I finally figured out where I recognise David Thewlis from.
It’s Dragonheart. He played Einon.
*choke*
Daily Archives: June 16, 2004
Argh!
I’m always so awake after orchestra. It really gets the adrenaline flowing, not to mention the blood.
We kicked, by the way. Absolutely.
Serenity News!
For all you Firefly fans, Nathan Fillon posted an entry on the Firefly Blog about his first day of shooting on the film Serenity.
Speaking thereof, this is the first promotional poster for the film:
(Found via Whedonesque.)
Book Update
Today’s total: 2,198 words
Total word count: 63,050
Today was a bit of editing, plus finally a couple of pages of real writing near the end of the afternoon.
I’m 4/5 done. Why, why, why are these last few K so difficult?
(d) none of the above
All hail t!, who through asking me about the programme for the upcoming Canada Day concert led me to discover that the right sidebar wasn’t rendering the middle third at all in Internet Explorer.
It’s been fixed. The culprit? A tildy in a decorative position. I kid you not.
If you use IE, please, please get yourself something more reliable, and less asinine. I recommend Mozilla’s Firefox – quick to download, small program takes up less space, and it’s free. If you’ve never used tabs, be prepared to experience a world of wonder.
Click on the pretty icon and read up on it. Give it a go.
Politics, Book Progress, Reading Material
Was anyone else as bored by last night’s leadership debate as I was? It did absolutely nothing for me. I usually enjoy the debates, but this told me nothing new, revealed no new information (policy-wise or otherwise), and was in general an exercise in futility.
I did 2.7K on the book yesterday, brining my new total to 60,852. I was disappointed. I think it’s due to the fact that I made the mistake of calculating that five days of 4K each would finish the book, so now anything lower than 3.5K feels like a failure. At the end of the day I look at my creeping total word count and panic.
Besides the number-crunching crisis, I was very happy with the content of the work I did yesterday. In general it was a great day. Ceri gave me preliminary feedback from her reading of the text and it was positive, so that on top of an inspiring book I finished in the morning gave me lots of impetus to dig in and write.
And I also got a shipment of secondhand books in yesterday’s mail, which included Paracelsus’ Archidoxes of Magic and Pliny’s History of the Natural World, both of which I’ve been waiting for to use as sources for various chapters. Now if the copy of Carmina Gadelica I ordered would just arrive, I’d be thrilled.