On TV, writing and other stuff

German TV has started to show the new Stargate: Universe episodes. I'm not even sure which season it is, as I've given up on the series after the first one. Last week I decided to take a look to see if things have evolved a little. Well... they have not. If that is possible at all, the series has become even more boring and clichéd as before. My only hope is that Chloe will fully turn into an alien and they'll have to shoot her, but since she's the brat!Sue of the series, complete with lobotomy, we know it will never happen.

I made some success with "Eye Witness" in the last couple of days (that's the Tosh/Singh romance, by the way). I've finished Chapter 3 in the middle of the Battle of Canary Wharf, killed off poor Singh almost-canonically (just a teeny bit more heroically) and wrote 11 pages of Chapter 4. That is 11 hand-written pages - they'll be probably 8 or 9 pages when I've typed them up. But the chapter is still far from being finished, so it won't stop there.

One more part, and that story will be finished, too. I'm tentatively content with it. Not having a beta sucks, of course, but I'm used to it. Every single TW beta has left ship sooner or later. Apparently, my English grammar is intimidating.

Work is as demanding as ever - perhaps even a little more so, since our annual cultural event is going to take place over this weekend. I'm not so closely involved as in the recent years (not my decision), but it still means that Friday afternoon and Sunday morning will be sacrificed for the good purpose. Gah, I'm just tired.

Spreading the Merlin love

I've lent the novelization to the pilot episode - a book I got from the_wild_iris to one of our eight-grade students. I got him hooked on Merlin, because he looks exactly as Bradley James must have looked when he was 14. We have this little insider joke that I call him my Prince - and he laughs his head off.

Anyway, I'm very impressed. He actually faced the challenge to read an English book, and one that hadn't been dumbed down to the level of foreing people who're still learning the language. He says that the first 30 pages were brutal - he had to look up every second word. But after that, words started reapparing, and now he's actually enjoying himself.

I'm very proud of him - and a little proud of myself. Considering how much this generation dislikes reading, for a 14-year-old to start reading a book in a foreign language and not giving up when he had to face the first difficulties, it's quite the feat. And I'm not even his English teacher.