Sim-lent Hill

Why do people do this to Silent Hill?

Out of morbid curiosity, I went to look at what fanfiction.net had to offer in terms of Silent Hill fanfic. When I got to the Resident Evil / Silent Hill crossover, I got that eye-bleedy feeling but had a quick look anyway. The words "The Umbrella Corporation has taken an interest in the little town of Silent Hill" intrigued me, but the fact that it's SH3 rewritten with Chris Redfield added in screwed the pooch for me there. Going through Silent Hill with a well-trained military sort of guy really takes the point out of it. I still must work on that Silent Hill fanfic I wanted to write awhile ago.

I didn't think to bring iMisc with me when I left the house this morning. This has something to do with the fact that I didn't wake up until nearly half-eight this morning. It really was just "throw on clothes, pet cat briefly, voom". Bum. Oh well. At least I made it into work on time.

I hope I get some energy back by tonight. I haven't even finished unwrapping Sim City 4 yet, but I hope to spend tonight reading up on FAQs concerning turning SC4 cities into Sims 2 neighbourhoods. You know, size translations and the like. Then pulling up the Silent Hill maps and seeing how they fit together so I can make a whole neighbourhood. I'm not entirely sure how best to go about it, but I'm sure I'll find a way. Well, at least I'll make it close as I can get.

Shame we don't have weather. I'd love to do proper fog.

Anyway, back to the grind. I want to go home and play with my new toys but that's not going to happen quite yet, so I may as well make myself useful.

Scanning

This is why scanning in the referees' comments is the bane of my pitiable existence.

To fill you in, when a paper gets the requisite number of referees' opinions come into the office, I collect them, label them neatly, scan them and email them in a big wodge to Ham-Fisted Editor and Lady Competence. Then, when the scanning is done, I put them in the folder, all nice and neatly so that the referees' comments are sitting, in order, in the front of the file. This, you'd assume, makes sense. However, since the editors tend to want a reminder of who did the commentary, I send the cover letter as well as the anonymised comments (if there are any, and the stupid referee hasn't submitted the whole thing as email body text). So it's all put there together, so I have to rescan the anonymised version when I need to send the authors the commentary so the authors don't know who's slagging them off.

Anyway, you'd think it would be easy, wouldn't you? You'd guess that Ham-Fisted Editor, when writing the decision letters, would take out the referees' comments separately to the actual paper, then put them back in something resembling order. However, he doesn't. Sometimes, it would appear from today's misadventures, he doesn't actually put the comments back at all. (Again, I swear he eats them.) So from my nice, tidy separation of documents and easy scans, I am reduced to digging around through the folder, going back to the computer and finding out what he's misplaced so that I can reprint it before I can scan the documents.

Needless to say, this takes a lot more time.

I want to throttle that man.

Incidentally, I am going to dye my hair again over the weekend. This time I am going to go very light - platinum blonde. Partly this is because I need to do something so that my mother doesn't mention my roots on Tuesday, but it's also partly because I'm bored and figure that, if I don't like it, I can just dye it something else. After all, anything's going to take well on a base that light.