Doctor Who fic: The Boy Who Waited (17/49)

Title: The Boy Who Waited (17/49)
Rating: PG
Characters: Rory, with appearances from Barbara
Timeline: set between "The Pandorica Opens" and "The Big Bang"
Summary: London, 1996. Barbara Wright prepares the Pandorica for exhibit at the National Museum. As the work unfolds, she recounts the lengthy history of the stone box and its loyal protector, the Lone Centurion.
Disclaimer: Doctor Who belongs to the BBC. Everything else is me taking liberties with history.
A/N: A huge thank you to my beta punch_kicker15. This story would still be sitting on my hard drive if it weren't for you.

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( He took a deep breath. No, it was impossible. No one, absolutely no one, knew who he was, who he truly was. He was imagining things. The sun and the heat were playing with his head. It was the only explanation. It was just the wind. A breeze playing across the top of a sand dune had made it sound like a voice had spoken his name. )

The laryngitis saga continues

Only it's not laryngitis. I went back to the doctor's today (wow, I really wanted to capitalize that word while I was typing) and he didn't say anything about laryngitis. It's just a nasty cold that has settled on my vocal cords and won't go away. Great.

I feel like I'm spamming my poor flist with useless posts, but I really miss being able to talk. I'm not a chatterbox in real life, but it's so weird not being able to communicate, not even with a simple yes or no. I've turned in to a mime. Ultimately, that means I taking the rest of the week off from work. Granted, we had Friday off anyway, so it's only one more day, but I've never been out sick for such a long before. I was sending emails back and forth today with the admin looking after my stuff and she sounds super swamped. I feel bad that I can't come in and help, but I'm sure that my co-workers don't want to catch what I have.

I did discover today that I have more remote access than I thought. I can actually get into project folders from home. Not that it did me much good. I can't save into them for some strange reason. So I was able to help out a little. Didn't tell anyone beyond the other admin, though. I don't need people bugging me at home.

When I wasn't trying to work out my access, I was happily watching the DVD for "The Reign of Terror" that I got out of the library. I just love that my library keeps buying Doctor Who DVDs. This one was a fun one since they animated the missing episodes. It's a little weird, though, watching the animated episodes. How do the animators decide what a shot should look like? Are they following notes left behind by the director? Or is it the animator's prerogative? And I found that the direction of the animated episodes really doesn't match the rest, but I think it's probably because of the limitation of the animation. You get more close-ups in the animation while the regular episodes are staged more traditionally for TV at the time. I wish the DVD had a featurette about the missing episodes and how they were animated. It's fair to say that only geeks will buy the DVD and we love stuff like that. :-)

I'm sick of being sick. :-P