Currently feeling like horror, due to mooncurse and headsquirrels and many other things.
If I snap at you, I'm very sorry.
Normal service will be resumed at some point.

I thought I would write up something that happened on Thursday that's had me smiling ever since.
So I trudge back home after an interview, it is cold, I am tired etc. On opening the door I am greeted by an excited obsidian_sphinx , who shall be known as "O":
O: Wolwolwol, do you want the good news or the bad news?
W (me): ...What's the bad news?
O: ...Actually, there isn't any bad news. I got you a cat, I think.
W: *goes into kitchen, where indeed there is a cat happily nomming tuna and water*
O: I saw it wandering up and down the street yowling and following people. I think it's a stray, idk
W: Awoozywoozywoozy (This is directed at the cat, btw)
Cat: *wander over, flomps down, purrs* (I have mad cat-wrangling skills)
W: Darling, this is next door's cat.
O: Oh...
So we made a big fuss of it for a bit longer and took it back round (it purred when I picked it up :3).
But hopefully it will now know us as the nice monkeys that let it in when it was cold and fed it tuna.
And, albeit briefly, we had a cat, and it was Good :)

Week 1 Day 2:
Push ups- 6/8/6/6/7
Sit ups- 9/12/9/9/10
Squats- 8/11/8/8/>9 (managed 20)

Also walked 2.5 miles to another temp agency interview, which went ok, I think. Tests went well- advanced on Word, intermediate on Excel, 53 words per min typing speed.

Just need something to happen now.

Vote here to help choose Barbie's next career- one of the options is computer engineer :D

Have now seen up to ep.5
Still not sure why we're meant to give a damn about Rachael.
Loved ep.4-
Oh, I want to hug Kurt and squeeze him and never let him go!

Manga (everything is £4):

Shounen/Shoujo/General:

• Angel Sanctuary 1- Kaori Yuki

• Demon Diary 1&2- Kara

• Miyuki-chan in Wonderland- CLAMP

• Rg Veda 1- CLAMP

• Saint Seiya: Knights of the Zodiac 1- Masami Kurumada

• Under the Glass Moon 1&2- Ko Ya-Seong

• Until the Full Moon 1&2- Sanami Matoh

Shounen-ai/Yaoi:

• Golden Cain- You Asagiri

• Gorgeous Carat 1- You Higuri

• Gravitation the Novel- Maki Murakami (x2)

• Gravitation: Voice of Temptation- Maki Murakami

• Hands Off! 1-4- Kasane Katusumoto

• Let Dai 1- Sooyeon Won

• Level C 1- Aoi Futaba & Kurenai Mitsuba

• Love Mode 1-3- Kazuma Kodaka

• Selfish Love 1&2- Naduki Koujima

• Shinobu Kokoro: Hidden Heart- Temari Matsumoto

• Shout Out Loud! 1- Satosumi Takaguchi

• Skyscrapers of Oz: Yoshino Somei & Row Takakura

Books:
- Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek £5
- Medea/Alcestis/Children of Heracles/Hippolytus, Euripides (translated by John Davie) £5
- Alexander the Great, Heckel & Yardley £10

- New Moon, Stephanie Meyer £4
- Wetlands, Charlotte Roche £5
- The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold £4

DVDs:
- Benny & Joon £4
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Videos £4

Nintendo DS Games:
- Purr Pals £13
- Spyro- Shadow Legacy £13

Prices do not include P&P, which is £1.50 in the UK.
I can take non cc paypal and cheques

(Starting again)

Push ups:
6/6/4/4/>5 (10)
Sit ups:
9/9/6/6/>8 (10)
Squats:
8/8/5/5/>7 (10)

So, having finally stumbled across the 80s joy-fest that is The Lost Boys, I was reminded how much I enjoy and am interested in the various depictions of vampires in films and tv shows. However, I am running out of things to watch to feed this interest!
* Please recommend me tv shows and films that feature vampires!

