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Hello internet. You may have noticed that I haven't posted in the last... *checks*... four days. At least, my mother has noticed. XD
This is mainly because my life has entered a short limbo period waiting for graduation, and nothing very exciting is happening at the moment. Also I'm just too lazy to type up a long, thoughtful, interesting, not-my-mundane-everyday-life post at the moment. I'm sure the urge will return to me when I'm back from running around in the Italian Alps for a week. And if not, I'll always have a million photos of the Italian Alps to post instead.
Right, what's been going on. On Wednesday, I met up with the other people who went to the dig in Germnay last summer for poker (which I completely pwned at ! \o/) and watching Bring It On (which is pretty hilarious). Yesterday, Tim and I went out to Newcastle for lunch and I bought the first volume of Y: the Last Man as a graduation present for myself. :D Haven't gotten around to reading it, but I will soon.
Also, I started learning Ruby on Rails. I was going to go with PHP, mainly because it's the only langauge I've really ever come across, but Tim suggested Ruby as a nicer to use and more modern alternative. (After ranting for a while about how terrible PHP was. >_>) I haven't actually programmed anything in it yet as I'm still on the theoretical chapters of the book, but it's pretty interesting stuff. Even if the author has an incredibly cheesy sense of humour. I'm pretty excited to actually start writing code that does something more than play with some strings in the console.
(Not that I haven't been deriving endless childish amusement from coming up with my own example strings, naturally.) When I've gotten through the book and the Digg-clone project it's based around, I'm gonna build a gallery for my website. This whole thing was motivated, really, by me not finding a gallery script/plugin/etc online that does what I want it to do. And when I've done that I'll build my own blogging app (framework? platform? tool? I DO NOT SPEAK THIS JARGON HELP ME) to use instead of Wordpress.
A propos, I have two half-finished digital paintings hanging around. I want to finish at least one of them before I leave, so I'll post it up when that happens. This depends on whether my cold goes away in time, because I haven't got the energy or patience to paint with a runny nose and a headache. –_–
I really, really enjoy painting with SAI, by the way. Definitely going to have to buy that when my trial runs out.
So, we're moving out of the house and back into Hild Bede on Tuesday, the college congregation dinner is Thursday, the actual ceremony is Friday, and afterwards my parents and I are driving straight down to Calais and eventually on to Italy, where we will clamber around the Alps for a week and then hang around a seriously pretty lake for a week, and then we're going home (after a brief stop in Hamburg) and... I finish my MA applications and start looking for a job, I suppose.
What else, what else. I've been following what's been going on in Iran in the last however long it's been now, and I keep thinking maybe I should write about it, but I haven't really got anything meaningful to say except it's really fucked up. Even if Ahmadinejad may well have been popular enough outside of the cities to win, there was definitely foul play, and it's just... fucked up, really. Articulate political commentary is not strong with me in this case. Most recently things seem to be quietening down a bit, but in an ominous sort of way. I watch, and worry.
And to completely change the topic one last time, here is a cute, sexy webcomic I discovered to-day: Curvy. (NSFW)
This is mainly because my life has entered a short limbo period waiting for graduation, and nothing very exciting is happening at the moment. Also I'm just too lazy to type up a long, thoughtful, interesting, not-my-mundane-everyday-life post at the moment. I'm sure the urge will return to me when I'm back from running around in the Italian Alps for a week. And if not, I'll always have a million photos of the Italian Alps to post instead.
Right, what's been going on. On Wednesday, I met up with the other people who went to the dig in Germnay last summer for poker (which I completely pwned at ! \o/) and watching Bring It On (which is pretty hilarious). Yesterday, Tim and I went out to Newcastle for lunch and I bought the first volume of Y: the Last Man as a graduation present for myself. :D Haven't gotten around to reading it, but I will soon.
Also, I started learning Ruby on Rails. I was going to go with PHP, mainly because it's the only langauge I've really ever come across, but Tim suggested Ruby as a nicer to use and more modern alternative. (After ranting for a while about how terrible PHP was. >_>) I haven't actually programmed anything in it yet as I'm still on the theoretical chapters of the book, but it's pretty interesting stuff. Even if the author has an incredibly cheesy sense of humour. I'm pretty excited to actually start writing code that does something more than play with some strings in the console.
