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pedanther1. Rehearsals are going well. As long as things don't fall apart when we get to the bit where the actors have to put their scripts down and do the lines from memory, we should be fine. Today there was set-painting, and on Monday there will be costume-fitting. We're still looking for typewriters.
2. The hot water system has been replaced. It took the guy several hours, but was more straightforward than I'd been picturing when he was telling me about all the things that needed fixing.
3. Speaking of hot things, it's been a whole week since I've felt a need to use the heater at work. Winter is on the way out.
4. Somewhere along the line, the Temeraire series has gone from being one where I buy the latest book as soon as it's available to one where I wait to get the latest book out of the library, and even then don't actually get around to reading it until it's already overdue.
5. Our newspaper has started re-running the Modesty Blaise comic strip from the beginning.
The first odd thing about this is that it was already re-running the series from the beginning, having begun immediately after it ended in 2001, and was only about a third of the way through. To be precise, it had just finished "Highland Witch", and was due to start "Cry Wolf" - which might be significant; that was when, for reasons we need not go into here, the strip started being written so that one instalment per week could be left out without harming the story, and newspapers were given a choice whether to buy the short or the long week depending on how many days a week they ran the strip. I'm wondering if that's caused some problem with the distribution this time through, and they're reprising the first story arc to buy time while it's sorted out.
(The second odd thing is that they didn't precisely begin from the beginning this time. Confusingly, the series includes two runs of strips labelled #1-12: the actual first twelve instalments of the series, and a twelve-part introduction to the series premise and characters that I think was provided to newspapers that picked up the series in the midst of its run. And what's happened this time round is that the newspaper ran the twelve-part intro, and then switched to the series proper beginning at #13.)
2. The hot water system has been replaced. It took the guy several hours, but was more straightforward than I'd been picturing when he was telling me about all the things that needed fixing.
3. Speaking of hot things, it's been a whole week since I've felt a need to use the heater at work. Winter is on the way out.
4. Somewhere along the line, the Temeraire series has gone from being one where I buy the latest book as soon as it's available to one where I wait to get the latest book out of the library, and even then don't actually get around to reading it until it's already overdue.
5. Our newspaper has started re-running the Modesty Blaise comic strip from the beginning.
The first odd thing about this is that it was already re-running the series from the beginning, having begun immediately after it ended in 2001, and was only about a third of the way through. To be precise, it had just finished "Highland Witch", and was due to start "Cry Wolf" - which might be significant; that was when, for reasons we need not go into here, the strip started being written so that one instalment per week could be left out without harming the story, and newspapers were given a choice whether to buy the short or the long week depending on how many days a week they ran the strip. I'm wondering if that's caused some problem with the distribution this time through, and they're reprising the first story arc to buy time while it's sorted out.
(The second odd thing is that they didn't precisely begin from the beginning this time. Confusingly, the series includes two runs of strips labelled #1-12: the actual first twelve instalments of the series, and a twelve-part introduction to the series premise and characters that I think was provided to newspapers that picked up the series in the midst of its run. And what's happened this time round is that the newspaper ran the twelve-part intro, and then switched to the series proper beginning at #13.)
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Date: 2012-08-17 09:20 pm (UTC)(The latest one I've seen is the 'plague' book, which I think is third or fourth in the series -- I still haven't found book 2, in which they go to China -- and I was rather disgruntled to find that "His Majesty's Dragon", which I'd never seen before, was merely "Temeraire" re-issued under a new title!)
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Date: 2012-08-18 01:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-01 12:34 am (UTC)