Ideally, I like my vampires Interview with a Vampire-style: gorgeous, fanged and slightly queer, but I'm happy to see other kinds to (Sparklefailfags aside).

Help me lazywebs, you're my only hope :)

The BBC have launched a public survey into the representation of LGB characters on its TV shows, and you can fill it in here

Didn't sleep well or enough last night, but feeling pretty good nonetheless :)

-Saturday:
Epic, epic adventure with DUTT :D
Level 8 (as high as system really goes), going North to kill a vampire by seducing him to death, almost died repeatedly, convinced we were going to die even more so. Absolutely awesome :D

-Sunday:
The culinary goddess that is obsidian_sphinx did a roast pheasant supper, and it was Good.

-Monday:
Excellent DUTT interactive :D
Orlando (my mage character) who is currently female managed to seduce Vito (priest of Sordan who was temporarily a woman too) using the following line:
O- "Hey, want to try a new and potentially exciting experience?"
V- "Possibly. What is it?"
O- "Lesbian sex"
V- "Oh, right...With whom and when?"
O- "Well, me and at your convenience"
And it WORKED :D

And then I nearly died again and all was well with the world *grin*

-Today
Had a good meeting/interview with a temp agency and it's Dark Heresy later

A short piece from the first session of the RT game I'm playing in along withd20yfx and spring_sidhe , in which I'm playing the Astropath Transcendent, Xanthe Vendigroth.
Basically, all was going well until some bastard shot our current Rogue Trader, and this is the aftermath (concrit and comments very welcome!):
( 'Final Duty' )

Books:
- Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek £5
- Medea/Alcestis/Children of Heracles/Hippolytus, Euripides (translated by John Davie) £5
- Philosophy Before Socrates, McKirahan £10
- Alexander the Great, Heckel & Yardley £10

- New Moon, Stephanie Meyer £4
- The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Anne Rice £3
- Wetlands, Charlotte Roche £5
- The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold £4

DVDs:
- Benny & Joon £4
- Red Hot Chili Peppers: Greatest Videos £4

Nintendo DS Games:
- New Super Mario Bros £13
- Purr Pals £13
- Spyro- Shadow Legacy £13

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Thank you for looking

For those who haven't seen it: in the near future vampires are in the majority but facing a food shortage.
( Thoughts cut due to spoilers, though not many )

I am now a fully graduated Master of Arts! :D

So I watched the pilot and 1st episode last night on E4 and enjoyed them immensely. Will definately be watching the rest of the series, and hoping that we actually get to see more of Kurt, Tina & Mercedes (yeah, I don't really care about the two apparent 'leads', oh well).

So, it's Twelth Night- I hope you've all taken down your decorations!

Now festivities are more officially and obviously over, it actually feels like a New Year, rather than the strange limbo-time of festivals.
What are people's plans/resolutions/hopes for the coming year?

My main ones are:
- Start PhD
- Learn German
- Do lots of sewing with my lovely new sewing machine (now named Brunhilde)

So far:

- Still haven't manged to contact builder who was meant to do work on the house on the 20th
- Insurance company sent package of papers to wrong address after I told them which address to send it to
- Arsey phonecall from bank over ridiculous charges for an overdraft I could have fucking sworn I had

Very, very fed up

Proof that wols like having their heads scratched:

ION: Couldn't make it to 12th Night celebrations due to migraine and feeling awful, so spent day in bed feeling sorry for myself. Not sure what to do tomorrow or the day after, feeling a bit sucky. Any suggestions?

Myself and anotherusedpage are going to the fantastic (and free) Twelth Night celebrations tomorrow (Sunday) at 1pm outside the Globe theatre, and I think you should come along too!
There is singing, wassailing, welcoming the Green Man, dancing, a Mummer's Play, more dancing and the KissingWishing Tree- it's a lot of fun and a great atmosphere, I'm sure you'd love it :)
More details here