11/30: What I Accomplished Today

1. I was supposed to go to meetings this morning, but the cable people and my Co-Vivant both had changes in schedule, so I couldn't go anywhere.

2. Level 39 Night Elf Druid. Alterac. Dinged 40. Trained and mount. Stats check and mail check.

3. Television and Pogo badges. Watched the Biography on Emma Thompson among other things. I really like this show, but it has two very irritating tendencies (and it shares them with many shows): it has a sort of breathiness to it, a need to instill drama or potential drama into every possible moment of a person's life ("Thompson seemed to have it all--perfect marriage, perfect career. She was about to know perfect heartache." That sentence verbatim wasn't in the show, but that's the way every act ends: with a cliffhanger, like they're afraid we'll forget we were watching a show over the commercial break.); it also summarizes after it returns from each commercial break. We have Tivo; we're not watching the commercials, so we just heard the end of the previous act about four seconds ago. Even had we watched the two or three minutes of commercials, we're capable of retaining the minuscule amount of information we'd been given in the previous act. Both of these tendencies have as their source the assumption that people who watch television are idiots. In many ways, this may not be an inaccurate assumption, but I hate being insulted.

4. Level 35 Night Elf Hunter. Stranglethorn. Dinged 36.

5. Today's Big Fish Game was Farm Frenzy. Oh, my gosh. Sort of a cross between Insane Aquarium and Grimm's Hatchery, although it's a better game than either (and I really like Insane Aquarium). Absolutely addictive; it's stupidly early in the morning, and I should have gone to bed two or three hours ago, but this is a just a good, clean, silly, fun game.

6. Read more in The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot. As with the Robinson book, the discussion is both on the contents of the book and the history of the manuscript, and the latter is quite a bit more interesting than the former (to be fair, I read the Gospel itself a few months ago, and reading two additional books about it relatively soon thereafter is beginning to make the information feel rather old hat).