Between my predictions coming true, of the latest President being the US version of Tony Blair and the 'let them eat cake' arrogant hate speech on display in examples such as this, I'm thinking that an awful lot of people are starting to have voters' remorse, right now!

Approval ratings have dipped below those of Bush after 2000. I'm predicting a Republican retake of Congress during the next voting round.

They do, however, need a leadership figure before they can capitalise on the increasing dissatisfaction with the present administration or their gains won't be nearly as impressive.

In other news, I forgot to update that I passed that CCTV exam thing. Strangely, ever since that time, I haven't found any actual local job vacancies for such a role!

There is a possibility that I might visit Las Vegas, some time this year, with my mother, but that's very much up in the air, at this particular time.

Also?

Muchly bored, on account of having nobody to write fiction with!

Present Emotional Phase: curious

The same one as I used to go to, actually. A course in CCTV operation, just for four days, but it was expensive. Thursday is the exam.

Shall hopefully find it nice!

Present Emotional Phase: hopeful

So, looks like the "kill him" remark never even happened...

http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html

I'm not going to be surprised that this shall remain unreported.

Present Emotional Phase: awake

Holy Eunuch, Batman!







It goes a bit Michael Jackson, at some points, but it's really impressive.

Present Emotional Phase: impressed

Yeah, I'm still alive. :)

No, not much in my life has changed (although I have got into 'Second Life'), aside from my featuring in a main part of the recent ''Allo 'Allo' stage production. Voluntary, of course.

Yes, although I live in the UK, I am supporting the Republican ticket for this year's US election. While vaguely apathetic about McCain, Palin, I think is fantastic. I disagree with her on a few issues, but I like that she's of the 'leave it to States to decide' mentality, when it comes to those.

The biggest factor in this, is the increasingly disturbing level of personality cult based around Obama and how much absolute shit Palin had to endure from journalists who should have been easily able to refute virtually all of the things previously levelled at her.

See that?

http://explorations.chasrmartin.com/2008/09/06/palin-rumors/

It's somewhere anyone can look at and contribute to. All of the screwed up false allegations about 'rape kits' and so on; it's all dealt with, there.

Why can't editors just do their job in an objective way, these days, hmm?

And yes, that's why I made up this icon I'm posting with.

I'm not kidding about that personality cult thing really fucking scaring me, either. It's getting to quasi-religious extremes now.

That, combined with that weirdly Hitler Youth-esque movement the guy plans to have set up...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/30579_The_Obama_Youth
http://exurbanleague.com/2008/07/07/dont-worry-mr-godwin-has-been-notified.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Protective_League

Plus, that really disturbing professional video of the little kids chanting about the guy (as parodied with the original footage here) and now?

Now there's this and it's just insane. Does he, himself, realise this is going on? If he doesn't, then he needs to fire whoever the fuck dreams this indoctrinating shit up, because this isn't exactly doing much for the public image.



Look at that and tell me it doesn't scare the shit out of you.

When people ask me why I find the undefined 'hope and change' mantra so disturbing for a political campaign to use as a focal point, to the philosophical exclusion of all else, this... Yes... This would be why.

Hillary would never have done anything like this. I'm just aghast that it's even in the public domain.

EDIT: As reported on the seventh, it turns out this doesn't appear to have any links to the official campaign. It was, however, being done with tax money and on school time. The teacher has been fired. This makes it no less scary or indicative of the 'personality cult' style of campaign which has clearly been encouraged at the various rallies, etcetera. That the campaign has not used this opportunity to decry it, however, I find almost as deplorable as if they had a hand in it, themselves.

Present Emotional Phase: awake

Managed to see 'Slither' earlier.

It's OK, but it tried to be like 'Tremors' and didn't quite work well. It was basically like that, except with more gore and a lot less humour.

That's the problem, really... There were too many close-ups of mutilated bodies to bring in those who would see it for the comedy (of which there is surprisingly little, considering how it was advertised), yet they didn't do nearly the sorts of things they should have done if they wanted to just make it a horror film. In regards to the latter, it just dropped the ball way too many times.

