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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
10:38 pm	Oh *facepalm* You know how 5:41 pm yesterday I had to choose between food and sleep? I chose sleep. So the last time I ate was at 1300. Yesterday. It is 2239 right now. Dear Self: You know why you're feeling all blah right now? Fix It. xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
10:06 pm	Complications Ensue I read the 'Complications Ensue' blog because I've got both his books and they're full of useful, and often so are his posts. Today I'd like to disagree, but the dratty thing won't let me post a comment. "No one loses a notebook anymore because everyone keeps their notes on their computer." His class assumptions are showing. Also assumptions about age and education. 'Everyone' rich enough to own 'their' computer, educated to know how to use them, and young enough not to consider notepads morally superior and/or less scary. Plus people who worry about hacking either get smart at encryption or just don't put important stuff on a computer. (If the notes in question are your password list? yeah, we're not supposed to, but many have one.) These are not hypothetical people, these are people I know, and I don't know many people. Also I personally can barely handwrite and own both desktop and laptop, but my pocket notebook is the paper sort, and if I lost it there'd be all sorts of fallout. And then there's the heaps and heaps of writer notebooks, which I rather wish were on a computer but which keep on piling up on paper regardless. Writer process doesn't like the blinky cursor until I actually know what I want it to say. And anything to do with library books ends up on paper because the library computers are always full and I can't leave my laptop on a table while I browse. Anything about my actual I own these books? It's in the margins. Isn't that what the margins are for? And in both cases I await the day I can ebook everything, but, well, really not. So there's a lot of ways to lose written notes you've put serious time into. Plus I'm just talking about the UK. Globally computer ownership is a whole lot less than 100%. So 'everyone' probably translates as 'everyone you are thinking about writing about'. "Sure, somebody could, as a character point, have a notebook. And not everyone has a cell phone. But if you hang a plot point on it, it stops being a character point and becomes a convenience." I'd disagree. What's the point of character points that aren't going to turn into plot? If Rupert Giles doesn't know from computers you know he's going to fight a demon on the internet one day. (And magic books are another one where there's strong tradition to support keeping them *away* from computers. Some 'verses have them blow stuff up, some have them come alive in there. Some just don't want them to crash or gradually rot your access as your computer programs stop talking to each other.) You put words and time into establishing someone is an old-tech note taker, you can hang a plot on it. It's only when you haven't done the foundations it comes off convenient. ... I realise I've only had one script get as far as rejected ever and this guy has TV shows made, but I can still have disagreeing. As long as I'm honest about that bit up front... But I still agree with his last line. "Try to come up with a plot point that can survive both characters having cameraphones and laptops that they regularly back up." Because nothing is so annoying as the plot that can unravel with a single sentence in the right ear. xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
Monday, February 8th, 2010
5:41 pm	Survived college again Love it when that happens. Invisible essay was still invisible, but I got the mark for it: 60% :-) ... yes it's like 15% lower than my best, and only about 2% higher than my worst, but I think it's in the same grade band as usual, and, importantly, I knew this particular essay was bullshit pasted together with big words, so I'm kind of impressed. For an essay where I couldn't figure out which essay question to answer and so vaguely kind of sort of answered half of them even though I knew that's no use whatsoever? 60% is pretty good. Even better, teacher has emailed me and says invisible essay got visible after I left, and now it is in an envelope on her desk ready for me to pick up. Win! Probably it will say 'answer the question'. And possibly it will say 'you are making this up aren't you'. But it being English I think the latter is less likely. Also today I experimented with catching the bus. I waited half an hour but I was at the right bus stop and otherwise would have spent that time walking in to town and catching the bus at a different stop and getting back to that same stop while on the bus. Which might have been warmer, but since it was no longer snowing by then I could live with it. Also also I listened to BFA 130 'A Thousand Tiny Wings'. Plenty good story, unusual historical setting, interesting characters, and lots of women. I like it. I would like it better if I listened to it in a quieter environment so I could hear all of it and not just the loud bits, but the whole point is listening on the bus, so instead I need to fix the loudness. I can't just make it all louder because the loud bits are quite entirely loud enough, but the quiet bits disappear into the engine noise. Maybe I need better headphones. Now I must decide between food and sleep. Always a tricky one. xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
