New year's eve is closing fast, and I have been conscripted into being part of a group dance (now we need to rehearse, and I'm not sure when that's happening.) Feeling pretty good about this. I also realized that my back up plan of reading bad, local poetry might not be tenable, since it's ever so slightly dirty. That's not it's main feature, but unlike prose, it's pretty hard to remove parts while leaving the rest in any kind of good shape.
Also I've been having some weird dreams lately (primarily odd because I actually remember any of them), which involved my family. Without going into detail, I think my resolutions in the new year should be to stop lying and try to get more friends. Those aren't related, BTW, but they do seem to be the top concerns my subconscious is trying to bring to my attention.

I finally got one of my cable packages from China, and it's he wrong one. Well, not really wrong, but the less important one. I'll probably write them (the right package ones) a bad review, if I won't feel lazy.
Also, went over to my parents' house for the New Years. They're still not back from heir ski trip, but at least the dog seems happy to see me.
Finally, I seem to have a cold (but my stomach problems are gone), so I'm drinking lots of tea. Or trying to (I guess it's not that much tea once I count it).
Oh and it turns out that Trow (from Orcadian folklore) are related both to the trolls (who they are like) and the drow (who they are). I didn't expect both of those to be true. Conversely Orcs are not related to Orcadians (one might think it's an image of a pillaging Norseman from the time of Viking occupation) and has in fact 16th century Italian origin (uerco).

Current song: The Tale of the Nuckelavee

I was sick last night. I probably should stop eating tangerines. So much for Holiday Spirit. Based on symptoms I might be developing an ulcer, that sucks. I also stayed up until 6 AM because of it. I find it intriguing how if you miss your sleep window you become completely awake again.
Went out to meet a friend today, we had a very nice talk and shopping trip (he's moving). Oddly enough I can't remember discussing anything of consequence, I guess we didn't. Still it's probably 'good for me' to get out and meet people, so yay!
I also discovered that TVTropes has a Russian clone (but running on MediaWiki like every other wiki in the world now... except LCSWiki, which I set up back in the day, but don't run) called posmotre.li . It actually redirects from TVTropes.ru, which is underhanded but damn clever.

Thought of the moment: "Dammit I've lost my phone again. I just had it it a second ago, and now it's gone! Argh! This place needs a good cleaning, I keep losing stuff in these piles of garbage."

Maybe back

...maybe not.
I'm tired of apologizing to my diary/blog/whatever this is for being neglectful. Deal with it, imaginary reader in my head!
So, anyway, my ADD is acting up: I have an adventure game open in another window (the music is playing right now, distracting me) which has a character, who also doesn't keep a regular journal (until the begging of the game), so I though maybe so should I. The game is called The Longest Journey, in case you're wondering, I have just started and this is already my second break (the first was when I though one of the voice actors was Jaime Murray (Stacie Monroe on Hustle, or H.G Wells on  Warehouse 13), it wasn't.
Let me catch you up on my current situation: I'm de facto out of work (de jure I have a job to which I haven't been in a month- it's going poorly and the fact the I'm not officially canned shows you how low on management resource we are.) I should be sending out resumes, but I'm playing a video game. sounds familiar doesn't it?
I'm still single- I'm always single. sigh.
The other thing I should be doing instead of playing is my homework, it's already late. I'm supposed to be doing a masters in CS, but I don't really care about it, you know? Called it depression, or dullness or laziness, but I just don't find the whole thing exciting anymore.
And then there's 2 "creative" programming projects I'm supposed to be involved it. An adventure game which is stuck "because we can't find an artist", or more precisely because I'm a lazy bum- we have worked out a few of the puzzles and some of the cooler characters/mechanics, now I "just" need to program them. The other one is... a turn-based strategy, I think. The latest iteration of that is about radioactive decontamination. And it's supposed to be in Unity (the 3D engine, not the desktop manager).
Ok, good talk. Seen you in a year.


P.S. shit, I just realized it's f-ing Christmas (I'm not christian, but it is a holiday) and I'm sitting home alone talking to my bliary, I suck.