Pumpkin.

Well, that was fun... Having just seen Batman Begins I knew exactly what I wanted to do. My first thoughts were orignally Darth Maul, but I knew I would end up bodging it (in fact, I did bodge this one slightly - note the wound in the bottom right).

I must admit I cheated slightly and used a stencil. I'm not artistically minded, but I did want to do more than a face, simply because I've not got the skills of Simon to put more expression into it than a Picasso portrait.

Excuse me for a moment...

...Hmm, I'm slightly worried about that wound now. I'm not sure the shape will survive until tomorrow. Oh, well.

In other news, World of Warcraft really is addictive, and my well be listed as a favourite thing shortly... but you have to give it time (my word, does it take up a lot of it). When you find yourself teaming up with others to defeat an otherwise impossible goal, and the satisfaction of working with complete unkowns afterwards... great. Just great.

WoW Stats: Level 9 Tauren Hunter

War.

I'm not a big fan of modern games - it's not that I dislike them as such, but I grew up playing Dizzy on the Spectrum, and a part of me still prefers that bygone age.

That said, over the past few months, I keep on reading about World of Warcraft, and I keep thinking: "that looks like fun." It's a pity, then, that I run an ancient PIII with only 256mb RAM and no video card - there's no chance I'd be able to play it... until I upgraded.

Ebay is an evil, evil thing.

So I have just installed the aforementioned game, and watched the pre-play credits, and now I'm waiting for the 200mb of updates to download before I can really do the dirty deed but yet I'm already in love. If nothing else, Blizzard know how to set a scene.

I'm really looking forward to this. You may not see me for some time.

Unless it's crap. In which case I'll be in chat.

Away.

In the week I had off, a colleague and good friend has been promoted at work. Yippee!

She's now my direct boss. Eek!

For entirely other reasons (honest guv) I really need to step up searching for another job. It doesn't help when you hit that wall of not knowing exactly what you want to do. I know what I want for myself, just not how to achieve it.

News.

Bullying isn't an easy subject. It's not an easy subject to deal with as an outsider, and even less so when you are part of it (either as a victim, or the perpetrator).

We've probably all now seen the news story above. It's taken over from Saddam's trial as the front pager of the moment. The girl that was attacked was amazingly brave in what she did, standing up for another child who was being bullied. I know that I couldn't have done that when I was 12. I probably wouldn't do it now.

The scars that she got from the event will no doubt be with her for the rest of her life, and I hope that they will not cause her the slightest of hardships. I almost want to say that she should wear them with pride, but that doesn't do justice to the thought process. She shouldn't be proud to have ended up being caught in that situation - that was not her doing..

She should be proud of what she did, and what she is evidently capable of.



The story of the leaf? The title was a little misleading - it wasn't free falling at all, though it had been. It had got caught in a strand of spider web, and was in a perpetual loop-the-loop. I couldn't close or open the window without breaking the strand, hence the funny angle.

In other news, we went to see Serenity at the flicks last night. It was rather good - we hadn't seen the series it follows on from (Firefly) but it was such a rollercoaster ride it didn't seem to matter, and we definately didn't feel left out. If you have two hours to spare, go see.

Free fallin'.

*Sigh.*

Overheard: "Do you have mozzarella on your computer?"

Arrived by post today (the DVD the label was attached to was ordered). I do not know what to make of this.

Wasted.

Yesterday in chat, Henry Not The Thirst made me promise not to waste my weekend. "Go make a boat and sail it on a river, or climb a tree" he said.

So far, I've been shopping, got my hair cut, played Ur Quan Masters, had some wine and ate a pizza. Oh, and I went to B&Q and bought some bits to fix a sliding door.

Today I need to cut the grass, fix the sliding door and wash my car. I'm not sure if I'll have time to make a boat, but I might go fly the kite, and I'll definately play Ur Quan again.

I'm not entirely sure if I've met my promise or not. Congrats to Hen on his Good Thing though. He has succeeded admirably in not wasting his weekend.

Wreck.

This evening I have been mostly watching Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning.

No doubt it's even funnier if you understand Finnish.

On telly!

Fish.

Well, it's been a few weeks since I last updated, and a fair amount has happened since then. I went to play with Simong and Loisintheforest, and had a jolly time. We even went to the pub (after a fashion*) and met up with Stu and Sarah.

I think I may have drunk too much on an empty stomach (not having eaten all day) and felt somewhat queer** the following morning. This was OK as it wasn't as if we were spending our day at Alton Towers or anything. Oh no. Needless to say I bottled most of the rides but thoroughly enjoyed Rita. Most pleasing.

What else? Oh yes, I've since spent a week or so in Orange, and decided that my current job really is an absolute waste of time and I need to find something more productive. So I did.

Whassat? Well, I've applied for a few things, but the one I'm most keen on involves checking fish stocks. The most interesting parts of my current job involve fish stocks in some way (normally telling people which stock are covered by the fish) and I even went to a show in Brum to talk to people for three days about such matters. It was fun.

This new position involves a drop in salary, but I'm happy with that. I could now cycle to work (it's only five miles away) which would make up for most of the deficit, and Ween and I have decided that it's much better to be happy and skint than sad and wasteful.

I don't know if I'll get it - it's all yet to come and no doubt I've jinxed it by talking about it, but it does highlight how fed up I am at the moment. Even if I don't get this job, I need to move on. It's now been two and a half years since I left University, and I don't feel that I have achieved half of what I did in just one year there.

I need air. Pity I didn't ride it the other week.


* If by fashion you mean attempt to kill an already disabled cyclist by use of vehicular transport.

** Not felt a, but somewhat.