OK, so I haven't updated since August. This is in part due to being lazy, and mostly because I was meant to write about my trip to London, and never did. Them's the breaks.

I come to you today with a specific message, though I'm really still not sure whether this is a good idea to just throw out onto the internet, or really how to convey what I want to say. I feel I'm probably going to come across as a bit crass, this is not my intention. I'm not going to f-lock this post, or hide it under a cut. This is for the small chance that someone I don't know will come across it, and find something useful. This is probably quite egotistical, I dunno. Sue me.

I mentioned earlier in the year that my Dad was taken into hospital with quite serious lung problems. He got his operation, recovered in hospital and went back to work. At the end of October he got worse again, and was taken back into hospital on Halloween. He died in his sleep in the early hours of Monday the 2nd of November. I spent the 2 weeks after that at home helping my Mum sort out all the arrangements (for those who don't know, I'm an only child, and I live 150 miles away from my parents' house), and while I am sad that he's gone, I've been rather prepared for this to happen for the last 5 years or so.

Dad was a smoker up until his first trip to hospital, where he was finally forced to quit, but he was also an alcoholic, and had been for my entire life. It's not something I've ever been comfortable telling people, in fact I've probably only ever touched the subject twice in conversation outside of immediate family. It meant that I essentially cut him out of my life from my teens onwards, not that he was really in the house all that often, so it didn't matter too much to me. In more recent years I'd grown a lot more resentful of him, primarily because of the acute stress he put Mum under with all his debts and scams and scrabbling for any chance to get out of the house and down to the pub. Not only did he almost get the house repossessed, but he thought nothing of selling all Mum's jewelery to give himself some spending money. It's also the main reason he wasn't strong enough to fight off the infection that killed him.

I've painted a rather grim picture there, and I possibly haven't created any fans of my Dad, but the above was not my main issue with him, it was this:

My Dad was the smartest, funniest and damn kindest man I've ever met, when he was sober. He encouraged me in everything I did, didn't insult my intelligence even at 11, and introduced me to storytelling in a truly inspiring way. The fact that I got so little time with such a great Dad because he was too weak to admit he had a problem- which he could have overcome easily- is what I resented the most, both past and present.

I feel a lot of regret, because I never confronted Dad myself or let him know how I felt about his drinking. I have no idea whether he would have paid attention to me- probably not, he certainly never listened to Mum- but even if I couldn't have turned everything around to a magical fairytale ending, I could maybe have gotten a better understanding of him. From hearing all the stories of his life over the last few weeks, it is startling how little I knew of him. Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20.

I'm not looking for comments filled with condolences or sympathies- the mountain of cards and over 100 people in attendance at the funeral were enough. I just have a small romantic notion in my head that someone I don't know will stumble across this, and it will motivate them to speak to their parents, whether far away, estranged, uncomfortable or just in the next room. Also for those who were strong enough to beat the demons that my Dad could not, take the time to let them know how fantastic they are for managing it. Or if someone like that is reading this, I'll tell you myself- you're fantastically brave, never doubt it.

Because I can guarantee you something, in all but the most extreme cases- In the end, you will forgive your parents for just about anything. But the end is far too late.

Dear Metabolism,
We're a great team, I really appreciate the way you handle all the crap I eat every day. HOWEVER. The not getting hungry til midnight needs to stop. It is not condusive to early nights and/or waking up in time for showers, buses and trains.
ilu,
Finny xx

I finished reading fruits basket tonight too, after steadily buying the whole manga for 4 years... Ending made me happy and sad at the same time, was a very calming end, didn't leave any giant questions and with a huge gap in time for fanfics to exploit

Going to Protoplay tomorrow, should be a blast. In other news I'm EV training my Scyther wtfiswrongwithmesomanykricketunesomgggg.

so yeah.

So, that's the first week of my summer holiday gone, one week left then it's back to sunny Kilsyth for more ambient occlusion and silent rage at the lack of information I'm being given about, well, everything. It's not been a bad week really, been home with mum and dad for it, and nothing much dramatic has happened, which is always nice. Still managed to be in a fairly rotten mood for most of the week, not really wanting to speak to people irl or online, so I just kinda messed about in pokemon and stuff.

