Random thoughts entry.

I know what you're thinking...since when have my entries not been random thoughts?

For some reason I ended up watching about ten minutes of the Munsters last night. I always liked the Addams Family; I remember seeing a few episodes, and a couple months ago I watched a small portion of an episode, and I actually laughed out loud. The plot was rather sharp for a sitcom, and the dialogue wasn't half-bad, and I enjoyed it. I don't remember ever watching the Munsters, except maybe a glimpse here or there, because as we were watching I knew a few of the characters, but couldn't figure out who the "normal" girl was. Nor could I figure out what the mom was supposed to be...I thought she might be a Bride of Frankenstein situation, but my friend said she was a vampire. Anyway, the ten minutes that I did watch was so boring and full of slapstick (I am a limited fan of slapstick; the Fish-Slapping Dance is my limit) that I only kept it on because I had to see what made it an enduring show (in that it is still on in reruns). The only bright spot was Grandpa Munster. Everything else? Ugh. Especially awful were the weird moments where the father Frankenstein delivers ponderous cliched sayings to the werewolf son and the laugh track acts up. I have no desire to watch it again. Give me Uncle Fester trying to find a giant emerald in his wall safe and pulling out an ice cream cone.

So I went and did the promotion on the two lists that I belong to. (Poor aerynstales...you'd better just skip over the rest of this, you've heard it all already in chat!) It's been a day and a half, and no new reviews or anything. And no responses to the promotional posts. It usually seems that when someone gets on the list and mentions their fic they get a few responses of two main types: I've read it, it's great or I haven't read it, but will. But nothing. Then I realized that there is a typo and a strangely worded sentence that should have been fixed that I missed. *headdesk* I hope no one thinks that I am a pain in the ass grammar- and spelling-challenged writer.

But here's a weird phenomenon...I have my fic up in three archives. The most author-friendly has to be Sycophant Hex, which has a wonderful editing system and a great way to interact with reviewers. There is a page where authors can check on the hit rate of their fics. So I usually check there every so often to see how it's going. Most chapters have a hit rate of between 77-125 hits.

Except chapter 58. Which has a hit rate of 291. And climbing. Every day for the last five days it has at least five hits.

I really wonder what is going on. Is it linked somewhere? Who linked it? I'm really wondering about this. Especially since chapter 59 has 92 hits.

I want to run to Best Buy and buy my scanner tonight...and have lovely new icons then! I can't wait to scan in some of my older photos.

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