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I finally got 'The Social Network' and the book 'The Accidental Billionaires' by Ben Mezrich when I went to Oxford. I haven't had a chance to re-watch the film, but now I'm having the day off I might indulge. Seeing as it's all cold and rainy. I'm not sure if I actually want to go out in this weather. The book is very interesting. I don't know how true to life the entire thing is, but one of the things I liked about it was the fact that you did more of a sense of everyone's viewpoint . You could see why the characters in the film made the decision that they did. I like that, seeing everyone's viewpoint on an event and how it differs.
In terms of the reading challenge I haven't read as many books as I'd like. I will have to make a list again at the end of the month , and see if I can squeeze a couple more in before the deadline.
I went out on Thursday and it turned into a bit of a heavy one. On Friday I usually work in the evening so I wasn't planning to rush to get to town. So I was pretty annoyed when I get a phone call from my manager at noon basically saying: 'where the hell are you?' They'd scheduled me to work even though I'm not available on Friday days. I had to do an all day shift in kiosk which was not fun with a fucking hangover. It's really spoilt my day, let's put it like that. Seeing as I do more hours than every one else and I usually have to work all weekend all day without fail, I think I am being quite reasonable if I say I can't do those mornings and they should abide by it and not try and sneakily screw me over.
I have a documentary on Joan Sutherland called 'The Reluctant Prima Donna' to watch so I'd better do that and take notes for 'Songbirds'. I have used quite a few elements of Joan's life in the character of Flora, but naturally you have to change things and twist them to suit the story. It's meant to be a odd kind of tribute I suppose.
As for progress on the manuscript, I think I will probably crack 75k. I would love to aim for 80k but we'll see. I have to try and get the story finished soon as I'm meant to be starting the sequel for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
novel_bigbang soon and it's going to be tricky starting to do that if I haven't resolved this first one. I need to start doing some planning and more research on country house opera companies. I feel some of my details are a bit sketchy and it never hurts to bolster one's research.
In terms of the reading challenge I haven't read as many books as I'd like. I will have to make a list again at the end of the month , and see if I can squeeze a couple more in before the deadline.
I went out on Thursday and it turned into a bit of a heavy one. On Friday I usually work in the evening so I wasn't planning to rush to get to town. So I was pretty annoyed when I get a phone call from my manager at noon basically saying: 'where the hell are you?' They'd scheduled me to work even though I'm not available on Friday days. I had to do an all day shift in kiosk which was not fun with a fucking hangover. It's really spoilt my day, let's put it like that. Seeing as I do more hours than every one else and I usually have to work all weekend all day without fail, I think I am being quite reasonable if I say I can't do those mornings and they should abide by it and not try and sneakily screw me over.
I have a documentary on Joan Sutherland called 'The Reluctant Prima Donna' to watch so I'd better do that and take notes for 'Songbirds'. I have used quite a few elements of Joan's life in the character of Flora, but naturally you have to change things and twist them to suit the story. It's meant to be a odd kind of tribute I suppose.
As for progress on the manuscript, I think I will probably crack 75k. I would love to aim for 80k but we'll see. I have to try and get the story finished soon as I'm meant to be starting the sequel for
novel_bigbang soon and it's going to be tricky starting to do that if I haven't resolved this first one. I need to start doing some planning and more research on country house opera companies. I feel some of my details are a bit sketchy and it never hurts to bolster one's research.
