See, this is why I shouldn't watch horror...

Because it's 2.30 in the morning, and I'm sleepy but closing my eyes isn't quite an option because this evening (or last night, technically) channel 10 screened the pilot episode of Threshold. Now, I didn't even turn the TV on for a peak (mynxii can attest to this) and yet I once watched it at Fandomedia, and I remember so I'm up and jittery and eying the fridge warily. Because it's a TV show, and nobody said fears were rational, did they? (If they did, can we giggle hysterically at them?)

About 2 and a half hours to sunrise.

I've done a remarkably good ( religious figure meme )

And via the new feministfantasy I wandered my way to an amusing essay by Diana Wynne Jones on the difference between writing fantasy for children and for adults.

Earlier, someone from said community plugged Garth Nix's book Sabriel (what has become The Abhorsen trilogy, although I have a hard time thinking of it as such) and provided a link to the trilogy site (Note: leads to a flash site!). And I happily spent a while reading the first chapter of each book. I've only read Sabriel so far and that was a long time ago (high school), so I'd forgotten how much I adored the seven gates of death and Charter Magic and the bells and Sabriel's kick-arseness and general competency. Hit the end of the chapter going "wahh! more!"

I went on and read the first chapter of Lirael and while I'd heard good things about it, the first chapter was all "Lirael hasn't got her Powers yet! Oh, Woes!" Still, there's good potential once she's actually found the damn things.

Abhorsen completely threw me with its talk of telephones and automatic pistols. I actually couldn't bring myself to read past the first few pages. I know, logically, that Charter Magic diminishes in power the further away from the Old Kingdom you get, and that the other side of the Wall is 1940s style our world but my god it jarred when ( spoiler )

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That said planetfantastic? Do you have the boxed set thing? How much does it cost?

E: to fix only-just-noticed mortifying spelling mistake. :)

Gathering change!

At some point I managed to turn my alarm off, so I woke up at noon. I'm of the firm belief that I needed the sleep and it's character building that I now need to go food shopping in the hottest (hot1 hot! hot!) part of the day, plus clean the house when I'd planned to have most of it done by now.

Anyway, this is an official post to say that the gathering tentatively planned for my house tonight isn't happening. The gathering is now Saturday, at 2pm at the house of books and dogs. In a nutshell, I suspect that if you can see this post you're invited. Many thanks to said people for being all accomodating.

Now, onwards to clear out the fridge and draw up a shopping list. For Science!

Mr and Mrs Smith

Hmm, I may have messed things up a tad -- should have realised before this but all the copies of said movie are out at the local video library, so I've asked them to reserve a copy if one comes back tonight and pick it up in the morning. Still, there's no garrantees on that. So, we may be Mr and Mrs Smith-less. You may have to sue me for false advertsing.