July 09 - Harbinger of Doom

So, I had a visitor today.

And by "I had a visitor" I of course mean "evil incarnate materialized within my house and tried to chew off my head and suck out my soul through my bone marrow" but that's kind of a given, right?

Here is a picture.

Of course, my reaction when I saw this thing flying at my face was to drop my book, run into the kitchen, hiding and swearing - which, as it happens, are the two most basic primal instincts in regards to how to deal with SHEER TERROR

So, after a few moments the soldier of Satan disappeared so I very cautiously came back into the living room and sat down, at which point I heard the accursed thing buzzing rather angrily behind me. I hoped that it would be stuck behind the curtain for a few minutes at least, and resumed nibbling on my delicious (yet by this point room temperature) sandwich. At which point it appeared from behind the curtain, about half a foot from my face, and tried to eat me again.

After hiding in the kitchen and swearing some more, I ripped up a piece of cardboard and through several minutes of frantic curtain-slapping and horrified banshee cries, I managed to trap the thing in between our glass sliding door and the screen door behind it, and even got the screen door open a bit so it could find its way outside, which it eventually did.

Hopefully when it gets back to its nest of terror-beasts it will remember my benevolence and not the fact that I, y'know, was shrieking and swearing at it for a good half hour and swatting at it with a strip of cardboard.

Oh also, I managed to twist my neck funny trying to watch my assailant, and I had this excruciating pain between my shoulder blade for a little while. But I think my bones have re-settled back to their original positions so that's nice.

July 8 - In Wonderland

So this is going to be my Halloween costume;

http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/68450.jpg?is=375,375,0xffffff

Except instead of the boots I will have these;

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-54101187326451_2166_16893138

And so that is very exciting. Now I just need to get a job and save up like $200. Just note that I'm adding in roughly $50 to the actual prices for shipping.

I want to play Baten Kaitos but that game is just so much woooork. Making the enemies and the puzzles and whatnot in a game challenging is all fine and dandy, but the entire game is pretty much like a puzzle. Healing items in your inventory turn rotten and useless over time, which is particularly frustrating because in order to get the weapons you need to stand a chance against the enemies you have to do extensive grinding. Fights don't reward you with money, you have to take pictures of your enemy - and since the game uses a card-based fighting system, that means you have to actually wait for the camera card to appear in your hand first.

Then on top of that it's hard to tell how much money you'll get. If you use certain spells, the picture will be too light or too dark, or it could be blurry. And speaking of certain spells, if you use opposing elements they will cancel each other out and your attacks won't do any damage - which again, is something extremely annoying with a card-based fighting system, because there's no controlling what you'll get in your hand.

Siiiiigh.

I don't think I'm going to play Baten Kaitos today.

July 04 - Hello... my name is Gwen...

Holy shit, it's been almost a month again. My bad.

So other than my internet being a piece of poop, there has been much excitement going on. I don't really remember if I mentioned this in the last post I wrote or if it had even happened yet, but I went on my first date with a boy a few weeks ago. I don't think either of us were really that successful at the dating thing. But I'm not going to concern my self with elaborating on that particular experience.

I had one of my best friends here for a visit for a week and a half, though she was really more visiting my roommate than me, because they had been talking on msn for nearly two years, but hadn't met yet. So that was nice. While she was here we played through God of War 3 and American McGee's Alice, and started playing Alice: Madness Returns but we didn't get it finished before she had to go home.

I went to a gay bar for the first time ever and didn't drink anything because I am broke (and not that much of a drinker to begin with) but I did make my friend dance to Man, I Feel Like A Woman by Shania Twain with me. Oh and I saw a guy's penis by accident. And by accident I mean that he purposely exposed himself in public but I didn't particularly want to see it.

I am still working on a trilogy I have been plotting out for a while now, though I really need to sit my ass down and write a few good chapters instead of just jotting down a hundred unconnected plot points all over my notebook.

I am reading the Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce, I am nearly done the third book in the set of four. I quite enjoy them, though there is a whole lot of sewing instruments mentioned in the books which is something I know nothing about, so it is rather difficult for me to envision some parts.

I went to Toronto and saw the pride parade which was fucking loooooong, and my arms got sunburned which is the first time I have been burnt (by the sun specifically) ever in my life. So that's exciting.

I am going job hunting tomorrow because I am broke and stressed and if I do not find a job in the next like... week or so, my life is more or less next to over. Probably (possibly). So employment would be nice.

What else is there? I don't know. Why am I asking you, you don't know either!

I was going to go on a biiiiig huuuuge rant type thing about how annoyed I am with people constantly telling me to do this, or do that, or act this way, or stop this, or try this, or I could be happy if I did this, or my life would be better if I did this, because that just fucking pisses me off immensely. It is my largest pet peeve. It makes me want to stab everything and everyone within a five mile radius. But I think I'll just leave it at that because I'm tired and lazy and want to go read and write.

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