On the whole, 'The Faculty' did virtually the same thing in a much more entertaining (and even relatively thrilling) way. They were going more for the feel of just showing a few shots of something visually revolting, but the story did not actually doing much with it (where films such as 'Alien' do completely the opposite and are all the better for it).

Come to think of it, 'Eight Legged Freaks' has probably been the best attempt at something like 'Tremors', so far! It didn't do a lot of things it should have, either, but realised it was light-hearted and made no attempt to shy away from that. This other film took itself too seriously at the wrong moments to be as fun as ELF, in my view.

Noooo!

I missed Juliet Landau appearing near enough for me to have visited at the time in question! Gah!

I recently got a wonderful personal letter from her, too!

Present Emotional Phase: crushed

Having read through the 'Battlestar Galactica' episodes which I've missed (the newest season has only recently started showing over here) and of what those in the future are meant to be about, it occurs to me that the writers are obsessed with padding things to a silly extent. There's not really much, in terms of story, which has actually gone on. Events are pretty much stale, but they've been retconning characters all over the place. It has taken them three series to even get through a few of the best stories of the original version, too (the fleet food shortage was dealt with very early on, back in those days)! Or at least, when they're not ripping off ideas from 'Space: Above And Beyond' and doing them in an inferior way (the episode known as 'Scar' comes to mind).

So, why squander their time and budget doing that?

Perhaps the writing staff! There's a crazily high amount of people involved in that! Shave them down and make it more efficient!

The production values are high and even though I still maintain that it's massively lacking the charisma the original portrayed (with the exception of post-miniseries Adama, when they give him material more in character), but there's not much excuse for going nowhere in a show which should, by rights, have a great scope for exploration and crafting completely new stories. The ones people seem to hail as fantastic are mostly just copied from the original and that should tell us something. The only example which sticks in my mind is '33', which I thought was great, but that was the very first episode ever known. The one where they attacked the asteroid place was also in the first series, although was padded with too much about Starbuck behaving stupidly insecure over whether Adama Junior was a competant pilot, which made her seem egotistical.

Having said that...

There is a rumour that the film is meant to focus on the Pegasus immediately after the attacks and basically have an atmosphere like the militarised aftermath of what went on at Pearl Harbour and that, strangely, is what I often thought this show should have done. It should be very interesting! Cain was portrayed as contradictory (overly by-the-books - yet having no problem with encouraging her crew to unleash their base instincts in the most crude and pointless ways), but was a fascinating character and it would be intriguing to see what a slightly earlier incarnation of her could have been like.

Of course, this is all just theory, but see how it fires the imagination? Yet the show is fixated on meandering around lifeless planets, numbing depression ('Buffy The Vampire Slayer' suffered in popularity when it did that, because people want escapism and at least some character who isn't ceaselessly fucking up) and weird relics which are never explained. They did that for the weird arrow Starbuck retrieved at the end of the first series and was never brought up.

That is not to say that there is not good acting, because there has been. I just don't know what to think about the writing! Why has the show only shifted through an 'planetbound to rescue' arc and not much else? Baltar's got some type of suspicion about a potential Cylon nature, but that could easily have been skimmed down and sprinkled over two or three episodes.

That is why I fear what that 'Caprica' show is revealed as. There are not going to be any Cylons and hence little military involvement. Just "sexual politics". What would the point be?

And while I'm on it, why were the producers at such pains to try and deny the early part of the series was based on Vichy France, instead of their idea of what's going on in Iraq? Their political bias tends to come through in unsubtle ways, such as the first series' interrogation of a Cylon (by the plot device of an unqualified pilot) and events on the Pegasus.

If they really were interested in portraying an occupation, then why did they not look at what on in the Channel Islands in World War Two? Most of the population were not supportive of those trying to cut telephone lines and so on, because even while they did not support the Nazis in authority, such operations did nothing to help the ordinary people and they knew that reprisals would cost them far more.

Likewise, there were plenty in France who willingly gave Jews over to the Nazis with very little encouragement.

