Is there a name for this?

[eye_of_a_cat]

I keep wanting to plant growing things. My garden is full of woodchips (converted from student-garden-wilderness a few years ago), and it looks very sensible but not very much like a garden. My lease says I can't mess with it. This doesn't stop me wanting to get plants from somewhere - campus, other people's gardens, the houseplants on the kitchen windowsill - and fill every square inch of boring woodchip with things that grow.

I'm really not the gardening type. Um. I'll blame it on spring, and just hope the compulsion dies down before I start coming home with armfuls of perennial.

Anyway. I finally , in which I was guessing that at least one of the Boomers would die and that Something Big would happen with Adama and Apollo. Apparently not... It makes sense that Galactica!Boomer wouldn't be able to kill herself, but I think it's incredibly unlikely she'll survive until the end of the series now. She's my favourite character by far, and I'll be sorry to see her go.

From what I've seen of the wider fandom (I daren't read too much in case I get spoilered for the next episode), people are really interested in Starbuck/Apollo and mostly found the Helo-on-Caprica interludes annoying. I don't actively dislike the Starbuck/Apollo stuff - I do find it a bit irritating when it's obvious what ships I'm supposed to be interested in, but that happens with everything, and they're at least interesting people - but it doesn't make me desperately want to know what happens next, or to go out and read/write fic about them. (Mostly it just makes me vaguely nostalgic for Space: Above and Beyond - I think it's the pilot stuff.) Helo's plot on Caprica fascinated me, though, and now he knows what Boomer is I'm a lot more interested in their relationship.

Comments

[shullie.livejournal.com]

Buy pots, pots and more pots, hanging baskets…and troughs and fill it up with them....

They can't say anything about that and well it will be a garden for you.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that! A friend in a rented house with a concreted back yard even had a lawn in a plant pot. It was so small he could cut it with nail scissors. The rest of the yard was covered with flowers in pots, tomatoes in grow-bags, troughs of lettuces and anything else he could think of. He's a bit of a plant nut, though. You could get a couple of easy-to-look after plants, shove them in a pretty container with a bit of compost and get a garden with not much work at all. It's worked for me so far, and I have a dreadful record with houseplants.

[deborah-judge.livejournal.com]

I share your feeling about Starbuck/Apollo. I don't hate it, and I'm happy for them to end up together if that's what they want, but it's all fairly obvious, and as angst goes it's small-time.

I also like Galactica!Boomer very much. And she gets especially interesting after *spoiler*.

Oh, why am I blathering. Just go watch the next episode, and don't read any spoilers first, it's worth the restraint.

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

Dammit, if you at least have the option of growing things in pots then go for it. I have a gravelly area with a few very boring green things around it, in which neighbourhood brats play for hours on end, screaming at the tops of their little voices. I've vaguely contemplated planting something, but I think it's too dark for anything to grow (it's the corner between two streets that go up to the fourth floor, and on the other sides there are delightful university buildings that go up to the thirteenth), plus I doubt there's any real soil under there.