Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Everybody Hurts... when hit with an Hiza Geri

Can't see comments at the moment, so I can't re-comment, heh. I am in pain. Again. I'm glad to finally be getting back to karate, but today's kicking workshop reminded me how much these things actually hurt. I'm not complaining as such, but it's going to really piss me off tomorrow, especially with all those stairs in college... Anyway, things have kind of jumped on me these last two days, so I've had no time to write an update (as much as I've wanted to). I've not evenhad much time to look at Clandestine, and that's already two days behind. I'm sorry, to all those who are waiting. I will be at home for at least some time over the next two days, so I will be able to make a formal decision. I've been taught some decent exercises for tightening my abletes (the muscles running down the side of your abdomen). I've been wanting to work those for some time but have never had the knowledge or equipment to do it. Since all I need is me for this one, it should be pretty easy ^_~ Stealed from teh Pyroroness ANGER 1. Who did you last get angry with? : Myself, for bad driving. 2. What is your weapon of choice?: Sword and shield, or (as of when I have better karate skills) tonfa. 3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex?: If I had to, yes. 4. How about of the same sex?: Been there, done that. 5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you?: I can always imagine people getting really angry with me, but people rarely are. I guess it would have to be my mum, some time ago. 6. What is your pet peeve?: Ignorance. 7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily?: I can rarely keep a grudge for long, unless I'm not in regular contact with the person towards whom the grudge is directed. SLOTH 1. What is one thing you're supposed to do daily that you haven't done in a long time?: Practice singing. 2. What is the latest you've ever woken up?: Eleven-forty a.m 3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't: Dan. 4. What is the last lame excuse you made?: "I misread the sheet." 5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through (one of the long ones...)?: Yes, on one of those stupid Bodytone things. 6. When was the last time you got a good workout in?: My two-hour session of being a kickbag finished just over an hour ago. 7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today?: Once. GLUTTONY 1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice?: Innocent Smoothies. They're yumcious ^_^ 2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat?: White. Or read, heh. 3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event?: Three bottles of Vodka Mudshake? 4. Have you ever used a professional diet company?: Diets have companies? No. 5. Do you have an issue with your weight?: Not my weight- my shape. 6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods?: Depends on my mood, really. Sweets I can generally force myself to eat any time. Well, not 'sweets' sweets, but sweet thingies. 7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, "LUNCH!"?: No... LUST 1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)? : At a time, less than one. 2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)?: At a time, less than one. 3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation?: There's really not much to see, but yes. It's not as if I go around talking to naked women often. Or at all, in fact. 4. Have you "done it"?: I should be so lucky >.> 5. What is your favorite body part on a person of your gender of choice?: Eyes. 6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute?: Not in any language I could recognise (went to Amsterdam...) 7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy?: Pregnancy, eh? GREED 1. How many credit cards do you own?: None. 2. What's your guilty pleasure store?: Anime DVDs/soundtracks, toys 3. If you had £1 million, what would you do with it?: Spend/save half and half, I imagine. 4. Would you rather be rich, or famous?: Eh... rich. I could certainly live without fame. As long as I have people around me who care for me and I them then I don't really care. 5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks?: Not for long. 6. Have you ever stolen anything?: Temporarily (like, less than a minute), items of very little value. Ideas, confidence, trust. 7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive?: 'Bout twelve. PRIDE 1. What one thing have you done that you're most proud of?: I can put the toilet seat down. 2. What one thing have you done that your parents are most proud of?: Not going to University. 3. What thing would you like to accomplish in your life?: Finish Nazreal. 4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place?: I'm so used to it... 5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors?: I don't think so. 6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score?: Eh, probably. 7. What did you do today that you're proud of?: I found and apologised to someone who I cut up at the college roundabout. ENVY 1. What item (or person) of your friends would you most want to have for your own?: Jeremy's Dad's house. 2. Who would you want to go on "Trading Spaces" with?: Hugh Jackman *shrugs*. 3. If you could be anyone else in the world, who would you be?: *shrugs* Yugo, from Bloody Roar 4. Have you ever been cheated on?: No. At least, I very much doubt it. That's not a narcissistic thing, it's just looking at a logical... never mind. 5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own?: Yes, mostly to do with my height and shape of stomach. 6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself?: Confidence. 7. Do you wish you'd come up with this survey?: No. I'm sure I could make my own if I really felt like it. 8. Finally, what is your favorite deadly sin?: I've forgotten what they are. Pride, I guess, since I experience it quite infrequently. My sister's gone off to camp for a week. it's strange having things so quiet. I always miss her when she goes away for more than an evening. I always worry that something could happen because I'm not within fifteen minutes of reaching her. She sent me a text message this evening though, so I'm happy knowing she's doing okay ^_^ I'm actually going to bed now (well, when I've made me sandwiches for tomorrow) *shock horror* Crikey, I love sleep so much o_o; Take care everyone. I'll log on to the college system tomorrow and view all the commenty-comments. *squishyhugs*

