Hilary Booth... of course!

You're probably tired of hearing me complain about the weather. But darnit, I was hoping to feel like "doing stuff" as in outside in the sunshine, but no, another torrential downpour appeared where there had been beautiful sun for the last day or two. I was humming the line from Guys and Dolls "Likes mud, likes mud, this guy says the horse likes mud," until I watched another horse race on by. And that folks is why I can't get too excited about a possible Triple Crown. Although I was vastly amused to discover Roger Clemens could not even beat the Cubs for his 300th victory. After listening to Kathy Agel expound on the virtues of the Yankees for an hour and how Roger would win it against the Red Sox at Media West, I feel strangely vindicated.

I have posted the first set of icons over at remember_wenn. Bless gpsysngbrd for the nice screen captures. The blank ones are free to be used and adapted and captioned.

Girls only RPG started on Friday with the character generation session, along with discussions about the "game contract", as in what we want and don't want in the campaign. I had never experienced that sort of input before, so I wasn't sure what I could offer in the way of ideas. We're using the new Marvel game system, set in the fictional San Angelo. Which prompted a crash course in "gaming math". I was again reminded of Helene Hanff who wrote "I don't add too well in plain American. I haven't a prayer of ever mastering bilingual arithmetic." After being amused to read a comparison between character generation and Dewey cataloguing, I mentioned this at the game wherein one of my gaming friends retorted "Does this make Gurps the Library of Congress?"

Finally caved in and bought a subscription to Chronicle of Higher Education on a month to month basis. I've found too many interesting articles through that magazine, like the essay contest by Fairleigh Dickinson University on "Academic Libraries in 2012", archived on Dr. James Marcum's website. I love playing "What if?" and "Why not?" It's part of the reason I love science fiction so much. I willingly admit that some of the ideas seem a bit far-fetched, but the writer in me wants to take a spin through that hypothetical world. If the librarians or Cybrarians as one group called them now use VR technology to work with customers, do they work remotely? With wireless connections these days, it almost doesn't even make sense for users to come to the reference desk. I was able to get help from Library of Congress' microfilm connection by a simple email form. Extend that "Ask a Librarian" even further to see what you might get.

One piece of good news for Remember WENN fans:

A fan on wennlist happen to see Rupert Holmes at a Broadway event in New York and asked him point blank if he would reveal the cliffhangers from the end of series. (For those who *don't* know WENN, the series ended on *three* crucial cliffhangers.) To our intense relief and delight, Holmes answered "Yes!" and explained what happened.

So here is what happened:

1. Hilary was married to Scott Sherwood who apparently needed to get married to get out of some snafu. The following season would focus on the Hilary/Jeff/Scott triangle.
2. Eugenia and Mr. Foley would take things very slowly.
3. Betty would not choose either Scott or Victor.

Ramifications galore with these scenarios. I have always been something of a closet Hilary/Scott shipper anyway, so this just makes some of my story ideas more plausible. Of course the Betty fans are howling with dismay. Personally I would have loved to watch that season, especially if the marriage wound up being more than in name only as immediately assumed. Scott and Hilary alway struck me as two con artists who have survived one too many heist. Hilary is just slightly more refined, which may be why he knocks her off the pedastal with "Hildy" all the time. Should be fun at the annual Media West discussion.

It's funny. We always groan about being Jossed in fanfic in Buffy fandom. For once, I'm glad my fanfic ideas have been blown out of the water. Although there was four years between "All Noisy" and my post-war story, so, it could still happen, though I rather prefer Rupert's end to the Scott/Victor question. To which I say, live with the consequences, Miss Roberts.

My parents came back to town today. On the weekend, I'm catching a plane for Pacific Northwest for a family wedding and some long overdue vacation. It'll be nice to go away for longer than a con or a holiday.

I picked up my orthotics from the podiatrist today. The inserts will take some getting used to. Even with my skinny feet, I'm just not used to feeling something else against my feet besides the standard shoe inserts.

Oh, and I wrote a short little WENN drabble called "Blackout". Yeah me.