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I really am crap with updating this thing. Well, that and AC2 and Dragon Age took over my life, so I've ended up spending more time playing either one of them than anything else.
Xmas and New Year is over with, which I managed to get through with simply a cold rather than anything else. I swear the last couple of years I've ended up with everything. Started out I got the flu over Xmas, then tonsilitis the year after, then sinusitis last year. Though I doubt I did myself any favours when I was running about in the snow, with just a cardigan on because I wanted some photos. Not my best idea, I have to say. So this year, I was lucky. Though it did mean I spent all of New Year downing Beechums poison and couldn't get any alcohol. Which is typical really. Not that there's ever much in the house anyway, parents don't drink.
Xmas was quiet as usual, I barely remember the last time actually had a proper Xmas. My dad was working yet again this year, so got up when he came in from night shift, then I went back to bed for a few hours. Got up in the afternoon to find my fish, Dante, was dying. He went that evening and I never realized how attached I was to the little guy. Never thought I'd cry over a fish. So that put a bit of a damper on my Xmas. Then watched Doctor Who, which did not enjoy at all because I've gone right off the Tenth Doctor. I think they dragged the whole regeneration scenario out too long for my liking, so it came off as whining more than anything else. And I'd spent most of the November special, Waters of Mars, wanting to slap him. Especially when the whole "Time Lord victorious" went on a bit. Guh. Bring on Matt Smith.
So I got AC2 for my birthday, and I found myself falling into old habits from AC1. Spamming the counter attack button, falling on people's heads, getting hopelessly lost, running around doing anything and everything but the main assassination mission I was meant to be. Say one thing, there's so much more to do, some nights I end up just wandering about, doing other assassination missions, hunting for feathers, all sorts and it kills an entire night.
I don't know what I've got on the tv now, something is coming up showing cakes etc and telling me how many calories there are in it. Shall be changing the channel I think, as these things usually make me want to throw things at the tv. Says she who's currently polishing off a tube of Mini Eggs.
I should really be drawing, started a sketch of King Cailan of Dragon Age last night and now it awaits shading. Of course, I take a liking to the character that dies within the first ten sodding minutes of the game. Always the same, the one I like dies, horribly usually. I should simply not take a liking to characters, might improve their chance of survival throughout a game or a film. Unless it's played/voiced by Sean Bean, most of his characters seem to die regardless.
If nothing else, I finally got an appointment for physio. Ended up only needed a couple of sessions, said my mobility was reasonably good and that while she couldn't make the pain disappear completely, it could be managed. Apparently, according to the physio, I'm more accepting that I'll likely have back pain the rest of my days than most people. Guess I've simply got used to that fact, or at least I should've done given I've heard nothing but every time I go to the doctors these days. Nice thought. At least the physio did help, I don't feel as if my entire spine is hurting so often. Days it felt like someone ripped it out and shoved it back in.
Currently playing Dragon Age while I'm writing this, hence why it's taking so long to do. Nipped back to create another Elven character, a rogue this time if only for the achievement. But I've been fighting away here, battling darkspawn and as one character was pounding away at it, I walk over and backstab the bastard, thus nicking all the experience points. Love it when that happens :p
At the very least, this year I intend to put in for college again. I don't know what course, or where, but I'm putting in for it. It'll get me out of the house if nothing else, and once the summer rolls around, I'll start throwing application forms in right, left and centre. Haven't a clue what I want to do, for a while I was set on going to the Metropolitan College in Glasgow, but then I started looking around and have thought about James Watt again, if only because it's closer. We'll see though. Hopefully i'll pick a better course this time round, one that's not only just thrown together, with missing lecturers, exam papers not being written etc etc. Most courses these days however, have a Graded Unit. That oh so lovely...thing that caused no end of stress for me, had me ranting for entries about it and banging my head off the desk most nights because the sodding thing would not work. It wasn't even the practical side that got me, it was the report side. I can see the point of a design brief at the beginning, but a ten page report on what you did and how you did it? Uh what? Testing report yes, I can see the point but basically repeating what you said at the beginning. Get stuffed.
Maybe I'll get lucky and pick a course that doesn't have much paperwork to it.
Back to Dragon Age, I think. Battle my way through the Fade as I am not waking up tomorrow and going through that. Hate the Fade almost as much as Orzammar and the Broodmother.
