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An oft-delayed blog...

So I'm still a little sick, but the antibiotics are kicking in and all of a sudden I'm very sleepy. Fortunately on Wednesday I worked a full work day and thus was not on the train that derailed. I did get to see the train as my late-running train made it's slow way past, but I didn't have my camera out because I thought it would have been cleared up by then. Two carriages were off the tracks, as far as I could tell, and I can only imagine it was rather scary. I don't know how it could have happened, given that the train would have just stopped (or been about to stop) at the station and no one goes fast through there. I wouldn't be surprised to find out it was foul play.

Another link: On the whole 11th doctor casting news fiasco

And one more, from my new favourite blog, Fuck You, Penguin: A snake and a hamster that are friends.

This is what I'd want for my birthday, if my birthday were in March and not January: The greatest Doctor Who toys ever. (If anyone is after ideas, Kinokuniya has the first Gunnerkrigg Court book in stock. Also Absolute Sandman volumes 3 and 4, but they're out of most people's price range.)

More yuletide stories!

• Addams Family: Because We're Addamses by calliopes_pen - a story told from Wednesday's point of view, more or less set around the Movie. Deliciously in character.
• Fairy Tales: Once Upon a Dream by bookesque - a reworking of Sleeping Beauty, told from the point of view of both the prince and the princess, in which both are aware of their places in the story, and both don't necessarily want any part of it. Lovely.
• Merlin: Know Thine Enemy by Isabeau - Mordred's story, so sad and poignant and tragic. I love him here, and the way she's written this.
• Nethack: Another Sad Death Written In The Book Of Tyr by kastaka - Reads like a really fun session of the game.
• Tokyo Babylon: Memory -- A Save Tokyo City Story by Psyienna - This is Tokyo as I remember it, and the characters as I wish I had been able to write them. Beautiful.

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Being Nice is Nice, I guess...

Gave my busdriver a cupcake this morning. I'm sure she thought I was joking when I offered her one, but she waited when she saw me running and then said "ooh, and she has cakes" when I got on the bus, so I did what came naturally and offered her one. At the end of the ride, I handed over a coffee mudcake wrapped nicely in a tissue and told her to have a wonderful day. I hope she trusts me enough to eat it.

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