Journal Forecast: Partly random, with a slight chance of segues. Some self-pity in low-lying areas.
First up, Dream Foo!
A fairly dreamy night, although I can't remember much of it. Two things stand out:
One where I was wandering around a bus station. At one point I noticed there was a loonie (dollar coin) on the wall. I went to pick it up, and noticed there was graffiti behind and underneath it, making some point about how it's not a good idea to take loonies stuck to walls because you don't know what they were stuck with. It also mentioned Cadi in a way that made me know who wrote it... XET-Eve. There was more to the dream, but it's left me.
A second dream was about LOST. I should stop first and explain a bit. Way back in Season One of Lost, I had a theory about the Hatch... essentially that the Island was the home and prison of a Cthulhu-esque Great Old One, and it had lured the plane to the island in order to help free itself. The numbers were part of the binding, and the hatch was one of the physical elements that held its physical form back (but it could still affect the world in subtle psychic and hard-to-understand, almost Hasturian ways), and that's how it arranges all these coincidences to draw the right people on the flight. .
Anyway, that all was disproved when the Hatch was open and no horrible monster came out to destroy the world. But in the dream, I was watching Lost and somehow that plot actually showed up, and a creature called 'Ur-(somethingorother)', it looked like a many-headed hydra type thing (which I thought looked cool for TV level special effects, but I was disappointed it wasn't a tentacled monster) that tore through structures on the island. Then there was some kind of flashback about, long ago, it tearing through a major city (can't remember which), and a newscaster reporting about it. Then the newscaster got very meta about it, making fun of the idea that there was a giant monster that had torn up a city in the past but nobody seemed to care or remember, and just the way it was said and the snarkiness involved made me crack up watching it.
That's about it.
Spoiler-light TV bits: Veronica Mars, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Torchwood
Veronica Mars: I don't know what it is, but something's felt off with the last episode. I still enjoy it, but, I dunno, it just felt off. I wonder sometimes if it may be how I'm watching it. Season 1, I watched when the local station played it in the summer. Nothing else was on and for a good deal of the time they actually played two episodes a week. S2 I downloaded, and so I could watch as many as I want... I averaged about 3 eps a week. But now I'm forced into waiting a week between episodes and so that flow is a little different. Anyway, I'm hoping "Weevil's street smart detective skills" is setting him up for being something of more of an on-campus partner to Veronica (maybe even a little more than Wallace started to be in the first two seasons), although I actually kinda hoped he'd have kept working with Keith, as that would have tied him into the show more.
Grey's Anatomy: Thank goodness Izzy's finally doing something. The show's not blowing me away this year so far (especially with Izzy's plots basically just marking time), but it's okay - my main worry is for the future, wtih all the stuff from the rumor mill about a fight, derogatory remarks, and the rumor that one of my favorite characters (maybe #3 or 4 overall) is going to be written out because of it. I hope it's not true. Most of the shows I watch are barely noticed by the tabloids, and are rarely popular in a mainstream sense, so I don't really have the experience with rumors like this to judge how worried about all this I should be.
Woo! Heroes tonight. This is certainly my favorite new show of the season, and it's actually edging out a number of existing shows which have turned in disappointing seasons. There's still enough in it that really annoys me, but I really enjoyed last week's ending and can't wait for this week's.
Battlestar Galactica had a great episode, although I was just starting to like the storyline only have it to change again. Ah well, such is the show, I suppose I'd rather it be like this than to have it be completely stagnant.
Lost: The last two episodes have been pretty disappointing, actually. So much so that I slightly feel like I'm losing interest. Next one should be better cause I still like Sawyer, and the parts of the premiere with the Others were kinda interesting, but they really need to pull things together.
Torchwood: I've only seen the first episode so far and... well, it's okay. I enjoy it, but if it wasn't for a connection to Who, I wouldn't bother downloading it and maybe I'd catch it if it made it to Canada (and happened to be on a time that didn't conflict with anything else I was watching), but it doesn't thrill me enough to go out of my way. I think Who itself is like that, actually. If it wasn't Doctor Who I don't know that I would be all that into it, but Who has all these associations to me that keeps me drawn. Anyway, Torchwood. Enjoyable enough that, because of the connection to Who (and great mini-cameo), I'll stick with it, unless it turns very very bad.
I created my very first Wikipedia page this weekend. I've done some minor edits before, but this is the first time I've created a whole page. It will no doubt interest nobody on my friends list, of course. Anyway, what happened was, while I was rereading the Grainger/Hooded Swan books, I did a wiki search for it, like I tend to do for most series I read. Only to come up empty. Not only has barely anybody I talk to heard of it, nobody'd created a page for it. So, I did. I'll probably be adding a little more to it as time goes on. It's an interesting feeling, adding to the sum total of human knowledge on the internet. And the editing was remarkably easy, I've never actually looked into how to edit a wiki before a couple weeks ago. I'll probably be doing more of it when I see something that needs doing. I'm a wikiconvert!