I downloaded peggle on my 360, since the guys in solid gold have only just discovered it, and played it 4-player with a few of them a couple of times. I only won once, but that was enough for an achievement =D giving me... 4 achievements in peggle I think? not gonna be getting any more I dun think hehe...

Speaking of 360, I've lost my headset... I distinctly remember thinking "I'm never gonna use this", and putting it in a bag 'somewhere'. Problem is, this room is full of bags and boxes and suitcases of stuff from the flat in Dundee, sooo it's been lost. Slightly annoying, nowhere near as annoying as losing 2 pokemon cartridges though *mourns Emerald and Sapphire* I will find them Someday! T_T I also managed to slice my finger open on a box while seaching for the headset, so I've had lots of fun whining about that /pose

Went to see Harry Potter on Wednesday, wasn't really holding out too much expectations for it (memories of all the HarryxGinny angst in the book really put me off), but I quite enjoyed it really. For being the second biggest book, it didn't really feel like all that much happened tbh, but the 'child' cast seem to be a lot more at home with their roles nowadays. I would personally pay to see a film just about Luna Lovegood, but that might just be me... as always, the comedy bits appealed to me a lot more than all the angsty stuff, so here, have a gif of a funny bit :B


We went out for tea last night on a spur of the moment type decision, so we went to the ashvale for fish of the battered and fried variety. I had Surf n' Turf, was so goood omnomnom.

Also yesterday, I got a haircut (again forgot that hair looks longer when it's wet, so it's a bit shorter than I was expecting xD), and ended up dragging mum out looking at mp3 players. If I'm gonna be taking buses to London I want dedicated music dammit! So after the first 3 I wanted being sold out, I went for this one:

It's teeny! smaller than my phone, which I feel is impressive for 8gig. More expensive than I wanted to go, but all the cheaper ones I liked were gone, so yeah. I like it lots though :3 Not eve halfway filled it up with music from Kenpachi, but it already has double the music that's on my phone. Will get more music off Yachiru before the bus on Monday

I had the dentist this morning, my second trip to see Mr. Neil this week. Went for check-up and xrays earlier in the week, found I needed 2 fillings so I got preferential treatment (lucky me...) to get seen again before I leave again. 2 top teeth, so clamps and things were involved, but it was completely drama free, no pain from the clamps, couldn't feel the drilling at all, so s'all good. the anasthetic has worn off now though, so the whole right side of my face hurts :( got a doctors appointment at 2,30, then I'm free of appointments forever! for a few months at least.

Been playing iRO on the free Valkyrie server, got a swordie called Ryndoran, just like the one on my paid account. Mixed feelings about Valkyrie, my main peeve is getting rid of most of the warps between towns. Ahh Kafras. you don't know what you have til it's gone~ On the plus side, love the new repeatable quests, even if the jump from asking you to kill fabres and pupas to killing pecos is a little harsh, I shall prevail! Or at least I shall prevail until I go back to Glasgow and stop playing again.

But yes! Monday! Got a 3 hour bus trip back to glasgow in the afternoon, then meetings with Nomis will happen at some point, and then an 8 hour trip to London! :O London busyness makes me tetchy, but I find myself looking forward to it! It's lmost sorta like I'm just about going somewhere in the summer! That never happens =D

I'm hungry, and I dunno if I can eat yet because of the fillings... Also ow. ^^;;

So yeah work was awesome today.

Not because of actual work, but because I CAUGHT A SHINY SCYTHER IN MA LUNCH BREAK WOOOOOOOO! 8D

His name is Skittles and he has a Serious nature, so he wants to kill me in my sleep for giving him a sill name like Skittles, but I don't care because He's my Skittles and I wuv him so.

So yeah.

Other than that, life has been quiet for me pretty much. I have however, been a lazy procrastinating waste of space when I should have updated LJ weeks ago to let people know that Me Dad is ok, out of hospital, and almost ready to go back to work =D He was given 6 weeks off, After being in the Hospital for over a month, so yeah. He was bored lol. Last time I was back home he randomly took me down to the beach for lunch, which was totally unexpected but really appreciated. According to Mum though the healthier he gets the more douche-like he returns to being, so I guess he hasn't learned. Ho hum~

Work has been rather crazy lately, at a point where some bits of the pipeline are finished, so most people got shuffled into different departments/tasks. In my room I got kind of left behind, or rather I was given a different new job to the rest of the room, a less cool job by far. I was rather resentful fo it, but at the end of the day, the job I was given is loads easier I guess... And more entertaining that just running the renderfarm!

