Forgive me, my love.

I watched the first episode of season 6 1/2 without you.

Given that I'm hoping to be in Maryland later this fall, I'd planned on holding out until then so that I could watch the whole mini-season for the first time with Jack and Sarah. I... didn't make it quite that long. Though I'm sure he expected that.

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Random sidenote, random update:

I've gotten way more messages about my house disappearing from readers' Sims Social neighborhoods than I did about the Tales of MU site going down for a bit yesterday (though maybe people tried to contact me about that through Livejournal/Dreamwidth; I turned off comment notifications here about a month ago).

To anyone who's feeling concerned/rejected: I haven't actually been able to log in basically all weekend. There's apparently a problem with some of the game servers where some accounts just aren't accessible, which stops me from logging in and you from seeing me. When the little sidebar thing says that I'm "playing Sims Social", that means I clicked a game link to see if the problem was fixed. The Flash applet loads, but my account never does. Hopefully when the problem gets cleared up, none of you will have to re-add me... also hopefully, my sweet imaginary pad will still be there.

(Pre-emptive note to backseat troubleshooters: this is a known issue on their side. Deleting or reinstalling or flushing anything on my side isn't going change anything.)

I'm basically just opening Facebook every time I stop at the computer, but I've been spending most of my time AFK or on my not-really-game-capable netbook. Still working on the answer chapter. It's... pretty huge. I don't want to split it in two, because that happened last time, but on the other hand: that happened last time. Possibly this is something I should be taking into account in my planning for the future. The second time through something is always kind of weird, because if something goes awry the same way it did the first time it seems obvious that you should have seen it coming... but really, it's probably still too soon to draw concrete conclusions. One of the reasons this is getting so big and taking so long is that the point of reference for readers to even frame questions is not the in-universe Thyleans but their nearest out-of-universe inspirations. If readers tell me they want to know about in-universe equivalents to Odin or the valkyries or whatever, I have to re-frame things a bit. That won't necessarily be true for all future installments, but it will likely be true for some of them.

I might just have to change how I frame the audience participation class discussion chapters entirely. But still: second time out. Not too soon to be thinking about these things. Too soon to be setting anything in stone.