A very special Eureka

I finished my Red Dragon essay and sent it to the editor this morning for his review. The overall form I’d arrived at a couple of days ago held up on review and I only changed the wording a few sentences here and there during three or four revision passes.

It was raining by the barrel during my writing session this morning. Torrential rain…pause…torrential rain…pause…torrential rain…pause…sunshine. I figured the newspaper would be a pulpy mess like it was yesterday, but to my surprise it was mostly dry.

The only thing I watched last night was Tuesday’s episode of Eureka. I had forgotten the promo from the week before that hinted someone wouldn’t make it out alive, and I was very surprised when the identity of the victim was revealed. The episode was a good riff on the Groundhog Day premise. I liked it that Carter’s shaving wound got worse and worse each time around. Also that his suspicions about who was causing the problems were wrong. The bit where he sang the physics formula (to the tune of Old MacDonald, if memory serves) was pretty funny. The previews for next week make it seem like the episode won’t have much to do with the aftermath of this week’s ending, though.

I wrote the first draft of a review of The Last Patriot. I had a lot of problems with the book, at many different levels. It had an interesting premise, but that got lost among bad writing, lousy characterization and inflammatory political agendas. Not sure when I’ll get it finished, as my writing will be a tad curtailed for the next week or so.