Another weird dream

I had a dream that I was reading LJ and looking at minisinoo's journal (she's a fanfic author I kept track of for her X-Men movie-verse stuff until she went into Harry Potter AUs). As I read her entry, I got really excited because she had gotten into Doctor Who ficcing, and she's a good writer, great with dialogue, and does her homework with researching people's dialects and euphemisms, so I got really really excited over the idea that she was going to start writing Doctor Who stuffs.

Of course, I read the entry and it turns out to be a meta about how the Seventh and Ninth Doctors both have abida discipline. The word in italics means nothing to me, but when she italicizes things, it's kind of like when Jacob at TWoP does, which means it's an obscure drama term that just proves how much smarter than you the person using it is. She explained it as being something like "diet-exercise." The hyphenation was specific, but I couldn't say why. Abida is diet-exercise.

O-kaaaaay...Well, I have no idea what that means, even if my subconscious made it up, but her meta attempted to prove that something about those two Doctors specifically--their physical statures and personalities/moods--is abida or has abida or subscribes to an abida philosophy. All I could think of the entire time was, "I don't get it." I haven't seen episode one of the Seventh Doctor's stint; all I saw was his two seconds in the terrible US movie. He certainly didn't seem like a guy who's philosophy in life was one of diet and exercise. Christopher Eccleston, I'd give you. Not the other one.

Plus, no fanfic for me. I think my subsconscious was trying to tell me not to meta-post about fandom (like I did for BSG last night) so much any more. Because what I read in my dream is probably as coherent or interesting as what you all end up getting dumped on your f'list every other day.

Book Meme

I got tagged by darkling1 and, without even answering the call, I somehow tagged jethrien. I'm a little confused.


BOOKWORM:

1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Tag 5 people

But her mind was on John Faa and the parley room, and before long she slipped away up the cobbles again to the Zaal. There was a lght in the parley room window. It was too high to look through, but she could hear a low rumble of voices inside.

"Frustration," The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman

Tag: moonlightalice, wellgull, deepredbelle, linaerys, and, uh, Abraham Lincoln (by which I mean viridian).

Winner of the "Duh!" Award

A little late, as it was Blog for Choice day yesterday, but I do hope people read this article. It's great that there's all this snide editorializing about the central woe-is-me, saving-your-heathen-asses-is-so-terrific-of-me woman with a martyr complex that reeks worse than Elizabeth, New Jersey. The author sneaks it in, I think, in order to stop herself from coming right out with, "Jesus Christ, this lady is a psycho, get me out of here!"

( I nearly died laughing. At an article about anti-choice fuckheads. No, really, check it out. )