Social life!

My social diary continues to be fuller than I was once used to. I spent this evening at huggyrei's, alongside GK, talking Doctor Who and having an introductory course in watching one branch of anime! Revolutionary Girl Utena was the viewing experience - very eclectic in its inspiration, but broadly comprehensible and fun. Tomorrow, lunch wth gervase_fen; and then I'm dashing into London on the evening to see my parents, who are visiting my sister; while there I will admire her new windows.

In the meantime I've managed to make a slender start on the book chapter, watched some more of Lost in Time, and read two-thirds of Meg Rossoff's How I Live Now - not enough to have finished it before returning it to Gervase Fen, but enough to start to have formed a view of it. Suffice it to say for the time being that it revives the 'children in wartime' strand of literature by breaking down the adolescent pose of inarticulacy as the narrator comes to terms with the changed world around her.

Working late

Having taken more time that I was probably advisable over supper, I'm now going to postpone a start on the now urgent rewrite of part of a TGW article, and update this journal. The coffee is brewing as I type; a relevant classical CD is playing, but I'm procrastinating.

I didn't go into London after all, as I wanted to get this rewrite further than it was clear I would manage if I'd left the office at 4.30 or so. I also had a good long lunch with gervase_fen, where we discussed the state of our relative workplaces, much about the imminent return of Doctor Who and the BBC's management of the franchise, and I confessed that I wasn't sure if I could say what I was doing in January, as it seemed a long way away. There's enough in the immediate present to plan, and I've barely begun to think about Christmas yet.

Now, though, to my work... Hey ho, and St George for England, to quote Charles II. (Not really appropriate, but it sprang to mind.)