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This weekend was a truly epic example of getting shit done. I mean I even impressed myself with my mad organizational and time management skillz and I kept myself motivated and moving. I'm a sucker for inertia and so generally just try to keep moving and this weekend it actually worked!

And I'm down a pound, lowest weight I've been since December, go me!

I should very much like to thank

elo_sf for putting both Aelf and I in a semi-food coma before we watched the finale for this season's Doctor Who...the less functional my brain for that one the happier I was. We actually ate the richest chocolate mousse I've ever tasted while watching the ep and the intense (dare I say, orgasmic) flavor helped mitigate the truly tragic nature of the episode unfolding before us. I mean there was actual wailing and gnashing of teeth, not to mention much face palming while it dragged on moment after embarrassingly awful moment.

Could it be the Master keeping the Jones family around indefinitely, despite the fact that after the first spilled coffee or badly pressed shirt he'd have zatted them into oblivion?

Perhaps it was when the Master turned the Doctor into Dobby.

Or the big gaping plot holes setting us up for the inevitable magic reset button ending.

The big reveal that Jack is the Face of Bo?

The total rip-off of RotJ with the OMG ridiculous viking funeral for the Master?

No, no I'd have to say that the worst was the floating blue Doctor with amazing cosmic powers all because everyone in the world thought about him at the same moment. I...huh?

The thing is the episode had some real potential, I mean I predicted the whole humans/Utopia/Toclaphane thing (as Aelf pointed out afterwards, seeing these plots through to their inevitable end well in advance of where I'm supposed to be in on it is my mutant ability) and it had a lot going for it. I mean the idea that time is finite despite what the Time Lords might want to believe (I loved the juxtaposition of the Doctor's timey-wimey ball metaphor and the linear nature of Utopia) and despite all their meddling it will eventually run out and all will be destroyed is a great concept. And better still that it would drive the Doctor to despair, break poor Lucy utterly, and serve to justify the Master's madness. I also liked the Master as the ultimate savior of humanity in his own cracked way.

I also liked Lucy shooting the Master though she didn't have any dialogue in the episode that I can recall so we only had the vaguest notion about what was going on inside her head. And she seemed to be sporting a black eye for most of it but, again, no explanation. I choose to believe she shot him because she knew he wanted her to, that he preferred death to a lifetime as the Doctor's pet psychopath. But we don't know because they just didn't bother to give us that information. Still, the Master's death scene was rather nice.

The whole post-conquest slavery thing was a big blinking neon sign that they were going to use the magic reset button at the end so I could've done without that. Also the use of the key to keep people from seeing her with Martha on Earth made no friggin' sense. Just the week before they'd made it clear that even when someone wanted to see a wearer they just couldn't quite seem to do so, in which case the pediatrician guy being able to notice her was another WTF moment. Also, still don't like Martha.

Jack was kind of pointless until given permission to blow the living shit out of the paradox machine. If I were him I'd have been pissed, "You mean I could've just shot this thing up a year ago and kept myself from a whole lot of torture? Fabulous!" And the Face of Bo thing...just not even going there.

I did admire Martha for walking away from the Doctor at the end, but the actress has apparently been signed for the next season so even that's a cheat. And it would've made much more sense if her family had been killed by the Master and returned when everything reset as that would've given her a whole helluva lot of incentive to stay with them at the end.

All in all, so not buying this season. Will I be back for the next? Not likely unless I have a whole lot of incentive to do so. Sure the woman picking up the Master's ring might imply Lucy carrying his child which could be fun, but given how badly this season was bungled I rather doubt it.

Got to see

jakejr and bring her moving supplies. We had a lovely lunch and chatted for a bit after we got done unloading my car and then re-loading it with stuff for Goodwill. Zoomed back just in time for N- and her boyfriend to show up and take my futon, YAY! I have my dining room back! As a gift to myself for that accomplishment I bought a new tv stand at Kurashido which will be delivered tonight. It's not as wide as my current one and is more stable. My current one is a corner piece and as I've shifted my tv's location it no longer has the wall support to keep it steady. So if anyone could use a tv stand let me know otherwise I'm throwing that up on Freecycle as well.

Several loads of laundry done, got the apartment re-arranged and tidied, watched "Mesmer" with

moonlightnrain, garden worked on, R-'s birthday gift finally properly finished, dishes done, vacuuming done, hell I even rotated my mattress. My productivity this week is truly awe inspiring :)