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I was dozing through an interview with P.D. James on the radio this morning, in the manner in which the interview becomes a conversation in which I keep trying to interrupt and being talked over and ignored. Then the interviewer asked me for the name of the hero of my current WIP. I hedged by saying there were too many male characters and I wouldn't call any of them the hero, and then went on confidently, "but there is a female character I'd call the protagonist," ... and then found I couldn't remember her name.

I remembered the name as soon as I woke up properly, but it was a scary moment. Next year I really need to get back to that poor neglected story.

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Mince pies The seasonal food of my people, fresh out of the oven.

Rain! And Sunspots!

The campus weather gauge recorded half an inch of rain in the last three hours or so, which is more than we've had at once in quite a while. There was some serious wind earlier, and a dust-storm that caused a nasty pileup on I10 between here and Phoenix.

And the Sun, which has been very very quiet for the last couple of years, has been showing a modest bit of activity over the last week or so -- on both sides and both hemispheres at once, as you can see on the Stereo site.