More crosswords
Oct. 13th, 2002 05:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanMy sleep schedule is to schedules what military music is to music. Or perhaps, what kosher bacon is to bacon, i.e. "something else entirely."
Napped from midnight or so until 4 am, got up in need of a glass of water, failed to be tired, checked email, did the Sunday, September 29 crossword.
Good theme, yes. "Title Holders": clues like "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and "The Natural," for which you had to supply the name of the title character. However, I ended up with 13 wrong letters, my second-worst this year by a long shot, because all of these names that I didn't know (OK, I knew The Natural) were crossed with names I didn't know, like "Nicholas who directed 'The Man Who Fell to Earth'" and "'South Pacific' director Joshua" and "Author Adler". (As well as some other strange words like "Israel's Bank _____".) Disastrously bad score; over a thousands points behind my goal, and only fifty points ahead of my worst week to date. (Almost a hundred points worse than one of the weeks where I made it only halfway through the Saturday in half an hour.)
I'm not sure I'm getting any better at this. If my performance at this past year's tournament was a fluke, then it's going to be another three years before I'm eligible for one of those nice safe D awards again.
Napped from midnight or so until 4 am, got up in need of a glass of water, failed to be tired, checked email, did the Sunday, September 29 crossword.
Good theme, yes. "Title Holders": clues like "The French Lieutenant's Woman" and "The Natural," for which you had to supply the name of the title character. However, I ended up with 13 wrong letters, my second-worst this year by a long shot, because all of these names that I didn't know (OK, I knew The Natural) were crossed with names I didn't know, like "Nicholas who directed 'The Man Who Fell to Earth'" and "'South Pacific' director Joshua" and "Author Adler". (As well as some other strange words like "Israel's Bank _____".) Disastrously bad score; over a thousands points behind my goal, and only fifty points ahead of my worst week to date. (Almost a hundred points worse than one of the weeks where I made it only halfway through the Saturday in half an hour.)
I'm not sure I'm getting any better at this. If my performance at this past year's tournament was a fluke, then it's going to be another three years before I'm eligible for one of those nice safe D awards again.