"My brother had a rabbit...that's it."

While this post may be trying to decieve you into believing I wrote it at 8:51pm, it's actually about 3:30am. I left it open for a long time. I really need to get to sleep to try to fix my god awful sleep schedule, so I'm going to make this one brief.

Over the past few weeks, I've gotten a few new regular readers, and so if I haven't said this to you already: welcome! I'm glad you're here! (also, for those of you who may not know, I have a youtube channel I'm trying to post on more regularly, and you can find it here)

I've been trying to work out a way to reply to your comments and continue on a conversation, because I really feel like, even though this is unarguably my personal blog, it's really a conversation between me and you out there. So, I've decided that whenever there's a comment I feel the need to reply to, I'll just post it in my entry.

Now, if I don't reply to all of the comments, it's not because I didn't read them or love them or have time to reply to them; it's just because I maybe didn't have anything to add. I just want to clarify that.

Okay, so here we go.

"CRUNKRacoon: I probably shouldn't follow everyone who mentions Doctor Who in their blog. X]
Any way you could post a link to that video? I'm trying to warm up to Matt Smith to avoid Post-Tennant Depression."

Absolutely! It's over here. I get what you mean about Post-Tennant Depression. I totally have it too! Don't worry, we'll get through it together. Another video I watch when I really need a boost is the Jonathon Ross interview with David Tennant and Catherine Tate, which can be found in two parts here and here. It's brilliant and hilarious and makes me laugh every time! The interview was held right before series 4 aired, so for those of you reading who haven't finished the show yet, you can watch it before you watch series 4.

Alright, I REALLY have to go to bed now. Love to all!

See you soon!
Emily

Current music obsession: Lady Gaga in general, and "Drumming Song" by Florence + the Machine
Reading: Doctor Who: The Taking of Chelsea 426 by David Llewellyn

"I like impossible."

Okay, well this bloggy window has been open for a really long time, and I just haven't had anything to say. I mean, I did when I thought "I should blog now," but now I don't, so it's stream of consciousness time.

I've mentioned before that my mom and little sister are watching Doctor Who for the first time with Rachel and I, and we're finally in season 2, which is personally my favorite. Season 4 is brilliant, too, but nothing really compares to season 2. We're watching "New Earth" right now. The Docter and Rose are just...aww! SO adorable. I love them too much! I love Rose and Nine, too, but Rose and Ten are unparalleled in their cute.

Also, David Tennant has freckles. It's adorable.

My band had its one year anniversary yesterday! We've been a band for a whole year now!

"It's like living inside a bouncy castle!"

"I shall proceeed...up the apples and pears!"

Possesed!Rose is genuis.

Annnd...snog.

Brianna (my little sister) just referred to the research laboratory in this episode as "the psycho ward in the Emerald City."

Okay, that's enough. I told you last time that I got that online journalism job. If you want to check out what I've written so far (and I'd love it if you would), my page with my work so far is here.

Aw. Ten's first full episode and he gets to save the world through hugging. Isn't that just like him?

Stream of consciousness over now.
Goodnight.

See you soon!
Emily

I GOT IT!!!

Okay, it's way too late for me to post a whole blog, but I just wanted to say that I GOT THE JOB!!! I am now the Science Fiction Examiner for Tampa Bay on Examiner.com!!!

Also, it's 34 degrees F right now, and I LOVE it! I live in FLORIDA. Land of the hot. 34 degrees is unheard of, and I'm loving every single second of it. XD

Okay, I have to go. Thanks for being awesome!

See you soon!
Emily

P.S. After watching an interview with Matt Smith, I'm actually way more open to him being the new Doctor, and actually kind of excited about the new season. I mean, he's no Tennant, but he's got quite the frenetic way about him, which I quite like.
P.P.S. I've also just realized that my last three blog titles have been in all caps.

THE END OF TIME AND THE WORLD TOO KAY BAI

Heeeey, guys. Sorry I haven't been blogging in a while. I was kind of taking a break from all things writing there for a while. It was nice, but now I'm back.

I have three major things to talk about today: Doctor Who, jobs and the end of the world. Allons-y?