Speaking of writing (but from another angle), I don't think I'm going to do NaNoWriMo. Can't come up with a plot I want to use on it, and I don't want to 'waste' any of the plots I've got stored up on it (I put waste in quotes because I don't technically think it's a waste, but I fear that if I do the style of writing NaNo requires and it sucks I won't be able to write the story again. If I'm to do it, I need a plot that I can feel good using only for it). Also the time issue is a worry. I don't really feel up to writing on days that I work, so that means I'd have to extra load it on the other days, and all that in addition to doing things like my alternaljournal which is certainly a type of writing, but wouldn't count towards words.
Ehh. Anyway, to do my best to keep the spirit of NaNoWriMo, I'm going to resolve to do the following (whether I actually do it is another matter, but I'll resolve it here and either do it or fess up to not doing it): In November, on days where I'm not working, I'll devote two hours to writing. By 'devote' I'll mean that instead of my usual 'keep a window open and try to write a little each day', I mean 'close all my other windows and my TV and either write or spend those two hours staring at a blank screen without any pleasurable distractions'. No naps allowed, either, not even if I write a good deal.
I'll still read new e-mail as it comes in just because it would distract me wondering about it if I don't, but I won't respond to it. And, again, I'll exclude my alternaljournal from this - I'll have to write that on my own time.
Apparently we're getting pretty close to being able to play our first Cybergeneration (tabletop) game, so that should be cool.
Now, let's see, is there anything actually new in my life, as opposed to the various ways I escape reality?... Hmmm, nope, not really that I can think of. But then, why would it? About the only chance I have to meet anyone new would be either at work or in chance encounters. And, well, why not, some social interaction to report: Nothing really deep, but there's a nice woman from Japan who I've talked to a couple times at work. Not terribly smooth or easy social interaction, but it's nice nonetheless to have another person I can say 'hello' to.
On the 'chance encounters while out in the world' front, there's nothing, of course, because I can't see myself causing an interaction with anybody, so I'd have to rely on someone talking to me out of the blue, and that almost never happens (unless of course they're asking for money). The closest I've come is when I accidentally stepped on the foot of a kinda cute girl in glasses in a used bookstore last week. I apologized, of course, and she wasn't seriously hurt. I couldn't help but think that, if I were on a MUSH (or maybe a TV show or something) or something, this would be one of those perfect excuses to get two characters who don't know each other to interact and build a more lasting connection. Usually involving one or both characters hamfistedly revealing they have super powers and so they have something in common. But I'm not any of my MUSH characters and have no superpowers to casually reveal, so I just left after apologizing (though as is my nature, I still feel bad about stepping on the foot).
A fairly dreamy night, although I can't remember much of it. Two things stand out:
One where I was wandering around a bus station. At one point I noticed there was a loonie (dollar coin) on the wall. I went to pick it up, and noticed there was graffiti behind and underneath it, making some point about how it's not a good idea to take loonies stuck to walls because you don't know what they were stuck with. It also mentioned Cadi in a way that made me know who wrote it... XET-Eve. There was more to the dream, but it's left me.
A second dream was about LOST. I should stop first and explain a bit. Way back in Season One of Lost, I had a theory about the Hatch... essentially that the Island was the home and prison of a Cthulhu-esque Great Old One, and it had lured the plane to the island in order to help free itself. The numbers were part of the binding, and the hatch was one of the physical elements that held its physical form back (but it could still affect the world in subtle psychic and hard-to-understand, almost Hasturian ways), and that's how it arranges all these coincidences to draw the right people on the flight. .
Anyway, that all was disproved when the Hatch was open and no horrible monster came out to destroy the world. But in the dream, I was watching Lost and somehow that plot actually showed up, and a creature called 'Ur-(somethingorother)', it looked like a many-headed hydra type thing (which I thought looked cool for TV level special effects, but I was disappointed it wasn't a tentacled monster) that tore through structures on the island. Then there was some kind of flashback about, long ago, it tearing through a major city (can't remember which), and a newscaster reporting about it. Then the newscaster got very meta about it, making fun of the idea that there was a giant monster that had torn up a city in the past but nobody seemed to care or remember, and just the way it was said and the snarkiness involved made me crack up watching it.
That's about it.
Spoiler-light TV bits: Veronica Mars, Grey's Anatomy, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, Torchwood
Veronica Mars: I don't know what it is, but something's felt off with the last episode. I still enjoy it, but, I dunno, it just felt off. I wonder sometimes if it may be how I'm watching it. Season 1, I watched when the local station played it in the summer. Nothing else was on and for a good deal of the time they actually played two episodes a week. S2 I downloaded, and so I could watch as many as I want... I averaged about 3 eps a week. But now I'm forced into waiting a week between episodes and so that flow is a little different. Anyway, I'm hoping "Weevil's street smart detective skills" is setting him up for being something of more of an on-campus partner to Veronica (maybe even a little more than Wallace started to be in the first two seasons), although I actually kinda hoped he'd have kept working with Keith, as that would have tied him into the show more.
