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I have not been on here much recently, between no net access at work and our router at home a-spolding (and our limited capacity to get a nice new one due to the fucking postal strike - it's now entering the third week so has been upgraded from a simple postal strike to a sweary one). How've you all been? I am, in bullet point form:

Working: still at the NSPCC, at least till the end of March. Am enjoying it, despite the daily exposure to Seriously Fucked Up Shit.

Watching: The Androids of Tara, which is a Tom Baker Doctor Who story with Romana I, who is astonishing in her fabulousness.

Listening: Other Lives, one of the Eighth Doctor audios. C'rizz is apparently pronounced KEH-ris and not Kah-RIZ as I had thought. This perturbs me. Also it has the Duke of Wellington in it and I don't remember

marymac's thesis mentioning he'd met the Doctor. Tsk, I bet she lost marks for that.

Lamenting: Last week's Dancing on Ice! Whatwhatwhat! I am having to console myself with my Ice Princess DVD and much ice-cream.

Reading: Howl's Moving Castle, since I fall into the camp of "those who loved the movie" rather than "those who have read the book" (I assume there are people who love both as my statistical sample is wee and unscientific)

Writing: Very late fic which I owe

mireille719 which keeps changing itself regeneration-style into something with completely different plot and characters; Fitz fic for

pic1000 in which I try to go post-Gallifrey Chronicles despite not having read it.

Revisiting: Teachers. I've seen this show all the way through maybe three times and it still astounds me with its brilliance (and this time I was better able to appreciate Simon's DW metaphor about Matt being a later regeneration than him). Though I appear to be missing the disc with Brian and Kurt's break-up episode. This is cause for woe and lamentation.

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Ahh, prepare for a boggle with Howls Moving Castle - after a long chat with a co-worker who'd never read the book (I read it years ago, yup, I'm a "book" camper) I decided not to watch the movie (It sounds nothing like the book!) ...and leant him the book.

actually, the bastard still has it..

It's one of those books I always meant to read and never got around to - it was time to take a little break from the octor Who novels anyway, I think I've read something like 50 of them since mid-December (I'm holding off on Lords of the Storm since it's the only one with Turlough I haven't read. Damn you, BBC, for not publishing more PDAs.)

The weird thing about Howl in movie form is, for the first 40 minutes or so, it's hugely faithful to the book (excepting lopping off a character or two). And then it totally goes off on one and turns into something absolutely entirely unrelated. Liked the film (once I'd got over the 'Huh? Say what now?' and the general confusion over why the Japanese construction of attractive male physique appears to be, er, female), but the book is bloody fantastic. I could wax lyrical about DWJ for a boringly long time.

*admires trueness of icon* The only DWJ I've ever read is Archer's Goon, which I loved as a kid. Then yesterday I wandered into the children's section of the library (where the Doctor Who novels are kept, inexplicably) and found a lovely edition of Howl's Moving Castle, along with a bunch of her other books. I have a feeling I'm going to be haunting that section over the next couple of weeks.

I don't believe there is another section in the library. Kidlit is the business - as is Archer's Goon, yay. Just read 'Deep Secret' and am in awe of DWJ's all round fabulousness (although that's not really a kids' book at all, just very unpretentious fantasy).

The ginger love god salutes your icon right back :)

Doyle! It has been v. quiet without you.

I have to make an effort to post more, I've missed everyone. (And one of these days I need to do a massive post of the eleventy million DW episodes, books and novels I've been mainlining while offline)

Hi! Nothing really to say except that I've missed seeing your posts.

Aw, thank you!

Your absence makes Vecchio snarl. More than usual, that is.

*loves on you*

That icon makes me fixate on Vecchio's eyebrows just a tiny bit. Rowr. *snugs*

I read Howl back in Middle School and remember loving it, but I don't remember a thing about the plot. Probably a sign I should re-read it. Jones is a wonderful author though. She falls into that nowhere near as rare as it used to be catagory of YA/Kids authors who adults can enjoy too.

She's the favourite author of one of my housemates - he used to write to her and he *has* to buy one of her books before he sits an exam - I really need to read more of her stuff.

This postal strike is sooo tiresome, isn't it?

So much. I ordered a bunch of stuff off eBay the day before the strike started, including computer equipment, and I really hope it's all working as I'll be outside some of the returns policies.

Perhaps we should sue the post office.

I found out today I haven't been paid for two weeks either, since my timesheets haven't arrived *hates on the post office*

Doyle! ::waves madly::

Isn't The Androids of Tara wonderful??? I adore the Key to Time stories.

And I've been on the verge of reading Howl's Moving Castle since I saw (and also loved) the movie...

The Key to Time is marvellous. I love Romana's first meeting with the Doctor - the insinuation that he saves the universe because he's massively overcompensating for something, the fact that she almost gets called Fred...

Hello! That is all!

*waves*