A nice quiet Saturday evening
May. 12th, 2007 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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casirafics and kieri, I have tonight purchased off the iTunes store the audio version of the Doctor Who book I just read, The Stone Rose. The main virtue of this audio version is that it is performed by the Tenth Doctor Himself, and it is extremely gigglesome to hear him switching back and forth between his natural Scottish accent and his Doctor Voice. I've only just listened to the very beginning so far, but I have hit enough to hear him do his impersonations of Rose, Jackie, and Mickey. As promised, too, his imitation of Jackie is quite, quite good. ;) I think I shall have to consider purchasing the other two books he reads, and possibly also the one read by Anthony Stewart Head as well since mmm, Voice of Giles. The only drawback with these things are that they are abridged, but eh well, I'd wish to have the printed versions as well anyway!
At the same time I also purchased a couple of albums by the Paperboys--Dilapidated Beauty and The Road to Ellenside, since both of them have finally shown up on the iTunes music store. Hurray! I've been anxious to have those for some time.
I've been back onto a Nethack kick, jumping back and forth between playing Wizards and Rangers and Healers and occasional jaunts into some of the classes I don't play very often, like Monk and Tourist. I blame it entirely upon the aforementioned Mr. Tennant that I now have a Tourist character file for Nethack, wherein the character is named "Doctor", his dog is named K-9, and his default fruit name is "jelly baby".
Meanwhile, a bit of writing news. Last night I fired off a couple of query letters to agents, hoping to use it as a prod to get myself in gear with finishing up the edits on Lament. (Queen of Souls, not yet done, is not yet queryable.) And I am arranging to be at this year's Writer's Weekend as well, so if folks on my Friends list are going to be there, sing out and let me know!
Miles since the 23rd: 49.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1981.8
Miles out of Isengard: 188.8
Miles to Minas Tirith: 597.2
casirafics and kieri, I have tonight purchased off the iTunes store the audio version of the Doctor Who book I just read, The Stone Rose. The main virtue of this audio version is that it is performed by the Tenth Doctor Himself, and it is extremely gigglesome to hear him switching back and forth between his natural Scottish accent and his Doctor Voice. I've only just listened to the very beginning so far, but I have hit enough to hear him do his impersonations of Rose, Jackie, and Mickey. As promised, too, his imitation of Jackie is quite, quite good. ;) I think I shall have to consider purchasing the other two books he reads, and possibly also the one read by Anthony Stewart Head as well since mmm, Voice of Giles. The only drawback with these things are that they are abridged, but eh well, I'd wish to have the printed versions as well anyway!At the same time I also purchased a couple of albums by the Paperboys--Dilapidated Beauty and The Road to Ellenside, since both of them have finally shown up on the iTunes music store. Hurray! I've been anxious to have those for some time.
I've been back onto a Nethack kick, jumping back and forth between playing Wizards and Rangers and Healers and occasional jaunts into some of the classes I don't play very often, like Monk and Tourist. I blame it entirely upon the aforementioned Mr. Tennant that I now have a Tourist character file for Nethack, wherein the character is named "Doctor", his dog is named K-9, and his default fruit name is "jelly baby".
Meanwhile, a bit of writing news. Last night I fired off a couple of query letters to agents, hoping to use it as a prod to get myself in gear with finishing up the edits on Lament. (Queen of Souls, not yet done, is not yet queryable.) And I am arranging to be at this year's Writer's Weekend as well, so if folks on my Friends list are going to be there, sing out and let me know!
Miles since the 23rd: 49.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1981.8
Miles out of Isengard: 188.8
Miles to Minas Tirith: 597.2