Would it not have been intriguing to see some of that being played out on the show? Could it be that they wanted the audience to sympathise with insurgent attitudes? I don't know the latter, but a story should always attempt to spice things up where it can and push conflict between characters in intriguing new ways. What happened was a solidified and united front against the Cylons who, agreed, were meant to be a menace, but were also very... Inept. Why didn't they simply gas homes and done other such things, if they weren't bothered about popularity?

Or maybe that would have differentiated them too much from coalition forces in Iraq and shown how silly it is to compare them. It's too obvious that was what the team wanted to go on. If they showed things like gassing taking place (very cheap in budget and could also have simply been referred to in dialogue between characters), then it really would have given a reason for the humans to band together. In fact, it would have allowed a way for the story to conentrate on at least two distinct groups of humans which had nothing to do with joining the security force.

Instead, there was a very black and white atmosphere. Too clean. It reminds of an article someone has written, which can be found if searching for 'a case for the Empire', where they played devil's advocate for the Empire in 'Star Wars' and showed how, while entertaining, the reality of such a situation would have been very different. Potentially a lot more interesting to write about, too, come to that!

Anyway, there we are. That is my view. The writers need to be cut down and come up with a more focused idea of what to do. Where to take their characters, as opposed to just being bored and deciding, without foreshadowing, that one of them was suddenly smuggling drugs or whatever. Which could have been played around with, but they did it when the character was going to die, which made it too much of an afterthought ("Oh! I have back-story! Here it is, bye!").

The original had focus. It had more charisma. They should learn from that.

Present Emotional Phase: curious

Well, I'm virtually back to my previous level of computer yayness, which means I could start keeping attention of journals, forums and so on! :)

Colleen! I got the notification that it was your birthday, but was unable to send you messages and stuff! Hope that it was nice! I even had a dream, just the other day, about that!

Hannah! Shall talk soon!

Dee! Hope the layout is being fun to you and stuff! :)

Katherine! I think you should get a copy of the wonderful 'Krull'! Because knowing you, you will want to write fiction about Ynyr and the Lyssa of old, we know you!

A really great thing happened at the end of the last year, also! Shall speak more about it in a while. It was a letter. :)

Present Emotional Phase: curious

Well, the problem continues, but having broadband has bypassed it, which means I am now back and would like to say thank you for the moral support and all that stuff!

Present Emotional Phase: thankful

Am without Internet access - potentially forever more, because of technical difficulties even a technician does not understand...

Present Emotional Phase: frustrated

Our friendly dobermann might just possibly be OK, medically, after all! They have to do some biopsy stuff and then there should be a definite answer, one way or the other.

The intriguing thing is that someone local apparently has a drama group which puts on regular productions. Have missed doing drama! It quite honestly would be nice to begin that again. :)

Present Emotional Phase: awake

So, our canine friend appears to have a potentially life-threatening medical ailment, of which we should know more next week.

Recently, I obtained a very cheap collection of the original 'Battlestart Galactica'. Oh, it warmed my heart, it really had! I've only watched the initial story and would watch the others at a later time, but it reminded me of the charisma and mythical elements which have unfortunately been pushed to the way-side in the contemporary edition. The Cylons moved more fluidly than I remember them doing, which is a shame, but they way the saga was set up far surpassed the 2003 rendition. It managed to convey a real feeling of a futuristic Pearl Harbour. The newer concept fudged that aspect of it too much, although they might have done it differently, if they had to start over again, with the experience which they presently have.

Don't get me wrong, I do follow the newest and am reading transcripts! It just doesn't inspire me in the same way. I even write in an RPG about it, but do so with an original character. 'Farscape', 'Babylon 5' and 'Space: Above And Beyond' (the latter did happen to have a few flaws, but they were minor) were amazing on television. I'm still looking for something of that level for this decade!

That happens to be, in large part, why I am involved in helping to contribute to a new science-fiction franshise. The main creator of it happens to really like 'Firefly' (as some know, it did little for me, as I could see what parts they had stolen from places like 'Blake's 7', although 'Serenity' was OK) and the recent 'Battlestar Galactica', but that's the thing: Each member of the team have our own feelings about what does and does not function in such a project and are piecing together the best ideas and throwing away the worst of such. Diversity, for instance. It had always been a vital piece of a winning formula.