IN the evenings I am mostly playing Pokemon Diamond, having returned to it after completing the story mode in Platinum. My pokedex now sits at 461 out of 493, with almost a full box worth of stuff to evolve to fill in more pages. I am totally psyched to complete this pokedex! Watch me burn myself out of pokeymans before the gold/silver remakes come out lol

Really looking forward to ma holiday, which begins as of friday evening. Going home for a week, then spending a few days in London with Nomiiii. Shall be death, but awesomely fun death <3

I feel like I'm blathering without too much to actually say, so I reckon I'm gonna stop there :p I promise one of these days I'll update more regularly! =D

don't worry, I'm not actually updating xD

I said once before how we have frogs on the way to work? This was in spring, when it was wet all the time, so it made sense. Now we have these:

SO TINY 8D they're about 1 and a half cm big, and there were hundreds of them hopping all over the road. Was hard to not step on them D:

also chasing them down for photos was tricky lol. I had to sprint for the bus cuz it went past while i was stood taking pictures... Another guy stopped to help them up the kerb towards the river. Was epic.

Aaand since i was loading pics off my phone, have some other random occurences from recent times:
( quite possible you've seen some of these already if i've seen you in the last few weeks~ )

That'll be all for now, will do a real update sometime =D

It issss~ quarter past 9? I have just put the last tray of a batch if cookies in the oven. What have you done today? :p

-Well, I call them cookies, I used my regular cookie recipe, but I seem to have made the dough too wet and got a solid cake batter instead. So they're somewhere between cookies and rock cakes lol. Also for having the rind of two lemons, and a little lemon juice, they taste feck all like lemon. Still nice though, as the 2 that mysteriously vanished will testify.

So for some reason my body clock decided it had had enough sleep at half 7. When I went to bed at half 3. Not amused, body clock. Very much not amused.

Went to see Wolverine on Thursday with the right honourable Nomi, and it has won my title of Heartwarming Rom Com of the Year. Perhaps unsurprisingly, what with Wolverine being ma boi, I rather enjoyed it, even if it was very silly in places (streaking across the Rockies and CSI: Miami explosions? Why the hell not?) It also meant I got to explain a little of the Origin story at work, and have poeple backing away from me slowly. Me so cool 8D

Speaking of work, we are all very concerned about OMGSWINEFLUUU. There are now antibacterial handwash bottles at the entrance to every room, and therefore people use it purely because getting up to use it means you get a break for a minute or two. The room smells almost permantly of aloe vera now~

Also apparently my estimation of industry terms was wrong. I thought that "crunch time" meant lots of work, but apparently it actually means "no new work for 3 weeks" I have actually done everything there is for me to do, and so I am now sitting reading facial animation books. Learning feels weird xDD especially when it has a little tip bar at the side of the page telling you how to uv map a face in like 3 seconds. I just stared at the information for a few minutes, feeling like the world was somehow a nicer place.

Oh, lol yeah work. I forget where I've mentioned this and where I haven't. I got my contract extended again, so I should be there until the end of the production now =D Also means I'm finally getting paid the correct amount hopefully.

I dun think there's anything else really been going on... Dad's still in hospital, not exactly sure why since we thought he'd be discharged this week but he seems fine so idk

I'm getting the bus back home for the weekend kinda soon, hooray for 240 mile round trip! As we are in the season of maaany family birthdays, there is meant to be a meal type thing tomorrow. Also means i need to go into town before the bus and but everyone a present OTL They're all getting chocolat, no originality from me!

Should go get ready now :3

Courtesy of 3 panel soul


I want a robot penguin! D:

(also saw wolverine tonight which was awesome. Also also I should be asleep, but my hair is still wet...)

Today was a mighty day for the culinary life of Bradworth. As I have a weekend where I don't need to be anywhere or do anything specific, I decided to spend today cooking. So I looked up a few recipes, went and bought all the ingredients i needed, and roasted me a chicken =D

mmmmm roast chicken with lemon and garlic, real gravy, and (an attempt at) sautee'd carrots and potatoes. Veggies were slightly under done, but the rest was amazing.

