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30 Days of Torchwood: Day 10: A Scene That Made You Smile

The thing is, I have such a hard time remembering scenes that make me smile, because they usually are overshadowed by the gloom and doom that almost inevitably follows. (Case in point, even CoE had quite a few genuinely funny scenes—how adorable is Gwen telling Rhys about her pregnancy lying on top of a crate of potatoes?—, but seeing how things turned out, mentioning them feels almost wrong, somehow.)

Something Borrowed. I think that might be the only genuinely funny, non-angsty episode over the course of the entire history of the show.

And KKBB, the scene in the office with an uncharacteristically uncertain Jack and an adorably flustered Ianto; that probably won't ever not make me smile.


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# The meme may be a bit spam-y, but at least it keeps me writing instead of wallowing in inarticulate post-Christmas depression.

# OTOH I'm feeling sort of... unbalanced? because I'm only posting about fanish stuff recently. But really, there's so little to say. I can't even post about books, because I'm reading embarrassingly little at the moment. I've finally arrived at the stage where my Russian is good enough to get the plot of a book, if not every word or every sentence, even without a dictionary when I'm not in the mood for constantly looking up words, and I'm making my slow, slow way through Lukyanenko's Night Watch. (The first unabridged, 'real' English book I read was Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, so it kind of fits.) I simply don't have time for much else. (OTOH, the first book entirely in Russian after not quite three years with only one lesson per week; granted, it's not War and Peace yet, but that's not too bad, is it?)

# My little sister phoned me Wednesday to tell me that she and her boyfriend are getting married in two weeks. Thankfully nothing big, just family, no church, but I'll still have to buy something to wear. I have nothing for such occasions. There she is, all grown up with a family and a doctorate, married, and here am I, posting daily about Torchwood. I'm not bitter or jealous (well, not much; I'm no saint), but moments like this I just feel incredibly pathetic.

# Hours of my life. But, really, how adorable is this game? Each time one of these poor, traumatised cuddly toys is cured and can be released it makes me ridiculously happy. Do I want to know what that says about me?

# Baby sloth in Schönbrunn! (Scroll down for adorable video.)

# 'Because', not 'becasue'. Just once. *sigh* Just once.