2:19 pm	Studying hard as we speak I am in class right now. The teacher is not, so that works out. My schedule did not quite work. I needed foods when I got in, and they had to cook them, so I had to wait, and then class was just starting so I put foods in a bag and wen tup and ended up unpacking, typing lecture notes, and trying to eat with one hand. And then I got hiccups. *facepalm* Note to self: Get earlier bus, have more eats time. Which I tried to today, but missed that bus, and stood in the snow an extra quarter hour. Clearly today is working really well. Right, back to Jekyll and Hyde and Foucault. Teach was expounding on the theory that it's all secretly about homosexuality because Hyde always goes in by the back entrance. ... must not *facepalm* at the teacher... xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
9:15 am	Snow go away Dear World Outside My Window: You have two hours to stop snowing. Maybe two and a quarter. After that, I have to go out there, and go to college and stuff. Because snow the weather website insists is sleet will not be considered adequate reason to stay inside, even if I think it's more sensible. *flaps butterfly and blows snow away from here, travel routes, and school* xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
6:29 am	Vampirism as Victorian crime I been thinking on my irritations with Being Human, and a lot of other vampire shows, and I think the basic problem is equating vampire attacks with murder. To theorise a vast network of killers that uses techniques of organised crime to cover up murder... It doesn't resonate with me. There aren't that many serial killers, and gang crime, at least around here, isn't of that scale... as far as I know. If we're talking about crime that goes on all the time, but rarely if ever gets prosecuted, where the victims can speak up and will not be believed, then the comparison isn't murder, it's rape, and domestic violence. ( Read more... ) I think there's stories that know the complications, and I think there's some that just have the idea of a pretty white man feeling guilty about hurting people in the past, in a way we're supposed to sympathise with. Which can get full up of problem. And not always problem that knows it's a problem. Horror stories... they're kind of exhausting. xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
3:28 am	Being Human I'm getting increasingly annoyed with this show, and it's for two interlinked reasons, or maybe three. The Bechdel fail, women only talking to each other about a man, which as far as I remember has been true in every episode except the one Nina and Annie conversation. And the fact that the more I watch George and Mitchell the more I think they're doing it wrong, partly because I'm sympathising with and seeing the whole situation from the point of view of the women they meet. Plus the way that the whole ghost, werewolf, vampire thing has from the start been easiest to read as a metaphor for mental health problems, agoraphobia, addiction, whatever the hell they're giving George this week about repressed rage leaking, but the further they go towards the literal side and taking the supernatural stuff seriously the more they close off the appropriate courses of action for the stuff I was reading it as. Specific examples go under the cut. ( Read more... ) I don't want to follow this story round these corners. I don't particularly feel the need to watch addicts go wrong and drag others with them again. Especially when mostly the ones getting hurt are women. Even if the point of the show is to show that, I've about had enough with watching it. But we're up to 5/8 already apparently, so odds are I'll watch the rest of the season on inertia. It's good, it's well written, it's just that mostly I am reaching the point where I want to lock up the guys and give the women pamphlets on codependency, and it's just not fun. On Buffy there were a bunch of problems, but then women kicked arse and fixed them. I was still frustrated that it was left to individuals, but it seemed to have a useful view of what the problems were. Also, strong women kicking arse. I miss that. Where'd they go? xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