-yes, that is my fork at the corner. I licked my plate when I was done ^^;;
And I cooked MOAR!

That would be a pear and blackberry crumble, with cinnamon, vanilla and a liiiitle chocolate :3

I ate it with ice cream.

So~ perhaps not too big a deal for some, but I am pleased with my achievements for the day =D And as such I am now in bed dossing around for the rest of the evening

On slightly more important news, me Dad had his operation on Wednesday, and it was a complete success. It had been moved back a few weeks due to nhs being, well, nhs, so he finally went into hospital on tuesday, scheduled for his operation at noon the following day. He didn't get back from surgery til 10 that night, dunno whether he was late in to theatre or anything, so mum was getting a little worried by that point. However everything went just about as well as could have been hoped for.

( cut for operation details )

So he's gonna be bedridden for probably another 3 weeks, He can't even stand right now, and is on constant morphine and other such fun things. While I've not spoken to him, Mum says he seems in good spirits, if exhausted, and the cough vanished immediatelly after the op, so a complete success =D

Hmm, I was gonna work on my moodtheme a bit tonight, but I've ended up playing with pokemon sketches instead... I've now set up a pokemonathon-specific DA account, which now has a few of my rough plans for upcoming submissions shoved into it's scraps. Not planning to post on the community again until I have a backlog of at least 20 though, which at the moment looks like it'll take me all year lol, only on Bayleef :(

isn't she a helpful Bay though :3

Some impressive procrastination goin on with this post... I've only been writing it for 3 hours orz Too tired to think whether I have anythng else to report, but I doubt it really. Not much happening with me lately :)

Eeeee I got a Shaymin

I was so retardedly nervous about actually going to a pokemon event, it was hard to make myself go up to the counter area where the nice lady was supervising the downloads lol. My pikachu DS got attention too, with attendant lady trying to take photos of it.

I just calculated my shaymin's IVs... man they're rubbish orz

Definatley amongst the oldest people there, but ironically this worked in our favour as people under 16 weren't allowed to enter the prize draw kekekeke.

So, rewinding slightly, I was spending the day with rob, who was passing through on his way south for easter. So we went to download me a shaymin first, then wandered round shops a little (me only just remembering I needed to buy a birthday present for granny, so I got her some chocolate). We then headed back the the shaymin event, because there was a BALOONIST scheduled to be there. Rob got a squirtle without a tail, and I got a feraligatr with a red tail that was originally meant to be a totodile. Ichiban was then eaten, sadly with no set lunch menu as it was a holiday. I did however manage to get myself stuck in a toilet cubicle which was both unnerving and hilarious. Managed to free myself after some frantic scrabbling so all is well.

And because there wasn't enough pokeymans in the day, we found pokemon kinder eggs in A1 Comics. Conversation with sales assistant went a little like this:
Clerk: "the chocolate's actually really nice"
Me: "I really don't need more pointless figures though
Clerk: "They're not pointless, they're pencil toppers."
Me: ".........SOLD"

Oh, and when we were in Gamestation they had the Street Fighter figures, so I went and checked if the Ryu figures had the awesome typo in his bio page. It did. I lol'd

A 3-hour bus ride later and I'm back in Aberdeen for easter, with delicious free food and even more delicious free broadband, this weeks bleach was downloaded along with new FMA thingamajig that all the cool kids are talking about. Bleach had been watched and was amusing, FMA can wait til tomorrow, too tired for subtitles methinks.

Just need to dig out my bed. Again.

waaah, April already? For working with some rather crazy people, I encountered absolutely no April Fools this year. This is obviously because I remembered what day it was and was prepared.

