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So, while in Canada, we bought some actual physical books. I realised that bookshops have become things that I only go into when on holiday. In fact, that's practically true for any sort of shops. I can't be bothered to go to the city centre these days. Anyway. We went to a lovely bookshop, we browsed, I bought actual books!

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As well as books, one evening I decided I didn't have the energy to go out and requested an evening of TV. aveleh suggested that she'd been planning to try out Orphan Black and oxfordhacker had already seen some and liked it so we went for it. We ended up blitzing the first four episodes that night because the moment I saw episode one I was totally addicted. It has some amazing characters, incredibly acted and I really enjoy the plotting as well, although I can imagine that the more scientifically inclined might find that snagging them. I am slightly bemused that no-one had put me onto it beforehand - I have mentioned that I'm interested in good genre TV shows, right? I obviously need to improve my recommendations system - does anyone know anyone who was reccing it? UK people I'm letting off on the grounds that it hasn't actually aired here yet (despite being a BBC thing - I didn't realise BBC America made it's own stuff too). It's actually coming to BBC3 in the autumn, apparently and everyone should watch it!

Am rewatching fourth season of the West Wing. Am reminded of why I shelled out for the complete set. This show is the thing I watch and think 'Yes, this is the classic. This is something that couldn't be done as anything other than a TV show and is done the best that it can be done.' It's beautiful and it makes me feel something amazing when ever I watch it (yes, that's sappy, but it's true).

Also, watched the end of season three of the Venture Brothers earlier. THAT SHIT IS CRAZY INSANE. No, seriously. I mean, it's kind of awesome, but still CRAZY INSANE.

In other news, school is going awesome. I am still really into the whole thing even though I have horrible cold, for which I blame the children.

What toys should the IT Crowd set include? I think they should also solicit T-shirt recommendations for Roy :)

ETA: Actually, they are soliciting T-shirt suggestions!

Well, who would have thought that I'd actually get slightly weepy watching Torchwood? I've been really taken by surprise at the amount I've got into this series. A slightly different perspective on the characters or something, I don't know? As I said to Niall, if you haven't been enjoying the rest of the season I really doubt Exit Wounds would change anything, but for me, it worked pretty well, despite its plot problems. I even went back and watched a couple of series 1 episodes and enjoyed them much more than I remembered - it's all about how much you like them, I guess. I'm going to give Dr Who another chance as well, I've decided, given that the rest of my friends list seems to have much more time for that than Torchwood (and I hear rumours of crossovers) - maybe I'll get into that this time.

We had a really lovely day yesterday. I left my bike in town on Thursday so Alex and I got up in the morning after I had for some reason woken up really early and been unable to get back to sleep and tramped down the river path to get it and enjoy the pretty while it lasted. Having achieved that, we went for luxurious lunch in Joes and then headed home but it was lovely to just meander along talking of this and that and everything. After that, we lounged around, I watched some TV and after a while I took Alex out to the Science Park to give him a go in my car (verdict, not bad for someone who hasn't driven in 12 years), then back again for snacky tea, more rambling and Red Dwarf. There should be more weekends like that.

So, recently I have started reading fanfic*. I have also started enjoying Torchwood**. These facts are not unconnected and they're connected in an interesting (to me) way so I thought I would write about that. In a very rambling way.

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* yes, alright, you can all just pull faces and move on if you like, but I'm enjoying it
** see *

I just love watching Relocation, Relocation. I love looking at what other people do with their houses. I love this house, particularly this living room; I really need to get on with doing the work I want to do here. I ought to at least get our bedroom finished - it's really close, after all.

We had a builder round this evening to talk about the whole extension thing and give some very rough ball park figures. He's a friend of a friend apparently and actually lives on our road, both of which are great recommendations and actually, we really hit it off. It made me feel much more hopeful about the project as a whole - I think we could manage it, although we'd be pushing things. It'd be worth it though.

I'm watching Ugly Betty and I quite like it but to be honest, she's not really ugly. She's just wearing braces. Which rather undermines the concept.

I'm in a funny mood now. I guess watching two Veronica Mars finales in an evening will do that to you. It seemed like a good idea, at the end of my re-watch of Season one to watch the finale of Season 2 right after. I'm not entirely sure why now, but there you are. Not that they're bad TV, far from it. Just slightly mental state altering to an impressionable mind such as myself...