Grey's Anatomy: Thank goodness Izzy's finally doing something. The show's not blowing me away this year so far (especially with Izzy's plots basically just marking time), but it's okay - my main worry is for the future, wtih all the stuff from the rumor mill about a fight, derogatory remarks, and the rumor that one of my favorite characters (maybe #3 or 4 overall) is going to be written out because of it. I hope it's not true. Most of the shows I watch are barely noticed by the tabloids, and are rarely popular in a mainstream sense, so I don't really have the experience with rumors like this to judge how worried about all this I should be.
Woo! Heroes tonight. This is certainly my favorite new show of the season, and it's actually edging out a number of existing shows which have turned in disappointing seasons. There's still enough in it that really annoys me, but I really enjoyed last week's ending and can't wait for this week's.
Battlestar Galactica had a great episode, although I was just starting to like the storyline only have it to change again. Ah well, such is the show, I suppose I'd rather it be like this than to have it be completely stagnant.
Lost: The last two episodes have been pretty disappointing, actually. So much so that I slightly feel like I'm losing interest. Next one should be better cause I still like Sawyer, and the parts of the premiere with the Others were kinda interesting, but they really need to pull things together.
Torchwood: I've only seen the first episode so far and... well, it's okay. I enjoy it, but if it wasn't for a connection to Who, I wouldn't bother downloading it and maybe I'd catch it if it made it to Canada (and happened to be on a time that didn't conflict with anything else I was watching), but it doesn't thrill me enough to go out of my way. I think Who itself is like that, actually. If it wasn't Doctor Who I don't know that I would be all that into it, but Who has all these associations to me that keeps me drawn. Anyway, Torchwood. Enjoyable enough that, because of the connection to Who (and great mini-cameo), I'll stick with it, unless it turns very very bad.
I created my very first Wikipedia page this weekend. I've done some minor edits before, but this is the first time I've created a whole page. It will no doubt interest nobody on my friends list, of course. Anyway, what happened was, while I was rereading the Grainger/Hooded Swan books, I did a wiki search for it, like I tend to do for most series I read. Only to come up empty. Not only has barely anybody I talk to heard of it, nobody'd created a page for it. So, I did. I'll probably be adding a little more to it as time goes on. It's an interesting feeling, adding to the sum total of human knowledge on the internet. And the editing was remarkably easy, I've never actually looked into how to edit a wiki before a couple weeks ago. I'll probably be doing more of it when I see something that needs doing. I'm a wikiconvert!
Speaking of writing (but from another angle), I don't think I'm going to do NaNoWriMo. Can't come up with a plot I want to use on it, and I don't want to 'waste' any of the plots I've got stored up on it (I put waste in quotes because I don't technically think it's a waste, but I fear that if I do the style of writing NaNo requires and it sucks I won't be able to write the story again. If I'm to do it, I need a plot that I can feel good using only for it). Also the time issue is a worry. I don't really feel up to writing on days that I work, so that means I'd have to extra load it on the other days, and all that in addition to doing things like my alternaljournal which is certainly a type of writing, but wouldn't count towards words.
Ehh. Anyway, to do my best to keep the spirit of NaNoWriMo, I'm going to resolve to do the following (whether I actually do it is another matter, but I'll resolve it here and either do it or fess up to not doing it): In November, on days where I'm not working, I'll devote two hours to writing. By 'devote' I'll mean that instead of my usual 'keep a window open and try to write a little each day', I mean 'close all my other windows and my TV and either write or spend those two hours staring at a blank screen without any pleasurable distractions'. No naps allowed, either, not even if I write a good deal.
I'll still read new e-mail as it comes in just because it would distract me wondering about it if I don't, but I won't respond to it. And, again, I'll exclude my alternaljournal from this - I'll have to write that on my own time.
Apparently we're getting pretty close to being able to play our first Cybergeneration (tabletop) game, so that should be cool.
Now, let's see, is there anything actually new in my life, as opposed to the various ways I escape reality?... Hmmm, nope, not really that I can think of. But then, why would it? About the only chance I have to meet anyone new would be either at work or in chance encounters. And, well, why not, some social interaction to report: Nothing really deep, but there's a nice woman from Japan who I've talked to a couple times at work. Not terribly smooth or easy social interaction, but it's nice nonetheless to have another person I can say 'hello' to.
On the 'chance encounters while out in the world' front, there's nothing, of course, because I can't see myself causing an interaction with anybody, so I'd have to rely on someone talking to me out of the blue, and that almost never happens (unless of course they're asking for money). The closest I've come is when I accidentally stepped on the foot of a kinda cute girl in glasses in a used bookstore last week. I apologized, of course, and she wasn't seriously hurt. I couldn't help but think that, if I were on a MUSH (or maybe a TV show or something) or something, this would be one of those perfect excuses to get two characters who don't know each other to interact and build a more lasting connection. Usually involving one or both characters hamfistedly revealing they have super powers and so they have something in common. But I'm not any of my MUSH characters and have no superpowers to casually reveal, so I just left after apologizing (though as is my nature, I still feel bad about stepping on the foot).