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☆ Sent out all of the emails to deliver prompt lists for nordipalooza. Success! The few people that I've spoken to so far like what they were assigned. Let's hope there won't be any problems.

☆ Started working on my fic for that fest. I'm not happy with what I wrote, and I'm going to need to revise a lot and add a lot of stuff to it, but it's a start. Would like to say that I'm going to write intense historical gen, like I usually do, but alas. It will be modern day NSFW instead. (Though if I magically find time to write a second fic, maybe I will write something with Norway and Peter Tordenskjold and the Battle of Dynekilen, like I wanted to... as long as I can do it without getting bogged down by research.)

☆ Started reading Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan yesterday. So far, I'm enjoying it. Cyberpunk is a genre that I haven't explored much - though now that I look up a bit about what the genre usually entails, I find that, at least in some aspects, Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy applies, or shares some of the usual qualities at least. And of course, when I was a kid, I thought The Matrix was pretty cool. ... And that's basically my entire knowledge of the genre. Definitely looking forward to reading more of Cadigan's work, though. I find her writing style very readable.

☆ Watched The Imitation Game last night. I really wish that I could have seen this in cinema, but, oh well. It wasn't as good as I had hoped it would be, but it was also better than I thought it would be, considering the criticism I've heard of it. It was... all right. Would I watch it again? Maybe. But it didn't wow me. It did get me interested enough in Alan Turing that I plan to read a book or two about him, though. Without the film (and/or more people talking about Turing in general due to the film) I probably wouldn't have that nudge, since my WWII-related interests are far more centred around stuff like naval warfare, and resistance movements in the Nordic countries, and so on.