No, it's not paid. It's voluntary. We are, however, seeking artists and writers who could be interested. :)

One of those aspects is the possible transformation of it into an RPG board game. Those who have experience in that would be welcome to assist it.

Heh, Russian jokes are amusing!

I met hannah_dru, the other day and it was wonderful!

There should be more on all of that stuff (we both went to see Juliet Landau) when the other computer is back on its proverbial feet - but for the moment, I would just like to say how it was one of those times when meeting a friend in person became a fond memory. :)

( Lots Of Stuff About Me! )

Present Emotional Phase: awake

Back to the previous computer for me again!

At least until the usual one can recognise the Internet and how to connect properly.

Present Emotional Phase: confused

It occurs to me that Jessica Biel, with the exception of a horror remake which put her name on the international map, has a way of being involved in projects which have great special effects and hardly anything of a charismatic atmosphere.

Also, the main theme to the original version of 'Battlestar Galactica' has to be one of the most classic pieces of music, ever. That and the opening narration with the voice of the actor who used to portray Adama fitted so well together.

The music for 'The Last Starfighter' is also fantastic, but is oddly not available, these days.

Present Emotional Phase: contemplative

If some company wants to get people interested in eating their creal product, who usually do not, it would be a good idea not to heavily focus any advertising around pictures of fruit and vegetation being closely associated with it, along with the quite unsettling image of milk being poured over them at the same time!

On a slightly related note, those adverts 'The Hoff' is featuring in are very amusing. :)

They do raise quite an entertained giggle from me, every so often.

Present Emotional Phase: contemplative

Had been wondering when that would get attention...

Present Emotional Phase: curious

Well, the temporary employment has been done with and I now have more time available. :)

In other news, I attempted to join a game (which spun off from another I was on), then received one of those polite-yet-very-ambiguous messages back from the moderators which informed me that they did not think there would be "a good fit" for me on there. This is highly puzzling, because they know I'm of fairly good quality and the profile for the original character was quite detailed.

Have been hoping for a reply to my friendly request to elaborate, because I'm uncertain of what's going on with that, but nothing has yet been received from them. Did I do something which was wrong for the application? I said that I was willing to change the idea and had several others in mind. Am not sure what else could be done!

Anyway, it's bizarre and worrying and I'm just left wondering what's going on. Moderator team issues? If someone has any with me, then I'd at least like to know, so that I'm aware I didn't apply in the wrong way for it. Not that I'd care who, because what would it matter? Just not sure what to make of it, so far.

Is anyone else doing new games and stuff? I miss that! Tend to write just for my original characters, these days, although could be tempted to do canon versions. I miss the little communities of other writers on those creative forums. It seems that a lot of people have moved on from that.

Present Emotional Phase: curious

Why is 'myspace' so great? It seems as if the world's population has gone on it, but I can't see anything which can't be done on either Live Journal or (such as videos) Greatest Journal. Does anybody here understand?

Present Emotional Phase: curious

Just thought that you all would like to know that I have temporary employment as a graphic designer of Internet adverts. :)

And no, nothing happened of significance for my birthday, the other day!

Present Emotional Phase: awake

Months! Several of them! Agh!

Present Emotional Phase: frustrated

'Underworld: Evolution'
http://www.dogmanet.org/0030feb06_film13.htm

'Doom'
http://www.dogmanet.org/0030feb06_film12.htm

Both done by me!

I had far more to say about the 'Underworld' sequel, but had already gone well over the word limit, so that covers the basics. :)

Present Emotional Phase: awake

Wow... Heh. This place has definitely changed. :)

Those who are wondering, my life has not changed, there is very little about me which is really worth putting here and, well, that's why nothing has been put here for a while or so!

TV show I was most impressed with last year: 'Rome'

TV show I couldn't be bothered with, but am now finding to be of interest: 'Battlestar Galactica' (Although I presently maintain that 'Space: Above And Beyond' was better and stuff!)

Film I have a split opinion on: 'Underworld: Evolution'

Present Emotional Phase: awake

It's not paid, but it still happens to be experience. :)

http://www.dogmanet.org/0026oct05_global07.htm
http://www.dogmanet.org/0026oct05_global26.htm

Present Emotional Phase: accomplished

I hardly use this journal, these days, but yes - I am alive!

