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  • The Word Count is Increasing

    Yesterday I got to 12,418 words in my NaNoWriMo story. At least the word count is increasing (it has to be a minimum of 50,000 words by the end of November). I watched the first three episodes of the first season of The…

  • More Words

    It was another really busy night last night. I got up to 10,312 words with my NaNoWriMo novel, and I was so tired when I was finished that I almost immediately fell asleep on the sofa. I spent three hours working on it a…

  • Dracula

    Late last night I was watching the 1931 film of Dracula, directed by Tod Browning. In the movie, a young solicitor named Renfield (Dwight Frye) travels to the remote Castle Dracula in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylv…

  • An Education

    Last night I was watching almost the whole series of Smiley's People on DVD. It is very good and really faithful to the John le Carre book. It's much darker and a lot more bitter than the previous le Carre mini-series Ti…

  • My Bloody Valentine

    Last night I was watching the 2009 film of My Bloody Valentine, directed by Patrick Lussier, it was a remake of the 1981 original. It's set in a small US town where a miner goes on a killing spree, before apparently bein…

  • The Keep

    Last night I watched the first episode of the 1982 TV adaptation of Smiley's People on DVD, based on the novel by John le Carre. It's a sequel to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, although the book it was based on was the third…

  • Taking a Walk

    Last night I was watching the first four episodes of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy on DVD. The story, based on the novel by John le Carre, involves retired secret agent George Smiley (played by Alec Guinness) who is broug…

  • Fire Drill

    Last night I was watching a Doctor Who story from 1973 in DVD called "The Three Doctors". It was made to celebrate the show's tenth anniversary and involved Earth and the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey being threatene…

  • Leaving Early

    Last night was really quiet. I was watching the latest episode of The Wire and that was about it. Today was pretty cool because I left work early. We work on a flexitime system in our office and so we can more or less …

  • Hannibal Rising

    Last night I finished reading the novel Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris. The fourth and most recent in the series of thrillers about serial killer Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter. This novel is a prequel to the others. O…

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