8:00 am	Busy. No, really. So far this weekend I have read the essays for class on Monday and read a whole lot of GURPS Magic rules, then figured out a set of spells for a priest of Janus. Clearly this is a productive use of time. *nods* Ethan's spells are hard to model because there's a half a dozen spells that almost but not quite do what he did, and also because he cast a spell on a whole town at once, which has power requirements that are off the scale. Assume the Hellmouth is a Very High Mana area (so absolutely anyone can cast spells, and mages have a lot of bonus), and that Janus did most of the lifting. I still don't even know how to start calculating the costs. Impressive, anyway. Ethan: very strong indeed. But we knew that. The other thing about spells is they all have the same names, but to ally them with specific gods you really have to think about the tone or flavour of things. Like the spell 'Drunkenness' has effects kind of like getting every adult to act like drunk teenagers, but being drunk isn't especially associated with Janus. Getting people to express their repressed sides *is*, in the Buffyverse. So you rephrase it just slightly, and it's a spell with the right theme. Weaken Will works too. Emotion Control and Suggestion don't quite cover it, I think. Madness, being really specific, with a Delusion, is probably enough... but it's really rather thorough. And to incorporate real world knowledge like Xander's soldier did would require a ton of Knowledge spells too. Basically you pretty much have to say 'A God Did It', but it's hard to game that. Ethan: god likes him. His god, anyway. Which leaves you to wonder why a god of doors didn't bust him out of prison. But Planar Visit (Dreamlands) treats the dream worlds as an actual world as real as the demon dimensions, so getting to wander around in there is pretty powerful of itself. And since you leave your body behind it don't much matter where you left it. Unless you're worried about the damage... I had mostly set out to invent some characters to throw at each other in an original story world. I got a couple of people, but then I thought of Ethan, and, well, it's not like I've any particular reason to focus. Ethan is fun. Storytelling gold. I should probably sleep at some point. xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
Friday, February 5th, 2010
11:19 pm	Math is less fun when you're ignorant I'm reading the GURPS Magic rules, specifically the Technology spells. It says The default assumption is that one kilowatt-hour (kWh) is equal to 10 energy; thus, 360 kilowatts (kW) is equal to 1 energy/second, and 360 kilowatt-seconds (kWs) or kilojoules (kJ) is equal to 1 energy. ... and I realise all I know about electricity is you plugs things into the wall and it makes them go. ... GCSE Science was a long long time ago. Also, it would not have covered this specific question. So now I want to know, if I plugs my spells into the wall, how much does it make them go? If magic is mains powered, do I get 1 energy/second, or a bazillion, or what? It has a formula for figuring out how much energy a particular mage can channel safely (18 megawatts, for my mage. Which is again greek to me.) It talks about carrying your own portable fusion generator. Would my mage need her own generator? Could she use a wall socket? How about overhead power cables? Underground cables would have penalties for not being able to see them. GURPS has rules for all kinds of everything so it is likely that somewhere this is written down. But GURPS has rules for all kinds of everything, so it is unlikely that any given thing can be found unless you have an actual clue where to look. Lacking a GURPS rule to do the math for me I could work it out from the actual knowing of things, but, well, I have not the knowing of these things. ... I like it better when I can figure out how many fireballs I can make go boom before my character has to have a lie down. For that all the numbers are in front of me. Also, boom! ... the energy spells give the possibility of really big kaboom. I likes... xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
9:49 pm	Social food I went and ate a meal with some people from the NSFG. We went to the Thai Dragon in Norwich and had the all you can eat buffet. See I look at that and think "£12.99? Hmmm. Am I really going to eat that much?" and end up eating a starter and being happy with that. But today everyone was all eating all everything. First there were big plates of starters (I liked the triangles) with the vegetarians at one end of the table (me and A and new person Chris) and the meat eaters at the other, and then there was main course, and then there was main course, and then there was main course, and then there was main course, and then there was dessert. And some people were looking at another round of dessert but we had by then been eating for about three hours and I'd got the background music memorised (quite against my will) and someone else's pain meds were wearing off and so we stopped for the night. That was a lot of eating. I had starters and main course (three different sorts of vegetable and sauce, all of them probably nice, but when I try new things I think 'hmmm, new' and it takes a while to form other opinions), and then I had starter triangles again because I liked them best. They were crunchy on the outside and squooshy in the middle. Also there was talking. I said some random things. Talking with no topic is harder. Talking with no topic and a full Thai restaurant and the music and the bar and the bubbles from the decorative plastic fish in tubes and the doors and the cooking and all is, well, harder a bunch. But it was fun. Also I know for sure which weeks are NSFG at the Ribs of Beef pub now, so I can turn up again. Probably. If I stay in Norwich after class. So that will be fun. :-) xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
