Early-morning meeting today, so of course I stayed up late last night. I am SMRT.

Read: Elder Race (Adrian Tchaikovsky): It’s old story of an advanced interstellar traveller being mistaken for a wizard by the people of the lost colony. He really does try to explain, but the difficulties of translation render every term like “scientist” or “scholar” as “wizard”, and when he explains there’s no such thing as magic, only a deeper understanding of the laws of nature, the locals nod and agree that’s what magic is. It’s no wonder he spends most of his time with the emotion-dampening brainware cranked all the way up, even before he finds out what they need his help with.

Read: Ms. Walters #1-86 (Hannah K Davis): An unemployed nurse ends up working for a mad scientist, in a town where the mad scientist feels right at home. It’s reasonably amusing, and I find the art style very charming.

NaNoWriMo Words: 12721 + 1587 = 14308. Despite being sleepy, I did an extra cycle of focus and produced another word or two compared to yesterday. However, they are terrible words, and I might be at the point where I have to write FIXME nobody cares about this scene move on.