Jun. 15th, 2012

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Still reading Dances with dragons. It still needs editing, but this time I'm sure that there was no copy editor, because there is an ongoing grammatical error that I assume was a replace all mistake. Martin uses "wroth" every few pages. Sometimes it's correct, as an adjective, but more often it's as a noun, which is to say, instead of "wrath." It jumps out at me every time, which after 700 pages (thus far) has seemed like hundreds of times. He has a lot of speaking forsoothly affectations (no use of thou or stylized verb endings, thank goodness), but this is a simple grammatical problem.
I watched an episode of the new NBC series "Saving Hope" (not to be confused with the Fox sit-com "Raising Hope"). There were some plot problems, but what kept distracting me were the scrubs. The male doctors were wearing generic scrubs, but all the women I noticed were wearing the fitted sort, in solid colors, looking brand new (example below the cut)
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