So, right, Doctor Who. I finally caught up just in time for the End of Time episodes. Watched both parts on January 1st, and oh goodness. I thought my reaction would at least be comparable to when I saw Doomsday, but not even. Spoilers, by the way, in this paragraph. Skip on to the next if you haven't seen End of Time parts 1 and 2 yet. My sister, Rachel was crying on and off for the whole last half hour. I wasn't, I was trying really hard to just resist the whole thing. Sitting there going, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no!" over and over. But then, when the Doctor went to give Donna the lottery ticket, and mentioned her father to her mother, I started crying some. When Wilf lost it, so did I. Like really lost it. The second it cut back to Rose's street and I heard Rose's voice, I started to sob. At this point, I was well gone and it was really all I could do not to be too loud as I blubbed. OH MY GOODNESS MY HEART WAS BREAKING! And he was just watching her! If he hadn't made a noise, and she hadn't turned, he would have just WATCHED HER GO! Their scene was incredibly sweet and incredibly sad, and oh my lord, I couldn't stop crying. And then the OOD! All the Ood singing to him! And then he made it painfully into his TARDIS and said "I don't want to go!" which is just so human and speaks to the innate humanness inside of us all, and shows that the Doctor is more like us than he maybe sometimes wants to admit and OH MY GOD I DON'T WANT HIM TO GO, EITHER!!! And then he changed. David Tennant was gone, and there was some other man in him place. Honestly, even though there were kind of funny bits I was able to appreciate later, both Rachel and I were crying far too hard at this point to be able to appreciate them then. Long-time readers may remember that I detested Martha before I even met her just on the sole reason that she wasn't Rose, and Rachel and I were determined not to make Eleven the Martha of the Doctors, but we seriously failed for a few minutes there, I'll be honest. Going through tissue after tissue, Rachel was moaning about "geronimo", and I kept yelling "Who the hell is THAT?!" After we'd calmed down a bit, we watched the preview for next season and felt a little bit more open to him. He's still not the Doctor in my mind, but I'm becoming more accustom to the idea as time moves along. Once the new season starts, I'll probably be fine with him. Now, please, Doctor Who fans, tell me your reactions to End of Time! If you'd rather write a blog on it and link me to it, that's fine, but I want to know how you reacted! Did you cry? As much as I did? My friend Zack told me he had to accept Matt Smith's Doctor right away or he never would, whereas I need time before I can move on. Which way are you? Or do you feel differently even to that? I want to know!

Okay, that's it for the End of Time spoilers, people who haven't seen it. We're good now, you can keep reading.

So, the end of the world thing, yeah? The only reason I bring it up is because it's evidently armageddon week on the History Channel, and everyone is still talking about 2012 and whether they believe in it (I, personally, am pretty sure the Mayans just stopped writing down predictions, not that they thought the world would actually end, they just got bored or died or something). Ironically, my mom and little sister are watching Doctor Who series 1 for the first time, and during armageddon week, we saw the episode where the world ends. The one where the Ninth Doctor takes Rose to see the sun expand and destroy the earth. The Doctor has this amazing quote in that episode, and I love it, so I'm sharing it. He says:

"You lot, you spend all your time thinking about dying, like you're gonna get killed by eggs, or beef, or global warming, or asteroids. But you never take time to imagine the impossible. Like maybe you survive."

And, see, I love it because that's sort of what I believe here. I really don't think we're going to get wiped out by things like global warming or asteroids or random planets inexpicably falling out of orbit, even though nothing like that has ever happened before. I mean, call me optimistic or naive if you want to, but I just have more faith than that. We've survived this much, haven't we? We're a scrappy species. I think we can make it for a bit longer. Anyway, have you got any thoughts on the end of the world? Do you think we're gonna be gone by 2012?

And lastly, jobs. I just applied for one. It would be a blogging job and it's kind of perfect for me. I have up to two week before I hear back, but if you could all cross your extremities and pray I get it (if you're the praying sort)? It would mean a lot to me! THANKS!

Okay, I need to go and read a bit more of the Doctor Who book Zack got me for Christmas and then sleep.

See you guys soon!
Emily

I LIKE GOSSIP GIRL, OKAY

Okay, yeah. I've had a good month or so of intelligent writing on here. I'm going to talk about Gossip Girl.

I do realize how incredibly teenage-girl it is of me to like this show, but I have to know what haaaappeeens! I've been watching the show since season 1. It's always been my guilty pleasure, and I've always watched it alone. Sometimes that's nice, but it also means I have no one to talk with about it, because I seriously doubt anyone I speak to regularly watches it too. Anyway, I really like this show. I'm not sure why, really, but I have the INTENSE NEED to know what happens every week. I also kind of like the characters. Some of them, at least. I even kind of like the ones I dislike. I think my favorite character right now is Nate, which is funny because I really didn't like him all that much at the beginning of the show, or even the beginning of last season. I also really like Blair and Chuck. They're both still really complex characters even though they've both grown and matured since s1, which is nice. Jenny is ridiculously stupid, and honestly so is Eric right now, which is sad because he actually used to be cool. I don't blame Jonathan for breaking up with him. He's being a prat. I HATE TRIPP A LOT and I'm very glad Nate punched him in the face. I mean finally. He's stupid. And mean. I have a sort of love-hate relationship with Serena, in that I am enthralled by her story and want to watch her, but I also get very annoyed by the majorly stupid descisions she makes. At least she's consisted with her character, I guess. Lily and Rufus kind of bore me sometimes, I'll admit. I used to like Dan a lot better, too. I liked him when he was dorky. Not as much anymore, though I can see him sort of going back to being likable, and I hope that he does. Vanessa doesn't interest me that much most of the time, though some of her storylines are cool. Her mother is Zoe from Firefly, which leads me to believe that her father is Wash. It must be so.

Anyway. I'm impatient for the show to come back on. This whole thing with Chuck's mom confused me and I want to know what that's all about, and I will admit that I want Serena and Nate to be together. Mostly because I think Nate is cool and I would like him to get something he wants for a change instead of just helping everyone else.

