i wrote a short piece of humour. you can read it on dA if you want: macgillicuddy. I also put it on my website. wow - a website update, that hasn't happened in forever.
me and penelope_stone are heading for the hills on sunday. penelope_stone thinks it will be fun to go on a 5 hour walk 'round in a circle. she really dosn't know what torture she's signed herself up for.
she has also decided that we are going fight-dancing on saturday. i'm quite sure i'll be abysmally atrocious at it. oh well.
we tried to ring home last night, but got no reply... i guess thursday mornings are a bad time, they always were busy.
i don't really know what to say.
28 September 2007
27 September 2007
The Library
I went to the library this morning, on the bus, via a diversion because some hammer-wielding man had been killed by the police just down the road from where we live... and i thought it was a quiet neighborhood, away from the rough areas. the police shot him and are now in trouble. and i'd just noted how last night was the full moon and people were due a little craziness. i didn't think it would lead to a killing.
anyway - the library. i went to shirley (which is, in my opinion a vastly superior library) and browsed around for a half an hour, after which time i left with five books. i could have left with eight, but i curtailed my enthusiasm.
i took out the next two of anne bishop's blood trilogy, the first two of barbara hambley's dragon 5ology and the plucker by brom. the plucker - i've been dying to get my hands on this book since i heard it was coming out. i love brom so much, he is such a fabulous artist (i secretly want him to do the covers of my books when i get them published).
they also had the third book of robin hobb's assassin trilogy - i've wanted to read that for a while, i just never get around to it. i also looked for neil gaiman's neverwhere, but they didn't have that one either. i saw trudy canavan's magical series too, but figured i had enough books.
it only took me 3 days to read daughter of the blood, though... so i figure this lot will keep me going about 2 weeks.
anyway - the library. i went to shirley (which is, in my opinion a vastly superior library) and browsed around for a half an hour, after which time i left with five books. i could have left with eight, but i curtailed my enthusiasm.
i took out the next two of anne bishop's blood trilogy, the first two of barbara hambley's dragon 5ology and the plucker by brom. the plucker - i've been dying to get my hands on this book since i heard it was coming out. i love brom so much, he is such a fabulous artist (i secretly want him to do the covers of my books when i get them published).
they also had the third book of robin hobb's assassin trilogy - i've wanted to read that for a while, i just never get around to it. i also looked for neil gaiman's neverwhere, but they didn't have that one either. i saw trudy canavan's magical series too, but figured i had enough books.
it only took me 3 days to read daughter of the blood, though... so i figure this lot will keep me going about 2 weeks.
26 September 2007
wierd things happen to your brain during your period
i had the oddest thing happen in my dream last night. i had been captured by some evil people who'd been chasing me (they used knock-out gas or something). once i saw the smoke billowing from them, i dropped to the ground, thinking "smoke rises". anyway... then, while i was lying on the floor waiting to go unconscious, they gave me a form to fill in. the only bit of it i can remember was the field that said "stage of cycle" or something like that, and i wrote BLOOD - in caps, like that.
then i woke up this morning, went to the bathroom and sure enough, my period had started.
so yea... oddness.
i have my story for finished. i just have to type it up. i still suck at typing stuff up - i just go so slowly + my brain likes to invent words that arn't on the page and go off adding in extra stuff. my story's pushing 2,000 words as it is. i must go check what the absolute word-count limit is. [edit: sweet, no limit.]
not a whole lot else to say. i would like some food right now, dinner's not for another hour and ten minutes. i have rice, plain fried. kinda dull and not really filling, but well. i wanted to buy an egg this morning, but they don't sell single eggs and i couldn't afford six. :shrug: anyone know anything cheap that works well as a filler / flavour for staples?
ah well.
24 September 2007
stardust
we went to see stardust yesterday. the weather was drizzly and miserable and perfect for a trip to the cinema. the film was amazing. it was one of the best movies i've seen in a long time. it was so happy and magical and adventurous.
we went to mt thomas forest on saturday too. in contrast to sunday, the weather was warm, sunny and summery. the forest was beautiful too. even though a lot of the trees had this wierd black moss growing on them, killing them. it smelled like vinegar.
there's something about work that kills my ability to make good posts. blah.
we went to mt thomas forest on saturday too. in contrast to sunday, the weather was warm, sunny and summery. the forest was beautiful too. even though a lot of the trees had this wierd black moss growing on them, killing them. it smelled like vinegar.
there's something about work that kills my ability to make good posts. blah.
