The gentleman and the pirate...

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half. - Otto von Bismarck, 1815 - 1898

Matt Smith on the Doctor...

An interesting clip: Matt Smith talks about the Doctor on wired.com.

I think the Doctor's got a lot of blood on his hands, and i think that if he did't travel the universe he'd end up hanging himself, he wouldn't know what to do. He's been doing this for nine hundred years, he's seen a lot of people die, he's let a lot of people die - he had to, for the greater good, and to save the universe.... There's an urge in him that can't not repay something, that can't not redeem himself in some way.... I think he's a thrill-seeker.... I think he loves it, I think he loves the world, I think he loves the universe.... He's a lover of people and of life. He's like a space Indian Jones with a time machine.

Thursday...

I think a week of excitement, challenge and hard work has caught up with me and this evening I'm exhausted. Totally exhausted. Sat down to read and simply slept.

It was a good day, though. Sunny and warm. I sent a cheque to my landlord in Paris (how I love saying that!) and went with maaseru to her doctor's appointment, and then went with her to the Yang Sheng for an incredibly delicious supper of sam pan congee and "bean curd rolls with pork". I always order congee there, I can't help myself - I ususally think I'll order something else, but then fall back on my old favourite that I can't bear to miss. The appetizer was an innovation, and it was delicious. But then, I've never had anything there I didn't love. That is said with the caveat that I mostly order the congee anyway.

Then I came home and slept over the comic books in my lap.