Xmas and New Year is over with, which I managed to get through with simply a cold rather than anything else. I swear the last couple of years I've ended up with everything. Started out I got the flu over Xmas, then tonsilitis the year after, then sinusitis last year. Though I doubt I did myself any favours when I was running about in the snow, with just a cardigan on because I wanted some photos. Not my best idea, I have to say. So this year, I was lucky. Though it did mean I spent all of New Year downing Beechums poison and couldn't get any alcohol. Which is typical really. Not that there's ever much in the house anyway, parents don't drink.
Xmas was quiet as usual, I barely remember the last time actually had a proper Xmas. My dad was working yet again this year, so got up when he came in from night shift, then I went back to bed for a few hours. Got up in the afternoon to find my fish, Dante, was dying. He went that evening and I never realized how attached I was to the little guy. Never thought I'd cry over a fish. So that put a bit of a damper on my Xmas. Then watched Doctor Who, which did not enjoy at all because I've gone right off the Tenth Doctor. I think they dragged the whole regeneration scenario out too long for my liking, so it came off as whining more than anything else. And I'd spent most of the November special, Waters of Mars, wanting to slap him. Especially when the whole "Time Lord victorious" went on a bit. Guh. Bring on Matt Smith.
So I got AC2 for my birthday, and I found myself falling into old habits from AC1. Spamming the counter attack button, falling on people's heads, getting hopelessly lost, running around doing anything and everything but the main assassination mission I was meant to be. Say one thing, there's so much more to do, some nights I end up just wandering about, doing other assassination missions, hunting for feathers, all sorts and it kills an entire night.
I don't know what I've got on the tv now, something is coming up showing cakes etc and telling me how many calories there are in it. Shall be changing the channel I think, as these things usually make me want to throw things at the tv. Says she who's currently polishing off a tube of Mini Eggs.
I should really be drawing, started a sketch of King Cailan of Dragon Age last night and now it awaits shading. Of course, I take a liking to the character that dies within the first ten sodding minutes of the game. Always the same, the one I like dies, horribly usually. I should simply not take a liking to characters, might improve their chance of survival throughout a game or a film. Unless it's played/voiced by Sean Bean, most of his characters seem to die regardless.
If nothing else, I finally got an appointment for physio. Ended up only needed a couple of sessions, said my mobility was reasonably good and that while she couldn't make the pain disappear completely, it could be managed. Apparently, according to the physio, I'm more accepting that I'll likely have back pain the rest of my days than most people. Guess I've simply got used to that fact, or at least I should've done given I've heard nothing but every time I go to the doctors these days. Nice thought. At least the physio did help, I don't feel as if my entire spine is hurting so often. Days it felt like someone ripped it out and shoved it back in.
Currently playing Dragon Age while I'm writing this, hence why it's taking so long to do. Nipped back to create another Elven character, a rogue this time if only for the achievement. But I've been fighting away here, battling darkspawn and as one character was pounding away at it, I walk over and backstab the bastard, thus nicking all the experience points. Love it when that happens :p
At the very least, this year I intend to put in for college again. I don't know what course, or where, but I'm putting in for it. It'll get me out of the house if nothing else, and once the summer rolls around, I'll start throwing application forms in right, left and centre. Haven't a clue what I want to do, for a while I was set on going to the Metropolitan College in Glasgow, but then I started looking around and have thought about James Watt again, if only because it's closer. We'll see though. Hopefully i'll pick a better course this time round, one that's not only just thrown together, with missing lecturers, exam papers not being written etc etc. Most courses these days however, have a Graded Unit. That oh so lovely...thing that caused no end of stress for me, had me ranting for entries about it and banging my head off the desk most nights because the sodding thing would not work. It wasn't even the practical side that got me, it was the report side. I can see the point of a design brief at the beginning, but a ten page report on what you did and how you did it? Uh what? Testing report yes, I can see the point but basically repeating what you said at the beginning. Get stuffed.
Maybe I'll get lucky and pick a course that doesn't have much paperwork to it.
Back to Dragon Age, I think. Battle my way through the Fade as I am not waking up tomorrow and going through that. Hate the Fade almost as much as Orzammar and the Broodmother.