I want a RESET button.

I'm having one of those days where I wish I could just go back to bed & start again. Except that I had a nap on the sofa in lieu of a time machine, and it didn't work.

Sometimes, I'd like not to be proved right when I expect the worst of someone.

After a week of bright sunshine & heat, it started raining last night & hasn't stopped. My lawn is now cat depth all over.

Guess what? I still haven't got any thinner.

It's annual review time at work in 3 weeks. Nothing has changed sone the interim review 6 months ago. They're apparently desperate for staff, and yet at the same time seem set on keeping me poking numbers around spreadsheets and telling hopeless clients how to do double entry over the phone. I've given them a list of what I'm interested in; they say there isn't anything available in that area atm, then the weekly newsletters claim we're only not doing that sort of project because of being short staffed.

I really don't like my car.

Hmmm.

Doctor Who: Tennant can act, so why is he aping around like a pantomime character as the Doctor? He was fabulous in Casanova but, as far as Doctors go, I'm starting to think I prefer Nine after all.

I'm liking Mickey more & more. I thought he'd been typecast, but he's getting to prove otherwise. And he gets to be the equivalent of K-9, while Rose's alternative is a yappy ratdog :)

Cybermen, ooooo :) Not scary yet (I don't really remember them) but they certainly have potential.

I think what's grating most is that I'm expecting to feel the same about the show now as I did when I was little & watching Tom Baker. Thing is, I've grown up, so plots and acting that might well be equal in sophistication to those of 25 years ago seem gauche and flawed because of my changed perspective. It makes sense; thinking back to Baker's exaggerated facial expressions, the bubble wrap monsters and dodgy lighting effects, there's no way those episodes would impress me now, were I to see them for the first time. The BBC have moved the effects on, but (admittedly without having rewatched the earlier series) the stories and characters don't seem so different after all.