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( Islands in the North, Kilts, Reb, Fire, LARP )

So what have I done since my last post?

• Worked on my dissertation - actually put in solid work-hours!
• Went out drinking for my birthday. Had a small meal as well with close friends.
• Read many books, watched much anime, seen lots of films.
• Bought all my Christmas presents at the Christmas Market
• Bought many custom dice
• Come back home for Christmas
• Had repetitive bouts of chronic back pain. (Have prescription painkillers for it) (Should really go and take some now)
• Created a talking chatbot somewhat representative of Jamie Gabbay
• Gone practically vegetarian at many points
• Listened to A Very Scary Solstice
• Gotten annoyed at the WGA strike meaning my TV watching habits have gone to pot. Not that I disagree with the strike, but I like my American TV…
• Done lots of lovely work at McDonald’s - especially with doing 11 and 12 hours shifts…
• Resisted the urge to buy lots of stuff from Liam’s
• Started doing Camarilla - or more to the point Changeling
  • Also did the Cam Regionals as an NPC and played ghosts the entire time I was there

Also, anyone got a suggestion for a quote to go on my Gamers t-shirt?

Oh yes, and have yourselves a scary little solstice!

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Yesterday (or the day before), I got mail from America - the ICHC buttons! They’re schweet!

Today, I got the Maelstrom mailshot through the mail (though it arrived in Shetland a while ago). It’s shiny and now I have less excuse to not play.

Today in Shetland, I got the second of my sets of the Star Wars: Legacy comics delivered (well ok, they arrived a while ago) (they sent two sets by accident and said to keep both sets! :)) as well as a letter from the Heriot-Watt Comp Sci dept.

Now I asked my mum to open it when I got home. Inside it contained one very important piece of news… I got into 4th Year!!! So so schweet…

Of course today had to have downsides as well. Yesterday I worked a 2-close (9 hour shift) and got asked to come in early today. (I was supposed to do another 2-close, but did a 12-close instead). I said ok since I wasn’t doing anything else today.

So first things first… 11-hour shift. I’m beat. Really really beat. I have been for the last 5 hours. I had trouble using a lobby-scoop earlier. Secondly, damn I get bitchy after working that long. Thirdly, ow my feet… really ow… and god the sweat…

Now it was my own fault, but I was up till like 2 last night. (But I did a lot of work on the Sapphire Court ley) And got up at 9. So so far, I’ve had a 15 and a half hour day, 10 of which was actual work plus an hours break on 7 hours of sleep. If it was a normal uni day, that wouldn’t faze me at all, but damn it’s hit me hard today.

And I start work at 11:45 tomorrow as well. And my uniforms are in the wash, so I’ll have to dry them in the morning. Yay..

But tomorrow, I should be finished by 8pm, so I may hit the pub, or the cinema, or both… Anyone doing anything specific tomorrow night?

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Still have another 3 days of travelling ahead of me though.

Tomorrow morning, I head up to Aberdeen to get the ferry to Shetland overnight. Tuesday, I’ll be hanging around Shetland for about 12 hours before I get the ferry back and then Wednesday, I’m coming back down to Edinburgh again. I fully expect to get a phone call over the next few days wanting to know why I’m not at work…

But still, I enjoyed myself in a way at the Moot. It wasn’t exciting and it was boring most of the time, but there were the odd moments where things happened and I had fun. And, despite popular belief, I did not spend half the event OOC to avoid getting slotted. I went down to the Moot again in search of more entertaining events.

Xanthe survived and made some new acquaintances, though not as many as Mestari  - I really need to play a character that gets involved in things like the guilds… Keitro wasn’t interested and Xanthe won’t acknowledge anyone as better than him.

I also played around with glamours Changing costume halfway through the day for teh win!

Have caught up on LJ and comics now. Only almost a weeks worth of LJ (180-ish posts) and 3 days of comics. Hopefully Doctor Who will finish downloading soon…

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Because it’s brought to mind the discussion I tried to have with some people a couple of months ago about alternative power sources. (Cut for rant)

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Thanks to the awesome Sarah, Fraggle and Andrew, I don’t have to go back to Shetland over summer!

I may be a little excited, but tis awesome! Means I don’t have to get a job in Shetland, means I don’t have to take lots of stuff up north and then back down again…

Originally published at DoC 3.0. You can comment here or there.