I wish I knew what things mean to HIM...

A few days ago, I was talking to the Doctor while he looked over his to-do list (mostly mumbling, 'I didn't do that... Didn't do that either... or that...'), and then he suddenly said, "Why have I written down 'Clear throat'?" I went into a fairly uncontrollable fit of giggles as he murmured to himself how strange it was, then he loudly cleared his throat and said, "Well, that's done. I can mark it off now." It definitely didn't help my giggles, and, falling back onto his bed laughing my head off, I saw him actually marking it done! As I was calming down, he said, "It was in inverted commas... I still don't know what I meant..." It was all very strange. Then yesterday I asked him how staring at a screen all day at work doesn't give him eyestrain. He mumbled "Staring at a screen all day... Staring at a screen all day..." to himself a couple of times and then started singing about it! I can't remember what he sang, but it was very odd and fairly tuneless. To be fair to him, he wasn't singing very loudly, either. He went on for quite a while, and I gave up on getting an answer and got more interested in wondering what he was doing. Finally he stopped, and, after a long pause, absent-mindedly said, "Do I? Oh, yes, I do. Something must be done about that..." Sometimes I wish I could understand what he's thinking. He does so many things that, to me, seems extremely strange, but they make sense to him. I'm sure it would be very interesting to know how, because it might have to do with all kinds of things in his life!

"Did I just put my hand in your face?"

The Doctor has a very strange way of always getting his arm (or something else odd) in my face. A couple weeks back, we went out to get a TV remote, and the plan was to go to Homebase (it's in the same shopping area) if we couldn't get the right one at the first shop (I can't remember what is was). We found it at the first shop, though, and on the way back to the car, he suddenly stopped and put his hand out right in my face pointing across the parking lot. It might have bashed me if I hadn't moved when I saw it coming.
"Do we still need to go to Homebase?" he asked - half to himself, I think. He realized we didn't, and then turned to see me quietly leaning away from his hand. (I'm fairly used to him absent-mindedly doing it, and I know it's useless to say, "Hey! Get your big hand out my face, Doctor!" so I just smile quietly to myself at his strangeness.) "Oh!" he said (but not with alarm or anything - just as if he was realizing something he'd forgot). "Did I just put my hand in your face?"
"Yes!" I said, half laughing and half annoyed. "And you almost hit me!"
"Oh. Sorry." He smiled fairly casually.
And the night before, I was talking to him, and he just stuck out his hand and rubbed (or maybe ruffling-ly patted) my head, from the front, so that his arm was in my face. I think my eyes kind of went big and gave a little jump of surprise and confusion. He said it was and 'affectionate pat' or something like that, but I'm not a dog, am I?:) Then I remembered that scene in The Hand of Fear, when the Doctor and Sarah are talking to the manager of the power station, and she's sitting on the table next to him, and as he starts talking, he grabs the top of her head and turns it toward the people their talking to! She looks a little like I must have look when my head was suddenly patted. So, I put the pat down to the fact that he's the Doctor, and he's a bit (a very big bit) unusual.
Then, last night, he had turned our old table upside down to take it apart (we've got a new one), and he asked for my help unscrewing the legs. I unscrewed the last one and then sat back while he did something with the detached legs. I didn't really know what he was doing, though, so I lent forward to look. Then, he picked up one of the legs and moved it over me, right over my head! I hadn't really been looking at the time, so I wasn't sure how close it got, but I had a strong suspicion that it had missed my head by about an inch! I looked up and the Doctor was staring at me.
"I missed your head by a hair's breadth!" he said. This time he did look almost alarmed.
"I know."
"Sorry." Well, he was back to casual. And although I can't find the exact episode right now, I know that there's been at least one time where the Doctor had almost bashed Sarah on the head. One of them may have been when he picks up the stick in Pyramids of Mars, when they're trying to find the deflection barrier. Being around the doctor can be dangerous, but it's also fun!:)

"He Talks to Himself Sometimes..."

I had a most interesting conversation with the Doctor the day before yesterday. It started because he had been talking to himself in the kitchen, while I stood next to him, and he was saying a bunch of strange things, including asking himself if he understood. I said I didn't get what he meant, and he said, "I'm just talking to myself, that's all." leaving me thinking, That's what I didn't get. He went on mumbling for a while about how there's nothing wrong with talking to yourself, and then thoughtfully said, "Although, it is unusual to ask yourself if you understand, I suppose." He seemed to change his mind, though, since, when I laughed, he said, "If you're going to talk to yourself, it makes perfect sense to ask yourself if you understand." I didn't really know what to say, so he went off to my brother to ask him if it makes sense. All my brother said was something like "I guess so..." so the Doctor came back to me, saying, "It would be horrible to talk to yourself and then find you didn't understand." He still didn't get it when I laughed. It's very strange the way he talks to himself about things that don't make sense. I guess it falls under the old 'Ark in Space' quote: "He talks to himself sometimes because he's the only one who understands what he's saying." I certainly don't understand!

And He Casually Crawls Out the Door...

We got a small table tennis table this Christmas, so adding that to the fact that our garage flooded with all the rain, 'The Room ' (our dining room that we don't use for eating and stuff) is slightly full at the moment. For some reason, there's an old footstool in there, too, which is usually under the table, but this morning I was sitting on it, so it was between the table and a chest of drawers, in the way of anyone trying to get out of the room from the other side of the table.:) The Doctor was on that side of the table, and wanted to get past. It was awkward for me to find my way out of that strange spot, and he had already tried to climb over me earlier, almost falling while holding two bowls of porridge, and then making the joke 'Never try to do a high-step over someone's knees [I had lifted them to try and make it easier for him, but it made it worse:P] while holding two bowls of porridge. You have two choices: drop the porridge, or fall on the porridge.' Then he said 'I probably would've done both at the same time.' Anyway, in avoidance of doing it again, he got down on his hands and knees, and crawled under the table! It was quite funny, but understandable, I guess. The really odd thing was, he didn't get up after he came out from under it! He crawled off to the door, and I began to wonder if he'd hurt his back or something, so as he was leaving the room, I asked why he was crawling, and he said, 'Because it's a nice way to travel.' or something as strange. Then, after a pause (although he carried on crawling), he said 'I'll be getting up soon... when I realize how un-progressive it is.' I finally realized he hadn't noticed he was doing anything strange! I guess it's part of the way he treats odd things so lightly. It reminded me of 'Terror of the Zygons', when Benton finds the Doctor and Sarah unconscious, and the Doctor wakes up and whispers 'It worked!' and Benton whispers back, 'What worked?' so the Doctor says something about a trick he learned from a Tibetan monk, and Benton answers with something else, still whispering. Then the Doctor says 'Why are you whispering?' as if benton was the one to start it!