21 September 2007
the grand adventures of zan and kej - part: the third
zan is turning into a really grumpy, grumbly, sullen, angsty and otherwise unpleasant person. yeay. i love messing with my character's personalities. and the fun part will be her getting over it as the story progresses. meanwhile, i get to have lots of fun with them having arguments and stuff.
god - it's probably going to be torture. i hate when people argue in reality, but i guess that's cause i don't know what the outcome is going to be. people who are annoyed at each other are liable to do anything... including murder. (yea... i'm just a little messed up, just a small bit though.)
ah well. it will be good to write zan and kej again. there is something special about them. zachery is amazingly cool, but zan and kej are ... i don't know. i guess i modelled them a little close to myself, so it's like i'm in the story or something.
so it's the weekend. i think me and penelope_stone are heading to a forest on saturday. we're going out with the people from my work tonight. that should be fun. i totally want to go see stardust aswell. it came out on thursday + we have a voucher for reading cinema (tickets for $9.50, not sat night). hopefully it will be cool.
not much else. i'm also working on my story for . humour is the genre for this month, and while my idea isn't side-splitting or anything, it's not anything serious. ah well.
i don't think i have any other news. i'll just go now.
p.s - i came across this name today: "dragan barbaric" isn't it just the coolest name ever? and it's a real name. amazing!
god - it's probably going to be torture. i hate when people argue in reality, but i guess that's cause i don't know what the outcome is going to be. people who are annoyed at each other are liable to do anything... including murder. (yea... i'm just a little messed up, just a small bit though.)
ah well. it will be good to write zan and kej again. there is something special about them. zachery is amazingly cool, but zan and kej are ... i don't know. i guess i modelled them a little close to myself, so it's like i'm in the story or something.
so it's the weekend. i think me and penelope_stone are heading to a forest on saturday. we're going out with the people from my work tonight. that should be fun. i totally want to go see stardust aswell. it came out on thursday + we have a voucher for reading cinema (tickets for $9.50, not sat night). hopefully it will be cool.
not much else. i'm also working on my story for . humour is the genre for this month, and while my idea isn't side-splitting or anything, it's not anything serious. ah well.
i don't think i have any other news. i'll just go now.
p.s - i came across this name today: "dragan barbaric" isn't it just the coolest name ever? and it's a real name. amazing!
20 September 2007
the end of the fall
wow.
i'm so excited right now. i just finished my novel and i don't have anyone to shout and scream in jubilation at. waaaa.
i have no idea what the final word count is, because the last few chapters have been hand written in 2 different a4 pads which are a world apart from each other. But i figure it's somewhere around 115,000 words. maybe a bit less. it took an age and a half to finish. i've been working on the last 2 chapters since february - i just didn't have a good ending. but i'm happy with the way it did end. it leads into book 2 nicely.
god... to think it all started as my Nano last year. almost a whole year working on it. i was doing the planning and outlining at this time last year. amazing.
anyway. it's done now, though it still needs a whole tonne of re-writing and re-plotting and Azrynn needs an upgrade in characteristics and stuff, but i'm happy. i'm looking forward to getting home (not 'til april 08) and starting work on the editing.
meanwhile, i'm starting to work on the outline and characters of book 3 of the trilogy. wooo!!
i'm so excited right now. i just finished my novel and i don't have anyone to shout and scream in jubilation at. waaaa.
i have no idea what the final word count is, because the last few chapters have been hand written in 2 different a4 pads which are a world apart from each other. But i figure it's somewhere around 115,000 words. maybe a bit less. it took an age and a half to finish. i've been working on the last 2 chapters since february - i just didn't have a good ending. but i'm happy with the way it did end. it leads into book 2 nicely.
god... to think it all started as my Nano last year. almost a whole year working on it. i was doing the planning and outlining at this time last year. amazing.
anyway. it's done now, though it still needs a whole tonne of re-writing and re-plotting and Azrynn needs an upgrade in characteristics and stuff, but i'm happy. i'm looking forward to getting home (not 'til april 08) and starting work on the editing.
meanwhile, i'm starting to work on the outline and characters of book 3 of the trilogy. wooo!!
