I failed so hard at doing this last year - and the year before that - that I'm determined to do it now. What I might try to do is write what I thought of each book, too, though that might be a tad overoptimistic. The bold ones are my favourites; re-reads are asterisked.

( This is what I do with my time )

I'm in Devon right now, and became hilariously allergic to the countryside in such a way that's meant I can't go to the wedding I was planning to attend. I do have Fay with me, but it's still disappointing.

On the plus, we met up with tivunel in Exeter for chats and catching-up.

Happy Independence Day to the American folks about! I'm not American, but Fay is, and we supported Andy Roddick yesterday from our vantage points on the sofa (tennis is fun!) so that's good enough for me. Fireworks and tasty food all round, and yay for constitutional rights.

My sister had an exhibition of her A Level art projects. It was awesome.

And also, if things go to plan, Fay and I might be able to obtain a Ragdoll kitten sometime next year. Which would be just swell. Fingers crossed...

In non life-related things, I've lost momentum on Battlestar Galactica but raced through Full Metal Alchemist just before I moved out of my old flat. It's fabulous. Anime with vaguely Edwardian setting, military dictatorship with science/magic of alchemy in which two pre-teen brothers performed a ritual That Was Not Meant To Be and spend the series trying to make up for it. And I'm very tentatively roaming into Criminal Minds. I find it quite discomforting so am watching an episode here and there. I like the characters a lot, just not the subject matter a lot of the time. Hmmm.

Busy busy busy.

Moved into a new flat; did work experience at a primary school and was good at it; swimming in paperwork.

But woo, Sims 3!

I has a dreamwidth! miss_haitch.

Off to Cambridge today to see an old school friend. Woohoo!

On FeministSF I found this Dollhouse meta with a link to giandujakiss's Dollhouse fanvid, It Depends On What You Pay. Contains images of sexual violence. Icky, squicky, spot on.

In more cheering news, thank you to all of you guys who have been mentioning Leverage! Finally got round to watching it last week, and I love it. I have a new programme to watch. Elliot love. <3

Waiting for Godot happened, with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart.

Now I've got time to read, Corambis by Sarah Monette is happening, and it's awesome.

Do any of you folks play Baldur's Gate II? If so you may be interested that programming and writing is happening. Faren nears completion after a crazy-intensive couple of days with Fay in which we decided we would finish the mod once and for all.

And editing is happening. Chopping and changing scenes, rewriting how things go, is so much fun.

Last night I dreamt that one of the main characters from my story (who bears a passing resemblance to Lee Adama) was on the Galactica and spent most of the time angsting about there being no trees in space. Then I was reading Corambis, and it was an advance copy and had lots of cool notes in about the etymology of certain words. Not quite a narrative dream, but getting there.

For yesterday, happy birthday blackdublinski. Lots of love!

I have Corambis by Sarah Monette in my possession. It's the final installment of the Doctrine of Labyrinths series, a series filled with awesome. So far Corambis is even better than the others. Mildmay love! *dances*

( Thoughts on Dollhouse, episode 7: Echoes )

So, I'm enjoying Dollhouse a bit more than I was, but sort of for the wrong reasons. Ho hum. Can I just say though? Battlestar Galactica continues its awesomeness. As does Law and Order UK. Fay and I are having a Jamie Bamber bender this week...

So, shortly after its big finale, I've gotten into Battlestar Galactica. Woo! Cue Baltar-squee. (I am about four years behind the zeitgeist. I am comfortable with this.)

In other news, my dear blackdublinski came to visit last week, cue wandering around the city hunting mustard, and now my girlfriend ms_feuille is staying. So many delightful people about!

And a few days ago I finished the first draft of my novel!

I enjoy the editing process more than the initial writing - the initial writing is filled with up-and-down productivity and the fear of writing blind - so I'm champing at the bit to start tinkering with the thing, but I'm holding off so I can do a more objective read-through later. In the meantime, I've started a new story in a new universe, with a lot more supernatural gubbins in it. Fantasy for the win!

So here we learn:

-That safecracking is sexy;
-That ten-inch, knee-high stilettos are comfy;
-That women working in the Dollhouse have such diverse roles as hostessing, getting shouted at by male bosses, wearing implausibly lacy lab-technician outfits, getting talked down to by a sociopathic scientist, and tidying said sociopath's drinks;
-That Paul Ballard lives in West Hollywood, lol. Also, Cordelia's apartment (which I hadn't noticed before).
-That Amy Acker leaves a gaping hole in the cast;
-That Dichen Lachman is a way better actress than Eliza Dushku;

Hmmm.

I do like Sierra a great deal, and I wish she were the main character.

This is the alternate version of Dollhouse my girlfriend and I thought up:

-Claire Saunders is secretly a pastry chef who wins contests for her raspberry pie (possible crossover with Pushing Daisies here).
-Laurence Dominic and Paul Ballard are secretly living together with two golden retrievers. Laurence is trying to keep Paul away from the Dollhouse in order to protect him. Claire, his close friend, is doing her best to help.
-Paul has lasagne phobia, and this was why he was so stroppy with his Stalker Neighbour. The boxing scene in the pilot was a flashback to what happened last time someone offered it to him.
-The reason Claire was nowhere to be seen in Episode 4 was that she was walking the dogs while Paul recovered, as well as distracting Lasagne-Wielding Stalker Neighbour with her pie.

...well, I'd watch it. Mmm, pie. Mmm, lasagne.