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Friday, June 10, 2005

Leave me to Sleep: L'arc~en~Ciel
Awakening is a trick of the sunlight
Because I've gently drawn close to the memories from the window
I once again closed my eyes...
The sleeping me is protected by a gentle wave
Gently shaking in a cradle, I float about
While waiting for the light for some reason

I sleep in the transparent dream
pulling back the hands of time
The shattered me sleeps in the dream
to the land of the purest
Until the pain is softened, please don't wake me up

ah gently being held
by my incessant pulse

That lullaby will, soon, pick up speed
Amidst the noisy waves
I heard your voice, shouting to me from afar

I sleep in the transparent dream
pulling back the hands of time
The shattered me sleeps in the dream
to the land of the purest
Because I don't want to remember, because it's too much now

Don't want to be touched by anyone
Because I don't want to be broken
I won't wake up because it's for the best that I keep sleeping as I am now

I sleep in the transparent dream
pulling back the hands of time
The shattered me sleeps in the dream
to the land of the purest
A place far away from everyone

I sleep in the transparent dream
pulling back the hands of time
The shattered me sleeps in the dream
to the land of the purest
Until the pain is softened, please don't wake me up

Ah, the light keeps dragging me along...
I wonder if, someday, I can return once again

Translated by wrist cutter at Love Station
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Over My Shoulder

Comments! Hevn: I had to go back and see what you meant- I didn't think I'd posted any nude photos of myself... But yeah, that list is slowly diminishing. Although most items still stand, unfortunately. I don't think nazreal character drawing is ever going to be in my repertoire. At least if I can get them done somewhere it'll be okay. And I had to take the photos off to save on bandwidth for the new piccytures, heh. Sorry. Pyro: Yeah. We had some stage conbat guys in to do our fight sequences today, and I was tempted to show it off... I didn't, though. But urgh, I don't like dressing gowns. Not on men, anyway. rustym: Thanks ^_^; MolatovCT: *slaps self* Why of course, how silly of me! *leaps into pyjamas* Heh, sorry ^_^; But do take care of your thumbs. You need them more than they need you, almost. It's very quiet on MyO today. I hope it's not something I said o_o; Today started... badly, to put it bluntly. I couldn't get to sleep until about 2am (yet again), and I kept having strange dreams about reenactment battles. Thing is, I'd be half-awake at times, so I'd turn round to see where the next lot of enemies would be coming from and see... my dressing table, which although sizeable is not appropriate for the battlefield. And I had bad wind, too. I'm really quite glad I don't share my bed with anyone at the moment >.> But I woke up half an hour late, too, meaning I only had half an hour to get dressed, sort out everything I needed for college and get ready to leave on time. Urgh, if only there were enough parking spaces at college. Right now, any free space beyond 9:00am is considered a local Holy Grail, with everyone desperately trying to find it before everyone else. I can't handle that, so I get up stupidly early. I'm an idiot. But today's morning rehearsal was really really good. I enjoyed it greatly and feel so much better about the witches' scenes now. We also had the fight choreographers in, who went through everything that we needed to do in the play to do with fightiness and made it BETTER. I felt incredibly embarrassed at one point- I'd been given the job of putting together the fight between Banquo, Fleance and the three murderers but since people were being unreliable we only ever had three people who were supposed to be in the scene at any one itme. And when we came to go over it today, it just crashed spectacularly to the ground, and they made something to the standard which I can only imagine myself doing so far. I'm not in any fight scenes, though, so most of the time I sat and watched. Then I started thinking. That's always a bad thing for me, because I either daydream or go over conversations or experiences that I remember vividly, and today I happened to get rather depressed by doing so. Nasty. The traffic out of Chichester was dire, too. What's normally a 12-minute journey turned into an epic 25-minute quest for roadspace in the sweltering (by our standards, those of you from Florida, California, Japan, etc) heat. And now I'm home, and I intend to go to bed as soon as is possible. Tiredness = bad. Traffic = bad. However, Pasta bake = good.

