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Shh

Today I did some pottering around, bought a birthday present for a friend's party, and went to uni. Nice quiet day. Eh, I shall talk more another time.

Not dead. (well, just a little.)

Hiya. I'm not dead, I've been doing a math assignment. Which is finished, hooray, but at this point I've been awake for 35 hours in a row, excepting a half-hour nap about 7:30 this morning. I'm gonna eat something, then I think I shall go to bed. Have a good one, folks.

My Huckleberry Friend

Howdy. Today I have "Moon River" stuck in my head. Possibly because I've spent the day dressing my self-sim up as Holly Golightly for a Halloween contest. It's fairly amazing sometimes how much custom content there is out there for the Sims2. And then, of course, it's always fairly worrying how much of that custom content there is on my computer...

Also, do you have any idea how hard it is to find a decent picture of the Tiffany's windows? Very hard indeed, as it turns out. You wouldn't think so, but it is. Oh well.

I forgot to say yesterday, I went to see Evan Almighty with relatives. It wasn't too bad. Well, towards the end they were trying to tell us that the reason God sent a devastating worldwide flood was so Noah could spend more time with his family, which I don't think is quite right. Plus it trivialises the Ark story to an insane degree. Still, there are nice moments. Like when Evan is outlining his plan for his life to "god", and god falls into helpless laughter. "Sorry... 'your plan'..." Eh. Plus it is good for some kind of understanding of just how crazy people must have thought Noah was.

mmmm.... math

Hi! Today was full of math. Chance and probability experiments with jelly beans and M&Ms, so what do you know? Math really is delicious.

H'lo

H'lo. Maths today, then Louise and I went to the flicks and saw Stardust and Ratatouille. Which was fun-a-riffic. I like Stardust, especially Robert DeNiro, better every time I see it. I never noticed Bernard sitting next to Cap'n Shakespeare at the coronation before, it's nice to see he got a happy ending.
But goodness gracious I'm getting sick of the trailer for Fred Claus. Feels like I've seen it about seventeen times. Ugh. Still, there were new trailers today - 10,000 B.C. which was a pretty boring preview, something about the Loch Ness Monster which looked too cutesy, and Mr Magorian's somethingarather which looked pretty cool.
I love movie trailers.

Bowling

Went bowling tonight. Bad food, bad music, bad at bowling, but all in all -- brilliant.

Lazy Friday

I spent today doing not a lot, which is nice because I've been working pretty flat-out on yesterday's workshop all week. Er, and because I always like doing not a lot.

Spent five or six hours working on one picture for the final round of a sims 2 contest. Hopefully the rest of them won't be so time consuming, but that seems likely as none of the others will involve constructing chain-mail underwear from pictures of swatches in photoshop.



Also reading more of Lirael and also the first volume of the Jack of Fables TPB. So, good day.

Er, I have come back to talk to you once more

Howdy. What've I been up to?

Did dinner at the cousins' on Tuesday night. That was fun - watched 'em play the Sims Bustin' Out on PS2, watched Epic Movie (crapfest) and Clockwork Orange.

Did huge amounts of tedious prep for a workshop presentation thingy at uni, which was today. It went off though, so all was worth it.

Am re-reading Garth Nix's Old Kingdom Trilogy - done Sabriel, halfway through Lirael. They are such awesome books. Anyone who can bring a new feel or new perspective to the fantasy genre gets my tick of approval, and people like Garth Nix and Isobelle Carmody who do it every time they start a story - well, I am in awe. Gives me hope in a world full of Harry Potters and Eragons.

Odd (in a good way)

A rather odd, terribly flattering sensation: someone tells you that in their sims game, your self-sim is pregnant. Ladies and gentlemen, Buffy's Alleliua is expecting... :)

Cool thing!

I just (in the last few minutes) learned to make animated avis! Go me! (Emma's a sim I've got entered in a contest at the mo.)

Good things

The dreaded English unit is handed in, and I went and bought a bag to replace my current one which was falling apart. Grandpa approves of the new bag, so I think it's a sensible buy.
Work is done, and it's playtime, so I'm off to the Sims2.

Endings

Finished and handed in the Indigenous Studies essay today. English tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to those two being over. Really really.

I was thinking today, for no particular reason, of songs I'd like played at my funeral. Morbid, huh. The list:

• Amazing Grace, preferably with bagpipes
• Because He Lives
• Before the Throne of God Above
• Listen to my Prayer, Lord (Bec's version)
• Into the West (yes, from LOTR. It's my funeral, and I'll fangirl if I want to.)

As far as I know, I'm not dying anytime soon. But it's good to have these things sorted out.

I'm posting a lot today, huh.

Do you know what? Writing 2000 words is just writing 50 words 40 times. And writing 50 words is easy. I can write a sentence 50 words long, for goodness sake. Not that I would in an assignment, though. It seems like every time I check the word count (ie, whenever I finish a train of thought) I've written another 50 words. So at the moment, with research to hand and outline detailed, writing is somewhat like driving along at 100km an hour. With cruise.

Freaky Awesome

Front Sketch Furniture: freaky awesome.

Bleagh - Grr - Squee!

So. All teed up to do work at uni this morning, but the intranet doover won't let me sign in, so I can't access any of the information I need. Bleargh.

Last night at church we sang "Recieve the Glory." Which is fair impressive, for my dark-ages church. So yeah, they're pretty game. We even sang all the verses! (ie, both of them.) Chopping verses out of hymns is one of my pet hates. Grr.

Bestest. Lolcats. Ever: i can has cheeseburger? Squee!