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Camera-less

// November 29th, 2007 // No Comments » // Web-food

I feel my blog needs more pictures, but I’m afraid I can’t really do anything about it. See, I lost the USB cable to my camera when I was in England and I can’t find a new one anywhere :( So I’ve wished for a new camera for Christmas. Fingers crossed!

Anyways, here’s a drawing instead.

It’s old and that, but I still think it’s funny and quite nice. I like drawing tentacles. Yes I do.

Anyways yeah. What else? Oh! The Mighty Boosh! Thank you Maja for linking it on your blog! It’s just so good! I’ve watched 2 episodes now and I can’t stop!

Bye Ester! :´(

// November 28th, 2007 // No Comments » // Web-food

One of my rats, Ester, just died. She’s lying in my lap wrapped in a towel. I don’t know what to do. It feels so weird. Could I have done something more? Should I have noticed? What was it?

I just went to check on them before I went to bed and I noticed that Ester was just lying there with her head stuck in a toilet roll, which looked kinda cute so I reached in the cage to pat her and she twitched horribly. I picked her up and she was limp, and then she twitched again and jumed down on the floor and just kida lay there breathing quite heavily. So I picked her up and noticed she was bleeding from the rear and that she seemed very inactive and weak. So I went to get a towel and held her in that and after just a few minutes she started twitching and cramping and it was really horrible. Then she was dead and now I don’t know what to do.

First of all I don’t know what to do with Ester. The ground is frozen so I can’t bury her and it would feel so so so wrong to just throw her out. I’ve heard of people that put dead pets in the freezer if they die in the winter, but that also feels kinda weird. But I have to do something.

And then there’s Kanin. What’s to become of her now? Rats are social animals and she needs a companion, but I really don’t want to get a new rat. I really don’t. They are wonderful pets and loads of fun, but at the moment I don’t want a little one to take care of. But hopefully I can find someone that would be willing to take Kanin in. Maybe… I kinda don’t wanna loose them both at the same time, but on the other hand I want what’s best for Kanin, and that would be to be with another rat. In the mean time I will just have to give her lots of extra attention. The poor thing. Wonder if she understands what’s happened…

Just the other day Ester was sitting on my head feeling perfectly fine. This feels so weird. And sad. I’m gonna try and get some sleep. I’ve gone and fucked up my sleeping pattern again. Record time I think. Sigh.

Pale tattoo :(

// November 27th, 2007 // No Comments » // Web-food

Right, so in September I had a tattoo done on my back and I was soooo happy since I’ve been wanting that tattoo for a very long time. So I was well happy right, and it looked well good even though at the moment it’s just the lines that are done. But, it’s gone a bit pale and it has been worrying me a bit. So today I went to the tattoo studio to book an appointment to colour it in. The first thing my tattoo guy asks me when I come in is “has your tattoo gone a bit pale?” So I say “#yes, it has, I’ve been a bit worried”. So he explains to me that that week, the week that they did the lines on me, they’d had a bottle of bad ink with not enough pigment in it, and that’s what they’d used on my tattoo. Of course they didn’t know it was bad at the time. Anyway, he’s gonna redo the lines free of charge and do as much of the colouring I can take on Tuesday next week.

So I’m both well excited and very very relieved about all this. And my tattoo artist, who’s name I’ve forgotten, was so sweet and apologetic about everything and said he’d been very worried that I wouldn’t come back and stuff. But the whole thing wasn’t his fault, so I definitely don’t blame him for what happened.  I blame the idiots who can’t mix the ink properly. Apparently there was one box of ink that was bad and it’s gone out to studios all over the country. Karl Lee Tattoo, which is the place where I go, had gotten one bottle and apparently there’s one guy walking around with a really nice, but pale snake on his arm that hasn’t been back yet. :/ Poor guy, and poor artists as well, they were so apologetic and worried. Awww!  But yeah, I’m not paying anything extra for having it corrected, so I guess it’s fine.

Yeah.. so Tuesday. I’m looking forward to it!

