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So cold... I'm finding it hard to stay out of bed in a mostly futile attempt to stay warm. Apparently there's some sort of cold storm front being pushed our way because of some storm over in Alaska? *shrugs* I don't really understand it but what I do know is that it's freaking cold right now.

Even typing this little entry means I have to extend my arms from under the covers and subject myself to the cold air of my room. Maybe it's time to be turning on the heat? At least then my grandmother won't freeze to death... :\

I exceeded my quota yesterday for NaNoWriMo by over a thousand words. And today? A hundred so words over. Meh. I'm going to try and get in some more writing tonight since the juices weren't flowing earlier. I feel a bit better about what I want to write though after I stopped and just thought about it. Just trying to push something doesn't work since all I do is write crap that I'm pretty sure will be cut after all this is over. And I still suck at meaningful dialogue. :(

(And boo on Semagic's spellcheck that insists "dialogue" is spelled wrong. I was so confused because their suggestion of "dialog" looks incredibly incorrect.)

Right now I'm trying to figure out the British government... I want Hermione to become a speechwriter for the Minister and I'm trying to figure out if they have things like Directors of Communications and Chiefs of Staff who advise and sometimes help push along policy... I can't help but feel like Hermione would be a neat female version of Sam Seaborn... But so far my Google-fu is failing me. I did find out Canada has Communication Directors though... Now, I'm off to Wikipedia who has more on the actual house of the Prime Minister than it does about his staff...

Okay, I'm starting to think they're "Spads" or Special Advisors. And yay for them having Deputy Chiefs of Staff! That's one thing less I have to worry about... And I think what I'm looking for Hermione is "Deputy Director of Communications and Strategy." Heh, I'll go with it. Hopefully I'm right... I feel really bad for writing things I have no idea about. First perfume which I am totally ignorant on and now British politics? This is going to be such a bad story... *sigh*

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Just watching V...

Aliens, seriously? What is with ABC this year?

And the summary of the show reminds me of Earth: Final Conflict... Aliens who come in peace who give humans more advanced technology and who cures human disease and who turn out to be evil.

And this name of the "Visitors"... Kinda like the "Companions"...

And it's already feeling like The 4400, which makes sense since it's from the same people.

But yay for more sci-fi on network TV!

They're remaking Alien Nation? Seriously?! And at least one other person is wanting a remake of EFC. My most beloved EFC! The source of the best fandom experience I ever had! God, I miss that show... And even though I adore Liam Kincaid (an everlasting love that will not die and I'll forever bear his mark on my online life), I do gotta agree that Boone made that show awesome and it started to decline with Robert Leeshock... :( Though, I did love the second and third seasons... And with Liam, came the possible father/son interactions (at least in fandom) with Sandoval... And it did continue to have beautiful music... Even my sister liked Float Like a Butterfly...

Gah, this makes me want to rewatch EFC! But I feel like I can't at the same time because it'll just make me too sad. *sigh* Maybe I should just dig out my old EFC OST CD and play that until I succumb to the desires to rewatch the first three seasons of EFC.

edit x1: V feels like the beginning of the Resistance in EFC. Only with a lot more proof and less paranoia. Okay, I'm not so sure about the paranoia because it kinda comes hand in hand with what you believe to be evil aliens.

I'm interested though. And I'll definitely tuning in next week.

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We got on tokudane!

That makes me ridiculously happy.

Maybe in between writing, I should get off my ass and start translating the third chapter... ><

And because all I ever seem to be writing about is about my slow progress on NaNoWriMo, I'm currently at 6,209 words. Only 458 words more for quota. I want to bang them all out in the next hour, then wash my hair and hopefully bang more of it out. (Or maybe I'll translate?) I don't know why, but I'm incredibly paranoid about making my quota so I end up writing before I go to sleep to get it up nice and high so I only have to write a few hundred more words when I wake up. And then it takes me more than twice as long to do those few hundred words than it did for the thousand I already did. It doesn't make sense but in a way it does... But maybe only to me. *shrugs*

Okay, off to write! I'm doing it all to old songs from FictionJunction Yuuka since her partnership with Yuki Kajiura is just breathtakingly beautiful.

edit x1: LOL, I just got the little NaNoWriMo pep talk email... It only took them...four days? I was starting to think I wasn't ever going to get it.