No, I don't really have anything to say about him. I just wanted to remind myself that I'm supposed to be in thrall to a new obsession and that this is no time to start getting all involved in actually working for a living.

I've watched the first couple DVDs from Season Two and am bemoaning the fact that the only time I do get to watch episodes is on Sundays.

How can I be this short on time? I don't get it. No husband, no kids, no pets, no house that I have to do my own maintenance on. I don't work much overtime and don't watch much regular television. I should have hours a day to spend on my obsessions hobbies, shouldn't I?

But somehow, between commute time, my exercise schedule, trying to get chores like banking, grocery store, dry cleaning, eating, bathing, and laundry done, I seem to have about two hours an evening of free time. By the time I get relaxed of an evening and get some reading done, it's time to go to bed.

I have no idea how women with families manage and that's the truth. If I had a whole house to clean, a family to cook for, and/or laundry for four people to do, I'd go insane.

Anyhow.

I've finally gotten to see Early Spike and, when I can drag my attention away from the charms of Early Giles, I'm finding him interesting. I've only seen the famous Drusilla once and so far I'm not impressed. I understand she's supposed to be ill or something, but I find her babyish behavior and prepubescent dolly fetish fairly icky.

But then, as I have to keep reminding myself, I'm not supposed to like these characters. They are, after all, demon animations of dead bodies.

It was fairly easy to overlook that aspect of Spike, coming in, as I did, after he'd been given the chip and more-or-less domesticated by his lust for Buffy, but it isn't as easy to over look it now that I've seen his first outing. I'll admit that hearing that he got his nickname from torturing people with railroad spikes has somewhat taken the luster from my lust for him, anyhow.

I'll have to think about this when I have some time. I mean, I'm all about not torturing people but on the other hand it's very hard to tell yourself that you simply mustn't become all BSO-fannish about some character because he's evil when your psyche has already glommed onto him, you know? I have no control over my brain and never have had.

I'm sort of brooding over what it means to be a vampire in this particular universe. We have all of the standard, allergic to garlic, freaky about crosses, can't stand the sunlight, dine on fresh blood things but why are some vampires barely animated decaying bodies that look subhuman or extraterrestrial and others able to pass in a crowd? Why are some vampires always bumpy-faced and some only when they get aggravated? Why can Spike eat Wheatbix? Why do some vampires have personalities while others are shuffling, stumbling ghouls?

There are other more technical objections, but I don't want to get too mundane. A vampire is essentially too impossible a construct to take critical deconstruction well, but I'd like to see that the vampires in this universe follow some kind of consistent plan.

I guess I had a few things to say, didn't I?

Alvin, sans Chipmunk

Work continues to be...interesting. I'm doing my best but Alvin came in this morning with New Thoughts and we rearranged the priority on some of the things we'd decided to do pursuant to our latest reinvention, which means the stuff I've spent the last three days on is now at the bottom of the priority pole.

If we'd just keep moving in the same darned direction for several consecutive days, I might have a chance, but I can't simultaneously invent marketing material, sales and promotional material, and website information for five different strategies.

Something Gaia, Alvin's wife, said to me today leads me to suspect that this is more or less Alvin's modus operandi and that I'd better get used to being dragged off to work on a new project before I get done with the old one.

It's a bit absurd. I mean, I like change as much as the next person and more than most, and I'm all about planning work instead of doing work, yet my brain remains stubbornly attached to the notion that if we don't pick a direction and stick with it for a while, the money will fail to roll in.

P.S.

And if vampires are dead bodies animated by demons, why do they want to have sex? And why did Angel pretend he couldn't breathe and give Buffy CPR when he naturally had to be able to breathe, based on the fact that he can talk and that we've seen him out of breath? And if vampires can't breathe, how can Spike smoke? Why do these vampires bleed? If vampires are dead bodies, how can Spike get drunk?

Those are sort of the "obvious" questions I wasn't going to ask, but what the heck.

Okay. Now I'm stopping. Back to work....