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[aadler]

3:30PM Central Afghan Time

Well, let’s see. Recent events.

1. sroni2004 (to whom I have previously alluded) joined the LJ community, and surprised and pleased me with 1,800 new words on her sequel to “God Save the Queen”. If she continues at this rate, I’ll be starting my part of it by the end of the year.


2. News from WriterCon indicates that they might be ready to do a new convention by summer 2006. I’m not sure how I feel about that. I’d love to see WriterCon II, but there’s a possibility that I might get extended in Afghanistan. I’d hate for it to take place at a time when I couldn’t attend.


3. I recently acquired — by PX purchase and from Amazon.com — DVDs for the only seasons of Kolchak: the Night Stalker and Firefly, plus the first season of Veronica Mars; and just today I got Afghan bootlegs of five movies, including Serenity. I have enough unwatched DVDs to keep me occupied for some time to come … but, if I want to continue turning out decent, consistent story copy, I have to carefully limit my indulgence. So it may be weeks before I see Serenity (being as I’ll want to go through the complete Firefly first) … and I’m due to get Season 4 of 24 in the next month or so.


4. Sometime in the next few days, I’ll look to begin a story I’m calling “Glass Ceiling”. This is the one I’ve had in the back of my mind for a couple of years now. Plus, it will lay groundwork for another big idea I’ve had lurking for about as long.

Oh, and I volunteered for one of the five-question interviews that ludditerobot is currently running. (He, and the other people taking part in it, call it a “meme”. What’s a meme? For that matter, what — in fanfic/television context — is meant by “meta”? I’m always needing to have terms and rules explained to me.)