Plan for the day--

It's just Myr and I today, as Wil has a Redemption tournament and then works late tonight. I have big plans for the day.

• Sleep in late.
  
• Get up slowly and bum around the house for a bit.
  
• Go to coffee shop.
  
• Drink coffee and eat a breakfast sandwich for lunch. Write/work on computer and chat with Myr until 1:00 or 2:00 (Coffee shop closes at 2 so we will have to leave).
  
• Go to the library.
  
• Return books, walk the stacks, write/work on the computer and chat with Myr until 4:00 or 5:00 (Library closes at 5:00 so we will have to leave).
  
• Go to folks place and eat supper with them. I think they are having chili or potato soup.
  
• Head home, do some wash, clean the kitchen and put the chicken in a brine so it can roast tomorrow.
  
• Drink some wine, write/work on the computer.

Since it is now almost 1:00, you may be interested in how well my plan is going....

Quite well, actually.

My coffee shop recently added wireless so I get to do some online stuff (like make this post and chat with finabair). Coffee is $1.75 for unlimited refills of non-specialty coffee so I am well caffeinated. Myr and I have chatted and ate and are having fun. She brought her own laptop and is working on a "sad" Christmas icon that she won't let me see.

The only drawback is that I haven't done any actual writing yet. I still have plans, though. *grin*

Sekert Messages:

To kitap -- I am betaing "Family Honor". I have it all on paper and am planning on uploading my beta-comments this weekend. I also have "Blackbird" up on Google Docs and, once I have done a little editing, will open them for you to beta, if you wish. I think if I read through/edit what I have done the next chapter will go better.

To mosestaf -- LOVE YOU!

To finabair -- Last two Heroes. Last two Bones (oh, and the one where they get a new psychologist, becasue we missed that one too. It must have been three weeks ago? The one before the Wonder Woman one, I think). Torchwood. I'll let you know about Who.

To partly -- Tea and Who.

WGA Strike: Take One (Unions)

The WGA strike is big news in a lot of the LJ's and forums that I'm on. It probably goes without saying that I'm all for the writers. I know that the stars get all the press and that without good actors even the best scripts suck. Hell, look at Shakespeare -- sometimes the best scripts require good actors. But without the writers, the actors would have nothing. Writers, by the very nature of their work -- behind the scenes, not the focus of any popular awards, never given publicized credit -- are unknowns. Because the common thought is "Hell, anyone can write" they are devalued as a profession even before their ideas and words appear on a screen. That "valuelessness" is compounded in an industry that values gore, glitz and glamour over substance. And even worse and industry that doesn't realize that the "gore, glitz and glamour" has to start out in a writer's mind or you get nothing.

The writers deserve to be well compensated. They deserve to have access to the same type of copyright protection and royalty rights that any other writer has. The WGA needs to look to the future and demand that they get paid whenever someone uses their words to make money.

As usual, however, I look beyond the immediate concern of compensation and I think that this strike is important society as a whole, not just to the WGA members and those who work in the entertainment community. Hence my choice for icon: Save the writers, save the world. There are two main philosophical issues that this writer's strike speaks to. I'm breaking into two posts not to spam my flist, but because they are two very separate thoughts.

( The value of unions in America. )

Continued in part two Critical Thinking

WGA Strike: Take Two (Critical Thinking)

More thoughts on the societal impact of the WGA strike. The first part can be found here along with an explanation of how I manage to come up with these thoughts.

I freely admit that most of this post reflects how I (and those I hang around with) watch and experience television/movies. Your mileage my vary...

( The value of scripted entertainment to critical thinking. )