Mr Director Boss man announced today that after the Easter Holiday we will officially be in crunch time! Huzzah =D As far as I can tell all this means is that taking holidays is Verboden until July. That's like 3 months D: However he did also say that the studio will close for 2 weeks in July, forcing everyone to take a fortnight holiday. This sounds awesome in theory, but in practice is more likely a ploy to get us all to use up our holidays before WE'RE ALL FIRED DUN DUN DUUUUUN. Also slightly confusing for me as my current contract is up at the start of May... Will I get another one? Who knows, who cares xD certainly not me

So what've I been up to? I played through to the end of The World Ends With You recently, I really have far too much love for that game, it's such a silly concept xD Especially as with the correct stats you can make the guys crossdress, so all through the rather epic ending cutscenes I was painfully aware that the main chracter had a pretty white dress on, coupled with a studded black leather biker cap. Also the other guy was wearing a pink gypsy skirt. Much lulz were had >3

New game plus mode in that has been switched out for the new Crystal Chronicles game, which me mammy bought me because I am too skint to buy the vidya <33 It plays exactly like the first DS CC game, which I loved to bits, so I'm enjoying it greatly. Although it feels like the ai for your party members is dumber? as funny as it is to watch your allies hurl themselves off the same cliff repeatedly, I then need to waste MP healing them. As such my party consists of Bradley the Emo Clavat, Teyin the Liltie Who Always Gets Lost, Neri the Selkie that Shouts in a Boy Voice, and the star of the show, Trevor the Stupidly Overpowered Yuke. And they have many merry adventures together on the commute to and from work =D

In the evenings I have mostly been putting off painting, with an attempt to set myself a deadline for saturday morning to finish the damn thing. Almost halfway, so I'll need to actually make some progress on it tonight :O

Also lolwtf I passed 1000 pageviews on DA after... what, 4 years on the site. lol the wonders that posting pokemans does for your popularity. Speaking of which I was thinking of making a seperate DA for the pokmonathon for gen2 onwards, dnno what to call it though. Any suggestions? :p

Got a work meal/night out tomorrow too, as a sort of commemoration of the people who have quit/been fired/left in the last month. We're going to an indian restaraunt. The Italians are not impressed with this choice xDD mmmmmm curry

Ooh also I might finally manage it! There is a pokemon download event in a place where I can concievably be! 10 years I've been trying to get to one of the damn things to no avail. But not this time. Ohhhh no, Shaymin shall be MINE.

Right it's almost half 8. I have like 2 and a half hours before I need to sleep. Need to do the dishes, make and eat food, and paint. Off I go I guess :)

*has rather uninspiring workload for the day
*keeps needing to reboot programs
*spends time drawing
*spends some more time thinking about modeling stuff in maya
*spends a little more time thinking about arty things to do when gets backs to flat
*gets back to flat
*eats food
*watches FMA movie
*at end of FMA movie, realises that wasn't how I was going to spend evening
*now time to sleep

...I have no idea where I deviated from the "art" plan for the evening...

In other news I see frogs in the morning walking to work and that is awesome.

Hello thar 4am, not seen you for a while...

So, yeah, I'm awake, and as I need to stay awake for a while I figure nows as good a time as any to update this damn thing.

-oh ffs shelley just threw up *cleans chair*

right, where was i? Well from the running to the whims of cats, you may be able to tell I'm in aberdeen this weekend. Went in to town with mum yesterday, bought some bedding and went for lunch. Also canceled my direct debits to charity. Feel a little bit of a dick for doing it, but I can't afford it now >_>

Because I finally got off my ass and got a flat in Glasgow =O Studio flat in the centre of Glasgow, so it's pretty handy :3 Rather expensive though, gonna be running quite a tight budget for the next 6 months...

I owe a lot to Nomi and her parents for letting me stay with them for the last 7 months, especially since it was only meant to be a temporary thing. I feel very guilty for imposing for such a long time, regardless of how many times they tell me they were happy to have me there etc. More than anything it was the fact that I was going back to somewhere that felt like a home which helped me to transition to a new job in a new corner of the country. I'll write them a letter this week I think, providing I can find some words :)

I finished the pokemonathon a couple of weeks ago! =D First generation at least :p I'll get started on Gen 2 some time soon, get up a backlog before I start posting again~ Maaaan the community has been so dead the last week or so :p

Also completed Kameo this evening, apparently the place where I fell off the level, died, got bored and switched it off ast time I was home was the room directly before the final boss... Which I then found a way to negate all his attacks... Ending was totally lame, with heavy "sequel" themes. Wonder if Rare will ever be allowed to make the sequel.

Played Banjo 3 again, found an orb (a level opening orb I think), took it to the marker on the map for its pedestal, way was blocked. Stuck the orb to a thing that looked like a big magnet, couldn't see what to do next. Wandered aimlessly around hub world for a while. Since I completed Kazooie on my 360 with all the stop-n-swop items cllected, it unlocked the "special" crates in the hub world. I could only find/reach one, it contained a union jack flag. Woo.

