Sunday, November 25, 2007

play it again maestro....
hiya folks. thats a completely random subject line and has nothing to do with todays post.



so this week has been...well...i want to say "depressing" but to be honest, it really hasn't.

Obviously Thursday was pretty depressing. but the funeral went well (as well as a funeral can be expected to go i guess) and the wake was, predictibly, boring and kinda awkward, but there was a lot of food on hand, so i joined with my american comrades and made thursday a day to stuff my face full of food with.


When i got home i found that i had a package full of postcards from a certain Mrs. Craft and her 2nd grade students, and a few photographs soon. so Chrissy, if you're reading this, tell your mum i'll get a reply to you guys as soon as possible...hopefully sent by the end of the week. *fingers crossed*

Friday was a pretty good day. My P45 form arrived, which means nothing to you guys, but it basically means i can start my new job and im all sorted Tax-wise. I also got a letter from American Express saying that the credit on my card will be refunded to me, cuz the cancelled the card. so thats a nice bit of extra money.

i also found some CDs that i thought i had lost, and in the evening i played a good game of Octopush (underwater hockey) at my snorkelling club. you can tell it was a good game cuz my hand has cuts and scabs all over it now. good stuff. XD

so yah. Friday was a GOOD day.

yesterday was pretty boring, but i did get a paycheck in the post from my old job refunding all the Tax i had paid between April and when i left the job in May. there's a long complicated reason for this, but basically means i have an extra 400 quid in the bank. whih is a nice little boon, especially since christmas is coming up.

yup, as much as i hate to admit it, christmas is definitely in the air (amongst other things). christmas lights are on in towns, people have already started to put decorations up and there are adverts on the TV and radio. truth be told, i HATE the run up to christmas... all the media and shops hype it up more and more and more until you finally get to the big day....and its almost just another day... it really makes Christmas a huge anti-climax. and then the very next day all the Christmas and Janurary Sales advertisments pop up everywhere. heck, some even start BEFORE christmas. i hate it, its so depressing. when did christmas become so f*cking comerciallised? or has it always been this way and im only starting to notice it as the innocence of youth slips further and further away? i dunno.



finished downloading and watching Gundam X today. Gundam X has a pretty bad stigmata attached to it, and it was cancelled at 39 episdoes instead of the usual 49. I can see why it was critisised, with animation and mecha designs very similar to Gundam Wing, and it was unfortunatly released the same time as Evangelion was in Japan, so its political war story was swamped and lost in the wave of Pseudo-Mystical introspective musings that became hugely popular in Evangelion's wake and the hundreds of shows that tried to emulate it, so Gundam X really wasnt that popular.
But having watched it, i really enjoyed it. The story is, dare i say it, better than Wing's and although the animation is dated slightly, i think its one of the better Gundam shows out there. its a little rushed at the end, what with it being cancelled and all, but thats its only real flaw.
heh, this is a big problem im finding these days. My first Gundam show was Wing, and so i feel obligated to call it my fav Gundam show. but at the same time, as i start to watch more and more of the other Gundam shows, i find that they were done so much BETTER than Wing, that it keeps slipping down my favs list. Dont get me wrong, i still like Wing, unlike a lot of Gundam fans who hate it, but there really are better Gundam shows out there. After i finish Turn A Gundam, the only Gundam anime i wont have seen will be ZZ Gundam and V Gundam. im also currently halfway through SEED Destiny, Zeta Gundam and the new Gundam 00. and i still got a few episodes of G Gundam to watch, but i've seen enough of these Gundam shows to place them in my Gundam Favs list, unfortunatly most above Wing. dont worry folks, Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz still ranks as one my fav Gundam shows ever. ^^



tomorrow i start Work Training up London. which is cool, i need to start earning cash again. ^^ but DAMN am i going to miss having a lay-in in the mornings... i was starting to get quite comfortable with getting up at 9:30. oh well. all good things must come to an end...its a 6:30 start for me tomorrow... -_-;;;


going bowling this afternoon. should be fun. hopefully i wont do as bad as last time. lol.


and i finish off with a special FIVE PART update to the Chibi Darke Days Anniversary Saga. i managed to finish off the whole thing last night, so im going to post the next 4 parts now, and then either on tuesday or wednesday i'll post the final 2 parts. Tuesday 27th will mark 3 whole years of Chibi Darke Days. i cant believe its been going this long... to quote myself when i posted the first strip 3 years ago:

"i will try to post one of these...until i run out of ink, paper or ideas"

well, i keep buying new pens and there is enough paper to keep going for ages...i guess i didnt forsee the ideas to keep on flowing too!

anyways heres your special FIVE PART update!





Rose here is demonstrating the "Uncanny Valley" of cuteness...that is to say the cuter a thing gets, there will be a point when it appears uncomfortably and creepily cute before going on to be perfectly cute.





do YOU remember DarkeCard?



the place the 2nd person is going to is a real town in Wales. Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. and believe it or not, thats not the longest place name in the world, or even in Wales. but it fit quite nicely on the card. almost.


welp, i hoep you enjoyed these. Tune in next time for the Final TWO parts to this Chibi Darke Days Saga!!!


till next time!


"I see nobody on the road," said Alice
"I only wish i had such eyes," remarked the King with a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! and at that distance too!"- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"


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