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I spent all today doing my RSA stage 2 word processing exam, which consists of proving you can press those square buttony things on the keyboard and magically make stuff happen on the screen omg! I've found myself really limited in the amount of temp jobs I can do without it, so I finally caved and paid the £180. I felt a bit stupid at finding out pernickety stuff I genuinely did not know, like putting two spaces after a full stop. I thought that went out with manual typewriters. The examiner's horrified look suggested this is a breach of word processing etiquette on par with going to a fancy dinner party and using your fish slice to indecently assault the host while whistling the theme to The Magic Roundabout.

Still, I hope I passed. The NSPCC didn't faff about making me put double spaces in; my interview there mainly consisted of "do you know what one of these computer thingummies does? Are you likely to have a breakdown if you have to type up sexually explicit material? Good, help yourself to enough tea to make any reasonable person explode." (Social workers drink a lot of tea. It is one of many interesting scientific facts I learned in the six months I worked there.)

My mother just shouted up the stairs to inform me that "the wee boy with the glasses" is on TV. Harry Potter? The Milky Bar kid? I am going to investigate.

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The BBC announcer warned us all to get behind the sofa, which I thought was rather sweet. I have been informed American kids don't do this when scariness comes on TV - how are you all not dead?! (Or... are you dead?)

( Doctor Who: New Earth )

ETA: the commentary track is up on the BBC site.

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In a separate post so as not to spoil people:

( Thoughts on the clips from future episodes shown at the end of DW Confidential )