(Not that I haven't been deriving endless childish amusement from coming up with my own example strings, naturally.) When I've gotten through the book and the Digg-clone project it's based around, I'm gonna build a gallery for my website. This whole thing was motivated, really, by me not finding a gallery script/plugin/etc online that does what I want it to do. And when I've done that I'll build my own blogging app (framework? platform? tool? I DO NOT SPEAK THIS JARGON HELP ME) to use instead of Wordpress.
A propos, I have two half-finished digital paintings hanging around. I want to finish at least one of them before I leave, so I'll post it up when that happens. This depends on whether my cold goes away in time, because I haven't got the energy or patience to paint with a runny nose and a headache. –_–
I really, really enjoy painting with SAI, by the way. Definitely going to have to buy that when my trial runs out.
So, we're moving out of the house and back into Hild Bede on Tuesday, the college congregation dinner is Thursday, the actual ceremony is Friday, and afterwards my parents and I are driving straight down to Calais and eventually on to Italy, where we will clamber around the Alps for a week and then hang around a seriously pretty lake for a week, and then we're going home (after a brief stop in Hamburg) and... I finish my MA applications and start looking for a job, I suppose.
What else, what else. I've been following what's been going on in Iran in the last however long it's been now, and I keep thinking maybe I should write about it, but I haven't really got anything meaningful to say except it's really fucked up. Even if Ahmadinejad may well have been popular enough outside of the cities to win, there was definitely foul play, and it's just... fucked up, really. Articulate political commentary is not strong with me in this case. Most recently things seem to be quietening down a bit, but in an ominous sort of way. I watch, and worry.
And to completely change the topic one last time, here is a cute, sexy webcomic I discovered to-day: Curvy. (NSFW)
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*dances* I win! :D Time to start seriously applying to MA courses now.
Anyway. I've been reading Bad Science by Ben Goldacre, and it's really good so far. I've been underlining amusing passages (thought-provoking ones, too, but I'm saving those for later).
The most lulz so far have been in the homeopathy chapter, probably because homeopathy is one of the most ridiculous things on Earth. I love the idea that apparently in some homeopathy pill factories there are specially designed robots to whack containers of water against striking boards. Because to get water to remember anything, you have to beat it into it, obviously. Doesn't respond to positive reinforcement at all.
(Really, though what is that. Why would you SPEND MONEY on a robot for that. Why?)
Also, on dilutions of 200C and above (pg. 34):
To look at it another way, the universe contains about 3 × 1080 cubic metres of storage space (ideal for starting a family): if it was filled with water, and one molecule of active ingredient, this would make for a rather paltry 55C dilution
But it is ok, because the water got beaten up by a robot, and totally learned it's lesson. It'll have the money by the end of the week, no really, please, it's going to call in some favours and get it together by Friday. Wednesday! Please, not the eyes! Wednesday!
There's also a chapter about Gillian McKeith (there's a bunch of cool chapters before that, but without lulzy quotes), "multi-millionaire pill entrepeneur and clinical nutritionist [...] (or, to give her full medical title: Gillian McKeith)" (pg. 112). Apparently, she is famous, which has sort of passed me by. I'd heard her name, but I didn't know who she was. Now I know she is a bit of a crazy woman with really strange ideas about food.
I mean, I don't sign my dead cat up to bogus professional organisations for the good of my health, you know.(pg. 124)
I feel that quote doesn't really need context.
The next chapter is titled "Pill Solves Complex Social Problem", and it is dangling before me like some sort of ultra-delicious morsel of deliciousness.
I thought this would be a good excuse, though, to post some pictures I found while backing up photos from my camera of the huge amount of ridiculous ads in the in-flight magazine on my trip to America last year.
So, I actually looked up these people's website, and it made me laugh a lot. I can only imagine how hilarious it would be if I knew something about Chemistry beyond common sense and Wikipedia.
