All I seem to do on this blog these days is post reviews. That’s because I’m reading a lot and I’ve been to the cinema quite a few times recently and the turgid nature of a dial-up connection makes me loath to spend much time at my desktop computer writing for my blog. Anyway, I have a batch of new reviews to post (written out and about on my laptop), but in the meantime here’s a token post to show that I still care.
Finally got hold of a copy of The Dark Tower, book seven of The Dark Tower. Amazon was clearly lying when it said the paperback was due out at the beginning of July, because I haven’t seen it in any shop. The copy I’ve got is an American import, purchased from Forbidden Planet for the sum of £6.50. I’m enjoying it so far.
This morning I had, well, breakfast, effectively, with a couple of people from the Lib Dems. It’s not that I didn’t know about it, but I had a call from one of them at quarter to nine this morning saying, Meet me in an hour, to which I, having hurriedly climbed out of bed, replied blearily, OK. We met at a café on Hampstead Heath which was actually like a real café (meaning more towards the cheap and cheerful, greasy spoon end of the spectrum).
It was this person’s idea that the occasion be some sort of leaving do, but I didn’t feel very enthusiastic about that, and I managed to downgrade it to just me, her and her partner. The whole idea of a leaving event reminds of my recent birthday, which, as I’m sure you’ll have read, I have mixed feeling about. It’s much better, I think to just say bye to people as and when I see them last. In the confines of my own head I can be quite egocentric, when it comes to other people my instinct is to fade into the background. Or, from another persective, I’d like to be the centre of attention for things I’ve done – like writing – but not just for being me.
In other news, I have a writing project. I’m not going to say much about it here, but it’s been inspired by something I’ve seen recently, but also by older ideas. At the moment, I essentially only have one character and I need to work out what the story’s about. But I’m quite excited about it.
I’ll be moving out of this flat in a week’s time, so I’ve got plenty to be doing over the next seven days. It’s the last session of Shadowrun tomorrow, the last (and first) session of Al Qadim (with what used to be the Iron Kingdoms group), then on Saturday it’ll be the last session of my Empire of Destiny game. In its current form, anyway – I have some work to do putting all the relevant information on my RPG forum. I’ve still got various organisations to inform of my move, I’ve got to manage a transfer of all my computer-related activities away from my desktop to my laptop.
I probably ought to tell my landlord about the broken window pane, as well – having wedged it open a few days ago, a few hours later it became very quickly closed. Guess I won’t be getting the full £500 deposit back, then.
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