All Hallow's Eve (Eve)

Saturday 30th October 2010

So while not technically Halloween this evening my martial arts club went out part-ay-ing dressed to, urh, scary perfection.

I went as a Merlotte's waitress from True Blood who'd been beaten up/eaten by a vampire. I also did the make up for my friend (not in the photo - he was a Blue Brother zombie) and my two housemates who are in the picture - one vampire and one dead thing. It was a great night.

Earlier my sister and I had had a drag queen movieathon - Kinky Boots followed by the fabulous Priscilla Queen of the Desert!

Quote of the Day:

"A desert holiday, let's pack the drag away. You take the lunch and tea, I'll take the ecstasy. Fuck off you silly queer, I'm getting out of here. A desert holiday, hip hip hip hip hooray!" - Felicia aka. the wonderful Guy Pearce, Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994)

Lecture of Fail

Friday 29th October 2010

Today's photo is of my lecture notes from a really dull and useless lecture on library skills. I've been a student now for three years. I know how to use the library and online resources! We skipped out half way through and went for coffee. It seemed right.

The uni computers were messing up though so doing any work (studying archaeological computing so we kinda need them) was frustrating and irritating.

But went for dinner round my friends house, watch half of the A-Team and played Cranium board game which was really funny.

Quote of the Day:

"Kill me. Kill me now. A quick death would be far less painful than this pointless lecture." - my facebook status updated via phone from the lecture of fail.

Lightwave 3D

Thursday 28th October 2010

Today's photo is of my new toy - Lightwave 3D. A very very powerful and shiny modelling program... that I have no idea how to use. I made a sphere. I then made that sphere bounce. I was proud.

My degree program at the moment is in archaeological computing, specifically in 3D modelling and something called 'Virtual Pasts' so I thought I'd give this a go. Unfortunately Lightwave is actually really complicated to use (who knew?!) and given my computer modelling experience and background is 0 I felt rather lost. Hopefully with the help of a few online tutorials and practice in some other modelling programs I may be able to make progress.

But not any time soon.

Did a self-defence course also at training tonight which was good fun and we had lots of people there! Given the disaster of the club last year it's really wonderful and positive to see so many new faces, and so many people enjoying it!

Quote of the Day:

"Murder begins where self-defence ends." - Georg Buchner

"Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defence." - Ron Paul

Neck of a Doll

Wednesday 27th October 2010

Today's photo is of my neck with a necklace one of my friends made me years ago. I thought it looked quite doll-like and unreal.

I went around my sister's for dinner tonight which made a change and was lovely. We had rice and ice cream (though not together!) and she made chocolate muffins. Yum yum. We also watched Kick Ass :-D Ahh, love that film.

Quote of the Day:

"Aww dude, that is one gay looking taser." - Hit Girl, Kick Ass (2010)

Nom nom nom

Tuesday 26th October 2010

Today's photo is dinner. I cooked for me and my friend while we watched more True Blood (she hasn't seen it before so we're working our way through the series').

Chicken with chilli and garlic sauce. In the lovely bowls my sister got me for Christmas with the beautiful chopsticks I picked up in Vietnam. Yummy.

Quote of the Day:

Sophie-Anne: "Maenads are sad, silly things... relics who believe in the God who comes."

Bill: "Does he ever come?"

Sophie-Anne: "Of course not. Gods only exist in humans' minds, like money, or morality." - True Blood 211

Here subbie subbie subbie

Monday 25th October 2010

Had a sleepy day today. Went to work, my last lecture of the day was cancelled so just hung out at home with housemate for a few hours before training. His neck was hurting him today. Funny that.

Ended up sitting on the stairs for some reason, hence the photo looking up at the window. Nothing exciting.

Quote of the Day:

"You are totally a submissive. Subbie subbie subbie. Make the tea." - me, to my housemate after a rather bizarre conversation about him being a submissive... Oh dear.

UFC = Bad Idea

Sunday 24th October 2010

Was a quiet sort of day today. Nothing too exciting. Went training in the morning and then watched the UFC 122 in the afternoon.

Then attempted to try some of the mma stuff out on each other. Fun times. Perhaps with hindsight I shouldn't be allowed to watch the UFC. Putting a headlock on my housemate managed to crank his neck. In my defence, he not only told me to do it he told me how to do it. I plead 'not guilty'. I do have lovely carpet burns on my elbows now.

Quote of the Day:

"When I started, I used to go off just instincts. Then they took head butts away, so I had to learn some skills" - Mark Coleman

"A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest" - Royce Gracie