Sanity Break
Another one of these monthly, if that, updates. Hope all is well with all of you.
Work is 110 miles an hour right now. I've been typing all morning and will continue with a sizable to do list this afternoon and tomorrow. Updating isn't a chore today, it is a break. I should like writing more ... sigh.
Work: I'm beginning to wonder if I am cut out for this. Mostly given our company's structure. So many things should be policy based but instead we just wing it. The sales guya and the CEO promise things we cannot deliver and the backlog is getting big. I'm being used more and more to relax the customers as oppose to actually solve their problems because some of them cannot be solved, and certainly not by me.
Today I've already gotten so much done, though, that I feel a little better. Fingers are crossed.
Anna: Got a migraine yesterday, poor thing. She is a very strong gal, iron will and a lot to handle. When she gets deflated, I feel it too. Us and life and work and some small family issues are niggling at us as well. This morning I had Dad's car so I drove her to work while listening to the Rent soundtrack. We sing to it together, it was nice for a workday morning.
School: Actually I am upbeat about my class. Apparently I expect more than the professor does, so as long as I am paying attention and learning, it's ok that I did my paper at the last moment and it contained very casual language. :P
Writing: I have NO chance at NaNoWriMo. I have imparted the "write everyday for a month and then try to stop" advice to a few friends who have agreed earnestly ... but I have yet to implement it myself.
Reading: Terry Pratchett's best 6 books are his last 6 books. THUD! is a magnificent yarn with a lot of left/right wing politics being satired. Lots of fun. Also, if you ever want to try some classic Canadian lit, read Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock. Written 1912, the humour still works today. Damn funny.
Band: Kingston Fog has 2 shows up and coming. December 2 and December 14, both at Maverick's. I quite like the bar and I love our new music ... now, can we fill the place? I hope we can.
CONTACT ME IF YOU WANT TO BUY A CD! Please!!!! I'd be ever so happy.
Video Games: Ha! No time. Ok a tiny bit - Shadow of the Colussus is fantastic, even though I've only played an hour or two. Buying Magna Carta this week - Korean RPG with fantastic art. Plenty to play, little time.
We should get our 32" TV back soon, hopefully this one won't have wonky red stripes on it (that is why we took the last one back). The tv is en lieu of some rent from our fine housemate, Blip. Very cool since it is a nice TV and the last one blew out.
Anime: See videogames. Although, watch Full Metal Panic, The Second Raid - if you have a chance. It is really fantastic. While you are at it, stop watching Naruto. It is now fully written, drawn and produced by a team of monkeys. And not the industrious hard working type chimps - these ones spend a lot of time flinging poo.
Alright - those online quizzes have my age at 30 and I got 10/10 in 8th grade math. I do not have the links at the moment.
This is now yoinked from flying_squirrel and I only have to change half the answers I think. The girl side, sadly, is the easy one. I'll stick to his plan of "one per show or film"
Female
1. Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket
2. Kaname Chidori from Full Metal Panic
3. Lafiel from Crest/Banner of the Stars
4. Nausicaa from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
5. Yomiko Readman from Read or Die
6. Yukino from Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou
7. Fuu from Samurai Champloo
8. Ai Tanabe from Planetes
9. Sara Kodama from Overman King Gainer
10. Ninamori from FLCL
Male
1. Sousuke Sagara from Full Metal Panic
2. Jinto from Crest/Banner of the Stars
3. Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop
4. Roy Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist
5. Makoto from El Hazard such a very, very long time ago. At least I didn't name anyone from Ranma, for heaven's sake. How about he share the honour with Suguru Misato from Mahoromatic. Double my shame!!!
6. Vash from Trigun
7. Jin from Samurai Champloo
8. Drake from Read or Die
9. Roger Smith from Big O
10. Taichi Hiraga Keaton from Master Keaton (Yoinked but I did like the show)
Gimme me a call, let me know how you are. Take care of yourselves. All the best. I'm sure there is more but damn if I can remember.
