x - 0020 [Signs and Wonders]

[call_me_spooky]

We may choose to question, to doubt, the evidence of our senses; but we cannot easily deny them. We interact with the world through our bodies; and so when we find them changed, might not our perception of the world change? Or am I me in some fashion that defies the flesh entirely. I'm not touching the battle of the sexes nonsense with a ten-foot pole, because that kind of conversation never ends well for the males involved... But I'll admit it was interesting to look through different eyes. Seeing the same world from another angle. I don't know that I learned anything, except that I don't like being short, which I really could have guessed.

Still, food for thought. If it's in essence an accident that I am the man I see in the mirror every day, what does that say about the person I believe myself to be? If I'd been born in the body I found myself in the other day (admittedly not without its advantages,) would I be where I am, who I am? Or would my life have followed some other path, impossible to imagine or predict?

I don't think we're meant to learn anything from these curses-- certainly theories abound to explain them, though whether any do, who knows-- but that doesn't mean we can't.

Anyway. In other matters-- has anyone heard from Donna Noble recently? She's been uncharacteristically quiet for a couple of days...

Comments

[lovingmybamfgun.livejournal.com]

Guess I was lucky I wasn't much shorter as a woman. Though I'm not that very tall myself, either.

D'you think Donna's missing too? I... Don't even know where she lives, to be honest. I've known her from before I got to the City, but we hadn't talked then. I've talked to her here, though.

[kodomosensei.livejournal.com]

You're Ms. Noble's friend, too? I know where she lives, so I'll check her home.

Do you know anything about her new job and employer? Apparently she was offered a position recently but I don't know the details.

[lovingmybamfgun.livejournal.com]

She said something about how she had to "tell managers how to keep their offices organized". I think her boss is OMFG!Iron Man!!1one Tony Stark. She didn't tell me this, but I read through all the public threads. They're public for a reason.

I'm Mickey. Mickey Smith.

[kodomosensei.livejournal.com]

I'm Negi Springfield. It's nice to meet you, Mr. Smith.

Thank you for telling me the name of her boss. I will keep an eye out for him; it's possible Ms. Noble has just been busy with work for a few days.

However, I did just hear back from her roommate, Yura. Yura-san has been... Preoccupied, but she says she's pretty sure she hasn't seen Ms. Noble in a couple of days.

[lovingmybamfgun.livejournal.com]

So she's really missing, then? Or she's been spending whole days with Iron Man at work.

[kodomosensei.livejournal.com]

Must be one of the two, I guess. Her picture isn't in the Hall of the Missing, so I guess she didn't leave the City.

[lovingmybamfgun.livejournal.com]

I could help looking. I can go armed if that's needed. Just not when it's only Iron Man "keeping her hostage", because then I'll be dead.

You'd better just check at her work first, though.

[call_me_spooky]

I went from six feet to about five. I almost feel bad for teasing my partner all the time. Almost.

I don't know... I hope not. Let me know if you hear anything?

So you're from her universe? I don't think we've met, I'm Fox Mulder.

[lovingmybamfgun.livejournal.com]

If I hear anything before you do, I will.

Yeah, I'm from her universe. I'm Mickey Smith.

[call_me_spooky]

Thanks.

Nice to meet ya.

[lovingmybamfgun.livejournal.com]

asdfgh Mulder!1

Nice to meet you, too.