Time Keeps Slippin'

I didn't get much reading done on vacation but a few months ago AndiF lent me a sack of Brit Lit.  I intended to take it with me on vacation but actually ended up reading quite a few of the books before vacation time even arrived.  I just never got around to writing about it in the rush to get all my work finished so I could get out of town.

Falling, by Debbie Moon, is the story of Jude, a woman living in some future version of London, who is a "Retracer".  Through a freak of genetic code she is able to jump backwards in time to any point in her life and change things.  "Rarely enough to change history, but sometimes enough to shift the details of a conversation, change the routine of a working day."

Men's Minds Turn to Mush Around Hot Babes

When I wasn't feeling well I started working my way through episodes of the long running science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. Over the years I'd seen episodes here and there but not in any particular order. I chose it on hulu.com because, since there were 10 seasons and six of them are on hulu, I figured I wouldn't run out of episodes to watch before I recovered.

In the first season there was an episode called Hathor in which a Goa'uld (alien being) has taken as its human host a beautiful woman and the identity of the Egyptian goddess Hathor. Of course the actress playing Hathor is dressed in typical television science fiction sexualized garb and of course all the men fall in love with her. But they fall a little more in love with her than usual. Hathor uses a version of a (fictional) brainwashing drug to cause an intense infatuation that gives her control over all the men. She plans to use them to build an army to work her will on the other aliens and on earth. But, eventually, the women on the base (who are unaffected by the drug) take control of the situation and defeat Hathor.

Now what?

hmmm. I'm back and now I have to think of things to write. This was never a problem before. I usually write late at night. Ideas just come to me late at night. I'm a night owl. I don't like to interact with people after a certain point but I could stay up for hours after that point. But the past few weeks I've been going to bed early (for me) and I'm finding it harder to get back into the groove.

Sooooooo ...

Break is Over

Yes, I’m back. My break was a little longer than I originally anticipated when I left for vacation back in July.

And yes. It was The Worst Vacation Ever.

The virus appeared on the second day of vacation and stayed with me the whole ten days. I can’t say it was swine flu because for the first ten days I was in a cabin in the north woods and didn’t bother having anyone drive me the forty miles to the nearest emergency room to find out. But I definitely had flu-like symptoms, and what other kind of flu is going around right now? By the time I got home, it became severe bronchitis (due, probably, to the airplane travel) and I and my doctor were only interested in treating the immediate symptoms. The bronchitis lasted another ten days, followed by a couple of weeks of exhaustion. It has not been fun.