Work is 110 miles an hour right now. I've been typing all morning and will continue with a sizable to do list this afternoon and tomorrow. Updating isn't a chore today, it is a break. I should like writing more ... sigh.
Work: I'm beginning to wonder if I am cut out for this. Mostly given our company's structure. So many things should be policy based but instead we just wing it. The sales guya and the CEO promise things we cannot deliver and the backlog is getting big. I'm being used more and more to relax the customers as oppose to actually solve their problems because some of them cannot be solved, and certainly not by me.
Today I've already gotten so much done, though, that I feel a little better. Fingers are crossed.
Anna: Got a migraine yesterday, poor thing. She is a very strong gal, iron will and a lot to handle. When she gets deflated, I feel it too. Us and life and work and some small family issues are niggling at us as well. This morning I had Dad's car so I drove her to work while listening to the Rent soundtrack. We sing to it together, it was nice for a workday morning.
School: Actually I am upbeat about my class. Apparently I expect more than the professor does, so as long as I am paying attention and learning, it's ok that I did my paper at the last moment and it contained very casual language. :P
Writing: I have NO chance at NaNoWriMo. I have imparted the "write everyday for a month and then try to stop" advice to a few friends who have agreed earnestly ... but I have yet to implement it myself.
Reading: Terry Pratchett's best 6 books are his last 6 books. THUD! is a magnificent yarn with a lot of left/right wing politics being satired. Lots of fun. Also, if you ever want to try some classic Canadian lit, read Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock. Written 1912, the humour still works today. Damn funny.
Band: Kingston Fog has 2 shows up and coming. December 2 and December 14, both at Maverick's. I quite like the bar and I love our new music ... now, can we fill the place? I hope we can.
CONTACT ME IF YOU WANT TO BUY A CD! Please!!!! I'd be ever so happy.
Video Games: Ha! No time. Ok a tiny bit - Shadow of the Colussus is fantastic, even though I've only played an hour or two. Buying Magna Carta this week - Korean RPG with fantastic art. Plenty to play, little time.
We should get our 32" TV back soon, hopefully this one won't have wonky red stripes on it (that is why we took the last one back). The tv is en lieu of some rent from our fine housemate, Blip. Very cool since it is a nice TV and the last one blew out.
Anime: See videogames. Although, watch Full Metal Panic, The Second Raid - if you have a chance. It is really fantastic. While you are at it, stop watching Naruto. It is now fully written, drawn and produced by a team of monkeys. And not the industrious hard working type chimps - these ones spend a lot of time flinging poo.
Alright - those online quizzes have my age at 30 and I got 10/10 in 8th grade math. I do not have the links at the moment.
This is now yoinked from flying_squirrel and I only have to change half the answers I think. The girl side, sadly, is the easy one. I'll stick to his plan of "one per show or film"
Female
1. Tohru Honda from Fruits Basket
2. Kaname Chidori from Full Metal Panic
3. Lafiel from Crest/Banner of the Stars
4. Nausicaa from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
5. Yomiko Readman from Read or Die
6. Yukino from Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou
7. Fuu from Samurai Champloo
8. Ai Tanabe from Planetes
9. Sara Kodama from Overman King Gainer
10. Ninamori from FLCL
Male
1. Sousuke Sagara from Full Metal Panic
2. Jinto from Crest/Banner of the Stars
3. Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop
4. Roy Mustang from Fullmetal Alchemist
5. Makoto from El Hazard such a very, very long time ago. At least I didn't name anyone from Ranma, for heaven's sake. How about he share the honour with Suguru Misato from Mahoromatic. Double my shame!!!
6. Vash from Trigun
7. Jin from Samurai Champloo
8. Drake from Read or Die
9. Roger Smith from Big O
10. Taichi Hiraga Keaton from Master Keaton (Yoinked but I did like the show)
Gimme me a call, let me know how you are. Take care of yourselves. All the best. I'm sure there is more but damn if I can remember.