3:30 am	Shiny RPG fun I'm having fun with GURPS rulebooks, making up a character I doubt I'll ever play. ... it's weird and partially maths based fun, but, I like it when things have rules and order and neat little boxes, so I like turning things into GURPS sheets. Today I am playing with magic users, because I finally got GURPS Thaumatology and it's full of all sorts of fun, but I haven't read the basic rules in a while and I haven't followed the maths through lately, so I wasn't real clear on what it was they were modifying. Working out a character sheet can fix that. I concentrate on the roleplay aspects, the characters that the numbers could imply. or the numbers that a character could imply, depending. ( Read more... ) xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
12:33 pm	Bleeping alarm box Yesterday I saw some workmen doing things with the fire alarm box, while I was on my way out to college. Today I get to find out what its fault mode sounds like. Bleep.......bleep........bleep It says 'general fault' and 'zone one fault' and it has a bazillion lights and it says to refer to the instructions but I don't appear to have any :eyeroll: So I phoned up the housing place and they can explain it to the relevant alarm fixing persons. If I don't know what the lights mean I don't know what the serious lights are, though there are now two rows for 'fire' and 'fault' that would show me if there was an actual fire. I also don't know what any of the buttons do, and I only just learned them for the previous box. I'm sure someone thinks this is the simplest useful thing, and I'm sure it has its uses, but what's the point of it if nobody here knows how to use it? I would be much less annoyed about this if I could just ignore the bleep.......bleep........bleep xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
6:37 pm	College :-) Went to college. Discovered food not available after 1330. Discovered it at 1345. Did studying in class. Lots of learning. Fun :-) I'm not sure I was very helpful, but I have many notes and stuff. On the last bit of the way home there was icy rain. Less fun. Home now. Sleeps. xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
3:06 am	Ethics of soul ownership You know, I tried to go to sleep, then there was some thumping and swearing I paid no never mind to, because, usual, but then there were police type noises and I had to get up and check, and yes, indeed, one my neighbours called police again for cause (I think to do with a door? They were being quiet and discreet but you can hear everything around here.) And now I'm not sleepy. So. I was thinking about the ethics of owning souls. ( Read more... ) xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (8 Comments |Comment on this)
1:19 am	Jekyll and Hyde I have read The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. I found the telling of it unfamiliar. All the re-tellings I have known concentrate on Jekyll's point of view and a linear plot where things only happen the once. The original has a detective figure, a lawyer in this case, who watches suspicious things and then gets the confession at the end. It's terribly static once you know the twist, so I can see why nothing else does that. I can't remember specifics of when else I've seen the story. It's one of those pervasive ones that you know without particularly finding out. I know I've got a tiny children's book of it somewhere, but I haven't read that for ages. It makes me uncomfortable for a couple of its ablist assumptions, that physical deformity is a good symbol for moral deformity, and the mental health issues built in to the premise. It's saying something about the hidden nature of man, the way people present different faces to the world for different purposes, and that everyone is many different people and some grow stronger by exercise. Trouble comes from the nagging familiarity of the narrative if you read it as multiple personality in a medical sense, the whole crazy people do bad things story that keeps getting retold. Put it together and it's moral model at work, doing evil leading dwarfism, to physical deformity, and people being able to tell just by looking, and all of this tangled with depictions of madness. It's depressing. But only if, no, only because disability gets read as a metaphor itself. If it's only saying that exercising evil makes it stronger until your good side fades away then it's saying something that works. Making it a physical fact is fair enough in SF rules. It's just the details that bork it up and make it ugly. There's too many comments made in moral model mode in the here and now, too much that assumes people somehow deserve or have earned whatever comes to them. Even the ones that think they're about positive thinking and attracting good outcomes have this shadow side where if the world works like that everything that happens is down to thinking and attracting individually. Every flip comment about a particular disliked individual rebounds to stomp the toes of anyone that shares aspects of their condition, and the thought that people might be judging the morals by the accompanying impairment is... well, is enough to make an armour suit sound like a good idea, just for starters. It's such a fundamentally wrong theory though, I don't know how it keeps hold. Maybe it's because people like neat little cause and effects, the feeling of understanding, or