explanatory notes

The Carter saga is a fiction series I am drawing up about the life and times of Peter Clarke Carter, an English naval officer during the Napoleonic Wars. There are about nine stories I have in the works, each covering one year from 1805 up to 1814.. The difficulties that Peter has in his naval career are only exacerbated by the complications in his personal life. He has a long standing enemy in Charles Thancery, an officer he crossed in his lieutenant days. He always has to sort out the myriad... read more

The inevitable consequence of friendship couldn’t be truer in the case of Dick.   It was merely through our cousinship that we became friends, after meeting on his postal round one morning. I mistook him for his brother, which broke the ice if nothing else, and invited him round to my place for a coffee after work. This progressed to evening visits, when he would bring the children sweets from his mother (my aunt), watch Kerrang! and catch up on what we had both been up to in the years...

Here's what I'm thinking, folks. Having an immediate audience (even if a very small one) might just help me write this epic fantasy novel, so if you be interested, you can get chapter-by-chapter updates as I go along. Here be the rules: 1. Updates will come in the form as friends-only posts to this livejournal. So, since I have but one official friend on here (heh), if you want to read along you need to create an account (but it's free and all) and request to be my friend. If I actually know you...

What is stress? Physiological Psychological Stressors Events Good or catastrophe Cognitive Perception Interpretation Emotion Threat Challenge Appraising: Size it up, cope General Adaption Syndrome (GAS) 1) Alarm 2) Resistance 3) Exhaustion 4) Flight or fight Personality A: Hostile B: Mellow Knowledge/Learning 1) Surface: Definitions, descriptions 2) Deep: Apply, analyze, hypothesize 3) Overlearning Building resistence to stress 1) Walk...

[03 November 2007, 19:14:41] PsiStatusWin: 4 [03 November 2007, 19:14:43] PsiStatusWin: 3 [03 November 2007, 19:14:44] PsiStatusWin: 2 [03 November 2007, 19:14:46] PsiStatusWin: 1 [03 November 2007, 19:15:04] SNOWBoredPete: kukukukuu [03 November 2007, 19:15:07] PsiStatusWin: woo, Tomoya is doing it hte smart way [03 November 2007, 19:15:08] SNOWBoredPete: d00mghost [03 November 2007, 19:15:34] Opt512: KIAI! [03 November 2007, 19:15:46] tirandirth: if that were a pen and paper RPG, I bet one player...

I thought I had bought all of Dickens' novels, but I realized after some checking that there are still three I need to get. On a related note, there are some novels that I do have but aren't Penguin editions, which I've come to prefer because of the explanatory notes that they include.