He's Back!!!

On Tuesday morning I memorized the first two lines of "On n'est pas là pour se faire engueuler" (We Didn’t Come Here to be Shouted At) by Boris Vian.

I finished posted my translation of “L’amour prison” by Serge Gainsbourg.

            I worked on typing my lecture notes.

            I tidied up in the kitchen and got rid of a few old books and videotapes by putting them on top of the Now box in front of my place.

            For lunch I spiced up a can of split pea soup with some curry and Scotch bonnet sauce and had it with a bowl of potato chips.

            In the afternoon I did my exercises while listening to Amos and Andy. In this story Andy is dating Kingfish’s former secretary Charmaign Larue and he’s interested in marriage. She tells him that his age is a consideration and so he decides to start looking younger by going to a gym. But when Kingfish hears of this he pretends to open a gym to get money out of Andy. Later Andy finds out that Charmaign was considering his age because she wants to match him up with her mother. Learning that Mrs Larue is financially independent, Andy decides that he’s okay with marrying her. To make sure that Mrs. Larue doesn’t think Andy’s after Mrs Larue for her money, he and Kingfish raise $400 to buy two tickets for a Caribbean cruise, then he presents them to her upon proposing. Next we hear Mrs Larue and her daughter boarding the cruise ship, happy they’ve taken advantage of Andy and hoping to both meet rich husbands on their journey.

            I worked on typing my lecture notes.

            At 18:45 the Coffeetime downstairs turned off its wifi network forever and I switched to the signal from the espresso place across the street. It’s a weaker connection but it beats paying for it.

            I had a potato, two drumsticks and some gravy for dinner while watching the fifth episode of the current season of Doctor Who.

            Spoiler alert!

            This story has too many pleasant surprises to not repeat the above warning. If you have not seen this episode and plan to, DO NOT READ THE REST OF THIS POST!!!

            In this story the Jadoon, the rhinoceros-headed race of galactic police officers for hire, have put a force field around Gloucester as they look for the fugitive they’ve been contracted to arrest. Since the Jadoon in doing their duty have no qualms about killing those that get in their way, the Doctor decides to intervene. She manages to get the Tardis through the force field. The Tardis appears in a coffee shop and while the Doctor, Yasmine and Ryan go out on the street, Graham intends to buy something, only to suddenly be teleported away. The Jadoon locate the home of Lee and Ruth Clayton as the hideout of the fugitive. But before they can attack the Doctor shows her telepathic identification to the head Jadoon and it reads to her that the Doctor is an Imperial Regulator. She says she’s there to investigate their procedure and finds they are using an illegal weapon. She persuades them to let her go into the house and negotiate ahead of the Jadoon. She is given five minutes. Inside he sonic shows that both Lee and Ruth are human but she finds an alien box in the bedroom. Lee tells them that he’ll face the Jadoon but the Doctor has to get Ruth to safety. When the Jadoon arrive they are joined by Get, the woman that hired them. Much to the disapproval of the head Jadoon, Get executes Lee. Meanwhile Graham teleports onto an alien ship. Shortly he is greeted by (I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO STOP READING!) the delightful and the long overdue, Captain Jack Harkness who we haven’t seen for years. Jack comes up to Graham and gives him a big kiss on the mouth, telling him that he loves the new look and that he’s still sexy. Jack thinks that Graham is the Doctor. Jack is flying a stolen ship that is under attack by the owners. He teleports Yasmine and Ryan aboard, thinking one of them is the Doctor. Jack tries to take his ship through the force field but can’t do it before the ships anti theft mechanism gets to him. He has to send them back and teleport away but leaves them a message for the Doctor: “Beware the lone Cyberman". The Doctor and Ruth are surrounded by Jadoon and suddenly Ruth goes full ninja and attacks them, forcing them to retreat. She doesn't know what happened or how she was capable of doing that. Just before dying Lee sent Ruth a text telling her to break the glass. She drives with the Doctor to the lighthouse where she grew up. Inside the lighthouse Ruth breaks the glass like for a fire alarm. Meanwhile the Doctor is outside. She scans the grave of Ruth’s parents and finds that something alien is underground. She grabs a shovel and uncovers a Tardis. Ruth after breaking the glass got her memory back and introduces herself to the Doctor as the Doctor, which causes confusion for both. The Doctor scans Ruth and finds they are the same person but she doesn’t remember ever having been Ruth. Ruth’s Tardis is pulled to the Jadoon ship and Gat arrives to kill Ruth. Gat is revealed to also be a Time Lord. Gat fires a weapon at Ruth that Ruth sabotaged and Gat is disintegrated. Ruth takes the Doctor back to Gloucester and then leaves.