Not dead

[altariel]

Yet. Teaching tomorrow and Friday, which has necessitated some sprinting off to the library to keep myself a chapter ahead in the time-honoured technique of teaching.

Mr A. left at 5am this morning for California, and rang between flights from San Francisco earlier this evening. Safe and sound.

The essay on Blake's 7 has come together in leaps and bounds over the past couple of days - I'll post a version of it here, hopefully before the weekend, in the hope that people will throw me some comments. I have forgotten an awful lot about the show, but I pulled out The Way Back yesterday and - you know what? It's fucking brilliant.

Best of all - I pulled out my notes to Withered Tree, and read them over breakfast this morning. I have definitely cracked the scene which has had me blocked, and I think I may have worked out what it was about the latter chapters that was worrying me, and how to get round it. I also spent a fair amount of time in the library doing a scene breakdown, when I should have been reading about open systems analysis and population ecology approaches in organizational theory but, frankly, do you blame me?

Comments

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

So glad your work is going well - that sounds like a good fist of achievements. And no, no-one could blame you for 'wandering' in the library; writing is at least better than falling asleep sitting up, which is what I usually do :)

Gemma

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I've never felt relaxed enough to fall asleep in the library since the summer I was plagued by wasps (have a pathological fear of the beasts). I know I'm unlikely to be troubled by them in the middle of November, but I wouldn't put it past wasps, the sneaky buggers.

[trixieleitz]

Wapsies, we hates 'em, yesss, we does!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Curse them and crush them!

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

ha, can't wait to read it...maybe y'all will lead me ino the light after all (and DH would thank you for it :-)

Good Luck!!!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

If this essay convinces anyone of anything I'll be delighted, but a New Soul for the Faith would certainly be *most* gratifying...! ;-D

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to both essay & story! -- & good luck with survival sans Mr A. Always remember to eat!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'm currently shoving the second of this morning's bagels down my maw, so the eating thing seems to be working out OK. :-D We'll see whether or not he discovered a red-haired skellington when he arrives back next week.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to reading the essay, and I'm glad that you're enjoying revisiting B7!

Nice icon :-)

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I pulled out The Way Back yesterday and - you know what? It's fucking brilliant.

Sure is. I remember we only watched because OH wanted to; I was being all sniffy about SF; it'll just be another Dr Who... and of course it wasn't. I've always been quite proud that I was hooked even beforePD showed up, though of course that did help...
Looking forward to the essay; glad your writing's going well!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I have to confess that I didn't start watching until 'Aftermath', and that when B7 started, I was suborned by my sister into the 'We Want Coronation Street' camp. Something my brother frequently reminds me about. (My dad, sick of having six children bickering about television, was an early adopter of VCR technology.)

This essay is almost complete, and PD has hardly made a showing in it! Yet...

[vasiliki.livejournal.com]

population ecology approaches in organizational theory

@_@ W...what is this? Sounds scary. Population ecology is fine, but I doubt I know a thing about organizational theory. And, although a necessity, I hate statistics with a passion, so if it has to do with statistics, don't bother explaining...

Something totally irrelevant: was Sir Ian lecturing at Cambridge yesterday? *_*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It's borrowing notions of selection and adaptation and using them to describe how organizations interact with their environment. It's not terribly convincing.

was Sir Ian lecturing at Cambridge yesterday?

I don't know?!? Was he?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :-D Yes, I'm very relieved 'Withered Tree' has started to unfurl a few leaves at me.