*waves with one arm*

Good morning, people. Thanks to everyone who dropped in yesterday to offer sympathy or to get over-excited about writing with me. I'm still over-excited today, and I'm still alright, although my shoulder's hurting quite a lot more. It's not bad, just nagging, so I'm going to see how I go. Certainly typing isn't great for it, but at least I don't have to shelve books as well.

Speaking of books, I heard the piece on the Today programme about this on my way into work and thought it would be of interest to the flist:

Eunoia

"Eunoia is the shortest word in English containing all five vowels - and it means "beautiful thinking". It is also the title of Canadian poet Christian Bok's book of fiction in which each chapter uses only one vowel.

Mr Bok believes his book proves that each vowel has its own personality, and demonstrates the flexibility of the English language. Below are extracts from each chapter."

It's fascinating. Very, very odd, but fascinating.

Something else that caught my eye this morning was this short piece about 'darkness' in modern arts (particularly films). Some food for thought there, definitely.

Anyone else read/seen/heard anything interesting? I don't get out and about on the net nearly as much as I should, so I'm cheating and getting my flist to bring the net to me! Anything you think should be shared?

In which there are links

This is mostly a post of randomness but that's never stopped me before...

For anyone in, near or planning to visit London, The Hoxton Hotel are holding one of their £1 room sales tomorrow. They sold 1000 rooms in 11 minutes last year, but you never know your luck. Even if you don't book, I recommend their site for their list of 'things to do' in the area.

Forget iwantoneofthose.com - I want one of these days!

I posted geniune, 100% Torchwood (with a splash of Sic Transit Tempus if you know where to look) fic to heretoutopia earlier. I'm now engrossed in pirate!fic research, occasionally diverting to LFWS which miss_zedem got me sorted out on earlier. Great stuff. I've found a book in the basement on "The History of Pirates" and am happily dipping in and out of it for ideas. Added to that, I now know waaaay more about flintlock mechanisms than any sane person should, and I'm loving every minute :)

The Torchwood fic is Movie Night. Gen, Tosh and Ianto after "From Out of the Rain". It was a real challenge writing Tosh, who I've never tackled before, and while I'm not sure I'll do it often, it was a nice change.

Now. Back to sea, me hearties! Yo ho ho etc etc

*baas*

Because clearly if everyone else is doing it, I have to.

My thread at the anonymous feedback meme

"It’s often hard to leave feedback in a public forum without censoring ourselves, or being afraid of offending somebody.

Here you can share the love, or air your true opinions without that pesky face-to-face (or ah, username-to-username) issue - the point is to be completely honest."

I've actually been kind of impressed that people are doing what it says on the tin, and leaving (mostly) constructive feedback - positive yes, but not uncritical. It's...nice when fandom manages that.