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Jul. 5th, 2008 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maeveleIt's really quite like me to start getting more into Doctor Who now, when it would take actual work to get caught up. And I didn't watch the new ep, because I've only watched sporadically, and out of sequence FTMP, because I just catch it whenver instead of watching it all crazylike so I'd have been lost and spoiled. .
Also, I've yet to see most of the first season,or the first half of the second of torchwood, I've found a streaming site, but I have a hell of a time following a show without captioning anymore, and there aren't captioned feeds. It's not hearing, but attention, accents, and loud kids. If I could find a streaming torchwood that was easily navigable on the damn wii, I could just go back and catch the prts I didn't hear, but the wii, she is glitchy. and watching it on the computer monitor, gives me a headache.
also,Z's computer is faster thanmine, but his keyboard is suck.
Also, spent the 4th with Z's family, as it's his grandma;'s birthday, and it was great. It's not a huge family, but it's far bigger than what I've got currently, soit reminds me of my dad's family up north, except without being farm folk. They're all, except for us, solidly middle/upper-middle class, although not "rich" just hardworking and successful and with more access to education in some cases, although our host has made himself quite comfortable running a housepainting business, without really any privilege/advantage over Z in his upbringing.
It just made me think some about the fact that although Z and I were both raised poor, he didn't come from multigenerational severe poverty, his mom and her sister were the exception in their family by beingpoor, while inmine it was what we came from. And that the only difference between him and his now well off cousin was actually just happenstance, not upbringing /privilege, since they were raised in part together fter z's aunt died, and both had unusual moms. I dunno.I think I need a nap. I did he whole "pretend you don't have social anxiety thing for the party, and now I'm wiped.
Also, I've yet to see most of the first season,or the first half of the second of torchwood, I've found a streaming site, but I have a hell of a time following a show without captioning anymore, and there aren't captioned feeds. It's not hearing, but attention, accents, and loud kids. If I could find a streaming torchwood that was easily navigable on the damn wii, I could just go back and catch the prts I didn't hear, but the wii, she is glitchy. and watching it on the computer monitor, gives me a headache.
also,Z's computer is faster thanmine, but his keyboard is suck.
Also, spent the 4th with Z's family, as it's his grandma;'s birthday, and it was great. It's not a huge family, but it's far bigger than what I've got currently, soit reminds me of my dad's family up north, except without being farm folk. They're all, except for us, solidly middle/upper-middle class, although not "rich" just hardworking and successful and with more access to education in some cases, although our host has made himself quite comfortable running a housepainting business, without really any privilege/advantage over Z in his upbringing.
It just made me think some about the fact that although Z and I were both raised poor, he didn't come from multigenerational severe poverty, his mom and her sister were the exception in their family by beingpoor, while inmine it was what we came from. And that the only difference between him and his now well off cousin was actually just happenstance, not upbringing /privilege, since they were raised in part together fter z's aunt died, and both had unusual moms. I dunno.I think I need a nap. I did he whole "pretend you don't have social anxiety thing for the party, and now I'm wiped.
