Unintelligent Design

So, RTD is leaving. Steven Moffat will be the new executive producer...

...and pretty much everyone on LJ seems to think this is a good thing. I'm not disagreeing - but just what do you want to see from Moffat's first season? Time for a quick survey, I think...

• Will he be able to keep the ratings as well as the critical acclaim? I mean, we seem to like his stories - and, by extension, he'll probably take the series in some interesting directions - but will the Saturday evening audience agree?

• What/who should he change or ditch completely?
  

• What/who should be bring back from seasons 1-4 of the new series?

• What/who should he bring back from the old series - and why?

• What general guidelines should he always remember?

Sometimes, life just seems to imitate Father Ted. With added turkey...

I've just encountered Ireland's Eurovision entry.

Words... fail me...

Happy birthday, lurkingcat!

Just after I left the house, I got a phone call telling me not to go to work - I'm working offsite today, and I get a lift from home (but they forgot to mention this until now).

That's left me with an extra ninety minutes. Which has translated into bacon and mushrooms for breakfast, a much-needed cup of tea and a very relaxed morning (so far).

One working day  'til Whitby.

Heh.

Dizzee Rascal

(link goes to his MySpace page, with streaming music from latest album 'Maths+English'. Lyrics definitely NSFW)

Winner of the Mercury Prize. One of the leading lights of the UK's Grime scene.

Opinions?

For my part, it's really not something I thought would appeal to me - but having listened to a bit,  I do like the electronic element of the music (especially on Where's Da G's, although it doesn't kick in until some way into the song...)

I'm still not well. I'm not terribly unwell - just a stinking cold and a head full of cotton wool - but it's enough to make me grumpy and socially maladroit.

I'm not thinking clearly. I'm not listening properly. In conversation, my sentences are clumsy things that stop and start in a random manner. They don't tend to make much sense. They don't tend to have much energy behind them, either. I've lost focus.

Not things I cope well with. I rely on halfway decent communication skills for my job, too. Stupidly, I also turn into more of a stubborn (but muddle-headed) workaholic when I'm in this state - it's harder to get out of the office on time, because I don't organise my day nearly as well, so always end up forgetting something vital... until I'm just about to leave....

Which doesn't help matters.

Whitby next week. I don't actually want to be ill for Whitby, thanks. I want to be energetic, sociable, good company for the people I'm with - and generally filled with the spirit of Fun. This is not looking altogether likely.

Hmph. Enough rambling. Back to the grump.

"Dora's special wasabi americano"

So much Wrong in one throwaway line.

Is there some sort of issue with renaming an LJ account and findng that you've been automatically unfriended by people?

Have just noticed that a number of people have renamed their LJs and are no longer on my friends list, but with no intervention from me...

Edit: Oh, so it's meant to do that? Why?!