Diary of an up and coming sociopath

This morning, I had to come to a difficult decision. In light of all the work I have, could I afford the money and time necessary to dedicate 3 days to gamestesting and general bumming around home? Unfortunately, the answer was a resounding “no”.

After getting up at some godforsakenly early time, I was relieved to discover that my practical partner wasn’t going to be around for an hour later than usual. A comic then arrived from eBay - Grant Morrisson’s 1995 one-shot “Kill Your Boyfriend”, which I once tried to buy from Amazon maybe 3 years ago to no success.

I eventually got up to Uni for 10, and met up with Ben (Practical partner) and we got our networking project part-way back up to speed. We got kicked out of the room pretty quickly though, because some Ph.d students needed it, and this means I’ve not got to fit a good day’s work in somewhere this week. This, combined with my final year prject which needs work is the reason I’m not going to be able to do osme work this week, which is annoying, partly because I’d already agreed to it, and partly because I really, really need/wanted the money. But fate has conspired against me.

Anyway, I came home and made the phonecall to release me from that commitment. I admit it’s unusual, the day I feel bad about rejecting work, but it’s the only choice I had. Ian and I went to Tescos, and then we made some Chocolate Muffins. They were delicious in every way. We followed the box’s instructions exactly, endorsed as they were by Jane Asher, up until the point where it said “leave Muffins to cool for 30 minutes.” We managed about 10 before eating some slightly gooey warmed muffins, which were pretty good, but to be honest they came into their own once cooled. Not a bad first try in any estimation.

Around now some time, I got around to reading the comic that had been purchased. It turned out to be pretty good, despite the old pre-computer colouring era art. Pretty fast paced and unusual to see an American comic so firmly based in Britain, but it was good stuff. It’s one of those comics that a lot of people would like if they weren’t so quick to reject the medium.

In the evening Tom, Nikki and I watched the Tenacious D DVD through. The memories came flooding back. Soon I’ll have another DVD of a gig I went to (3 Colours Red) which is really going to do much better than any amount of blog entries at reminding me what it was like. A picture’s worth a thousand words, and these are 25 pictures a second. I can’t compete.

Tomorrow I’ll be heading off for easyworld, by way of having a short break before throwing myself headlong into the pile of work I’ve got. I guess I should go post the comic I sold on eBay, too, before that gets too late. And the I’ll maybe get some comics and the new Placebo singles. I guess I’ll find time to update after the gig, but I can’t promise anything.