Well, it's definitely winter now

It's cold, windy and raining. Time to block up draughts and sit in front of the fire. 'Course, it doesn't help that dad's been trying to varnish/repair our window frames, which means there are draughts in several rooms.

I've become addicted again to the Sims 2. I do have slightly more time for it, I suppose, now the thesis is merely on "corrections". I still don't have that report the examiners were supposed to post me, though.

And then there are other things I want to do, like get back into writing again. I've been away for four years, bar the odd fragment or scribble. The problem is, I don't like the story I've got. I don't like the set-up and I don't like the characters. I still want vampires, I still want the truce, and I still want my afterlife administrators and bean-counters, and I still like my opening few sentences. It's just everything else is crap. *sigh* I have another idea brewing too, a more realistic story, but that's freaking me out too because I'm not convinced I can do realism. I'm horribly vague about settings and in fantasy/supernatural, you can kind of get away with it if you want to, but not in a realistic story. *sigh*

( Slight expansion on above )

Man, this is making me depressed. I'm gonna go now.