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Clara Oswald... Love, Like and Hate

So, way, way back in September 2012 something horrible happened. It was positively awful. Apparently, it was the worst thing that every happened to Doctor Who. On September 29, 2012, "The Angels Take Manhattan" aired and Amy Pond and Rory Williams... died. Thus began much crying and gnashing of teeth. We had already been introduced to the next companion, Clara "Oswin" Oswald in the series premiere, but we were all confused because Clara died at the end of the episode. That's not a very auspicious beginning for a new companion, is it? So, everyone missed Rory and Amy. We had this new companion that died in her very next episode as well. So, it seemed to me and some Whovians that the writers replaced the wonder that was Rory and Amy with a cheap gimmick. I mean, what were we supposed to think? Shouldn't her character be allowed to speak for herself without the whole mystery gimmick to try to make her interesting to us viewers? Of course, we, the viewers, ...

Happy New Year!

So, my last post was in August of 2015... Now it's 2018 and I'm going to do something INSANE.... I'm getting personal up in here... I would apologize for waiting so long to post, but I really don't feel guilty about it. I have had things to write about in the past two and a half years, but I've lacked the inclination or time to actually write it. First, most of my posts in 2015 were my desperately trying to ignore that I was suffering from major depression. I stopped posting when I finally lacked the energy to keep on... keeping on. Not long after that, I sort of lost everything... And then I started working at Frisch's Big Boy Restaurants. I sort of dived in with the hopes that if I could prove I was a good Frisch's employee, then I could get my old life back. That didn't really work out well, but I did work at Frisch's from October 2015 until September 2017... so I was a good Frisch's employee for nearly two years. Of course, working...