Look, I think Ötzi is pretty cool, too, but I'm not going to buy a thing to give my hand electric shocks because he had tattoos over the joints in which he was possibly arthritic.
$6 on cookies a day, by the way. And I bet the cookies are tiny. I also really really love the "*Results atypical". XDD
There was also a whole page ad for Human Growth Hormone, but none of the pictures I took turned out very well. How do you even get to put things like this in magazines? Don't they get advertising standards complaints, or something?
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I'm sorry I keep failing so hard at blogging, guys. I love you really! I have some scribbles of notes I want to turn into a proper blogpost or two, but I can't be arsed to sit down and type up proper coherent paragraphs at the moment, apparently.
I went to an awesome conference yesterday to mark the prettying-up of the Dawson building and Anthropology moving in with us. Lots of interesting interdisciplinary lectures about evolution and tracing the spread of people and agriculture and, um, knitting in the British Isles. XD But generally really cool stuff. Anthropologists get very, very excited about evolution, it seems. A lot. And applying it to things like the spread of types of material culture.
A propos, has anyone ever heard of the "Centre for Coevolution of Biology and Culture"? It was mentioned briefly in one of the lectures and I wrote it down because it sounded like it could be a pretty cool thing, but google has no idea what I'm talking about. T_T I want to know about this mythical centre that combines Archaeology, Anthropology, Biology and Psychology!
Anyway, in lieu of a real post, have a pretty hilarious ad I found in the in-flight magazine when I went to the states last summer. You can consider it a preview for tomorrow's post if I get around to writing it:
ALL NATURAL LIQUID OXYGEN™ DROPS, YOU GUYS. I bet you all want some.
SPEAKING OF TOMORROW, THE PASS LISTS ARE PUBLISHED AT NOON TOMORROW. THAT'S WHEN I FIND OUT MY MARKS. AFSHJKDSHJDDASDASH I should find something to do until then. Like sleeping.
PS: I've been putting all my bookmarks on delicious. (Which isn't del.icio.us anymore, I guess.) Anyone else have an account?
I went to an awesome conference yesterday to mark the prettying-up of the Dawson building and Anthropology moving in with us. Lots of interesting interdisciplinary lectures about evolution and tracing the spread of people and agriculture and, um, knitting in the British Isles. XD But generally really cool stuff. Anthropologists get very, very excited about evolution, it seems. A lot. And applying it to things like the spread of types of material culture.
A propos, has anyone ever heard of the "Centre for Coevolution of Biology and Culture"? It was mentioned briefly in one of the lectures and I wrote it down because it sounded like it could be a pretty cool thing, but google has no idea what I'm talking about. T_T I want to know about this mythical centre that combines Archaeology, Anthropology, Biology and Psychology!
Anyway, in lieu of a real post, have a pretty hilarious ad I found in the in-flight magazine when I went to the states last summer. You can consider it a preview for tomorrow's post if I get around to writing it:
ALL NATURAL LIQUID OXYGEN™ DROPS, YOU GUYS. I bet you all want some.
SPEAKING OF TOMORROW, THE PASS LISTS ARE PUBLISHED AT NOON TOMORROW. THAT'S WHEN I FIND OUT MY MARKS. AFSHJKDSHJDDASDASH I should find something to do until then. Like sleeping.
PS: I've been putting all my bookmarks on delicious. (Which isn't del.icio.us anymore, I guess.) Anyone else have an account?
Free wifi on trains is the best thing.
I'm on my way back to Durham for the last time to-day, and it's weird. And I've STILL NEVER BEEN TO JORVIK, and only ONCE to Beamish. What is that. That is just wrong. I think I'll have to jump on a train to York some day next week.
I'm sitting against the direction of travel here, and it's making me sort of ill looking at the screen, so I'm going to put the laptop away again, I think. I've been spamming Twitter all day, anyway, so you shall not miss out on my improving presence in your lives.
See ya.
I'm on my way back to Durham for the last time to-day, and it's weird. And I've STILL NEVER BEEN TO JORVIK, and only ONCE to Beamish. What is that. That is just wrong. I think I'll have to jump on a train to York some day next week.
