rynne | oh it's good to be back home again

Home again! Yesterday was really damn long -- seven different airports, four different airplanes, about 17 flying hours altogether, and I think it was about 32 hours from when I woke up to when I finally went to bed. At least I got to sleep on the plane, but it was still a very long day.

Went to class today. I took a make-up midterm in one, a make-up quiz in the other, and turned something in, and now I'm completely caught up. I'm a mix of pleased/relieved and bemused at this. On one hand, it's nice not to have any work hanging over my head. On the other hand, it's sorta disconcerting to have such easy classes. I don't think it's ever taken me so little time to get caught up when I miss three days of classes. I think these are even easier than high school, before I took all the AP classes. And again, on one hand this is nice, since it leaves me more time for myself. But on the other hand...yeah, I'd like to do something interesting now, plzkthnx. Which reminds me--I need to email my advisor at UPS, tell her I'm coming back in the fall, see what I actually need to do to get moving.

There is a release date for Doctor Who S4! This makes me happy. I think. It does air on the Sci-Fi channel, right? I'm pretty sure we have that, but I know we don't have the BBC, and I think this might be the first show I've watched as it airs in years. Or at least, I want to do that, but I still haven't managed to even watch any of Torchwood S2...

Also, I've got fics in progress that I very much doubt I will have finished by the start of S4. I do intend to keep writing them, but they will almost certainly get jossed. Mostly I'm not bothered by that, though I do prefer to keep things canon, unless I'm deliberately writing AU...

You know, as happy as I am that Rose is coming back, that we will actually be able to see her interact with the Doctor on screen again, and as much as I felt that in terms of the actual plot, their story wasn't finished...I sorta wish she wasn't coming back. Not on the show, at least. This way I have to worry about how she's coming back, and how they're going to make her leave again, and what this is going to mean for my ship. If she never came back, then the show would always be open to reunionfic. Doomsday is such an open ending--as heartrending as it is, there's still the hope that they can see each other again, since everyone knows the Doctor calls a lot of things "impossible" when they really aren't. But I'm afraid that S4 will end without that hope.

I could deal with my OTP being split up, of course. Despite the Veil and Tonks, I'm still a Remus/Sirius shipper, so whatever happens, I'm sure I'll still ship Doctor/Rose. I'd stick to fanfic and AU, but that's not really any different than what I do right now. :p I could deal with them being split up forever; I just really prefer not to, and hope I don't have to.

Well, at least I know Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner are themselves shippers. :p Gives me at least a little bit of hope...