18 September 2007
just so much to write
i don't even know where to start. the weekend was really good, cruising around in the car, seeing the sights, shouting "pull over at the next lay-by", enjoying the views... staying in the city is so uninspiring, just a few miles outside christchurch the countryside really rears up - volcanic hills dotted with groves of trees, or sheep, or brown, parched-looking grass; like something from the national geographic. the beauty of it all was mesmerizing, like something from a dream. especially the road to akaroa. it curved and twisted around, up and over the hills, each turn bringing a new sight, each new sight better than the last. makes our trip well worth it. i had begun to wonder about the fabled beauty of NZ, but it is there after-all.
snow patrol on saturday night played a brilliant set too. iain archer supported them; he looked completely different to what i expected. he sings like brian adams. wierd.
yea... i don't really know what else to say.
snow patrol on saturday night played a brilliant set too. iain archer supported them; he looked completely different to what i expected. he sings like brian adams. wierd.
yea... i don't really know what else to say.
Stolen from lordkilljoy and irirshmadcat
1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the first ten results
1.Computer Programmer
2.Special Effects Technician
3.Technical Writer
4.Multimedia Developer
5.Costume Designer
6.Makeup Artist
7.Computer Support Person
8.Business Systems Analyst
9.Critic
10.Comedian
11.Writer
13.Web Developer
20.Video Game Developer
23.Sound Technician
35.Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
36.Animator
38.Printing Press Operator
i just wanted to include the others 'cause it's funny seeing where the things i'm actually interested in coming near-last on the list.
1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the first ten results
1.Computer Programmer
2.Special Effects Technician
3.Technical Writer
4.Multimedia Developer
5.Costume Designer
6.Makeup Artist
7.Computer Support Person
8.Business Systems Analyst
9.Critic
10.Comedian
11.Writer
13.Web Developer
20.Video Game Developer
23.Sound Technician
35.Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator
36.Animator
38.Printing Press Operator
i just wanted to include the others 'cause it's funny seeing where the things i'm actually interested in coming near-last on the list.
14 September 2007
snow patrol tomorrow
woooo - jennifer from work is going too, we'll have so much fun.
i got over my minor bout of depression, it was hormonal, i realized this morning. i'm back to my bouncy self again. it's really shocking having the difference in mood highlighted so dramatically. i can see why controls are used in scientific experiments - using work as the control - everything is so brighter when i'm good.
there's supposed to be a thunderstorm today, the clouds look interesting, lightening would totally rock. it was 19degrees as i was walking into work today. so hot.
we're going driving around the port hills tomorrow before the concert. that should be fun, getting to see the sights from on high and all.
i don't really have much else to say. i'm really struggling with the end of "the fall". zachery's just been though so much at this stage that i'm finding it hard to do new and inventive things to him. i'm at the final confrontation (all the fighting is done with) and the antogonist is cutting all the strings between them. i'm struggling not to make him sound like some corny james bond villan.
ah well.
right so, i'll go now.
ps - it's lashing outside. we're all watching the weather. lorraine wants to get a shot of the lightening.
i got over my minor bout of depression, it was hormonal, i realized this morning. i'm back to my bouncy self again. it's really shocking having the difference in mood highlighted so dramatically. i can see why controls are used in scientific experiments - using work as the control - everything is so brighter when i'm good.
there's supposed to be a thunderstorm today, the clouds look interesting, lightening would totally rock. it was 19degrees as i was walking into work today. so hot.
we're going driving around the port hills tomorrow before the concert. that should be fun, getting to see the sights from on high and all.
i don't really have much else to say. i'm really struggling with the end of "the fall". zachery's just been though so much at this stage that i'm finding it hard to do new and inventive things to him. i'm at the final confrontation (all the fighting is done with) and the antogonist is cutting all the strings between them. i'm struggling not to make him sound like some corny james bond villan.
ah well.
right so, i'll go now.
ps - it's lashing outside. we're all watching the weather. lorraine wants to get a shot of the lightening.