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Thursday, June 9, 2005

Mmm, Ba- Cake

Comments! Tuesday ShaniKun: Woo, hello! You're correct, hehe. I am currently in rehearsals for Macbeth in college ^_^ Shin: As soon as I find out, I'll send out an announcement, hehe. With any luck you'll get to see me swordfighting and even winning, perhaps! Ah, that would be so cool... Roxie: *parties* ^______^ I can't wait! I won't be able to see the broadcast version (seeing as the UK's Discovery isn't the same as the US one), but I should have a copy of the show on DVD. rustym: It's called Laura McKenzie's Traveler, heh. I have an episode of it here which I'll watch soon to see what it's like. Hevn: As I gather, yes. But you never know ^_^ I are in the pains! My legs feel like rock, but they stand up like jelly. I don't suppose any combination of those two substances is particularly productive, but eh. I'm thinking of changing the colour scheme for my site, because... it's really something I just threw together and it's not particularly inspiring. I'm sure there's more that I can do to it, but I'm entirely at a loss as to what. For the mean time, though, seeing as I've nothing worthwhile to update about, I give you two things: Pictures of my bruised thumb. They aren't great, but they look pretty nasty anyway, heh. Pre-Casualty This is my thumb before I took it to get drilled. Down on the left, just below the nail was a huge dark red swelling- like a huge blood blister that leaked every so often. You can see the nail getting quite dark at this point, and not that there's another thumb for comparison, but at this point it's about twice the size of the other. 10 Days Later, and it's returned more or less to its usual size. It still hurts if I press anything. The nail's gone a really nice black colour there, and that white-ish bit on the very left edge shows where most of the sword impact fell. That red bit of skin has now developed into a scab underneath the skin (part of which actually fell off yesterday >.>), and if you look closely you should be able to see the spot in the centre of the nail where it was drilled. I's not irritating me as much any more, but when that nail falls off... And for the second thing; just something I thought might be interesting. You don't have to do it, but it'll probably be better than any update I can give you today ^_^; I have 44 archive pages. Pick one number from 3 to 44, slap it on the end of http://www.myotaku.com/users/solo_tremaine/life/ and see which posts come up that interest you most. I read bits of it the other day, and rather than thinking (as I usually do) that everything that's come before is embarrassing and should be chucked into some whirling void of destruction, I actually think they're written a damn sight better than how I'm doing now. I blame time off MyO/OB/AIM. I am intending to be on AIM soon, but I need to work up the courage to do so. It seems strange, but I'm really quite anxious about it. Anyway, I'm going out soon. Seeing as it's not Pyjama Day in Portsmouth, I'd better get dressed... Latersesnessicities.

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Wednesday, June 8, 2005

I'll Sleep Well Tonight!

At least, I should bloody well hope so considering how tired I am. Before I start... BEN POSTED!!! GO AND WORSHIP HIS BEN-NESS! Filming went well. Hurt my other thumb this time (that'll teach me to forget my gauntlets for Civil War...), so I have an almost matching pair. It's a tiny thing though, so it's nowhere near as bad as my other. I ache, though. having to get into armour twice in one day on separate occasions is not fun, not in this heat. But I'll eventually be on the Discovery Channel in the US ^_____^ Keep your eyes peeled for me, those of you who can see. I need to sleep now. Hugs and love to everyone, as much as I can give.

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Tuesday, June 7, 2005

w00 to the 00t

Comments! Hevn: I think the characters in Part III may be more to your liking, but don't worry ^_^ I'll do my best to keep them going, hehe. And I'm sure a lot of other people will, too. And I would love someone to wake up next to. Although that's kind of a definition within itself, hehe. Annsie: What I find feels worst is waking up when I haven't had enough sleep. I had four hours' sleep last night (I really have problems falling asleep) and I felt as if I was going to throw up when my alarm went off. It's a horrible, horrible feeling. But after seeing some lovely sign-ups for Clandestine I was alright ^_^ I've set my alarm for 6:55pm before now, too. It's not a pretty sight... Domon: *is glomped* Thank you, hehe. I really appreciate that ^_^ The comment, as well as the glomp ^_~ Shinmaru: If my room was any larger, I'd only fill it with more stuff. At the moment a second bed (er, spare mattress) fills up a fair amount of the floor space, in case I have someone stay the night. Which happens pretty regularly. MolatovCocktease: 4:20?! Geez, even getting to sleep six hours early couldn't prepare me to wake up at that time. I had plenty of time before I had to leave this morning, but spent a lot of my normal preparation time trying to write my sign-up, heh ^_^; Naps are bad for me, though. Unless I'm ill, they tend to disrupt my entire body clock. Wherever I can I just try and last out until a couple of hours before my usual bedtime and go then. Well, Clandestine I: Terracotta [PG-VLS] is finally up, and I must say that I'm very pleased with it so far, and all of the sign-ups that have been submitted already. I wouldn't have thought that just 24 hours would produce so many, hehe. And I'm pleased with my character, too. Time to play 'Spot the Difference' between him and my past RPG sign-ups... >.> College has been alright today. I think we're finally making some headway with getting people really dedicated to the task at hand. And I'll admit I've not exactly been at my most helpful recently, but that's largely because I've been at a loss for what to suggest for scenes we're told to go away and direct ourselves. Still, things should come together ^_^ I'm getting to bed VERY early tonight, because I have lots of reenactment to do tomorrow. For once, I'm actually going to get two nights in a row where I can get more than five hours' sleep! It might seem sad to get so excited about sleeping, but I can't actually tell you how much I'm looking forward to it ^________^;; I'm all giggly just thinking about it, although that may just be a side-effect of exhaustion and re-watching the end of Zone of the Enders. EDIT: Oh, and I've reached over 6,000 visits! Whee! Well, I's off. Take care, lovely people ^_____^ *hugs squishily*

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Typical...

