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☆ Today felt like a Sunday, even if it wasn't. That kind of calm, relaxed feeling, while working on a bunch of things that should have been taken care of earlier in the week, but weren't. I don't particularly want to go to work tomorrow, but a three-day week is definitely not bad.
☆ Had a civilized conversation with my mother about crime fiction today, and it made me realize that even though I like the genre a lot, I certainly haven't read very widely. Mostly just recent Nordic noir, honestly, and not much else, aside from a bit of Louise Penny and the occasional aeroplane read-and-toss. I should... probably fix that... but as with everything else, there are way too many novels in the world, and not enough time to read them. (Not to mention that my attention span sure has been something lately.) ... Though now that I mention Louise Penny, I really should read more of her work. And seek out other Canadian crime novelists too, of course. It's so refreshing to read stuff set in my own country, sometimes, but the problem is that I never seem to be able to find it unless I specifically set out to look for it.
☆ I realized that this year, Halloween will fall on a Saturday. This makes me very excited, and it means that I'll probably dress up in order to hand out candy. For a couple years now, I haven't done that, and it's because I was way too exhausted after work to even think of it. But, this year, definitely. I'll probably just be a raven, which I've done in previous years and is a pretty easy costume, not in the least because I have an absolutely amazing mask that I can wear for it (made by this artist - there's an example photo under the 'small masks' section, but pretty much everything she makes is seriously stunning). Anyway, I'm definitely going to look forward to that - and watching scary movies with my mates from the aph anon meme, which we've done previous years, and I can't imagine will not happen this year too.
☆ Finished that aRTD "Kielo and the Swan of Tuonela" fic that I was working on*. Now that I have that out of my system, I can go back to writing about the main characters again, pf. That one I mentioned before, that story that I want done by the end of October, will be very squarely about Hannu and Ville. (With some meddling from the Kuikka twins, who seem to have wormed their way into... practically all of the fics that I have planned from this point on. But then again, that's so like them.)
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☆ Had a civilized conversation with my mother about crime fiction today, and it made me realize that even though I like the genre a lot, I certainly haven't read very widely. Mostly just recent Nordic noir, honestly, and not much else, aside from a bit of Louise Penny and the occasional aeroplane read-and-toss. I should... probably fix that... but as with everything else, there are way too many novels in the world, and not enough time to read them. (Not to mention that my attention span sure has been something lately.) ... Though now that I mention Louise Penny, I really should read more of her work. And seek out other Canadian crime novelists too, of course. It's so refreshing to read stuff set in my own country, sometimes, but the problem is that I never seem to be able to find it unless I specifically set out to look for it.
☆ I realized that this year, Halloween will fall on a Saturday. This makes me very excited, and it means that I'll probably dress up in order to hand out candy. For a couple years now, I haven't done that, and it's because I was way too exhausted after work to even think of it. But, this year, definitely. I'll probably just be a raven, which I've done in previous years and is a pretty easy costume, not in the least because I have an absolutely amazing mask that I can wear for it (made by this artist - there's an example photo under the 'small masks' section, but pretty much everything she makes is seriously stunning). Anyway, I'm definitely going to look forward to that - and watching scary movies with my mates from the aph anon meme, which we've done previous years, and I can't imagine will not happen this year too.
☆ Finished that aRTD "Kielo and the Swan of Tuonela" fic that I was working on*. Now that I have that out of my system, I can go back to writing about the main characters again, pf. That one I mentioned before, that story that I want done by the end of October, will be very squarely about Hannu and Ville. (With some meddling from the Kuikka twins, who seem to have wormed their way into... practically all of the fics that I have planned from this point on. But then again, that's so like them.)
This entry was originally posted at http://yuuago.dreamwidth.org/3424205.html. You can comment here or at the original entry.