Not in London and nor is anyone that I know.

Sighness and stuff, but perhaps this will help people to wake up about things, over here. I remember the warnings, quite justifiable, that it wouldn't be a case of if London would get hit, but when and the individual in question was lambasted for scare-mongering. Hopefully, those people have now learnt that was far from the case.

Present Emotional Phase: awake

Well, the business thing has not really worked out at all!

Will be cancelling my next appointment with the advisor personage... Have not been able to figure out how to do the distribution part of it.

Humph!

It is a little unfair: I could do the product. It's the actual selling of it which beats me. Sigh!

Will be having to go back to looking for 'conventional' employment again.

Oh and, for a moment, I though, hmm, I do have a way of saying that there is a need for people to meet up and stuff, without it having to be a pub or nightclub environment (speaking as someone who's in fairly desperate need of that). I could do that! I thought so! But then, as per usual, was unable to think of a single damn way for anyone to do that, let alone me. :)

Present Emotional Phase: pessimistic

I'm going to start up my own business, very probably...!

Or at least attempt to. :)

Does anyone have any knowledge of distribution and insurance and stuff, for starting your own newspaper or magazine? This will have a very intriguing niche market which nobody else appears to have done anything about. Could be fairly interesting.

Present Emotional Phase: curious

I'm being warned about the dangers of capitalism from a man who made perhaps more money from merchandising than any other man in history. I'm getting lectured about the dangers of greed from man who authorised, 'C-3POs' breakfast cereal, 'The Star Wars Christmas Special' featuring Bea Arthur’s musical number and not one but two Ewoks made-for-TV movies.

I'm being warned about the dangers of technology and the glory of primitive cultures like the Ewoks, who are able to defeat the 'technological terror' of the Empire, in what is supposedly an allegory of Vietnam. Technology is bad, soulless, dangerous, and dehumanizing. Mmm-hmm. This from a man who replaced a tall man in a hairy suit, a projecting the human-eyed loyalty and sadness of Chewbacca, with the CGI cinematic war crime that is Jar-Jar Binks. A man who tossed aside the Yoda puppet, the spaceship models, the stop-motion animation of the Imperial walkers to go all-computer-animation-and-green-screen, all-the-time.

I'm being warned about the dangers of a 'you’re either with me or against me' attitude and the viewing of the world in a black and white morality, from a film-maker who has his villain dress entirely in black, choke the life out of helpless pilots and blows up entire planets. This from a man whose nuanced moral view required an edit to make Greedo shoot first.

Hmmm...!

In other news, I am now 27 years old! Didn't do anything during it yesterday, however. Nowhere to go and nobody to do so with!

Present Emotional Phase: curious

Zimbabwe's just been elected to the United Nations Human Rights Commission!

Weeee!

Our faith in the UN is vindicated once again!

Present Emotional Phase: amused

Oops...

Present Emotional Phase: amused

Wow... The world of mortal acting has lost a great talent and bequeathed its gift to a far greater stage beyond.

RIP John Mills.

Present Emotional Phase: surprised

Sigh... Here we go. Just heard it on the news about that. The Liberal Democrats are about to put up tons of posters about George Bush and the Iraq thing and calling it lies stuff, in the hope it will get people to vote for them without, you know, doing what they should do and bother to talk constructively about their own policies or anything.

[Stabs them for being boring and so utterly predictable.]

Must say, Michael Howard impressed me the most in the series of interviews with Paxman. Still hasn't quite convinced me to vote for him, however.

Humph at the council, though, since they don't need any further vote counters after all.

I find it puzzling to think that there is an actual story titled 'Twonk'...

Present Emotional Phase: amused

For those in America who will eventually get to see the new version of 'Doctor Who'...

Please don't judge it as the best which the United Kingdom could possibly do in science fiction. I'm not sure who's in charge of it as a whole, but it's rapidly become apparent just how very little quality control there is on the stories or scripts in general.

Present Emotional Phase: embarrassed

"If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi. But if you enemy has no conscience, like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer."
- Martin Luther King Junior, once speaking of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the martyred World War 2 pastor.

