Twice in one week!

I'd forgotten how therapeutic writing my blog entries could be. ; ) Need to do this more often! Actually this week at work has so far been a little easier--thanks to the vast majority of people already being out of the office. Which means I'm not quite as exhausted when I get home at night and have some brain power left for this.

Random stuff:
-Really, really hated this week's Battlestar Galactica. The concept was interesting--that the colonies could have been in some way responsible for triggering the Cylon attack. But the major guest star, playing a POW, was Dixon from Alias. The actor's name, I think, is Carl Lumbly? He's a fine actor, but I can't look at him without seeing Dixon, and it was extremely distracting. I kept expecting him to break into that bad, fake Jamican accent--stupid, stupid bank managers always falling for that. : ) It just kept reminding me that it was a story, you know. I couldn't lose myself in that universe this time. *sigh*

-High heels are stupid. And they're pretty much an easy way to guarantee that women are helpless at any given time when wearing them. When walking in the parking lot tonight in a new pair of heels, I found myself a little uncomfortable with the dark corners of the lot, all shadows potentially hiding someone or something. And here's me, just like the ditzy heroine in a horror movie, wearing completely impractical and uncomfortable heels, virtually guaranteeing that I'll be monster lunch.

-I'm working on revising the sequel to The Silver Spoon, and I'm stuck on an issue in chapter two. AAARRRGGGHH! The beginning is always the hardest because that's where I flounder the most. But still, it's irritating to hit such a spot so close to beginning my edit. Oh, well, I'll keep working at it. It makes sense plot-wise and everything, but the tension needs to be ramped up in order to cut out some pages. Dragging stuff out kills the tension and the momentum and in reading it through again, I realized that it takes too long to get to the real action (in other words, for those who've read it, to get to the cellar at the abandoned school in the ghost town--I'm such a tease!)