draco in the sky with diamonds

If you're living in the northern hemisphere: you can see the constellation of Draco in the sky in all its splendour!

Well, if your vision isn't obscured by clouds or suchlike.

I stood out on the street with my star chart print-out (being an occasional nightsky geek) and my heart actually jumped when I saw the word 'Draco'. This is completely absurd, I realise this, but still! He is such a cathected site for me, including qua star!

teh sims, teh book

So it took me about three months to figure out that you can make the Sims gay. Duh!! In fact, I got the idea from my sons -- how perverse is that? Apparently, they've been making the Sims boys snog for weeks. So two nights ago, after t'eldest f'ing deleted all of my saved games ($£@!^*^), I created a whole new all-male, all-camp household of luvvin', snoggin' and backrubbin' guys. This made me feel strangely strange. I called them semi-transparent names, such as 'Dragon', 'Bic', 'Hurricane' and 'Roddy'. (*snort* -- well, we all know who these are... Bic may be least known to you, but he is Big D, of course). Unfortunately, the stupid game won't let me put them into bed together: is there a cheat code for this? I had to create four separate bed and space them out throughout the house, taking a wall down in the process. Very dumb.

I am also writing my book! And I am so happy about it right now! I wrote 3,800 words yesterday, and more today, and I am having fantastic ideas about my stuff. I am finding it exciting re-reading my text! This after three plus years of writers' block horror. And next semester I am on my sabbatical! I won't make the mistake again of telling myself that I have to spend all day writing, though; that is a recipe for depression. I will spend until 12 or 12.30 and then that's it for the day. The afternoon will be for socialising / writing fic / reading / going to t'reference library / going to coffee shops / shopping / decluttering and flybusting / going to London / making teh Sims boys snog.

Today I finished reading Ursula Le Guin's story 'Paradises Lost'. I wept for the last five pages. I have been on a Le Guin binge, re-reading all the books I know and wolfing down all the ones I don't.

Now I shall go and prepare spaghetti carbonara. Thursday is our spag carb day. Monday is pancake day. I love this organisation! And then we are socialising for Christmas virtually every night until New Year's Day!!