The Report

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Birthday - Walter Koenig (TV - Star Trek)
Battle of San Jacinto Day (Nicaragua)
Chusok (Korea)
Moon Festival (China)

I’ve spent the entire week pretty much incommunicado from everyone, so’s I can sleep at weird hours play moar Spoar* get some projects done and go to work. I have yet to figure out how to arrange my schedule around this damn inconvenience that is a job.

But the good news is, I finally managed to edit “The Squid, the Serpent, and the Scot” so that it goes in proper sequence after “Not Yet Born.” It wasn’t actually all that hard, but I’ve been putting it off. The good news is I managed to slide in some important worldbuilding exposition about how doctors function in, you know, SPACE. Bonus!

 

Like all the doctors and PAs in Section 42, Loke and I were practical physicians—we did general treatment on a wide variety of species for all sorts of problems. Section 42 housed no specialist physicians, who usually treated very specific set of problems for a certain species using their expert knowledge—they were in other sections of The Hospital. Still other sections housed the research physicians, who, not surprisingly, did the actual studying, discovering, and analysis that added to everyone’s medical knowledge.

Researchers compiled this knowledge in a huge, complex database, which we all used through our medbots. The bots utilized this database to find relevant information for each patient. Practical physicians were trained extensively in biology and biochemistry on a general level, but nobody could expect us to recall details on a species the same way a specialist would. That was the medbots job; our training heavily emphasized an ability to absorb and synthesize new information quickly and put it to use.

Of course, most of us were interested enough in our studies to delve into it more than that, so even practicals had areas of expertise, like Ghil’s ability with cybernetics or Stumbani’s focus on macrosymbiosis. I pictured Loke as an expert on The Hive—it seemed to fit with her unusual status.

For the record, the catalyst for Stumbani’s interest in macrosymbiosis? A story in itself. It involves one of my favorite ubiquitous characters** and a blatant ripoff of a chestburster. They named it Walter.

Now I’m on to the new Doctors! story, which features a scene with a shoplifter. Exciting! But, you know, it’s a shoplifter! in! SPACE!!, which we all know automatically raises the coolness factor by 100.

Also, I’m working on some more doll clothes, and the debut album for Super Sekrit Doll Project FTW, doing some reading, and watching妹 frantically pack for college. I feel so productive.

How’s your weekend?


*Fun with Spore: 妹: Well, what are your plans for tonight?
AMELIA: The same thing I do every night, 妹: try to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
妹: Enjoy your game.

**One trio of characters shows up in all the varied stories in my head. They either have a whole lot of parallel universe doppelgängers, or they’re dimension-hoppers. I have never figured out which it is.