I'm sitting against the direction of travel here, and it's making me sort of ill looking at the screen, so I'm going to put the laptop away again, I think. I've been spamming Twitter all day, anyway, so you shall not miss out on my improving presence in your lives.
See ya.
Hi guys. I'm still alive and around and everything! I was just busy... relaxing. XD I was going to blog to-day, but I had a cocktail at dinner after my brother's graduation and alcohol makes me sleepy.
But yeah, my little brother graduated high school to-day!
FFFFF HE LOOKS SO OLD.
Bed now, blog later.
But yeah, my little brother graduated high school to-day!
FFFFF HE LOOKS SO OLD.
Bed now, blog later.
I think I should do something to stop my bowels from smelling of raw meat and decay. Because that is not healthy, if only for my interpersonal relations. I don't even want to be around me. Maybe fast for a week, or something? I have heard recently from relatively reputable sources that fasting can be quite healthy for short amounts of time. I'll have to do some reading. But since I'm resolved to be more healthy and stuff when I move back home, it might be a nice... symbolic new start, or something. I dunno, it's probably ritual. (That lame non-joke only works around archaeologists, I apologise.)
Everything feels like a new start, lately. I feel like I've reached a milestone and now everything can change. It's sort of weirdly energising. I shall use this energy FOR THE GREATER GOOD. By which I mean: to draw a lot of pretty pictures and read a lot of books. Obviously.
I don't want to leave Durham, though. D: I'm really enjoying being here, and living by myself (well, with Tim, usually, but you know), and it's sort of lame that just when I have the free time to enjoy my freedom I have to leave and go back home, which isn't even a town. (But it does have dead bodies in wheelie bins! :|)
I almost wish this year was first year. Not that I want to do all the work over again, but I'm more confident and less antisocial, and this year I've actually made friends, (maybe one or two I'll actually keep in touch with) and THIS ALWAYS HAPPENS. Someday I will be awesome enough to make friends at the beginning. Next uni, guys, next uni. I will participate in clubs and talk to people and show them how awesome I am. (And not get preoccupied with a boyfriend in the first week and then get all depressed in second year, but the other stuff is more important.) Because it's not that I don't think I'm cool enough to join in conversations, I do actually think highly of myself most of the time, I just... I dunno. Am awkward. Being awkward makes me feel less awesome, which makes me more awkward. And sometimes it just doesn't occur to me I should be talking to people. XD
Well, I'm constantly improving and getting closer to how I want to be. I am my own ongoing project. (Just wait until we get consumer bionic implants.)
Talking about MYSELF, I have developed some sort of finishing illness. I've got three TV shows and two books that are just sort of sitting around almost finished. It's like that thing where you start reading more slowly as you get to the end of a book because you don't want it to end, except terminally so. Anyway, I started the second-to-last chapter of The Years of Rice and Salt yesterday, so I am on the road to recovery. Book is still awesome. Maybe tomorrow I will watch the last three eps of BSG.
My mum is getting up at the crack of dawn like a crazy person to get here early, so I should probably go to bed now.
PS: I got my dissertation hard-bound, and it looks really cool. Might take a picture tomorrow.
If you're looking for some lulz, let me recommend the most hilarious and nonsensical alien conspiracy documentary I have ever seen.
I mean, um, you should all watch this and have your eyes opened to the ancient invasion of the lizard bird telepathic sky-god aliens with European features who live on the moon and who the ex-Nazis at NASA don't want you to know about.
(I should warn you that the beginning has some rather distasteful use of pictures of war casualties.)
Hi guys! Apologies for the silence, I've been too busy being a gentleman of leisure to write blogposts lately.
So, anyway. Tim's mum drove up yesterday to take Tim and most of his stuff home before the end of term. My mum's coming up to do the same thing on Thursday. Except I'm going to attend my brother's high school graduation and make Japanese snack-foods with Steph, not going to a videogame AI conference in Paris. I think we all know who is having the more awesome pre-graduation adventure here, amirite! 8D
I could be going to a really cool Archaeology conference, actually, for free, with a travel bursary, but it's the day before graduation. GOOD SCHEDULING THERE.
