I may be some time

edfrank talks about 'I May Be Some Time', by Francis Spufford here. I'm halfway through it - it's a fascinating, scholarly book about our obsession with polar exploration, the roots of it and also the reflections of it in literature, from Captain Cook's first voyage to South Georgia onwards. But it's also about the journeys themselves and the men who undertook them. It's utterly manly, and in fact I'm keenly looking forward to the chapter that discusses that aspect of it. daegaer, I think you might need to read this book.

In other news - urrgh.

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All you amazing fen out there - being creative and smart and full of interesting things - you make me feel slighty awed, and like there are so many things whizzing past me that I'll never catch up with. Stop it at once! Or actually, don't, ever. And there never was time to write Aziraphale/Carrie White before the 15th came round. Bum. *throws it back into brainhurting pot, with Xaz/Cancerman*

You might remember that ages ago, I added some automatic feedback forms to my website in the hope that they would encourage people to leave me more feedback. The amount I get from my site is, from comparisons with other people who get impressive amounts, not much. I was averaging about 1 LoC a month. I was quite happy with that, until I saw that others got more (in a thread in isiscolo's lj, I think): it prompted an unsightly twinge of performance anxiety. The feedback form seems to work, as now I get about 4-5 a month, or 1 a week, nearly. An interesting thing about the feedback form is seeing how many people go to the feedback form page (it's linked at the bottom of each page), and then don't send anything. It's behaviour I recognise from my own habits. Go to feedback form, or open email, type something gushing or lame sounding, think 'I can't send this', close window/email. Result: no feedback. I try very hard not to do that anymore. I eventually get the LoC's from my website in email form, although with the shareware I use they seem to suffer a delay of a few days, or even sometimes a week.