Just some art I made over the weekend ;)

Rhapsody In Chanel

(Observing are Owen, and six medical students. Assisting are Elliott Byrne, the Resident, Maddie Greene, a new Attending, with surgical hopes as high as Rachel's, Jessica Hope-Wynne, another Resident, who isn't quite as slow as Elliott, Caroline Byrne, yes, Elliott's mom, as who's an anaesthetist, and two scrub nurses).

Rhapsody In Chanel is my story about a professional, and sometimes annoying, surgeon called Rachel Tallulah Harkness, who also works for Torchwood. No one actually knows if she's married to Jack, or is just using his name, but either way, she's brilliant, and she knows it. She doesn't let anyone tell her what to do, and even ignores Jack most of the time; and it's him who's in charge of her when she's at Torchwood.

In her operating theatre, she is the sole responsibility for keeping patients alive, and she has never lost a patient under anaesthetic; not even the one's she nearly lost to a powercut, as she tries to explain, after a heart transplant nearly ends in disaster.

She's a pain the backside, and she knows it. She constantly knocks the confidence of an average surgeon, who, as a first year resident surgeon, is still learning, but is learning to be headstrong, because he knows that missus Harkness is very unlikely to change; she's much older than him, and, compared to her fourteen years as an Attending physician, has only just really qualified.

She's possibly the only surgeon where she works, that will give a student lecture through major surgery, and the only one she knows that doesn't hate the anaesthetist she works with.

Most of her free time is spent with the man she loves. Or should that be men? She's properly in love with Owen, someone she taught medicine to as a new Attending Physician. But she still has feelings for Jack, over on hundred and thirty years since they met, working for the Time Agency; it was her that really got him the job with Torchwood, although he doesn't know it, and he still thinks Rachel's completely nuts.

So, after an almost disasterous transplant, Rachel, sat in her office, amusing Owen with stories of her time at medical school, receives call from Jack, who's in a panic, because Toshiko has showed him live news footage of something happening at the hospital.

But, after the scare that it my be Chlostridium Deficile, Rachel, Owen and surprisingly Elliott, find out that it's far from it, and must stop whatever it is. Because whatever it is, isn't human...

the misunderstood

the champion. the mezzo-soprano. the surgeon.

the registrar. the big mistake. the beauty.

Here is a video I made featuring Sasha Cohen during her 2005 US National Championships Short Program. I set it to the music of "Cwm Rhondda" by "Only Men Aloud"

I was rather bored, which explains the music; but I'm a classical music fan, and I love the song, and think it is rather powerful. I found three versions of the song lying on my computer; two were too short, and the one I eventually used was perfect. Please enjoy, and do not steal my video!

In other news, now that it's February, I am just weeks away from opening night of our college musical, and I have only learnt half the script...Hopefully, I'll have learn it, and it will go well...

So, BBFN, love R-A

Mainly intended for my writing needs, I started this blog to just gather things together. Also because I hate trying to embed things into web-pages. I'm Rachel, or Xandie. I love singing & dancing, and I think that Torchwood rocks. I <3> I love writing, and am trying to write my own fanfiction for Torchwood, following events in Cardiff, before the Battle Of Canary Wharf. Which involves the usual suspects (with Suzie, minus Ianto & Gwen), and a character of my own; Exiled Gallifreyan Time Lady, Rachel Harkness (she may or may not be married to Jack; it's unclear if she just uses his name or not), who is in a relationship with Owen, whilst claiming to be Jack's legal wife; making Jack her only legal husband, as she claims to "have been married five times after Jack...But, fair enough, I married him again."