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I just pre-ordered Strange Fate. Is that tempting... well, fate? It's just that the estimated release is less than five months away now and I don't particularly care if it's an absolutely terrible book, if it's three pages long (though Smith's reports suggest something more along the lines of The Count of Monte Cristo-length epichood), if it kills off all my favourite characters... (it's okay, Keller is a survivor. I'm not worried *crosses fingers*) I've been waiting since high school for this book. I'm going to buy it the moment it gets officially published anyway. But given that I have been waiting so long I'm just a little concerned that my preorder will sit and sit and sit past next April, never to be fulfilled. This is a book I don't believe in the existence of until it's in my hand and I can lock myself in a room to finish it.

Maybe I'll let the preorder sit but if the date gets pushed back I'll take that as a sign and cancel it. Hm.

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As someone who is actually going to be sitting and watching them, I'd like to throw my two cents into the ring and say I'd quite like Soderling to qualify for London. We watched him play Roger at Wimbledon... two years (?) ago and we decided because he was Robin, Roger should be Batman. It was extremely entertaining. Plus I'm rather fond of him. Get to the final Soderling! C'mon!

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I'm compensating for a crap couple of days with chips from our local chippy and both Roger and Tim Minchin on the tellybox tonight. I watched a bit of Nadal in hope that the universe would pay me back some of the crappy karma and he'd lose, but that's so against the principle of karma that I probably deserved him winning anyway. Must be nicer. Yes. (Which doesn't mean I won't be cheering for the other guy (any guy) in London. I try to be nice but a saint I am not and definitely not when it comes to tennis loyalties).

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Part of the crap two days is the news that when we took Casper for his vaccinations yesterday (a, uh, few months late but we were moving to technically a different country Wales ---> England when they were actually due) the vet said he needs his teeth cleaned and a tooth taken out. Google tells me that this is a fairly commonplace occurence with pet cats/dogs and I shouldn't be worrying about him.

This is Casper. I worry when he takes five minutes longer to come in from outside when you call him. Of course I'm worried. When he had an ulcer on the back of his throat and the vet said ominously that it could be something more serious and we had to leave him in overnight, I cried in the car all the way home. I am not rational when it comes to my cat.

And since he's not going in until December 1st, I will be worried for the next two weeks. Just to let you all know in case I come across more crazy than usual until December 3rd (December 2nd *I'm going to the dentist for two fillings. Yesterday was a bad day teethwise all round).

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NaNo is going... badly, in terms of word count. In better news I am still in fact working on it which is better than previous years. I won't make 50,000 short of a miracle (three solid days writing while

kindoftrouble is at work in London? Hm) but at least I am actually writing. It's nice.

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Yeah, I'm all out. Behold the interestinghood of my life recently; at least I've mostly embargoed my work-related ranting because I annoy myself with it. Thank smeg I'm going to London and Cardiff in the next two months or I'd veg into a completely boring couch potato who witters on about their cat all the time...

Wait. Uh. Yeah.