, and some adorable online pets to pamper. For the purpose of comparison, you get... 250 NP? 500? when you create a new account. This is quite a lot more to start out with! So far, four of the lots are going for $20 each, and one is going for $25.

- 1 fic by request, with several fandoms to choose from, including Doctor Who (Classic or New series), House MD, Sherlock Holmes, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Sapphire and Steel, The Prisoner, The West Wing, Danger Man, The Sarah Jane Adventures, The X-Files, or any combination of the above. elyssadc is awesomely winning this one with a $30 bid. :D

- 10 ficlets by request, in which you give me at least twenty prompts, and I fill at least ten of them over August. Fandoms are the same as the above. livii is awesomely winning this one with a $20 bid. :D

Last you'll hear of me on that score, until the fics get posted. Go out and bid!

(Also - won the ebay lot of 15 Lord Peter Wimsey novels, which should apparently arrive Friday - Mondayish, which is right smack in the middle of my 7 straight eleven-hour shifts of doom! This is awesome timing, I think.)

Yes, there is call for all those exclamation points.

I finally got to that Bookstore of Awesomesauce, and while it is terribly sad that it is closing down, this also means a deluge of Low Low Prices.

For thirty-two dollars (CDN), I got the following Doctor Who books (here in Canada, I've never seen them anywhere!):

- The Inferno novelisation!
- The Mind of Evil novelisation!
- St. Anthony's Fire (in the New Adventures line)
- Nightshade (in the New Adventures line)
- Birthright (in the New Adventures line)
- Shadowmind (in the New Adventures line)
- The Highest Science (in the New Adventures line)
- Transit (in the New Adventures line)
- The Pit (in the New Adventures line)
- Toy Soldiers (in the New Adventures line)

Huzzah, thought I! Ten new Doctor Who novels (and yes, I was limiting myself - there were plenty others out there).

And then I went to the main desk, and the owner set a pile of books on the table, and they were all Doctor Who novels. So I delayed the lineup and squinted at them, and delightedly picked out two more awesome, awesome finds that had me in a puddle of squee:

- Island of Death (Yay, adventure with Sarah Jane and the Brig and the Third Doctor!)
- The Left-Handed Hummingbird (No explanation necessary - woohoo!)

Am very much looking forward to reading them all in rapid succession studying very, very hard and being conscientious and, um. *runs off to read*

My mysterious interlibrary loan turned out to be the Doctor Who First Series Complete Shooting Scripts! Haha! So I grinned stupidly and the reference librarian looked at me funny and I tried to be all "Srs business research", but I think she knew the truth about my fannishness.

To celebrate, I picked up some AWESOME pizza (spinach and chicken = yum) on the way home from school and am going to cancel fencing and just get stuff done tonight.

This morning, I decided to watch some Pertwee episodes before class, but lost track of time so that my forty-five minute walk to school became a twenty-minute sprint (and I very nearly got to use "There was a dinosaur invasion!" as an excuse for being late). I figure the added exercise and the fact that I have four major projects (two midterms - human geography and chemistry - and two problem sets - thermodynamics and, again, chemistry) due in the next two days that I have yet to start... well, that rationalises missing the two-plus hours of fencing tonight. Alas.

(Yes, I procrastinate. But the fact that it keeps working sort of puts me off doing anything about it. :D)

Edit: So I just listened to the teaser for "The Girl Who Never Was", December's Eight/Charley Big Finish Audio. And, um. *whimpers*

Also Edit: Oh, $%^&^$* with &%@&* on top and a side order of #%#@. Thermodynamics prof, in adding a lovely blank tephigram for us to work with, also seems to have deleted all his problem sets, including the one due tomorrow. *grumbles* Note to self: copy these things down in future.

Yay!  Another meme, this one stolen from megoobie.  Because I like books, too.

As always, this is personal preference, so I'm probably gonna disagree with a bunch of folks out there. (/disclaimer)

In the list of books below, bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole, put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk (*) the ones you’ve never heard of...

My practice room/lunchtime hangout was locked yesterday.  Hope it was an oversight and not a permanent thing, or I'll be forced to play violin in the hallway.  And nobody wants that!