I can’t really claim to be having the most productive of weeks. It seems like just about everything I need to do needs something else to be done first, frequently by someone other than me.
Then again, this is an exceptionally short work week for me. I worked from home yesterday, and today and tomorrow are the only two days I’ll be in the office this week at all. Thursday we’re closed for the 4th of July, and I’m taking the Friday after that off as well. We’re not even on summer hours this week, thanks to the holiday.
I did manage to finish putting up the newest issue of Kaleidotrope over the weekend. There’s a lot of great fiction and poetry this issue, and I had a great time writing the fake advice column. Check it out, won’t you?
Meanwhile, I finally got around to checking out the first episode of the Under the Dome miniseries, and I’ll just say what I said over Twitter: as an adaptation of the novel, it’s a complete (albeit curious) failure. Though it’s obviously not trying — at all — to be a faithful adaptation. So it has to be judged more for what it is. Which is a kind of okay, mostly, but not very remarkable TV series that shares the same starting point and some character names as the book. There’s a part of me that wants to continue watching it just because it’s like a strange parallel-universe version of the novel. Alas, there aren’t a lot of other parts of me that want to continue watching.