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Sometimes I wonder where I went wrong in life. Which is a bit pointless really, since time travel doesn't exist and I couldn't go back and correct my mistakes anyways. And it's even more pointless since I can pin-point exactly where it was that I followed the sign that said 'easy life' rather than the preferred route of 'buck up and find your courage'.

I'm being philosphical today. My 22 year old cousin just got back from a month in Uganda digging wells (or something). Her 24 year old sister leaves next week for Tanzania to...teach English (or something). She also plans to do a PhD sometime before she's 30.

I WANT OUT OF THIS COUNTRY. AND TO DO SOMETHING BRILLIANT WITH MY LIFE.

Pandorica pondering

Anyone have theories on why River uses the Greek alphabet for coordinates? They survive until the 52nd century? I find it impressive that Phi Gamma Upsilon Delta Sigma gets you Earth, Britain, 102AD. Or Theta Sigma. Phi. Gamma Upsilon Delta Sigma. If you go by the spaces in the rock/diamond. But I am assuming Theta Sigma applies to, you know, the Doctor. Just interesting.

I also (on another watching) find it a nice little touch that River doesn't blink in the Pandorica Opens when Amy knows her, even though they haven't met on the Byztanium yet. Which means, at the end of Big Bang when River talks of things to come, some of those things will involve Amy so River can meet her for the first time.

Remember how I used to say that Jack's triple timeline gave me a headache? River's is worse. At least Jack lives forwards. We see River's life backwards.

Cause this is where I get confused. For River, the Pandorica happens before the Byzantium. In the Pandorica she breaks out of jail. The same jail that Bishop breaks her out of before the Byzantium crash. Which means, that after the universe resets itself in the Big Bang, River must go back to the Stormcage Prison (because that's where she was before)...I think. I mean, Amy and Rory went back their their lives, etc. So she's there at the beginning of Pandorica Opens when Churchill calls. So the River that shows up at the end of Big Bang and receives the book back has to be a different timestream. Because she has the book during the Angels thing and when she's in prison in Pandorica. But if Amy's the one that recreates the universe the way it is supposed to be, and by doing so gets her parents back and the Doctor, how is it that River exists? Just she unconciously bring her back too? But how would River have the diary if the Doctor didn't exist (yet)?

HEADACHE.