Anyway, they seem to have left some cake for me in a cupboard, and it is delicious. Currently, I'm sitting on the living room sofa eating cake and listening to Phil Plait being interviewed on a podcast and teaching myself kanji for words that are close to my heart but not featured in my textbook. I've got a page of notebook filled with 考古学 (archaeology) in varying degrees of neatness. I might have the stroke order for 考 wrong, though; I'll have to look that up somewhere.
I'm really excited about Left 4 Dead 2. More story, setting, and character development and more zombie-killing-fun-ness (technical term). It's going to be like the epic fun of L4D SQUARED.
I bought Pokemon Platinum after all in the end. XD I traded in some old stuff and got it half price, so. I never know whether to pick the girl or the boy Pokemon trainer since they introduced the choice. I usually go for the girl just out of appreciation for the acknowledgement of existence. Might sound silly, but when I was actually part of the target demographic for these games you couldn't be a girl!trainer. Maybe if they don't run out of names for new games, they'll throw in some non-white characters someday. :| (Yeah yeah, I know, Pokemon ≠ SRS BSNS, but it pretty much sucks not having someone you can relate to in your media. You - well, at least I - don't really notice it until you find someone you can relate to, and then it's an amazing feeling.)
I wish I hadn't gone for my usual default choice of fire Pokemon, though. Have you seen the badass dinosaur thing the grass one evolves into? I want a badass dinosaur turtle thing.
Anyway, enough of this silliness.
I quite like being on my own in the house. I played around with my violin a bit earlier. :3 The bow is a complete mess. I didn't think violin bows could shed, but apparently they can. T_T It was still so much fun, though! I missed you, Algy. ♥ I'm going to do some actual practicing tomorrow when it's not 9pm and I can be a bit louder.
Man, I'm tired. One more game of mahjong, I think, and then sleep. Oh yeah, about mahjong. So, there's this anime. It's not even a particularly good anime, to be honest; I probably wouldn't have watched it if Tim wasn't. Anyway, it's called Saki and is about the high-profile world of competitive high school mahjong tournaments. I have a sneaking suspicion that there is no such thing as national high school mahjong tournaments in real life, but I could be wrong. Anyway, it totally made me want to play the game, so I looked up the rules. It's really fun, actually. I like how complex it is; like the most complicated version of rummy you can imagine. I like the challenge of keeping track of all the tiles that've been discarded and the million different victory conditions... glad I don't have to calculate the score myself, though.
And I've won three times on Tenhou so far. And yes, I screencapped my score each time, because I'm a loser. XD
So, anyway. Tim's mum drove up yesterday to take Tim and most of his stuff home before the end of term. My mum's coming up to do the same thing on Thursday. Except I'm going to attend my brother's high school graduation and make Japanese snack-foods with Steph, not going to a videogame AI conference in Paris. I think we all know who is having the more awesome pre-graduation adventure here, amirite! 8D
I could be going to a really cool Archaeology conference, actually, for free, with a travel bursary, but it's the day before graduation. GOOD SCHEDULING THERE.
Anyway, they seem to have left some cake for me in a cupboard, and it is delicious. Currently, I'm sitting on the living room sofa eating cake and listening to Phil Plait being interviewed on a podcast and teaching myself kanji for words that are close to my heart but not featured in my textbook. I've got a page of notebook filled with 考古学 (archaeology) in varying degrees of neatness. I might have the stroke order for 考 wrong, though; I'll have to look that up somewhere.
I'm really excited about Left 4 Dead 2. More story, setting, and character development and more zombie-killing-fun-ness (technical term). It's going to be like the epic fun of L4D SQUARED.
I bought Pokemon Platinum after all in the end. XD I traded in some old stuff and got it half price, so. I never know whether to pick the girl or the boy Pokemon trainer since they introduced the choice. I usually go for the girl just out of appreciation for the acknowledgement of existence. Might sound silly, but when I was actually part of the target demographic for these games you couldn't be a girl!trainer. Maybe if they don't run out of names for new games, they'll throw in some non-white characters someday. :| (Yeah yeah, I know, Pokemon ≠ SRS BSNS, but it pretty much sucks not having someone you can relate to in your media. You - well, at least I - don't really notice it until you find someone you can relate to, and then it's an amazing feeling.)