I've also been reading Watchmen, which nomi lent me. If I said I was enjoying it I think I'd be lying. Really I find it more compelling than enjoyable, however I've less than a quarter of it left so it's not like I hate it or anything. It's just all rather disturbing, and I don't like any of the characters. Apart from Rosharch. He's cool :)

I'm tired :( It's about an hour since I was woken up now, for once I actually woke up with the whole disorientation thing. Mainly because I was listening to a voice I didn't know I guess. Basically there was some drama here and now I'm waiting in the house on me tod for news. Which I why I'm rambling rather aimlessly about things I've been doing.

But I can't think of anything else to write about, and my feet are cold... The cats have all gone out too, no entertainment for me. Also TV at 3am is shit lol

Happy new year everyone! =D

Lol, I fail at updating rather hard lately, but I'm fairly sure nothing of much note has been going on. Still working, that's the same, though I've completed my 6 month internship and am now on a 3 month contract while they figure out what's going on. Also had some shennanigans with the inland revenue taxing me waaaay more than they should've, but a day of wandering round Aberdeen in the snow and making phonecalls should have sorted that out. Rebate for meeee =D

It was my birthday last week, which was rather uneventful, just the way I like it =D Went home to have the big family meal last weekend, was excellent as always, though I think mum was more than a little stressed. Lots of stuff going on back home so I guess it's understandable :(

Mainly, I got money with which I bought myself 2 ds games: Professor Layton and Time Hollow Been playing Time Hollow on my lunch breaks, almost finished it and it's only been a week! I guess it's about the same length as hotel dusk, only 3 or 4 hours, but so. easy. Story is quite good though (when you can figure out what the hell's going on, time travel ftw), very much a "my first point and click"

I also finished Ocarina of Time for the first time in 10 years... and may or may not have cried at the ending. There is no hard evidence either way. It's always weird seeing how much easier the games have gotten from when I played them the first time. So much Zelda love right now <3

Err, I'm running out of topics here! Still doing the pokemonathon, am on Dragonite now, only 2 left!! (plus... well wait and see :p)

I never really get the "post the first sentence from the first post of each month" malarky, partly because i often have gaps of a month or more, but also because the first sentence doesn't really tend to tell me all that much. Ohh well, here they are anyway :3

Jan: Since my file finally sent a minute ago, dad is going to let me finally give up on it =D

Feb: ... I wrote this article *link*

This is so weird... but funny at th same time :3

Mar: At around quarter to 11 this morning I was walking down the street, minding my own business, when a bug flew into my eye.

Apr: Amazon (unsurprisingly) lied to me.

May:...livejournal tamogotchis? that are pokemon and dinosaurs? why not? =D
omg I'd totally forgotten about these, my dragon Tamogotchi is dead, and the Pokemon turned out to be a Frosslass. Also somebody's been feeding them... Awesome!

Jun: I have the flat to myself for the majority of the next 4 and a bit weeks, and I'm quite enjoying it so far. It had a comforting quality to it I guess- at least at night it does, school time is another matter hehe.

Jul: Wow, it's only been 6 days? This has probably been one of the fullest weeks I've had in years, though I guess it's not surprising.

Aug: I'm not in fact dead! Internet is disabled at work in a cunning ploy to keep productivity :o

Sep: I was in Woolworths today.

They had their Christmas chocolates.

Wat. RIP Woolies D:

Oct: no post in october

Nov: Only post in november was the rainbow colours meme. "I can sing a Woodlouse~"

Dec: Woah, wait, the last time I updated was the end of September? Poor show, Bradworth, poor show indeed...
However, I don't really know what I should be writing about, the time just seems to be blurring by, and even though I have done things - I know I have!- I just can't seem to remember any of them right now...

Hopefully I'll be back on in contemplation mode before the bells on Hogmanay, to give more thoughs and feelings and such. For now I have a Scyther to colour! :O

Happeh Burfdae Nomi~~~

Omnomnomnomnomnomnomnom

*gets on a train*

Merry Christmas everyone~

Once again I am holed up in Cruden Bay, desparately trying to not die of overexposure to my family @_@ Presents were nice, food was good as always, think i'm gonna go play DS in fromt of the fire now :3

Have a good one!

