Broke my promise to myself: I didn’t get around to working on the novella this morning. I got my “assignments” for World Horror in Austin in a few weeks so I had to do some prep work. The program hasn’t been announced yet, so I won’t spill the beans. Should be a ton o’ fun, though.
Got paid for an essay that will appear in a magazine at the end of the month. Can’t say more about it yet because the issue is going to get a big launch. Took my ill-gotten gains and splurged on a used iPad. I figure it will come in handy at World Horror. I like my little iPod Touch and this is basically a more fully featured, larger version of that. Didn’t feel the need to shell out all that moolah for the newest generation, and I don’t need 3G.
You’d think by this stage in my life I’d have this whole sleeping thing worked out, but apparently I slept “wrong” last night and woke up with a weird muscle ache in my right shoulder. Guess I need to practice more.
I’m not sure why everyone on NCIS is so bent out of shape about the new kid on the block, EJ. Well, everyone except Tony, who “gets her,” and by that I mean he’s romantically involved with her. Gibbs seemed to hate her on first sight and he basically tells her to end the relationship. He was never that way when it seemed like Tony and Ziva were getting close. I wasn’t expecting a cliff-hanger episode. When they figured out the clue about the pilot, I figured he was going to be the killer instead of just another victim. The killer seems to have an ice cube fetish. He left a flower in an ice cube tray, left the pilot in the deep freeze, and sent Tony a drink with an eyeball in an ice cube. I know: it’s Mr. Freeze!
Complicating matters is the fact that Ziva’s new boyfriend (Enrique Murciano from Without a Trace or C.I.Ray as Tony dubbed him) is the CIA liaison to NCIS on this port-to-port killer case, which was news to Ziva but not to E.J. Maybe I’m in the minority, but I hope Special Agent Bennett becomes a regular.
Episode trivia: It was David McCallum (Ducky) giving voice to the creepy talking doll at the start.
