Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Absence makes the car go Honda...
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Betteh.: Poleaxes are dangerous, heh.

I do historical re-enactment combat around the area. Sorry for not replying to your PM yet, by the way. Things is been bizzeh.

Nissan Micras are possibly some of the smallest cars, just above Ford Ka and a Smart Car. But I'm getting a new one tomorrow, so it's all good...

Roleni-chan: They're not sharp weapons, thankfully. We used some once and I still have the scar on my right hand. That event's probably recounted somwhere in the archives here, actually :p

I'm currently on 74 pages and, while it's still coming, it's at a very slow crawl. I just need some time to myself to concentrate and get it all down.

I'm not short- I'm distinctly average. Five foot eight- you cannot get more average than that, in fact. But I haven't seen any of those animes, no. I just read the Tsubasa manga and have all the soundtracks, heh.

And thank you ^_^ A fair bit more has happened since then, and it's further made me feel very polite and decent but also rather lonely. Or more lonely, I should say.

My illness dreams! Blimey, they're weird. I can remember two. They're both rather hard to describe, but with the first, if you imagine a room with a dark pine-coloured wooden floor, with a door at one end. You're looking at it from the back right corner, about halfway-up the wall. The door is on the far right of you, at the opposite end of the room. The 'camera' is angled at about forty-five degrees, looking somewhere towards the ecntre of the room. On the floor are two small boulders, one larger than the other. And between the two, somewhere, lies a piece of string that attaches them. Then the camera starts zooming in and out very quickly, going both ways at the same time and rotating as it does so.

Describing it like that makes it sound so... weird, but whenever I have it I wake up in a cold sweat. Although it's probably more the fact that I always have it when I'm ill that makes me feel so strange. The second is a little similar, and may have been inspired by an old animation I saw when I was very young, but I can't be sure.

If you imagine it as an animation, the background is a faded pink that fades to black at the top of the screen, and there are thorn bushes everywhere. As the camera, you break through the thorn bushes to reveal a clearing, in which there is a large pink, glowing circle on the floor, with a slight dome to it. Walking towards it very slowly on the left is either a beam of pink light or a very tall, very thin stick-person, also in pink light. It's just so bizarre, heh.

Miss Monkey: Ironically enough, it got smashed at the last event multiple times by another guy with an axe. It's still pretty swollen, except now has an expired blood blister on top of the joint, too. I caught that in a cheese grater yesterday and it absolutely caned.

Kei: I get hurt anywhere :p But yeah, thumbs are more irritating than most other digits, if only because they get in the way when you're not doing anything with anything else.

Akamaru: School = Stupid Conglomerate of Horrible, Officious, Obsessive Labour. Or something like that, hehe. I like making words into acronyms!

Whenever it was that this was

Azure: *chinks cup and swigs* Hope everything's going okay for you now, mate. I know you tend to get more than your fair share of stresses, heh. Take care ^_~

arnica: I was thinking of you the other day, you know, and how much I like Australian accents. I think you're the first I've spoken on the phone to (whence you came to Bradford for your sister's wedding); I can't remember offhand whether I spoke to Ashy or not. And I do feel better now, thank you ^_^

Mamma Vash: In the end we cut out 300 little bits of paper and stuck them on the covers where they were supposed to be. Not exactly fun or quick work, but at least it was better than wasting all that time and money on a whole new set of DVD covers.

Roleni: Yes, they are. But everything was a bit funny back then anyway. I wish people would be more honest with their feelings, though- I don't particularly like being lied to, although I can understand why it happens. I know I've done it in the past (and I still feel stupid for ever doing so), but now I can really see why it matters. But I'm getting along well with both of them (she even contacted me that evening to apologise again and we're going to the zoo together on Friday), so it's okay ^_^

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Well, the film's done and dusted insofar as we aren't screening it any more- there are still prospective film festivals to come. Dan and I haven't discussed where we're going to take them yet; I think he and I still need a little time to put it out of our minds, and at the moment he's trying to find work in a theatre somewhere so I'm helping him as much as I can with that. We've also been running numerous stage combat workshops for the Chichester Festival Theatre. In this weather it gets pretty tiring :p

I'm 74 pages through the story, and a little worried that my lead character isn't strong enough. Not in terms of physical strength, but in terms of her actual character. So I've been running through and refining her and other bits and pieces.

Yesterday I made a list of questions that people should be asking at this point in the story, and seeing whether they were obvious enough to be picked up on or if there were too many. So it's been interesting looking back at it after a week and a half break (for the premiere). I'm pleased with it on the whole, but now I'm having problems continuing. Once I get into the next section it'll be fine, but it's one of those annoying progressive bits where all you have to do is move from one place to another and there isn't a character moment or story point to help carry it along- they have to get there for things to continue. And it's not as if they;re even that far away. I literally just need to write something like 'Once they arrived...', or something and it'll be fine. But getting those first words out right is pretty difficult ^_^: It's a bit like trying to start again, heh.

I am getting a new car tomorrow! It's a Honda Civic, and it's BIG. Not like station wagon (estate for those who is not so America-inclined), but big enough for me not to have to worry about whether all my stuff will fit in it. Me likies, even if I do have to install the CD player myself because it only came with a poxy tape player >.>; Still, at least I can have one in this car.

That's about all for now, heh. Hope you'se all well ^___^

xx
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