Interesting!

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/120/story_12016.html

And even more so to find out what Ghandi apparently thought about black people...

http://rpv.blogspot.com/2005/04/gandhi-real-straight-shooter.html

Present Emotional Phase: curious

( Well, I Did Say I Would Be Writing About Our Election When It Took Place! )

Present Emotional Phase: bored

Hmmm...

The election is in fives: 05/05/05 It might be mystical and stuff, but that's besides the point, since it also happens to be two days after my birthday. :)

Am unsure what I'll do for that this year. I think last year it was a case of doing nothing, which, at the risk of sounding pessimistic, really is like most of them I have!
the charity shop work placement thing ended this week. A week earlier than I had thought that it would, but as from the next, I should be going back to the agency thing for a week or so. Am unsure what should happen beyond that.

It wasn't very thrilling. Just put up clothes on hangers for most of the time! Quite literally! Just ended up getting utterly bored for the majority of those days. At least 'retail experience' can be put on my CV now, though, I suppose.

Anyway, still unsure what to do for my birthday thing. I don't really go out anywhere in general! Pubs and nightclubs are definitely out, for the reasons often talked about on here (not liking alcohol, not being able to dance and not really having anyone to go with). I'm also a fussy eater (not really my fault, as it's psychological and I seriously cannot stomach a lot of flavours and textures), so a restaurant isn't the best venue for me, but I couldn't afford that anyway. :) There isn't really anywhere else which comes to mind around here, to be really honest.

We also have a dog, so my mother can't go out anywhere with me, since it has to be rightly looked after and stuff!

Maybe a visit to the cinema? But then that, in turn, depends if anythings on at the time which I want to see.

I'll have to telephone Paula nearer the time, but she has really got her own obligations. Especially with the recent addition to her family! Perhaps Mark or James might be in the area and available.

See! This is the exact problem why I don't meet girls! I don't go to any of those types of places! Certainly don't know anyone to go to them with! Somebody needs to invent some place where you can go which doesn't involve the ingestion of alcohol to enjoy it, or loads of friends to really go to it with in the first place. I've said it before, but it really would solve a lot of problems for people in general.

Technically, a cinema is that, but filing into a very dark room with the whole point of it being to remain silent, is not the most conducive of atmospheres for social interaction. :) I really don't understand how the cinema is meant to be one of the most classic places where you are meant to meet a romantic partner, for precisely those exact reasons. Everyone jsut goes in there, watches the film and then goes out again, talking only right before and after and, even then, only with who they went in there with.

Anyway, idle thoughts!

Present Emotional Phase: contemplative

I just got a notification of someone replying to what appears to be a very old comment of mine on their journal. I don't even remember making it and this is somewhat of a proverbial blast from the past, but...

The entry's protected and I can't view it, so can't reply and say hello, in return. :)

Alas!

In other news: I have been downloading songs from 'Fiddler On The Roof' today.

Yes. I'm quite random.

Present Emotional Phase: frustrated

Well, fuck...

Present Emotional Phase: disappointed

It seems like quite a waste of money, considering how much of it there was, to spend on a study regarding whether lobsters can feel pain or not in some way. According to it, they apparently can't and that any actions they exhibit when being put in hot water are more like a survival instinct to get them away from a source of danger.

But... That's what pain is, right? It's the most basic experience. I suppose that they probably looked at nerve aendings and stuff, because you probably require those to experience that, but it still feels like a daft question to me! How does one quantify 'pain' and is whatever replaces it necessarily experienced in a different way or would that same level of discomfort be merely altered to have a similar threshhold of comfort?

I started fishing, many years back, but sotpped and promised myself never to do so again after my first ever time of buying some particularly large worms to impale on hooks. It was really horrible doing so. I thought it would be like jelly or something and they'd be as lethargic as the ones in the garden, but these were large ones of a species foudn on the beach and they literally writhed about, spurting all this internal fluid out. :(

I still feel horrid for doing that to this day. I did the first one and, maybe (don't remember this part of it very well), another, because of it perhaps being a one off or something. I thought, originally, that you could just run the hook right through and the thing might just carry on, because, you know, they're worms! You can see them, sometimes, chopped in half in a garden and they still wander on. But it wasn't like that and it was actually very difficult to do that with them. The thing was, it was also quite dangerous, because they had these little spines and mouths as well, so you had to try and wrap your hand up in teh newspaper they were bought with as well while doing the thing. Just ended up doing it wrongly and injuring it instead ofgettnig a proper hooking done, so had to try again every time.