Woah, wait, the last time I updated was the end of September? Poor show, Bradworth, poor show indeed...

However, I don't really know what I should be writing about, the time just seems to be blurring by, and even though I have done things - I know I have!- I just can't seem to remember any of them right now...

Work has been going well, though there seems to be a lot of stress kicking around our department :/ It's crazy thinking that I'm nearing the end of my internship... Will they offer me a full position? I really have no idea.

My free time has been divided between n64 emulators, drawing pokemans and playing perfect world. None of which I've been all that productive with lately orz

I stopped playing my emulation of banjo-kazooie (for reasons i'll get to in a minute), and instead am replaying ocarina of time. Not exactly a speed run, but not exactly dallying around getting all the pieces of heart/gold skultulas, I've done that before and I'd rather enjoy the experience of playing the actual game. I fell foul of state saves however, and pressed "save" instead of "restore", subscequently deleting my file. However since I can get to the temple of time in about 2 and a half hours it wasn't a huge loss. Plus, one can never watch that cutscene with Darunia dancing too many times.

I've reached horsea in the pokemonathon (116 if you're keeping track) but can't quite be bothered with it. Simple pokemon bother me more than complex ones, as I keep thinkig I need to compensate for the fact that the drawing is easier. I should get that (and seadra >_>) done tonight really, I'm dangling over the precipice of pokeshame, and there are people catching me up D:

Actually I dun think I've played perfect world in a while, I got to lvl 29, and was just running around doing quests... same as always. Good for a diversion, and hey, it's free =D

I had a long weekend last weekend, as I needed to use up my holidays before christmas, so I went home for the weekend. After about 3 months of attempts, I finally managed to get my frinds to go out for sushi. It was rather delicious, though I have to confess the texture of sea bass made me gag >_< most embarassing. Will definately go back there though, the tempura and the skewars looked lovely~

On this same day we went back to my friends house and watched Hamlet. The 4-hour long, Kenneth Branagh production of Hamlet that we watched for our Higher English class. Have to say I enjoyed it just as much, if not more that I remembered, and was surprised at just how well I followed everything. I kept having to fill in the details for Alison, who kept falling asleep. Still, good times were had. I should see if i can find a dvd of it :3

Another product of last weekend was the end of a long road for me. I finally picked up a 360. I haven't got it with me in Stirling, but I signed up for a Live account while I was at home, and if anyone is interested my gamertag is BradworthPI though I won't be on until christmas at least, and my games consist of the ones I got in the bundle lol (or should that be Halol?) I did however get Banjo-Kazooie: nuts and bolts. I'm not about to do a review of it, after all I only got 15 jiggies, but I am going to give my First Impressions, as a fan of the original (and to a lesser extent it's sequel):

I find myself trying so hard to not be cynical of this game. The fact that it is not the same genre as the 2 that went before it is not a bad thing, it is just a different thing. As such, it is much easier to enjoy the game for what it is if you can forget that it's even a banjo game. Shame the game never lets you forget, with levels filled with memoribilia from the first 2 games, remixes of the music, and the exact same cast of googly eyed npcs. All this does is make me remember how great all of these elements were when in their original setting. Now it just feels like I'm the proverbial small child, and Rare is the taller sibling holding what I want over my head, out of reach, and laughing at my attempts to grab it.

The whole thng really does feel to me like Rare are flipping me off, with the hint on the loading screen: "can't get used to the vehicles? Buy the original Banjo-Kazooie on xbox live!" Which I will, but not yet. (When gamestation find my code for a free download that I got for preordering nuts and bolts with them). In short, I'm tring to like it, but I have the sinking feleing it's going to do everything in it's power to make me despise one of the best games from my childhood.