I wish I hadn't gone for my usual default choice of fire Pokemon, though. Have you seen the badass dinosaur thing the grass one evolves into? I want a badass dinosaur turtle thing.
Anyway, enough of this silliness.
I quite like being on my own in the house. I played around with my violin a bit earlier. :3 The bow is a complete mess. I didn't think violin bows could shed, but apparently they can. T_T It was still so much fun, though! I missed you, Algy. ♥ I'm going to do some actual practicing tomorrow when it's not 9pm and I can be a bit louder.
Man, I'm tired. One more game of mahjong, I think, and then sleep. Oh yeah, about mahjong. So, there's this anime. It's not even a particularly good anime, to be honest; I probably wouldn't have watched it if Tim wasn't. Anyway, it's called Saki and is about the high-profile world of competitive high school mahjong tournaments. I have a sneaking suspicion that there is no such thing as national high school mahjong tournaments in real life, but I could be wrong. Anyway, it totally made me want to play the game, so I looked up the rules. It's really fun, actually. I like how complex it is; like the most complicated version of rummy you can imagine. I like the challenge of keeping track of all the tiles that've been discarded and the million different victory conditions... glad I don't have to calculate the score myself, though.
And I've won three times on Tenhou so far. And yes, I screencapped my score each time, because I'm a loser. XD
I was called a "posh cunt" by some teenage girl to-day because I wouldn't buy alcohol for her and her friends. Yeah, because I obviously think I'm better - actually, yeah, I do think I'm better than someone who hangs around in front of shops insulting complete strangers because they won't do them illegal favours. Ahahaha, fuck off.
Anyway!
I went to look at the Manhua (manhua? Capital or lower-case m?) exhibition at the Oriental Museum, which was pretty cool. Lots of pretty art. Quite a few French things (which I could mostly read!) - apparently a lot of Chinese comic artists go to France because they find the government-approved publishers in China too restrictive.
There were a couple of stories from the earthquake recently which... sort of made me tear up a little. >_> The label said that they were all online, but completely failed to mention where online, so I found them myself: China 5.12 Earthquake Strips.
I wish there'd been an artbook of the artists in the exhibition, or something, but no. Instead I bought a bunch of postcards to add to the collection on the wall above my desk. I should take a picture of that before I have to take it down. I still haven't really taken any pictures of this house, actually. It's always too messy. XD
The weather has been really nice this week. Warm and sunny and conducive to wandering around town eating ice-cream and not having to write essays or revise. I went to the Undercroft (restaurant in the Cathedral cloister) to look for a BookCrossing book a few days ago and came away with a bunch of old sci-fi and fantasy novels of dubious quality. I want to write some book-reviews/commentaries again, and bad books are the most fun to review. XP
Man, it feels like I haven't read a book since Easter. Damn university.
I am slightly doubtful of the efficiency of stippling for representing shimmery cocktail dresses. maybe if I'd patterned it more. Anyway, the Illustration pens are rockin'.
I might make another post later about tea and Pokemon and Mahjong and other things, but first I want to get a sandwich and play some L4D.
IE's spellcheck thinks "Pokemon" should be "Poker-face".
Anyway!
I went to look at the Manhua (manhua? Capital or lower-case m?) exhibition at the Oriental Museum, which was pretty cool. Lots of pretty art. Quite a few French things (which I could mostly read!) - apparently a lot of Chinese comic artists go to France because they find the government-approved publishers in China too restrictive.
There were a couple of stories from the earthquake recently which... sort of made me tear up a little. >_> The label said that they were all online, but completely failed to mention where online, so I found them myself: China 5.12 Earthquake Strips.
