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Here’s one I took on a cold November day last year, to celebrate the mid-point of the year. An odd celebration, and to be honest it’s more of a motivational thing. I’m over the see-saw of the year now, and soon it will be 2007.
There’s something about Tuesdays that don’t sit well with me.
On the one hand, it’s perfectly logical. Wheras on Mondays one has a long stretch of work ahead, a person can still look back and feel connected to the weekend. Wheras on Tuesdays one has nothing but work behind, and a yawning gulf of three days to the next weekend.
The problem with this theory is that, what with this being the summer, I only actually work (work work - that is, work that I have no great interest in doing, as opposed to writing or learning CSS, which in my nerdily brain is actually fun) for two days in a row, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and then only for five hours a day. This is enough to keep me financially comfortable, at least for a little while for the duration of my stay at home.
So what is it? Is it some bizarre, psychic maelstrom that affects Tuesday? Does Tyr just not like me?
I don’t know why, but when writing I find that time seems to stretch out in all directions. This time dilation effect, whilst incredibly cool, can lead to me being incredibly tired when it feels like I’ve had a thirty-six hour day. And no, not the good kind.
Finished typing up the novel, and completed the low level edits (spelling, phrasing, passive voice, etc). After a week off to work on some short stories I’ll read the thing in a sitting and see if there are any structural changes that I’ve missed. Hopefully not, I think I sorted them out in the first draft, but we shall see…
Today’s Video Link
As an example of shameless feature-theft from News From Me, I’m going to start doing regular video postings. So as an inaugural video I present Utawara Sentai performing Mr Traveling Man.
It’s an ill-disguised fact in my social sphere that I’m a fan of Super Sentai, the Japanese kids show from which Power Rangers is produced. Personally I prefer Sentai for it’s lighter, less serious atmosphere, but I feel PR is a good example of the whole ‘mashup media’ idea - the notion that you can take footage from an existing show and, with a little new footage, produce something totally different (although PR isn’t much of an example - Big Bad BettleBorgs or VR Troopers are wildly different form their original incarnations). It really is all in the edit
Anyway, I digress: this is a rather bizarre Sentai spoof that raised a chuckle in me, and I hope it will in you too. It should if you’ve ever seen Sentai or PR.
