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[sapote]

It is November! For some reason the being-November thing makes me really pleased. Thirty more days until rent time? Survived the holiday un-egged? This is the year I write my masterpeice? Who knows! I'm just pleased with the general November concept.

I am probably not going to write a novel, btw, but maybe I will move some WiPs! I have new ones that are unjossable that I quite like. If I can just get past the premise and into plot - because, as phnelt and I have been confirming, I would much rather wander around talking about what people eat and how they power their spaceships and what, exactly, their custom is for greeting a second cousin who they have seen in more than two and less than five weeks than send them on adventures. So my characters, um, never do anything. ::handwave:: What can you do?

I don't know if it's that season 4 SGA is particularly good, or if I've just really recommitted to the canon, but right now it is filling me with glee. I will see the new episode... well, not tonight, but sometime this week! This is rivaling my most caught-up in an open canon ever (the last four episodes of Doctor Who s3). I have given up on staying current with Heroes and the Sarah Jane Adventures, though. I suppose I'm expecting to be able to watch them all in a chunk the next time I'm on break.

Speaking of the strange expectations I bring to tv watching, does anyone know what's happening with the tv-links guy? Is there a legal defense fund out there anywhere? This thing where people help me steal my television and then they get hung out to dry makes me :-( .

And last addendum, did I remember to tell y'all that I did write to the BBC to ask if there was any way I could pay for the Doctor Who I was watching? Some sort of symbolic license fees, etc? I got a very very British letter back asking me to stop downloading things illegally. ::sigh:: Maybe in ten more years, there'll be a tip jar somewhere on their website, and I can assuage my conscience and still get my tv in a format that's some use to me.

This ramble has been brought to you by the Downtown Coffeeshop, and also, that paper I'm supposed to be writing. Happy November 1, everybody!

Comments

[nimnod.livejournal.com]

My characters do that too. Fail to find plot, that is. I'm trying to get this original fiction going right now (in my head of course because i am totally, hahaha, committed to finishing my thesis in reality) and I can see the entire world but - what is main character actually going to do? No f'ing idea.

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how many happy hours I've spent writing original fic about food storage systems, various kinds of textile processing, kinship structures, and transportation infrastructure.

(Did I just outnerd you? This is possible, but I promise, I'm not trying to *g*)

The nice thing is, since I have to research these things to write them, I actually have a nice body of anecdotal knowledge? I'm learning to embrace this as a personal quirk.

Good luck with The Thesis (maybe November should be your International Thesis-Writing Month? You could get a little counter and everything!), and I do hope you write that story some day, I would enjoy reading it.

[barefoot-chick.livejournal.com]

"This thing where people help me steal my television and then they get hung out to dry makes me :-( ."

That site was killed? But...but...how am I supposed to watch Atlantis and House now? They kept me going on those lonely summer nights.

*sits in a corner and weeps*

Sure, it's unlawful, but hey so are sex toys in some states!

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

I KNOW omg. (I have some luck with Atlantis on Tudou.com - it's all in Chinese, but if I type Stargate Atlantis 4x01, for example in the upper-right search box and hit enter I usually get something back. And I'm learning some ideograms from the subtitles?)

But really, if there was a legitimate way for me to get my 350 mb .avis, without DRM making them all useless, and pay what I could afford when I had it, I totally would.

[lessal.livejournal.com]

"I got a very very British letter back" I actually 'voiced over' the letter in a snob-like British accent in my head!

Lx

[sapote3.livejournal.com]

Have I told this story before? I can never remember *g*