Some general blether.
Now that the festive season is beginning to die down, I'm finally getting a chance to get some things done. There's the clearing-out, obviously, which is slowly-but-surely getting there. I'm doing lighting for Joan's production of Amadeus, which'll be interesting, since my technical experience to date involved pointing a spotlight at singers for six nights about four years ago. On Monday I have an 'open day' to attend at the Samaritan's office in Glasgow; they ask volunteers to commit to thirty three-hour day shifts and three six-hour night shifts a year, which I think I can manage. On Tuesday I have a meeting with people who want to give me a job working with kids on the Asperger's/Autism spectrum.
All I need to do is get myself into gear health-wise and I'll be doing not-too-badly with everything. :D
Last night at drama Bryoni gave me her secret santa gift - a gorgeous leather-bound journal and parker pen. She said she got the journal because it 'looks like something a hobbit would use' and she is so right. Since the journal I've been using since 2004 (!!) is almost full, I've switched to this new one, although I always think beautiful journals deserve to be filled with better writing than mine. :P Oh well. IT'LL JUST HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT.
I've not been writing much lately, as much as I'm filled with ideas for my Totally Awesome YA Fantasy Novel That Will Make Me Lots Of Money And I'll Get Invited To Cons And It'll Have A Section On FF.net And Everything Will Be Awesome BTW, Especially My Novel. It has Dwarves in it. Dwarves are awesome. People don't appreciate how cool sturdy little warriors with beards and axes are. I may have mentioned this before... XD I think I got way too wrapped up in writing a certain type of character to the exclusion of all else, and I'm paying for that now. Also I don't have the force of burning obsession guiding me now, which sucks. I'm an obsessive sort of person, and I tend to feel a little bereft when I eventually lose interest. If only I could get obsessed with something -useful- (FOR EXAMPLE WRITING A TOTALLY AWESOME NOVEL) like I was in 2005. Oh wells.
The Christmas money my grandparents gave me went on buying a Nintendo DS. This means I cannot afford a gecko, but I've been playing the Decepticons game to make up for it. My huge evil burly giant alien robot with a male American voice is called Suz, because I didn't have the presence of mind to call it Gaybot or Painatron or something. (Actually, who am I kidding, Gaybot will ALWAYS be Hot Rod's real name.) At one point Decepticon!Suz badmouths Megatron - who of course has been missing for millions of years in 2007-movieverse - and Barricade totally BITCHSLAPS him. XDD There's this other bit where Barricade goes, "Hey, newbie, go blow up those cars over there," so of course you do, and then about twenty police cars burst out and start shooting at you, and the next time you see him Barricade is just laughing his head off. OH AND in the game Starscream (who is apparently Decepticon!Suz's mentor, eeee <3) doesn't know that the distress signal they picked up is from Megatron, which fits with a theory me and envyofthestage have about Starscream not realising Megatron's in the same place as the Allspark and being all like DDD: when he bursts out of the damn. <3 for Starscream. Even if he's ugly in the movie. He still has the girliest prettiest name! :D
Transformers and Death Note are competing in my mind for obsession-space. I am so disgustingly mainstream.
All I need to do is get myself into gear health-wise and I'll be doing not-too-badly with everything. :D
Last night at drama Bryoni gave me her secret santa gift - a gorgeous leather-bound journal and parker pen. She said she got the journal because it 'looks like something a hobbit would use' and she is so right. Since the journal I've been using since 2004 (!!) is almost full, I've switched to this new one, although I always think beautiful journals deserve to be filled with better writing than mine. :P Oh well. IT'LL JUST HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT.
I've not been writing much lately, as much as I'm filled with ideas for my Totally Awesome YA Fantasy Novel That Will Make Me Lots Of Money And I'll Get Invited To Cons And It'll Have A Section On FF.net And Everything Will Be Awesome BTW, Especially My Novel. It has Dwarves in it. Dwarves are awesome. People don't appreciate how cool sturdy little warriors with beards and axes are. I may have mentioned this before... XD I think I got way too wrapped up in writing a certain type of character to the exclusion of all else, and I'm paying for that now. Also I don't have the force of burning obsession guiding me now, which sucks. I'm an obsessive sort of person, and I tend to feel a little bereft when I eventually lose interest. If only I could get obsessed with something -useful- (FOR EXAMPLE WRITING A TOTALLY AWESOME NOVEL) like I was in 2005. Oh wells.
The Christmas money my grandparents gave me went on buying a Nintendo DS. This means I cannot afford a gecko, but I've been playing the Decepticons game to make up for it. My huge evil burly giant alien robot with a male American voice is called Suz, because I didn't have the presence of mind to call it Gaybot or Painatron or something. (Actually, who am I kidding, Gaybot will ALWAYS be Hot Rod's real name.) At one point Decepticon!Suz badmouths Megatron - who of course has been missing for millions of years in 2007-movieverse - and Barricade totally BITCHSLAPS him. XDD There's this other bit where Barricade goes, "Hey, newbie, go blow up those cars over there," so of course you do, and then about twenty police cars burst out and start shooting at you, and the next time you see him Barricade is just laughing his head off. OH AND in the game Starscream (who is apparently Decepticon!Suz's mentor, eeee <3) doesn't know that the distress signal they picked up is from Megatron, which fits with a theory me and envyofthestage have about Starscream not realising Megatron's in the same place as the Allspark and being all like DDD: when he bursts out of the damn. <3 for Starscream. Even if he's ugly in the movie. He still has the girliest prettiest name! :D
Transformers and Death Note are competing in my mind for obsession-space. I am so disgustingly mainstream.