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Onemoredayonemoredayonemoreday...

I will be very glad to get home, and see my real friends. Not sure why I came, although I suppose it has clarified a few things -- like that it was pointless to come.

I did get a fair bit of research done for the book, checking out how the changes I want to make fit with the local realities. It's eerie just how much the place has gentrified, and how many people it's lost. I don't think I saw one twenty-something when I walked through Esquimalt, just teenagers and older people. The loss of young people has gone from a slow bleed to a haemorrhage.

I'm nearly finished Chrétien de Troyes's "Erec et Enide," too. A very (unintentially) funny story. I think the funniest part was when Erec falls in love with this woman at first sight, begs her father for her hand in marriage, fights a duel over her, takes her back to King Arthur's court, begs Arthur to hold the marriage there, invites everyone in Great Britain to the wedding, and then realizes he doesn't know his fiancée's name.

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Well, looks like Christmas came, after all. Just a little late.

Why am I the last to hear about the Advent Children Movie?

Best video game ever made -- one of the very few that deserves the title of "art" -- Square's eco-animist-cyberpunk epic, that enormous piece of philosophical exploration, Final Fantasy VII will have a hyper-realistic CG movie sequel in March.

Just as amazing: they managed to make Cloud's hair look realistic.

Here's hoping they preserve the queer elements -- it is the only video game I know where you can play the hero as gay.