The right side up again

// November 26th, 2007 // No Comments » // Web-food

It’s ten o clock in the morning and I’m writing this from my bed, a nice hot cup of coffee on the bedside table and a portion of scrambled eggs safely landed in my stomach. I haven’t been up this early in weeks and the only reason as to why I am is that I haven’t gone to bed yet. I intended to do so very much last night, but then I started watching Dexter and I just couldn’t stop. So I figured, why not just stay awake? So at about 8.30 I got up and made breakfast, and lots of coffee, just as if I was getting up after a night’s good sleep.

I doubt it’ll feel very good in a couple of hours though. Even though I’ve been lying down for most part of the night, watching my computer screen, I haven’t actually rested. But it’s worth a shot. I need to be up at about 10am tomorrow morning and that’s not gonna happen unless I get to sleep on time. And that definitely wouldn’t have happened had I gone to sleep at 5 this morning. Then I would have woken up at 3pm and I would have been screwed. Nope, if I can only stay awake now, and get to sleep at a normal hour tonight I’ll be one step closer to healthy sleeping hours, although this is probably one of the more unhealthy ways of acheiving them.

But I’m tired of waking up in the afternoon, not getting any daylight and just not getting anything done. I think that if I could get up at a decent hour it would be a little step in the right direction. Pah, I sound horrible, like I.. I don’t know really. Like it was a major problem of some sort. It is a problem, sure, I’m not getting anything done, but it’s not like I have an eating disorder or a drug problem.

I think I’m gonna go for a walk. I need some air to keep me awake. I don’t know how I’m gonna stay awake really. Not if I feel like falling asleep already. Sigh. Hopefully walking will help. Walking and Chemical Brothers. Yes.

Zzzzz…

I fail less

// November 21st, 2007 // No Comments » // Web-food

Yes! I’ve squeezed out a whole one and a half page of analysis today! This I did even though I woke up at 12 instead of 10 and didn’t get to work until 2 pm. I found an article about inanimate subjects that I could use, a really good one and I also found several good examples of inanimate subjects in the text I’m analysing. On top of that I now know the reason to why non-native speakers (Asian people in particular) don’t like/understand inanimate subjects. It works fine in English, but if you were to do the same thing in for example Japanese, (The text reads bla bla bla…) the reader would have to imagine the actual text, sitting there reading something. This is in most cases probably not what the writer wants to convey when using this construction in English.

Other good news on the topic of all things Uni is that my tutors this semester is considering moving the deadline of the final paper from January to April. This is very good news because this would mean that I’m not behind anymore. Apparently there’s a lot of people that are just as stuck as I am and even though this must feel bad for them and all that, it makes me feel alot better. I feel that I am no longer alone in my stuck-ness. There is hope.

Something else that I’m behind on is my mountain of washing up. Again. I don’t know why I always do this when it takes at most 5 minutes to do it if you do it every day at the end of the day, but I just can’t ba arsed and the mountain grows and grows and sometimes it expands to and takes over areas outside the kitchen. Sometimes I think it might be sentinent, just lying there, waiting to take over the world.

So yeah, improvements and lazyness.

I’ve decided to become a banker in the world of warcraft, meaning that I’m responsible for organising the guild bank. I like it, it’s fun and I feel very useful and it’s a great way to satisfy my overly pedantic and control freaky side. Doesn’t everyone have one of those? I don’t know if it’s gonna be good or bad in the long run though. Right now I think it’s fun and I feel useful and all that, but I already play a lot of WoW and I am very involved, and maybe this one more thing to do in the game will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back. I don’t know. I don’t think so, but I do worry sometimes. Although today it feels like it’s all fine and dandy. I’ve managed to write, and it’s not to late, I have plenty of time to clean up a bit around the appartement and after that I’ll still have time to be nerdy. So no worries yet.

I’m off to do the washing up and if I’m not too exhausted after that I might just do some vaccuuming as well! :O

Oh, and William Shatner is a shaman…

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I just love it. It’s fantastic and he’s just as pretentious as he always is and William Shatner ftw!! I have a very strange fascination with this man. I don’t know why, and no, it’s not sexual. He’s just… so… weird..!