Do you guys watch Gossip Girl? And if not, do you have any guilty pleasure tv shows you CAN'T STOP WATCHING? I'd like to know I'm not alone, hah.

In other news, I watched Confessions of a Shopaholic for the first time tonight, and I was surprised at how good it was! It was super cute. I think part of that may have been that Hugh Dancy is just wildly attractive (I can't help it -- I'm SUCH an anglophile, and his hair is perfect!), but it had a really cute story. I love romantic comedies, because they're so easy. They all have similar basic plot structure, and there is no edge-of-your-seat biting-your-nails what's-gonna-happen to it, which is honestly just nice sometimes. It's nice to get away from all the real world uncertainties and pain and just escape into this world where the people will love and lose, and ultimately end up happy and together because they're meant to be that way. It's just...nice. I wouldn't want to watch nothing but romcoms, but I also wouldn't want to watch any movie genre exclusively. The consistency and stability of a well done romantic comedy can be extremely therapeutic, though. I would reccomend one if you're having a bad/stressful day/week/month. Unless you're a boy who's not into that. That's okay too.

I also finished the second draft of a short story I plan on submitting in a bi-monthly contest. If I win, it gets published online and in a magazine, which would be amazing. If that happens, I'm totally linking it here. If not, I could probably post the story on here if you guys are interested. Let me know if you are.

I need to sleep now. Goodnight!
Emily

Ghost Whisperer: 1.22
Books this year: 16

EDIT: I also forgot to answer Elisabeth's question as to which modern opera I want to see in Canada. It's called The Ghosts of Versailles by John Corigliano. It's amazing! Here's a link to Marie Antoinette's aria, "They Are Always With Me", which is gorgeous and chilling. She's a ghost in the opera, so it's her memories of her life and especially her death.

NaNo Next Year?

Heeeyyy. So I read the comments on my last blog and they were SUPER HELPFUL, but I'm actually not doing what any of them said. But they were still SUPER HELPFUL, I promise! They made me really think about a lot of different situations and solutions and then figure out what my character would actually do, and since he himself is not a major jerkface, everything he does at least makes sense. I had a nice talk with my sister about it, and she was talking about how when a character does something bad for a reason that's relatable, people are likely to forgive him. So THANK YOU THANK YOU for your opinions. I've figured it out now.

Also, today I got an idea for what might possibly be my NaNo novel next year. I feel it's a little premature, but I don't control when I get ideas. I'm just mulling right now. I haven't even written anything down, though I'm going to soon. This one will fall much more heavily into the YA genre than Goblin Men (which is the novel I'm working on now, fyi), and not so much into the scifi genre, though there may be a slight sense of fantasy through dreams if that makes sense? I don't know, I just thought of this today while I was cleaning a bathroom. We'll see how far it makes it.

I am SO EXCITED FOR CHRISTMAS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU! We got our tree the other day and decorated it and the rest of the main living area of the house, and now the living room/dining room looks like a lovely, Christmas celebration in and of itself. We have this huge advent calendar that is three little houses with windows and doors, and it's adorable. Right after we got it, my twelve year old sister decided there needed to be little people around it, so she brought out her Harry Potter figurines, which are almost perfectly to scale, and placed them around it. Including Voldemort. Who's standing on a chimney. Like an evil Santa Clause. It's kind of amazing.

Aaaand, like everyone ELSE on the internet, I have a formspring. So, if you want, you can go and ask me all sorts of ridiculous questions, and I will answer them. Yay!

See you soon!
Emily

Ghost Whisperer: 1.16
Books this year: 15

Help?

Okay, blog readers. For the first time (I think...right?), I am calling on you for novel help.

See, I have this love triangle because my so-called secondary character decided all of a sudden that he was in love with my FMC, who needs to marry my MC by the end of the book. Great. So far, this guy has been able to convince himself that, while he knows FMC really likes MC, MC isn't interested in FMC. Of course, this is completely untrue, but he's managed to make himself believe it. Trouble is, pretty soon he's going to catch them kissing. Now, I know him and I know that he's a fighter. I also know he makes really rash decisions when he's upset. He's acted vaguely controlling of FMC when he's found out she's doing something that makes him angry/worried out of his mind before, and he hated MC for a while because of the way they met. However, he and MC are good friends now, which is a problem right now. I know something is brewing in my so-called secondary character, because he's been making faces and stuffing down his feelings for quite some time now. SO, my thought is that he will somewhat-sort-of-kind-of accidentally let the corrupt officials know MC's secret, which will result in MC being captured and tortured. So-called secondary guy will be completely overwhelmed with guilt, of course, when he realized what he's done, but he can't be Judas, and I'm worried that's what this plot point will make him.

This is GREAT for my plot, actually. This will work really well. HOWEVER, so-called secondary guy is incredibly loveable and I like him very very much, and I want the readers of the book to like him as much as I do. I'm worried that if I allow him to do this, everyone will hate him.

So here's my question: after reading about this situation, would you hate so-called secondary guy for doing what he's doing, and if so, how can I write this so that you'd forgive him eventually?

I just don't know.

Any input is welcome and appreciated!

See you soon!
Emily