Book buying and fall-like weather

Finally! The heat has broken and it feels like autumn really is just around the corner. I was actually able to get out and run some errands today, including taking care of bank stuff and getting cockatiel seed for Oz (who still does not like Flurry the budgie). And ye book buying including:

--"Vampire Academy: Blood Promise" by my friend Richelle from the Jim Butcher Forum. I was surprised and delighted to see it was in hardcover: that's generally a good sign when a series goes to hardcover, as it means the publisher is taking it more seriously.

--"Watchmen and Philosophy" from the same pop culture and philosophy series which brought us "The Matrix and Philosophy". I'm surprised the book wasn't twice as thick as it is, since there's a banquet of food for thought in this one graphic novel, but I'm enjoying the essays in it.

Also got in the mail, by way of Amazon, "A Halloween Reader" featuring several dozen short stories, folktales, poems and quirky news items centering around the Spookiest Time of the Year. I've only poked at it: I won't be reading it until October actually starts, though with weather like today's it's hard not to.

Also picked up a few used DVDs at Blockbuster, including "Coraline" and "The Spirit", which I still think is nowhere as cruddy as some critics made it out to be: I even crossed the movie-verse version of The Spirit with my own original character Francis "Frank" J.X. Sweitz, aka the Heroic Reporter to create Spirit of the Press, on the Pinnacle server of City of Heroes.

August 27 -- give me your black sky "The Matrix Online": Black Sky Take Warning

My first 31_days fic in far too long:

Title: Black Sky Take Warning
Day/Theme: August 27 -- give me your black sky
Series: The Matrix (post-"The Matrix Online")
Character/Pairing: OCs: Sieges (my own character, who's technically canon since her name was mentioned in a critical mission), Morraeon
Rating: PG (just in case)

Author's Notes: This is one of my many farewells to The Matrix Online, which shut down thus summer, another online game casualty to the faltering economy. This is a foretaste of one of the stories I hope to write in full someday.

( From Sieges's journal )