From Twitter 08-03-2010

• 09:00:47: Why don't supermarkets sell natural yogurt in packs of four like they do every other kind of yogurt? Curse you, Mr Tesco!
  
• 10:55:13: @DavidBridger Take them down, David!
  
• 13:06:03: Wrote 1300 words on Blood Hunt during my lunch break, which leaves only 200 words to hit my daily goal. Huzzahs!
  
• 13:30:41: Anyone know if the French police use batons? Or some kind of night-stick type weapon?
  
• 15:15:26: @ktabic The ones in Paris? As long as I can use the word "baton" without being a liar, I'm cool
  
• 15:57:15: @thetheoryof Make a pie chart to assess the best Optimus Prime ... um ... options
  
• 16:42:41: Too many retweets! Not enough actual comments from people I'm actually following! *drowns*
  
• 17:01:31: @mikodragonfly Lol, no. There was just suddenly an influx of retweets about breastfeeding and I was all... WTF?
  
• 17:12:48: @mikodragonfly Yeah, I was somewhat taken aback...
  
• 18:06:16: @doombreed Oh god, my unhappy brain! *abandons Twitter*
  
• 18:28:59: Iodine deficiency is called cretinism! Science!
  
• 21:30:46: Just watched Mirrors. Keifer Sutherland is a crazy man
  
• 21:33:05: @Scarimonious I love that after putting a gun to her head and threatening her, he asks her if she's cool with the whole plan. Too late!
  
• 21:37:06: Now watching Teeth. Ten minutes in: Worst. Film. About. Vagina. Dentata. Ever!
  
• 21:37:30: @Scarimonious And don't have small boys because they are always creepy and invite evil into the house
  
• 21:42:14: @Scarimonious Or mirrors. Or visit mental institutions or monasteries (which are inexplicably populated by nuns instead of monks)
  
• 21:42:32: @Scarimonious I guess just avoid horror movie scenarios in real life were possible
  
• 21:47:37: @Scarimonious ARE YOU WATCHING ME FROM THE FUTURE AND THROUGH A MIRROR?
  
• 21:50:44: @Scarimonious I might have to go and lay down now
  
• 21:55:40: @Scarimonious Roger that, Future Self. Just tell me - tomorrow, do I burn down my place of work?
  
• 21:55:59: @doombreed Probably best to put it out of your mind forever like I'm trying to
  
• 22:00:49: @Scarimonious Sweet! I'll take that
  

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"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by" - Vita Sackville-West

Okay! So Day One of the "OMFG WHAT AM I EVEN DOING ARRGGGHHH!!!" write-a-thon went well. BLOOD HUNT is now just shy of 30k, and I'm finally, finally writing the big angry mob scene, which is my second "doorway of no return" scene of the book. Once this chapter is over, things will get darker and naster, and Ayla will be running around Paris in a frenzy similar to the one I'm experiencing myself. Huzzahs!

 

29600 / 70000 words. 42% done!

I celebrated this first day of success (I believe in celebrating minor achievements) by watching Mirrors and Teeth last night. Mirrors was just ... I don't even know. Kiefer Sutherland threatens a nun at gunpoint. He spends the whole film either whispering or shouting at the top of his lungs, which I imagine must be very unsettling for the people around him. And the ending! All I could think of was the Mirror World in The Mighty Boosh, and Mr Susan. There are over seventeen mirrors in the Mirror World!

I did like that it reinforced every horror trope ever: stay out of mental homes and hotels, avoid religion, and don't have kids because the boys will be creepy and invite evil in your home whilst telling you said evil "just wants to play," and the girls will be creepy and probably possessed by demons. Also, never show anyone a photo of your family, because you will die*

Then Teeth... Oh man. I try not to look for meanings in films that are obviously just the product of a cracked-out mind, but I just cannot help myself. And the messages I took from Teeth are thus: All men are potential rapists who simply cannot control themselves in the presence of naked (or even clothes) women, and sex is bad and you shouldn't do it. I know it's supposed to be a black comedy (and admittedly the gynocologist screaming It's true! Vagina dentata! Vagina dentata! was pretty funny), but really? Every guy who meets the protagonist wants to rape her? Really? I ... am going to leave this one alone.

*Obviously this also applies in action films, cop films, and generally any film involving guns and bad guys.