Hello 
I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.
Otherwise, feel free to close this box and explore...
Resolve
...or Alka Seltzer. Either would go down rather well right now.
I'm not, it has to be said, much of a one for New Years resolutions. In fact, I doubt many people are really — I guess you'll have a hard time scooting around blogs to find the words "my new years resolutions..." followed by a neatly annotated unordered list of Idealistic Goals And Intentions For 2007™.
I can never actually think of any for a start — the two obvious ones ("Smoke and drink less") are always the farthest things from my mind — and besides, I have absolutely no will-power whatsoever, so saying things like "I will always wash the dishes after I've eaten, and not leave them festering in the sink for weeks" is a bit bloody pointless.
Frankly.
That being said, I do have high hopes for this year, and I wanted to start it off by just jotting down where I want to be this time next year...
I want to be living in Leeds, in a house I like, finally financially sorted, with a social life that doesn't involved sitting at home every night draining the EU wine lake.
Um, that's about it 
With that in mind, I have — I must confess — made myself a couple of promises for the coming months. One: I'm going to start dating again. Two: I'm going to stop taking myself so bloody seriously.
And three: I'm going to dress up more often and take pictures of myself 
Happy New Year guys 
Now then... mkdir 2007; cd 2007; mkdir 01; cat > 01/01
TG Predictions for 2007 — Becky's T*Blog
The perfect antidote to a New Year's Day hangover — Becky had me in stitches this morning
Spelling mistake takes tourist 13,000km off-course
"I didn't notice the mistake as my son is usually good with computers" — [El Reg] I'm sorry, I shouldn't laugh at others' misfortune, but bwah ha ha ha haar 
Rip-Roaring
doctorwho sarahjaneadventures television
Oooh! Oooh! Did you see it? Wasn't it fab?
Even Charlie Brooker loved it...
Unlike Torchwood, which looks like a kid's programme when it shouldn't, [the Sarah Jane Adventures] looks like an adult's programme — and should.
I mean, granted, there were holes in the plot you could've driven that orange bus through, and making specific references to things 'in vogue' during production isn't likely to help the longevity (although I'm led to believe that "James Blunt" is official Cockney Rhyming Slang these days) ... but even despite there being (eurgh) children in it¹, I bloody loved it.
If for no other reason than it managed to achieve what Torchwood so far has spectacularly failed to do ... it made me cry
This bit went completely over my head though...
WTF is a black hole doing in a cupboard?
¹ I know, I know. It was a children's programme. Still...
No, actually it was this bit:
I used to think "When I'm grown up, I'll know what I want. I'll be sorted". But you never really know what you want. You never feel grown up, not really. You never sort it all out.
Dunno why, it just made me well-up
The dog bit got me more, but that bit's understandable.
The only problem with SJA is that's it going to be on ceebeebies. I want to watch it, now!
I just read the Charlie Brooker article, fantastic! My favourite bit has to be the very last paragraph though.
It's a kid's show. Get over it
"WTF is a black hole doing in a cupboard? "
Where else would you put one — at the bottom of the garden? That would be useless, what with all the bees being sucked into the singularity, none of the flowers would be pollinated.
You know, that bit's still troubling me. I'm picturing the following conversation — deep in the 'story'-writing bowels of the Beeb — taking place at some point in the past few months...
"Russell?"
"What now?"
"Well, see, sorry, but it's all very well and good us making a kids series revolving around Sarah Jane Smith, but you know those Doctor Who fans?"
"Whowhatnow?"
"You know. The people that don't like you"
"Damm their eyes"
"Yes. Well, it's just that they're quite well-known to worry about silly things like 'canonical' stuff"
"I'm sure I remember that word from somewhere"
"It's when story lines respect precidents from previous storylines"
"Pah. Stuff and nonsense. If I want the TARDIS to fly up into the sky, then that's what happens. I'm RUSSELL T FUCKING DAVIES after all"
"Yes, and the Time Vortex shines out of your ass"
"Pretty isn't it? What of these canonical fools anyway"
"Well, it's just that the last time we saw Sarah, she was wandering off into the distance with a certain robot dog in tow"
"AND?"
"I'm worried that everyone's going to wonder where K-9 went"
"K-who?"
"The robot dog"
"Ah"
"Ah indeed"
"Oh, I dunno. Tell them he's off fixing a black hole or something. That'll work"
Hmmmmm. I thought the story was a bit weak (and the fact that I missed the first half of it probably didn't help). The CGI was good but the whole 'mother' thing pissed me off: "Come mother and devour them!" "Errm. Yea', ok. Just give me an hour or two to unravel my tentacles — fuckers have got all knotted up while I've been stuffed up here in the roof void." And don't get me started on talking computers that mumble to themselves while they're working stuff out; oy vey! As for K9; it's obvious why they did that: 'cause it's fucking lame — always was, always will be. So I guess the conversation was more like:
How are we going to get around being saddled with that piece of shit K9?
Oh I don't know... Can't we just stuff the fucker in a cupboard?
Will we get away with that?
Weeeell; we could say it's guarding something really important and dangerous.
Result!!!
"I want to be living in Leeds, in a house I like, finally financially sorted, with a social life that doesn't involved sitting at home every night draining the EU wine lake."
I think that's a right respectable goal. It's enough to be getting on with in one year. Especially on top of the dating.
And what's the code for quoting in comments again? My mind seems to have gotten a bit...off.
You stick a > in front of the line, so that would've been:
> "I want to be living in Leeds" etc
It was good
I'm looking forward to the new season of Dr Who now!
I'm guessing you cried at the bit where she was talking about K9 as being her dog and that she missed him?