maybe it's just the illusion of control - avoid the sin and avoid the problems. Which is bollocks. Stuff happens, and we live with it, is all. Physical 'deformity' has bugger all to do with, well, anything except being physically different. Mental health problems happen to really a lot of people, and neuroatypicality is just one of those things. They don't connect up and point beyond themselves, they're just there. I got the Vorkosigan Saga GURPS rulebook today. I can read about Miles :-) Much better version. Just a guy, living with his differences, but with a life all about his choices and skills and getting things done. He's got two distinct selves as well, but they're both military mad and fiercely loyal to the same people. He fed one to the exclusion of the other too, to his own detriment, but he got it sorted out again. And then there's Mark... but he uses his too. Come to think there's a lot of crazy=violent in the pair of them, it's just it's violence to save the world or save hostages or something, so it seems more okay. Hrmmm. Also it's balanced out by a whole hell of a lot of just plain violent people, so it don't seem all causal. The clones with different experiences bit is so interesting though. I'd be tempted to keep making another one to see how they turned out. Except people clearly should not be experiments... but the first two turned out so interesting, why not make more like them? ... figuring out right action is a teensy complicated... It appears to be nearly two in the morning. I have class at half two in the afternoon. Probably I should sleep somewhere in the middle. xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
10:39 pm	I win! Also, text list for Researching Popular Cultures I stayed awake long enough! I have read the stuff from class, and the essays from the Reader, and the list of read-before-Wednesday. Next is "Read Jekyll and Hyde", so I'm off to Project Gutenberg, because I only have the Ladybird book. ( Read more... ) I've got a bunch of Sherlock Holmes around here somewhere, but not on the first three book cases I checked, so google is undoubtedly quicker. I've also got that Pulp book on the shelf just behind me, because my college books are thankfully more organised than my fiction. More reading! Yaays! ... oh, probably I should eat first, since I forgot since... when I got home yesterday... 29 hours ago... *facepalm* xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (1 Comment |Comment on this)
7:53 pm	Today: Sleep I swear I woke up at 0700 today and set out to get things done. I got all the reading out and sat down to read it. And then it was 1030 and I was dozing off in uncomfortable twists and gave up and went back to bed. ... I think I went to bed before 7pm last night. This is ridiculous. I got woke up once in the middle of the day to get a parcel :-) ... I was sure it was going to arrive on a college day so I'd have to trundle along and get it, but no, big heavy box o books arrived more or less safely. I'm going to email SJGames Warehouse 23 about their packing because the box got dropped on its corner so teh hardback books at the bottom have a curvy corner too. Not bad enough to send back or anything, perfectly readable, just a bit banged up. The box had a ton of packing nuts in it (is that the word? Those twisty thingies made of foam) but they were all on top of the books, which filled up the whole box edge to edge below that. Then the box was in a big plastic bag, which didn't say anything like 'books! don't throw it!' and was getting dumped on corners at random, because you do with a bag. So it arrived dry and safe, but bumped. That seems avoidable to me just by redistributing the packing. ... I'm picky. I know. I will be careful to phrase it as 'trying to be helpful' and also to say thanks. There was a shiny Munchkin silver piece in the box too. Which was a bugger to find in among the packing nuts, but a nice extra. If I ever play Munchkin it will also be useful, but shiny is plenty good too. I tried doing more reading. I even finished re-reading everything we did in class yesterday, in the quiet where my brain will notice all the words. Then I fell asleep again again. *headdesk* ... actually, there was no desk. *headpillow* So finally I woke up and had cunningly brought sports drinks to bed with me so I just drank too much sugar and read the new handouts. ... Victorian prostitution practices and attitudes to it make me want to slap an entire century. *shudders* When we studied movies they were all serial killers, criminals, and prostitutes. So now we're studying popular culture and guess what it's going to be? Yes. So, either the teacher was being clever and thematic, or he has a Thing. I quite like the tidy sort of detective story where nothing gets too grim and the killer gets caught in the end, or the magic sort where somewhere in the middle the protagonist needs the hospital and has possibly set their own hand on fire or something but you know they're going to blast hell out of the bad guys by the end and recover between books, but I did not like the serial killer films or the prostitutes or the pointless crime film, so I'm not so sure I'm going to like this set of studying. But I can read lots of Sherlock Holmes, and there's stuff in the reader about lesbian detectives that I'm sure will lead to interesting reading too. Also I already own one of the recommended reading theory books and liked it plenty enough to read it over again. I just feel we could learn quite a lot by studying romance, and not need to bleach our brains out quite as often. College tends towards the brain bleach section as if it's somehow more important or valuable. I feel fairly strongly it is not. Next I must read some more essays about the things I already read. Hopefully I can stay awake long enough to do so. ... and then sleep before college tomorrow. :eyeroll: xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
