Stuck in a timewarp...

The computer died on December 23rd... (well, not died, per se, as much as having a nice long sleep. Damn computers.) So it's been eleven days now since I was on here, and I'm now experiencing lj-lag very much.

lj-lag - feeling experienced when you go away for some time and come back to discover everyone else has updated about twenty times while you were away, leaving you feeling like you're stuck in a timewarp (see also update-guilt)

update-guilt - feelings of shame felt when considering how little attention you've devoted to your own lj, associated with lj-lag

(I is El the Philologist today. :P)

Ahem, besides that, here be the account of the days...

• December 23rd always gets me muddled. What do you call it? Christmas Eve Eve? And what do you do on that day?
  
• December 25th that was the day of the Christmas and the LOTR Extended Editions and the Felix t-shirt and the Little Britain badge and the happy things! :P
  
• December 26th - NARNIA! (Narnia is love *loves*)

And after that was the existential vacuum that is the days between Christmas and New Year. The end.

But since when are we allowed six icons on a free account? (Not that I'm complaining, what with more room for shiny icons and all. *loves shiny icons*)

 

The reflection on the year that was that came a bit later than usual...

Yes, I know, this was supposed to be on December 31st. See below post for the explanation.

El's Aquired Nasty Habit of the Year: Hissing at the computer, and putting alerts on countless numbers of Sues to be ppc'd or mst'd.

El's 'Why Oh Why?!' Moment of the Year: The IR relations laws. Because that'll be me in five years.

El's Favourite AU Fantasy of the Year: Doing all manner of nasty things to badficcers.

El's Lust Object of the Year: David Tennant in Doctor Who, Casanova, Blackpool, Harry Potter... anything!

El's New Sexy Discovery of the Year: See above.

El's Badfic Discovery of the Year: Tied with 'Legolas is a Maia sent to help the Fellowship, no, really!' and 'Elrond got pregnant after being raped by orcs when he was a teenager, no, really!' 

El's Morbid Curiousity Moment of the Year: Searching for her own name at the Pit of Voles. And regretting it immediately.

El's Nemesis '05: The free-time-eating IB monster, a cruel mistress with all manner of boots, chains, whips, black leather, and etc.

New shiny things found on the internet: Irregular Webcomic, CAD, TAD, TADers, 'Don't Panic!' and 'Okay, NOW Panic!', and a myriad of drabbles.

Favourite Fic of the Year: 'Song for Rose' by Misscam. Any Whofic by Misscam, really.

Favourite MST of the Year: Boz4pm's Evil!Thranduil mst. Nothing else comes close.

El's Overall Opinion of the Year 2005: Could be the deep breath before the plunge...

Wishlist for 2006: More Doctor Who, more House, something else as good as Blackpool, no more reality TV, more sanity pills for the world and lot less hot weather.