9 Things at the end of the day...

1. Going out on a limb and stating I don't like Firefox 4.0. Damn stupid thing made me update. I really wish whoever designs these things would stop updating them.

2. Work has been a bitch lately. The abatement contracts are killing me. Emergencies right and left, and changes. Seriously you'd think every portion of the Rail road had lead and asbestos, I also know more about lead and asbestos than I want to. Asbestos by the way, is what caused Steve McQueen's death.

3. In regards to 2, I was reminded again tonight of why I can't get a book published. ( The hell of trying to be a writer and wondering if its a lost cause )

4. Watched Smash this week...it continues to hold my interest. It has problems, but it appears to be working through them. Very cliche and soapy in places, but fun and quirky in others. The "putting on a show" bit still works. It's the personal relationships that don't.

5. Working my way through Erin Morgernstern's The Night Circus which is almost too journalistic in style to my taste. I feel as if I'm removed from it. It fascinates me enough to stick with it, but also has the oddest tendency to put me to sleep. I blame the style not the story. The writer has a stiff formalistic journalist style...like someone writing an entry for a Victorian version of the UK Guardian or NY Times. In that respect it reminds me a little of Jack Finney's Time and Again. I'm not a fan of this type of style - I find it a bit like classical music, it lulls me to sleep.

But the story remains fascinating. It's about two competing magicians who compete with exhitibitons in a circus. Their exhibitions are described in great and precise detail, along with the effects on those involved directly with the circus. They are competing for two different teachers and the contest is actually more about teaching styles than the students. Fascinating story idea, and the characters are quirky and interesting.

6. Thank you to green_maia for the v-gift of the spring sapling, mucho appreciated. I'm horrible at giving v-gifts, since I can't get it to work. I've tried a couple of times.

7. Scanned Mark Watches Again...sigh, I'm sorry, but F&*K in capital letters over and over and over again is NOT work safe. I felt embarrassed scanning this during my lunch break. Dude, I wanted to say...get a grip or if you plan on turning this into a living learn to substitute another word such as FRAK. Not that I have any problems with FUCK pers se, but other people do.

Will state that I was right, he did go insane over Hush, thought he would.( response to Mark Watches Buffy and Angel...along with bits on our poor educational system and well why I wasn't that into Angel )

8. Got more sleep last night and less. Damn allergies. Have decided that the air conditioner is my friend. It killed my allergies. I could breath when it was on. Also not hot. Still unseasonably warm. Made it to 80 today in the city, was cooler out on the island, thankfully. It's always ten degrees cooler in Jamaica than Manhattan for some reason.

9. May marathon the Game of Thrones DVD's soon...in preparation for the April 1st start. The nice thing about reading the books so long ago is I really can't remember them well enough to know the variations. There's a great interview with GRR Martin and Jimmy Kimmel live that you should all check out. It discusses the differences between writing for tv and novels, also how to deal with insane fans. He mentions that he has fans who defend him against the trolls. The trolls attack him, his defenders swoop to his defense, and they go at it for pages and pages and pages...this will cause more than a 100 comments and he's had to start moderating. Because they will get into a kerfuffle. LOL! Ah fandom, don't ever change. And he states how he has gotten letters stating that he changed a stallion into a mare in a book, or changed Renly's eyes from blue to green. His fans are more detail oriented than he is. But my favorite comment? Is about how people write or the process, does he have a character bible, a thorough outline, everything spelled out?
He said yes and no. He's not as detail oriented as some of his fans are, and yes in some cases they know the tale better than he does. HE said, and I do love this:

"Some writers are gardners and some are architects. Although no one is purely one or the other. But we fall along the spectrum. I'm more of a gardner...I like to wander about and dig, explore the story, dig into the characters, I don't have it all neatly laid out and outlined."
( writing and my taste in regards to it. )

Okay off to sleep and bed. Hopefully.