As we remember, so shall Hollywood

Each year I try to mark the anniversary of the Challenger disaster.

This year we have a preview for an unsubtly named movie - https://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/the-challenger-disaster/ - that appears to center on the Thiokol engineers and NASA personnel who made the decision to launch the fatal flight. There's a clear line about "testifying before a Presidential Commission" and a lot of noise about "coverup". I'm not sure that's the right word, but I'll most likely see the movie.

Small mental note - time does heal some things

I discovered accidentally today that I had no problem writing "my master's thesis" like normal people do. That was not true for a long time.

While working on the thing I changed all instances of "thesis" to "Grendel" as in "the monster that must be slain". At one point my only way of making forward progress on the actual text was to use the word processor to replace all instances of "the" with "the fucking". It's remarkably more relaxing to read or write about "the fucking experiment" and "the fucking results". Of course I changed it back before sending it to readers, but it got me through one four-day-weekend push.

(Preemptively, I categorized everything to do with my PhD writing as "Mordred" as in "that bastard". I still don't like the 'd' word but it's not as trauma-laden as it used to be.)