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A cartoon rendering of Renée Zellweger as Bridget Jones. The only change I'd make is granny pants instead of light and lacy ones. :)

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ETA: MAH SWEETIE GOT THE JOB! \o/ ♥ (Mind you, it is temporary theater work, but it is $$!)

Well, in good news, my sweetie had a phone interview tonight...

I am just... beat. And tired of idiocy.

So I've been referring to latest story project as The Beast. Size of file today: 666 KB.
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I amuse myself, anyway.

Word count on The Beast: 95,324 (more or less). 178 pages. And after nailing down so many details and logistics, I am SUPER excited to have reached this point (note to future self for reference: you just hit New Year's Eve, 1995). SQUEE.

ETA: Vibes on full, my friends. My sweetie might have some work lined up.

Shooting Starts on 'King's Speech' With Firth, [Geoffrey] Rush, [Guy] Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter... and Jennifer Ehle. This should be interesting!

The film is based on the true story of King George VI and his friendship with maverick speech therapist Lionel Logue. As the second son of George V, Prince Albert was not expected to ascend to the throne, but when his brother Edward chose to abdicate to marry Wallis Simpson, Albert was his successor and in 1936 was crowned King George VI. The reluctant king, who was plagued with a nervous stammer, engaged Logue, an irreverent Australian, who helped him find a voice with which to lead the nation.

Well, I guess I don't do Yuletide this year. I spaced on sign up until today, then spaced on the cutoff time (I thought it was 9 Pacific, not Eastern). (I suppose I could pinch hit, but...)

Guess I will continue to chug away at The Beast.

Happy birthday movie!Bridget... :)

Because I know you're dying to know—88,523 or thereabouts, most of the way down page 165. Sheesh. It's weird; everything's on such a grander scale... I'll think, 'Oh, I want to include this moment'—and suddenly what I thought was going to be a teeny little thing takes up an entire chapter (I arbitrarily decided on ten pages per chapter) on its own. At least I'm in the 1990s now.

I did just have an annoyance, though: I got through a particularly (I thought) brilliant argument between Bridget and her mum—and bloody Word crashed! When the document was recovered, the entire argument was gone. I recreated it as best I could, but I'm irritated that I didn't save sooner, and that I didn't quite recapture the brilliance of the original argument. It'll have to do. I'm still grumpy about it. Lesson learned: Save early, safe often.

Oh, and I'm super behind at work. Whee.

Preparing to celebrate the start of the last year of my thirties, on (ha ha) Friday the 13th… and I have a meeting that morning to iron out yucky financial stuff. Bleah. Can't I just be randomly bequeathed a bazillion dollars? Or maybe Bill Gates will get hold of my email address and anonymously PayPal it to me? ... Sigh. =( (At least I had the foresight to take the day off. I can't bear to be at work on my birthday.)

Think it may be time to listen to Barbara Rosenblat's BJD audiobook again. Still looking for a Rosalyn Landor BJD.

#14 is particularly nice. That is... quite the hat his wife is wearing, though. O_o

It's official: this story (tentatively titled "Only a Memory") is now longer than "M Darcy Takes a Wife". It currently stands at 79,816. And there's so much more to cover. Sigh…

Linky-links:

• A Singular Man, an interview from The Australian with CF about A Single Man. I believe there may be movie spoilers afoot.
  
  
• CF to receive the British Academy of Film & Television Arts/Los Angeles Humanitarian Award on 5 November. Sponsored by Volvo, hence this appearance on an auto website. ETA: Very nice photo!

Also, I may have been bitten by a spider tonight, while I was outside. And the pink Vampire Red in my hair isn't fading as fast as I thought it would.

This transcript is from a panel on BSG with James Callis, but there's a question about his part on BJD as Tom. Fairly amusing, and some photos of him at the convention too.

(* I would love an awesome animated icon of Tom saying this.)

Well, in the end, I only watched St Trinian's and BJD. I decided Genova was too heavy-duty, and the others, I would have needed more attention than I wanted to give while writing. Thanks all for your suggestions. :)

It was silly, St Trinian's. The P&P injokes were priceless--I mean, that was practically a frame by frame re-creation of Darcy's walking from the pond, with his jacket over his arm and his wet white shirt clinging to him--as well as the injoke between CF and Rupert Everett (who I think looks enough like Hugh Grant that I always think it's him) regarding their starring together in Another Country (another I have yet to watch). Then the meta reference to CF in Girl With a Pearl Earring and the grand finale: CF's lovely bare backside. It was a wise choice on my part.

I did consider popping in What a Girl Wants and Hope Springs, both of which I have seen before, but opted instead for a true crime show marathon. BJD was my comfort food, always cheers me when I'm down, and did not disappoint. Was amused, though because the events of the movie seemed to go so quickly--probably because I have spent so much time filling in the gaps :)

As for writing: word count is 72,675, just filling the top one-third of page 135. Getting closer to The Pivotal Moment which... possibly is the two-thirds to three-quarter mark of being done. If it helps at all, which it probably doesn't, I'm currently in the year 1989. :P Weird spending so much time in the past. But there will be significant jumps ahead in time v. soon.

Q&A With Helen Fielding -- Actually pretty amusing. I love what she says about staying off of the internet if she's trying to write. (Was also amused by the name of the site this appears on.)

I'm not crazy about this new show of Leno's, but I have to say this appearance of Mr Firth was a very fine one indeed, and quite extended as appearances go. I hope it's on the Leno website tomorrow and I hope it's viewable outside the US.

If only for the suit. Oh my God, the suit.