*waves flag*

Four-and-a-half hour round trip to see a movie, and I missed the first five minutes. Which was okay, but I am kind of glad I did not pay more than $3.50. Gary Oldman and Billy Burke were wasted on it; okay story, pretty if somewhat implausible setting, CGI werewoof has great cuddly floppy paws does he yes he does! And some of the acting needed to be shot.

(Actually, I suppose the problem was that not enough acting was shot, since the camera was busy with a lot of mechanical line reading instead.)

However! Bus ride there and back gave me a chance to finish Scott Westerfeld's So Yesterday, which I keep wanting to described as "Scott Westerfeld does Bellweather." As that is not helpful if you don't know Scott Westerfeld[1], I am trying to expound... Adventure teenfic about trends, with a sort of twenty-minutes-into-the-future feel to it. Maybe. Or maybe I'm just getting old.

(Also, he wrote Peeps, which is one of the neater takes on vampires I've seen in a while.)

I think my cold, or whatever it was, is breaking. That's a nice change.
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[1] If you haven't read Bellweather, do. I will wait. Go on. (It's by Connie Willis, if you need help finding it.)