Night shift

One of the downsides of my boss being out a lot this quarter and then taking a two-week vacation is that I have to open the library every day. Which means being in by 7:45 AM. Every day. As I am not a morning person, this is starting to take its toll. So this week, I'm switching shifts with the assistant and closing the library rather than opening. Ah, blessed sleep. The downside is that I have to work until 9:00, but there are worse things. I wouldn't want to do it all the time, but for a week? Not a problem. Plus, I bet I can get a lot of work done in the evenings, when there are fewer people around. Although I may also be bored and looking for distractions. So consider yourself warned. ;)

One thing I'm hoping to do is use the mornings to write. I've been doing a lot less writing lately, due to lack of time, various distractions, and a touch of writer's block, but I shook my brain a bit loose the other day and got more written (on my ff_exchange assignment, fortunately, since if I hadn't gotten an idea for that I'd be in big trouble!) than I had in ages. So I intend to take advantage of the free mornings and get back in the writing habit. Who knows, maybe it will stick.

Sort-of serious Final Fantasy poll

For some reason, the subject of who the real villain is seems to come up a lot in Final Fantasy discussions. Some of the games are straightforward in that respect (would anyone try to claim that Ultimecia is not the true villain of FFVIII?), but more of them are not. So I say we settle it, "once and for all."

Warning: this poll contains spoilers for Final Fantasies 7, 9, 10, and 12, if you consider the names of characters that might be villainous to be a spoiler.

( Who's the evillest of them all? )

I've left out the older games, because of those, I've only played FFV, and I remember few of the plot details. If you want to discuss them in comments, feel free.