13 September 2007
oowww
i hurt today. my throat is really dry and raspy and sending painful pings to my left ear. i've been drinking honey and lemon all day in the hopes it may do something, but its fleeting relief wanes as the cup empties. i think i need something like potter's cough mixture or something, 'cause it's not really a sore throat i have, it's more like a throat gone dry from a tickely cough. :shrug: i know not.
i think there's some kind of evil thing going around in work. everyone seems to be coughing today... or maybe it's just random throat-clearing.
we're getting our car today. : ) that should be cool.
i think summer here is going to be really warm. it's equivalent to early march, and already the sun is so hot. i walked up to shirley library this morning in a tshirt-over-long-sleeved-top and i was roasting. though, the blue sky is balmy. it's just so beautiful.
i think there's some kind of evil thing going around in work. everyone seems to be coughing today... or maybe it's just random throat-clearing.
we're getting our car today. : ) that should be cool.
i think summer here is going to be really warm. it's equivalent to early march, and already the sun is so hot. i walked up to shirley library this morning in a tshirt-over-long-sleeved-top and i was roasting. though, the blue sky is balmy. it's just so beautiful.
12 September 2007
we got a car
happy birthday davidnarby
big news this week. we bought a car on sunday. wooo!! it's a nissan primera, 1990. a little old, but it goes well. penelope_stone was supposed to collect it today, but it's not going to be ready 'til tomorrow (there were a few things had to be done to it, grooming, fixing a few cosmetic issues and stuff).
it's so cool, though. we'll be able to go away on the weekends and see so much stuff. i can't wait.
snow patrol this weekend, that should be fun. they rocked in glastonbury, so hopefully they'll be good. iain archer is supporting; i hope he plays summer jets.
work is depressing me. it's just the same thing all the time, saying the same thing to most people who ring up - everyone wants to go to austraila. the few people who want america or europe really brighten my day. i've been here 2 weeks and i'm sick of saying "no, sorry we don't have anything available in [insert name of aussy resort] over christmas.
buh - anyway.
big news this week. we bought a car on sunday. wooo!! it's a nissan primera, 1990. a little old, but it goes well. penelope_stone was supposed to collect it today, but it's not going to be ready 'til tomorrow (there were a few things had to be done to it, grooming, fixing a few cosmetic issues and stuff).
it's so cool, though. we'll be able to go away on the weekends and see so much stuff. i can't wait.
snow patrol this weekend, that should be fun. they rocked in glastonbury, so hopefully they'll be good. iain archer is supporting; i hope he plays summer jets.
work is depressing me. it's just the same thing all the time, saying the same thing to most people who ring up - everyone wants to go to austraila. the few people who want america or europe really brighten my day. i've been here 2 weeks and i'm sick of saying "no, sorry we don't have anything available in [insert name of aussy resort] over christmas.
buh - anyway.
06 September 2007
dinner, yum
i had the most delicious dinner today. penelope_stone cooked potatoes last night and i fried them this morning with ketchup, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, herbs, chili and oil. it was so yummy + spicy and well flavoured. mmm. i just wish i had more.
ah well - my stomach is being wierd at the moment, though. it hurts when i'm hungry and hurts when i eat. blah. oh well, i'm sure it will go away soon.
i don't have much else to say. so i'll just go.
(it has taken me an hour to post this entry, haaaaah)
oh yea - i totally forgot to say: we are going to see the russian ballet perform carmina burana. i can't wait. it's on in october, that will be so cool. i've never been to a ballet before, it should be good. well, hopefully.
yep.
ah well - my stomach is being wierd at the moment, though. it hurts when i'm hungry and hurts when i eat. blah. oh well, i'm sure it will go away soon.
i don't have much else to say. so i'll just go.
(it has taken me an hour to post this entry, haaaaah)
oh yea - i totally forgot to say: we are going to see the russian ballet perform carmina burana. i can't wait. it's on in october, that will be so cool. i've never been to a ballet before, it should be good. well, hopefully.
yep.
03 September 2007
the weekend
i think my stomach is wierd. it was kinda sore yesterday and i woke this morning with it jabbing pain every-so-often. it's killed my appetite, though. not good. i get to shake in work and stuff.
anyway - the weekend was good - we went to see the bourne ultimatum on saturday. it was so amazingly cool. the cinematography was breathtaking - some of the action scenes were just so intense.
we went to the beach too - walked from southshore to new brighton. we had a nice picnic in the dunes too. wonderful + then we went home and had roast chicken - yummy.
anyway - the weekend was good - we went to see the bourne ultimatum on saturday. it was so amazingly cool. the cinematography was breathtaking - some of the action scenes were just so intense.
we went to the beach too - walked from southshore to new brighton. we had a nice picnic in the dunes too. wonderful + then we went home and had roast chicken - yummy.
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