Still alive

[bookzombie]

I seem to be in one of those 'not posting very much' moods again at the moment - just to reassure anyone who might be concerned!

So what's been happening? Work is toddling along okay - getting some good feedback still at the moment but waiting to find out what the new CTO wants to do with the department.

Rehearsals are going okay, if a little chaotic. We started back after the summer break last week and there seems to still be lot of people missing. Also we'd just managed to get the final part cast (The Ghost of Christmas Present) and one of the other guys had to drop out, so we are now short a Scrooge's Nephew. Sigh.

This year's Clarke Award books have started arriving, so obviously I can't talk about that! Except to comment that 600-page hardbacks are tough on the arms...

John & Yvonne Meaney came to visit at the weekend which was lovely - we realised that we hadn't seen them for almost a year. It did mean that we didn't end up going to bed until half three in morning on Sunday! While they were over we did watch Watchmen for the first time (I avoided it in the cinema on the grounds that I was frankly fed up with hearing about it by the time it came out.) For much of the time I mainly enjoyed it but in an effort to be respectful of the text it just went on for too long. Also some of the casting could have been better (they needed a much more charismatic actor for Ozymandias for a kick-off) - having said that the guy playing Rorschach was even scaryier with the mask off then when it was on! An interesting, but flawed, adaption.

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I am with you on thinking Watchmen was disappointing.