Also while I was home I got to catch up with Erlend for an evening, which cnsisted of finally seeing Pixar's Cars. I enjoyed it muchly, and we watched it upscaled, so not quite HD but close, and the little details it picked out were astounding. I'd place it somewhere around the level of the incredibles in my unofficial ranking of pixar films (where Wall-E is masterful, and Rattatoullie is not a dvd on my "must own" list), so around the top 5 I'd say. I'll get a proper catch up with erlend at christmas though, I miss my giant biker/butcher teddy bear xD

Went to Glasgow today for a wander round with nomi, we went into an art shop where I managed to get a replacement for my Chunky Plastic Twisty Pencil, and also some iridescent blue ink and another caligraphy pen. I'm meant to draw summat for nomi's return later tonight. Oooh also while we were there the guy in front of me dropped a bottle of black ink. As a firm believer in Schadenfreude, I found the subscequent smashing and ink everywhere-ness of it all rather cool. The assisstant's attempt to clean it up with a yellow duster was a little cringeworthy though :/

I also bought the Tales of Beedle the Bard, which I started reading on the train, and finished reading at about half 8. A rather adorable collection of 5 fairytales, written as a sort-of companion to the harry potter books. Totally worth it for Dumbledore's footnotes at the end of each of the tales =D

Bah, I've been sitting writing this thing for almost an hour, not accomplished much have i? :p Oh well, I feel it's as close to an update as we're gonna get for a while~

*vanishes again*

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Well, what a couple of weeks it's been.

Work has been crazy, stressful and exhausting, but still good fun and I'm still enjoying it, albeitly cautiously :p They seem to have settled on my role within the production: Wrangler. This amuses me more than it should =D Less amusing is the fact that I was given supervisor tasks- this I don't approve of, I'm not the most patient of teachers, especially when the person I'm teaching Blatantly. Doesn't. Listen.

This is a good weekend because it's a holiday monday in glasgow, meaning I get an extra day at home~ So with any luck it shall be filled with much pokeymans-related artwork. At the very least I intend to get the next set scanned in, and finish the machop evolutions. I love my tablet, yes indeed I do <3

I was meant to be going for sushi tonight, but Alison was stupid and didn't bother to book it even though we've been planning to go for a week, and instead asked me to call last night after I'd been working/travelling all day and didn't get home til almost 10. Surprisingly enough the place was fully booked. Poor show guys, I'm not happy with you >_>

There's probably more, but I can't think of it right now. Playing FF Tictacs A2, it is much delicious win.

-Going back to a chunky keyboard after weeks on a laptop is hard... I keep not hitting the keys hard enough lol

1. Comment on this post.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Think of 5 fictional characters whose name starts with that letter and post their names and your comments on these characters in your LJ.

Nomi has bestowed upon me the Letter S, so let's see I can if do this xD

1. Squall Leonheart- Final Fantasy VIII. My favourite protagonist, from my favourite Final Fantasy. As you well know, Nomi, as it's why you gave me his letter <3 Forced to be the main character, all he really wants is for everyone to shut up and stop asking him questions dammit. His complete ineptitude at waltzing won me over. Also he is delicious androgynous hotness.

2. Shigure Sohma- Fruits Basket. One of the first characters introduced, an author of trashy romance novels. Has a fetish for schoolgirls and innuendo, and also enjoys tormenting his publisher. A typical comedy character, he has many hidden agendas and seems to be one of the cruelest people in the story. I dunno whether he redeems himself at the end or not...

3. Shihouen Yoruichi- Bleach. A ninja woman who is also a kitty- a highly original combination! In a show where everyone and their plushies use a sword, she uses martial arts. She must have a sword though... hmmmmmmmm.

4. Sammy Winchester- Supernatural. Law student who takes a sudden career change into demonhunting. There to be a dork so his brother looks cooler. Has an extreme fondness for being dragged away by the foot, and angsting about dead mothers/girlfriends/goldfish.

5. Seto Kaiba- Yu Gi Oh Abridged. A child genius billionaire tycoon, who attends a normal high school for some undisclosed reason. Is a total douche to everyone, and refuses to believe in magic even while standing in the middle of an alternate dimensions constructed out of shadow magic. SCREW THE RULES, I HAVE MONEY.

I would like t point out that not only do I not really watch TV (apart from comedy, I did try to put Stephen Fry as a fictional charater though...) or films, but my memory for names is chronic. Unless they're Pokemon. On the other hand it took me about 3 seconds to come up with 5 pokemon beginning with S u__u


Which reminds me: LOL ROTOM TOASTER. (pokemon related, move on if you're not interested, check out Serebii.net if you are xD)