Diary of an up and coming sociopath

I’ve got to admit, I’ve spent the last couple of days being lazy, even by my standards. On wednesday, I completed Mario 1 because I was at a loss for stuff to do. This lead, naturally, into the completion of the Japanese Mario 2 (aka “The Lost Levels”) which spanned wednesday night and thursday morning. Then, because even after all this gaming, nothing had presented itself, I just decided to keep on going, and completed the US/UK Mario 2 and Mario 3. I haven’t decided if I’ll bother with Mario World because I’ve done it quite recently, and to be honest, I should have better things to be doing.

With that in mind, earlier I signed up for a couple of job seeking websites and updated my CV for inclusion. It’s kind of like applying to apply for jobs. An extra level of application just to get you in the mood. I’m kind of stuck at what I actually want to do with my “career” such as it is, at the moment. Web design and/or development would be ideal, but my design skills aren’t exactly great and I don’t have any experience with ASP, which a lot of people want. I could do more games QA, but it’s pretty brain numbing stuff sometimes, I’m unsure as to how much I could take. QA could lead to level and game design which would be like some kind of wonderful dream, but I’m not sure how much of my post-uni life I’d enjoy spending in gamestesting purgatory.

These kind of thought processes consume some significant time right now. I walked up to the comic shop this afternoon and bought the week’s issues, including Joss Whedon’s second. He’s a damn good writer, but part of me reckons I could do better with the X-Men - but then that’s what being a fan is really about. It’s good stuff, it’s just not, well, new. After Grant Morrison, a return to the traditionals is a decent bet, since it’d be impossible to top the previous run on its own terms, but there’s still a feeling that while it’s better done than in a long time, it’s still nothing innovative. I wonder if maybe it wasn’t supposed to be, it’s selling better thanany other x-book ever, maybe the trick is to write brilliantly but safely in order to ease people in to the line. The storylines aren’t exactly great, but the characters are acting more like themselves in years, I guess that’s where Joss’ strength lies. I’ll take excellent middle of the road than horrendously shite soap opera that a lot of other X-Men comics display.

In other news, I am cooking dinner, so I’ll leave you all with the images of roasting chickens and potatoes, and soforth. Not literally, of course, I meant mental images.