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.