My Birthday:
Was better than I expected but really not that special. I got some nice gifts, and my mates (Et and Harry Potter) came round with cake. We played A Game of Thrones and I beat them pretty savagely but then I had played once before so I knew the rules and tactics a little better than them. Plus Harry is pretty shit.
Serenity:
Was good, but then it was always going to be good wasn't it? I can honestly say that it probably works as a stand alone (or so I've been told by the unenlightened) but if you haven't seen the series Firefly then you'll miss out on a lot. The characters just mean so much more to people that have seen the show, a few references to themes and storylines just doesn't cover it all. Although the movie was good I think a series would've been a million times better. I wish Joss had been given more time to tell his story. The movie just wasn't long enough for me and I'm not sure how Whedon can make another series after Serenity.
Here be spoilers! (Highlight below)
I can't believe Wash died. Mind you I don't think I'd have been happy if any of them had died (except the Shepherd, he was pretty = meh). Still... wah!
(Ask for Answers - Placebo/wicked awesome)
Drunked Again:
After watching Serenity in Gold Class Benjam and I went back to his mate THOR's house. We had some drinks and chatted with him and his house mate (Soxy). They're both top blokes and they gave me Vodka. It's been a long time since Vodka and I were friends but we got on well. There was no screaming, no fighting and I didn't get hurt. I think there might be something there again after all this time (detailed explanation coming soon - not too detailed). But yeah we chatted about random stuff including art. It was good to be drunk again. I also made what at the time was a funny call - reactions may vary.
THOR was talking about making a trip back home and Soxy was talking about coming to visit him. THOR mentioned some wicked fine ladies.
Soxy: Do either of them have jobs?So yeah I'm still funny when drunk. At least, in a drunken context I am. All my favourite contexts are drunken.
THOR: Yeah, they're teachers.
Soxy: How long have they been teaching?
Horus: Thirty or forty years...
Soxy: *laughs* I'll pay that.
GTA: Vice City...
I had played before, and while I enjoyed it I never made a huge effort to finish the missions. So this time I did in about twelve hours (including side missions and all the assets and buying every location I could). I'll be honest and say I used cheats once or twice on the harder missions, but usually as a shortcut or because I've played it before with Manny and knew there was no way I could be bothered to try again and again. I've started collecting cool cars in my garage at Sunshine Autos. I saw an FBI Washington in an alleyway near a pizza shop but I can't remember which Pizza shop so I might go look for that later.
When the holidays get here I'll get me some San Andreas.
Blood Bowl:
Been playing a round robin with my brothers. Two teams each. I'm getting drilled because I'm shit at Blood Bowl. In fact... I'm generally shit at most tactical games which is why I loved the idea of most Games Workshop games but never got into them. Necromunda especially. I tried to like that game so many times but I was just so bad. I think the luck aspect of the games also aggravated me.
Blood Bowl is basically a Games Workshop product which can be summed up in two words: Warhammer. Football.
Playing Blood Bowl is all about luck. Or at least it seems that way. Someone's always getting screwed by the dice. Someone's always getting angry. I've had generally mediocre luck. Not abysmal but never good. Although at times it may seem like I've been having some luck if you look at the overall scores I haven't. With two teams heavy on the biffo I've inflicted few casualties and generally failed to look like scoring a touchdown more often than not. I don't really look forward to playing games and I can't wait till the whole thing is over. But I really like the teams and I like getting advances for my team and it is very cool. It's just playing that sucks.
But then I'm like that about a lot of things.
Employment:
I need to find a job that I can do and not hate. I've pretty much given up on enjoying my job. It's safe to say that there's not many things I can do consistently without hating. Writing happens to be one of them. Especially light writing. I doubt I could write a book or a movie. I can write ideas, and themes and characters and worlds. But knuckling down and writing something solid would no doubt be beyond me. At least at the moment it would be. Perhaps when I grow up a bit. I can't wait.
So anyway someone gave me an idea the other day. I should try and get an internship/apprenticeship/traineeship/whatever with a newspaper. I think it'd be easiest if I applied for something to do with art. I can write quite well at times but unfortunately my scores in art theory haven't been spectacular by any stretch of the imagination. They expect a style of writing that I just haven't adjusted to yet. It's been a year and a half and things have actually gotten worse. I think I managed to wangle a credit in my first two semesters. But last semester I was lucky to scrape through with a pass. I wonder if that'll matter.
So far I'd pretty much decided to become a teacher but there were many reasons why I wasn't sure if that was something I wanted to do. The biggest issue is that I just don't feel like at the end of this degree I'm going to be in any way equipped to talk accurately about art. I think we just had so many awesome teachers at my school that when comparing myself to them it's hard not to see myself coming up short. Respect.
I wish there was a job that paid me to play video games and occasionally watch a movie or get drunk. Is it obvious that this is the real reason I started a webcomic?
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