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Right, so yesterday went pretty good. I think. I mean, day off, so nothing got accomplished, but that's okay! Ross didn't seem terribly surprised or concerned to hear I'm doing 10-4 6 days a week instead of 9-5 5 days a week. Work schedule set!

Well, I've handed in my official work proposal for the next 6 (7) months. And it's been accepted with only one small correction (in fact, one small subtraction, so one less thing to research!). I feel pretty good about it, until I actually look closely at it and notice that according to my timeline, I am already behind as of 9am this morning. Which is less comforting, but at least fixable. Research day today! And tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. May not make the training exercise tomorrow afternoon, except that I have to go to the library anyways, so why not? We shall see.

So, I may have stayed up last night to write fanfic. ::headdesk::

Reminds me that I can write a novel

Apparently, it's not terribly hard. Seriously, the climax for The Omen Machine was on page 510 of 525. I am left with a hundred questions that need answering; the biggest of which are:

a) So what about Hannis Arc? With his planned foiled did he just give up and slink back into the dark hole he crawled out of? He just gave up on his plans for world domination that easily, really?

b) Did they bury the machine? I mean, it can't be destroyed, so did they just 'concrete over it'? Did it go to sleep again after Hannis stopped using it? And how did he do it in the first place?

leading in to c) Who built it? What about the other half of the book? Are they ever going to retrieve it and figure out the mystery or just leave it in the Temple of the Winds and forget about it?

d) What happened to the leaders that threw their lot in with Hannis? Did they all apologise and come back to Richard? And if not, how does that work, with kingdoms not loyal to D'Hara in the midst of those that are.

I am so confused. I hate being confused after I finish a book.

On grav_ity's scale of book reviewing, I'll give it a 3 out of 10. One point for Cara having a great last line. One point for Mord-Sith in red. And one point for Kahlan being awesome in a fight. The rest of you fail.

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4 o'clock and the sun is gone. I'm trying really very hard not to notice the 9 or so hours of daylight we're getting. January seems a long time off and a lot of darkness away!