I got up to pee at 4:00 on Tuesday and though I’d been warm enough under a sheet, the apartment was cold. I wrapped a towel around myself and went out into the hall to turn on the furnace and then I went back to bed. By the time I rose an hour later it was too hot.
The reading on my hygrometer has been at
a very dry 10% humidity for a few weeks, but on Tuesday morning it had jumped
to 30%. My guitar stayed in tune a little better but I’ve found it holds its
tuning best at 40%.
In the early
afternoon I took my bike through the middy slush downtown to the OISE Library
to renew my French grammar exercise books. I was supposed to return them on
Monday but I took the day of grace because of the snow and also because I
wanted to edge myself toward taking another day of grace next time so I can
make my return day Wednesdays, to correspond with my English course, so I
wouldn’t have to come downtown just to return the books. My new pants got
splattered on the way.
After the library I
travelled down Queens Park to University and to Staples, south of Dundas. I
figured since I was downtown already I should buy some new pens for making
lecture notes. I also bought four rechargeable batteries because the ones I
have don’t last long in my camera anymore. They’re fine for my stereo remote
though.
I stopped at
Freshco on the way home. I bought some decent bread because the spelt bread
that I got from the food bank is good to serve as thin burger buns but they are
lousy at sopping up egg yolk. I also bought some red prince apples, some
blackberries and some yogourt.
I watched the
Doctor Who Christmas special. Since it’s recent I won’t reveal too much about
the story, but the twelfth and first Doctor are together through the whole
episode and everybody knows now that the twelfth regenerated into a woman at
the end. There were some funny interactions between twelve and one. David
Bradley gave an amazing portrayal of William Hartnell’s grumpy original Doctor.
He didn’t like the fact that the Tardis was lit so dimly but Doctor 12 argued
that it is supposed to be atmospheric. Doctor 1 barked, “This is the most
powerful space-time machine in the universe! It’s not a restaurant for the
French!”
There is some
inconsistency between various Doctor Who narratives. They played up in this
story that the first Doctor on the TV show was the first Doctor of all but I
recall it having been suggested that there were many previous regenerations.
Otherwise William Hartnell’s Doctor would have lived in that incarnation for at
least a couple of thousand years. If they others die after a couple of years
then if Hartnell’s incarnation must have led a very sheltered several millennia
with no adventures at all. They also show the 1st Doctor being
puzzled by phrases like “data base”. One assumes he has been to every era so
the age of computers and the internet would not be a surprise to him. When he
meets Bill and learns that she has been the Doctor’s companion he tells her
that he needs her. It appears to her and us at first that he means as a friend,
but then he adds that the Tardis hasn’t had a good cleaning in a long time. He
also hears Bill use language that one would not have heard on the original show
and he threatens to spank her bottom if he hears her speak that way again.
Doctor 12 tells him, “Please stop saying things like that!”
We only got to see
Jodie Whitaker at the very end but I’m very interested in seeing where she’ll
take the Doctor. Will she be funny or morose? I suspect there will be lots of
humour with a serious sub-narrative. I’ve read that her companion will be a
middle-aged man. That’s kind of disappointing to hear but maybe they’ll find a
way to make him interesting.
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