Monday, February 1st, 2010
5:24 pm	Big Finish Audio 81 - The Kingmaker In which we learn that the Doctor gets very drunk on ginger ale, and that driving while intoxicated gives the TARDIS hiccups. Also, that the Doctor wrote a set of factual children's books under the name 'Doctor Who'. It is very very silly and also very good at it. Trying to fit it together with, like, anything else ever makes for brain breaky, but on its own terms it works perfectly well. And it can be filed under 'things the Doctor thought of while drunk' if you need an excuse. 5, Peri, and Erimem. Also Shakespeare, and King Richard III. ( Read more... ) It was lots of sorts of fun to listen to. And Erimem was interesting and fun too. I must listen more. xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
5:07 pm	College success, and Doctor Who RPG I went to college. It was the right day and the right time and the right classroom, and I spoke up about being in the wrong Blackboard thingy, and I had indeed already missed being told what to read for this lesson but we read it all in the lesson anyway so that works out. I got put on the right list again no worries, and now I have a reader and some handouts and some stuff off the web to read. This semester we are studying crime fiction. :-) So for homework we are to read all the Sherlock Holmes stories. Also Jekyll & Hyde and some other stuff I can't remember. Later we will watch some bits of movies. The basic idea is to study up on how crime fiction makes myths around 'normal' and deviant and enforces the lines. Er, probably, I been awake a very long time. But I think this will be very annoying indeed, because obviously the further back you go the more stuff is made of Fail, and also quite recent stuff has a fail component too. but it will be the informative kind of annoying, so that's okay. This teacher uses the big words and refers to useful theorists and makes sense and calls things their right names and stuff. Will be good. Then on the way home I stopped in the Television and Movie Store and found Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space. You can look in the packet in store. It's very shiny. It's also a bunch of money considering I never seem to RPG any more. But I think I'm going to have to just admit that this, like the sonic screwdriver collection and the watch and the lipstick and the wrist strap and all which I have no excuse for, is just one of those things I do. Also, they offered me a regular customer discount. I'm in there every week in term time, that's kind of a lot regular. Even with the discount it costs more than Amazon because Amazon wish to make it very hard to shop anywhere else, but sod it, I can walk in the shop and have the game in my hands right there. So I'm probably going to go back in and buy it on Wednesday. Next Monday at the latest. And then I can make up characters and read the characters they already made and all sorts of fun stuff. The guy who wrote it works at the store, but not today. The guy writing the next supplement was working there today. Is cool. Also today I bought the new edition of the RTD book. After lots of um and er because I'm annoyed at him, so why do I buy the book? Which I said out loud, and the two shop guys agreed, but they said they read it so they can see they were right about what he was thinking and read all the that explains it moments. Also they agreed they were annoyed at him and there were lots of what was he thinking moments. ...I think that's more words on the Doctor Who shopping trip (five minutes) than on the college lesson (2 and a bit hours). (It would be three hours but he said we could go early and go do the reading, and then after everyone wooshed and I was packing up he looked at the computer clock and said "Blimey, I didn't know it was that early. Must get my watch fixed." But nobody was complaining. Lots to start on.) ... eh, I know my priorities by now. xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)
9:00 am	Sleep is, I hear, a requirement so I now have an hour, maybe an hour and a half, to get eight hours sleep. *sigh* I got two emails saying Big Finish got my pitch, one probably automated a couple minutes after I sent it, one signed by a particular human at 0804. So I guess they got it. Now I get to wait a month to find out how bad it is. at this point I could either a) go spend another hour being really really bored pretending sleep might happen or b) get up, get dressed, think of something to do in Norwich with that extra hour. It's cold. Neither really appeal. xposted from Dreamwidth here. comments (Comment on this)