Comments! Annsie: My bedroom's a bit bigger than 10 x 10, both fortunately and unfortunately. I hate having to sort everything out. It's as if somehow there's far too much stuff to fit inside the room I have in all the wardrobes and things >.> *hugs* But thank you ^_^ Good luck, heh. Hevn: Mmm, Smallville is teh greatness ^______^ MolatovCocktease: Heh, I should have known ^_~ Usually my room gets one massive sort out a year, around Christmas or when someone significant/more than one person comes to stay the night. I need at least three weeks' warning ^_^; Sara: *laughs sheepishly* Heh, wow, I've missed seeing you. Baron Samedi: Conspiracy! Domon: You're really making me paranoid now. I woke up early to be able to create my character but typically, although I can now see comments, I can't view OB... I hate having to wake up.

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Monday, June 6, 2005

*silly*
I know it seems irrational, but I'm worried that if I don't post my character sign-up for my own RPG with the initial information, someone else'll take my character design ^_^;

I want to be unique!

Although considering he's going to be pretty much exactly the same as every other character I've ever been, I can hardly call it 'unique'...
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Listless

Comments! JJRiddler: Well, it is an RPG really, but I was just being flowery ^_^; Hevn: Ooh, that would be cool ^_^ I've not felt right over these last few days, and I don't know why. Perhaps it's continuing guilt over various things, the fact that I've work that I've not yet done and so much that I'm going to be given in future... it's just not nice, to be blunt. I miss talking to people. I mean, really talking. I got to see Dan for the first time in ages yesterday and we really didn't talk to each other much. At least, I had things I wanted to say and didn't get them out. But sometimes you don't necessarily need to say anything to affirm that you still have that strength of connection with someone. I'm not depressed, before you get any ideas, heh. Just... mildly annoyed. I miss wrist cutter, though. I remember not crediting him for having translated one of the L'arc~en~Ciel songs I think I used here, and I wanted to apologise for that. And Charlie, too. He are be gonned somewhere. I wants him back >.> Might update later, depending on how quickly I can get myself moving on work and things. See you later, heh. EDIT: Bleh, I couldn't leave my update just like that, so I've found something else to talk about. My bedroom's had its monthly sort-out, and this time I've managed to put all of the bits and pieces I got from the London Expo up on my walls and ceiling, so now it are be covered (albeit rather sparsely, with the size of the posters 'n all) in anime goodness ^_^ I became very annoyed with the amount of untidiness in my room yesterday night. Every so often it just really irks me that I have no room on the floor to do anything. Ideally it'd be practically tidy all the time but that just doesn't happen for some reason. It's the same with the sitting room, although since that's twice the size it can harbour twice the mess. When that all gets carted off to another room it creates many problems for all those concerned (usually me) >.> Hoping to start karate again on Tuesday, seeing as my thumb's pretty much back to it's normal size. I'll go easily on it, though. [Hold on, I think my Kiddy Grade poster's fallen down again... ...Nope, it's still there ^_^] Urm, what else... Oh bollocks, my Macbeth lines o_o; I'd completely forgotten we needed to be off scripts by tomorrow. It's not like I have that many lines, but it's still a bit of a rush. And it's Smallville tonight! Argh! So little time... I need another week off >.>

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Saturday, June 4, 2005

Day Three in the Big J House...

Comments! Roxie: Meh, I'm really not a clubby sort of person. I like being able to breathe and have quiet conversations when I go out. The UK's not actually airing FMA yet (although hopefully it won't be long now *fingers crossed*), but I do have the first DVD. Either way, it's going to take me quite a while to actually complete. This makes me sad -_- *hugs* Thank you ^_^ Charlie: Yes, there were a lot of ground butts around the dance floor. There comes a point when I'm dancing with a girl that I completely lose control of my mind and have no idea what I'm supposed to do next (and to be honest, it's not just while I'm dancing, neither). I love watching people dance properly, though. Hevn: I'll put it up when I get home, for your delectation and disgust ^_^; It's doing much much better now, though. *blushes* I'm almost ready to start my first Adventure Arena project in a long time, now. I've finalised the storylines for the three parts (assuming I can actually get that far with it), and the titles are as follows: Clandestine I: Terracotta Clandestine II: Catalyst Clandestine III: Rapture Part III's the one I'm most looking forward to, as I reckon it'll be the most popular. But here's hoping for the preceeding two to be a success first, hehe. *hugs to all* Take care ^_^

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