In the end, I gave up, threw what ones there were into the sea (they had come from it, after all) and basically promised to myself never to do that again, because it was obvious how much agony I put that one or so through. So, pain, yeah. Think all things can feel it.

Present Emotional Phase: guilty

I'd just like to say in regards to an ealier entry, that Paula is a very well-spoken individual and, well, if anyone else got a misleading impression regarding that, that would be false! We just happen to disagree with one another on those political issues by a lot more than I thought we may. :)

Politically, she has her views and I have mine. I respect her for it, like I can respect anyone who can reason with me honestly, but we simply have different positions on all that stuff.

She's always been warm-hearted, generous and certainly one of the more intelligent people that I know. But then, well... Everyone probably knows that, considering the number of times I've talked about her those terms previously. :)

Just wanted to clarify that, in case a misleading impression had been given by me.

Well, there's a job going for data input at some mortgage company which is in bussing distance and, like all of them, I'll apply, but perhaps this one might actually invite me for an interview this time. :)

Present Emotional Phase: curious

Chancer the dobermann didn't want to go for a walk today, because it's fairly cold and had been snowing. We have a sort of ramp to get down from the boat to the pontoon area adn he was fine getting down that. Getting back up afterwards, however, presented a some problems and he slipped on his paws and was hanging on with a very confused expression!

The soppy thing wouldn't go first, you see and insisted on going last, which meant that I wasn't behind him to push help push him up if afore-mentioend event took place!

He did make it, but not without an awful lot of coaxing and encouragement from me and my mother, plus some salt bein gput down to melt some of the stuff away!

Present Emotional Phase: amused

I just made up the phrase 'lesbi-Slayer' to describe Kennedy to someone who didn't know!

Present Emotional Phase: amused

Am I missing something there...?

Some documentary titled 'Supersize Me' is being lauded as this hard-hitting exposure of the food industry, composing of some guy who forces himself to eat only McDonalds food and must accept it when they offer to do somehting called 'supersize' (I don't think they do that over in this country). For some reason, it's meant to be incredible and surprising that his blood pressure and weight rockets up.

It's on television next week.

Now, I might be a bit behind the times as regards this, but when did McDonalds ever claim that surviving on a diet consisting purely of their products is a healthy thing? Does anyone in their right mind actually believe that? Or did this guy somehow think so and planned to get 'revenge' on the Evil Company (TM) for his own personal failings?

Present Emotional Phase: curious

Gah! My E-mail! It has been unworkable adn has only just got fixed, so yay for that there!

Present Emotional Phase: relieved

I spoke to Laura ('Lourz') from many an RPG which some of you happen to be on!

Telephoned her, right over in Sweden and everything (in the process forgetting that calling mobile telephones is a lot more expensive than usual versions) and we spoke for half an hour and yay! It's the Lourzlet! :)

Present Emotional Phase: quixotic

So I watched that 'King Arthur' director's edition... It wasn't spectacularly great. I thought that both the old 'Excaliber' and more recent 'Gladiator' did similar things more effectively, though I liked the twist of how they mixed Roman Britain in the story.

I was sure that it was going to be revealed that Merlin was Gwen's father, but alas, they didn't chose to do that, which would have probably been fairly interesting!

They also appeared to not have bothered working in some of the main points of the legend, like Morgana and all the rest of it, but then again, as I say, 'Excaliber' did and was probably the more 'authentic' film, in terms of keeping to the actual story.

Which reminds me, I never did get to see both parts of the big budget television dramatision of Merlin's story, with Sam Neil playing that part. The first seemed rather good, but I don't recall ever seeing the last part.

Ah well, I've seen it now, so know what all teh fuss was about and stuff! :)

Present Emotional Phase: awake