something shiny

For you Firefly-fan folks out there, here's something interesting:

Some fandom folks have created a very shiny new Virtual Season - and the first episode was posted today!

I'm still questioning a couple of details, but so far this looks like a really interesting way of moving onward from "Objects in Space," bringing in a few of the details and bits from Serenity, and still going in original and interesting directions, leading up to the movie... and then, if their plans pan out, continuing on after! My understanding is that this will be going on for a while, with one new written 'episode' posted every two weeks.

Take a look, and I'd love to hear what people think!

classes, writing, etc

What to say, what to say?

Classes are going well and I like my professors, but I'm still definitely having trouble with the 8:30-in-the-morning thing. I overslept this morning, to the point that I was late to statistics lecture. Fortunately, I didn't seem to've missed much. And so far it looks like once I remember my basic math functions, this class should be relatively easy. Now, if only I could get into my head that the amount of food that seems reasonable at 10pm when I make my lunch does not match up to the amount of food I want to eat during the actual day...

I'm still stymied on my writing. All of it, it seems. I'm scratching the surface of the development phase for a new piece of original work, with cautious hopes that I'll actually be able to make it go somewhere, but I feel like my head is beating against a wall when it comes to fic. Which, hell - if I felt like I was in a place where I could just start pounding away at the original piece, that'd be fine. As it is, though... it's frustrating. Hopefully that whole thing will get better once my academic stuff settles into a better routine, or something.

Anyway, back to course readings!