edjamacation - on hold

After the almost constant fretting over my OS class this past summer, I'm kind of astounded to realize I've written nothing for months about classes or the possibility thereof. It's amazing sometimes how unpleasant concerns (like abusive papers) are truly out of sight, out of mind :P

As it is, I'm having problems transferring my math credits from the community college to the grad school, so until I can figure out how to get my math prerequisites handled my further education is on hold.

Given that my waking moments aren't going to be swamped with homework for the foreseeable future, I'm planning on using the time to work on a new sewing project (damn, but venetians are easy to make!) and get my mental house in order, so to speak. More on both as I get to 'em.

And, as ever, work on my various fencing games...

Torchwood

I've watched the first 6-ish episodes of the series and I'm enjoying it. Some notes:

• I was expecting a comedy but got a drama, a sometimes dark one at that. Still, it's growing on me.
  
• Captain Jack and his crew are largely attractive but not unbelievably so; it's one of the things I love about UK tv in general - if you're watching, say, a crime drama, you don't feel like you've stumbled onto a fashion shoot. They look like people you'd see, you know, doing their jobs, without constant fear of breaking a nail or scuffing a shoe :P
  
• Tangential - their clothes don't look like something off the runways either.
  
• Speaking of which, thank the maker - the women aren't perpetually in heels! Someone in costuming (writing? BBC in general?) is cognizant of the fact that stomping around the Welsh countryside in stilettos is stupid - let's hear it for sneakers!
  
• All of the characters are comfortably bisexual - evidently this was intentional and while there's the obvious titillation factor of two girls kissing, it's not thrust forward in the spirit of giggling adolescents, and the guys smooch each other too! I predict that Captain Jack will sleep with all of them, but not before they all shag each other first :P