I wish there'd been an artbook of the artists in the exhibition, or something, but no. Instead I bought a bunch of postcards to add to the collection on the wall above my desk. I should take a picture of that before I have to take it down. I still haven't really taken any pictures of this house, actually. It's always too messy. XD
The weather has been really nice this week. Warm and sunny and conducive to wandering around town eating ice-cream and not having to write essays or revise. I went to the Undercroft (restaurant in the Cathedral cloister) to look for a BookCrossing book a few days ago and came away with a bunch of old sci-fi and fantasy novels of dubious quality. I want to write some book-reviews/commentaries again, and bad books are the most fun to review. XP
Man, it feels like I haven't read a book since Easter. Damn university.
I am slightly doubtful of the efficiency of stippling for representing shimmery cocktail dresses. maybe if I'd patterned it more. Anyway, the Illustration pens are rockin'.
I might make another post later about tea and Pokemon and Mahjong and other things, but first I want to get a sandwich and play some L4D.
IE's spellcheck thinks "Pokemon" should be "Poker-face".
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I was called a "posh cunt" by some teenage girl to-day because I wouldn't buy alcohol for her and her friends. Yeah, because I obviously think I'm better - actually, yeah, I do think I'm better than someone who hangs around in front of shops insulting complete strangers because they won't do them illegal favours. Ahahaha, fuck off.
Anyway!
I went to look at the Manhua (manhua? Capital or lower-case m?) exhibition at the Oriental Museum, which was pretty cool. Lots of pretty art. Quite a few French things (which I could mostly read!) - apparently a lot of Chinese comic artists go to France because they find the government-approved publishers in China too restrictive.
There were a couple of stories from the earthquake recently which... sort of made me tear up a little. >_> The label said that they were all online, but completely failed to mention where online, so I found them myself: China 5.12 Earthquake Strips.
I wish there'd been an artbook of the artists in the exhibition, or something, but no. Instead I bought a bunch of postcards to add to the collection on the wall above my desk. I should take a picture of that before I have to take it down. I still haven't really taken any pictures of this house, actually. It's always too messy. XD
The weather has been really nice this week. Warm and sunny and conducive to wandering around town eating ice-cream and not having to write essays or revise. I went to the Undercroft (restaurant in the Cathedral cloister) to look for a BookCrossing book a few days ago and came away with a bunch of old sci-fi and fantasy novels of dubious quality. I want to write some book-reviews/commentaries again, and bad books are the most fun to review. XP
Man, it feels like I haven't read a book since Easter. Damn university.
I am slightly doubtful of the efficiency of stippling for representing shimmery cocktail dresses. maybe if I'd patterned it more. Anyway, the Illustration pens are rockin'.
I might make another post later about tea and Pokemon and Mahjong and other things, but first I want to get a sandwich and play some L4D.
IE's spellcheck thinks "Pokemon" should be "Poker-face".
Anyway!
I went to look at the Manhua (manhua? Capital or lower-case m?) exhibition at the Oriental Museum, which was pretty cool. Lots of pretty art. Quite a few French things (which I could mostly read!) - apparently a lot of Chinese comic artists go to France because they find the government-approved publishers in China too restrictive.
There were a couple of stories from the earthquake recently which... sort of made me tear up a little. >_> The label said that they were all online, but completely failed to mention where online, so I found them myself: China 5.12 Earthquake Strips.
I wish there'd been an artbook of the artists in the exhibition, or something, but no. Instead I bought a bunch of postcards to add to the collection on the wall above my desk. I should take a picture of that before I have to take it down. I still haven't really taken any pictures of this house, actually. It's always too messy. XD
The weather has been really nice this week. Warm and sunny and conducive to wandering around town eating ice-cream and not having to write essays or revise. I went to the Undercroft (restaurant in the Cathedral cloister) to look for a BookCrossing book a few days ago and came away with a bunch of old sci-fi and fantasy novels of dubious quality. I want to write some book-reviews/commentaries again, and bad books are the most fun to review. XP
Man, it feels like I haven't read a book since Easter. Damn university.
I am slightly doubtful of the efficiency of stippling for representing shimmery cocktail dresses. maybe if I'd patterned it more. Anyway, the Illustration pens are rockin'.
I might make another post later about tea and Pokemon and Mahjong and other things, but first I want to get a sandwich and play some L4D.
IE's spellcheck thinks "Pokemon" should be "Poker-face".
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