Naomi

I was awake early this morning (despite a late night) and couldn't settle myself so I headed out for a walk. I ended up walking the two mile up to Tower Bridge. It took me just over 45 minutes so I was really pleased with that. I grabbed a venti gingerbread latte and a pain au chocolat from a Starbucks and sat watching the river for a while, sitting back as the city woke up around me.

I wasn't looking forward to the walk back and did think about getting public transport back. But that would have involved people in close proximity and we're in a pandemic so... no. I grabbed another coffee for the walk back and it took me just over an hour, a little slower because I was tired.

I was a bit chilled when I got home, so took a nice long shower which was heavenly.

The day has basically been spent on the couch, in a warm comfortable nest of blankets, with my cat Jess asleep and purring on my lap. We have an Autumn Glow candle burning

Earthy leaves swirl with golden sunlight and woody patchouli—like a walk through the forest in autumn'.

And watching lots of Star Trek: Enterprise.

I fell in love with Star Trek after watching the movie with Chris Pine, and I watched Discovery and Picard as they aired. I've never gone back and actually watched all the TV shows and I know I've missed references in the shows and not known who characters were. Last night I googled to see if there was a recommended order of watching the shows or if it was just in airing order - TOS, TNG, DS9 etc. I found The Star Trek Chronology Project and it lists the shows/episodes/movies in internal chronological order - how fucking cool is that?

I figure if I'm going to be geeky, I may as well be the utter most level of geeky that I can be. Right?

I've watched the first 11 episodes so far and I'm enjoying it! I think my favourite characters are Archer, Reed and Trip. I'm having slashy feels about them as well - Archer/Reed, Archer/Trip and Reed/Trip, although I think Archer/Trip might be winning.

But I'm not going to even look at AO3 to see what's around until I've seen more, I don't want to go spoiling myself. And how hilarious is that? The show's like 20 years old but I don't want to spoil myself for it! haha

Although I am finding I want icons of those three. Might have to see what I can find around Dreamwidth later tonight

I don't like T'Pol, but then I generally find Vulcans annoying. Dr Phlox is very entertaining, I could watch a whole show about him. But I'm finding the rest of the characters kind of fade into the background, they're a bit boring.

My timer has just gone off to tell me my dinner should be done cooking - a very grown up fishfingers, chips and peas - so I'm going to finish up in the kitchen and press play on 1x12!