Mood: ^_^
Listening to: Final Fantasy Songbook Mahoroba
Reading: Temeraire
Watching: Transformers: Robots in Disguise

OK, I am now oficially a lazy-arse wolfling.
The number of deviations in my message box is over 1000 and, despite all efforts, thay haven't gone away if I ignore them.

I'm going to start visiting dA more often and (brace yourselves) actually posting something. Yes that's right. i will produce work and cut down the number of people I'm watching to something more manageable.

Since I haven't posted since October, you're probably not wondering what I've been up to, but I'll tell you anyway.

I'm at still uni (not kicked out yet) and I've been improving my grades with each completed project so far. I've made a bunch of new friends, met up with some old ones and been introduced to the wonders of life on a budget (I'm currently £180 over my budget -_- and Transformers.

I'm waiting for Advent Children to come out on DVD, since I saw it at the New Year, and trying to find out if I can get it subbed (the general Bitish release seems to be only available dubbed).

I'm not dead. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. ^_~

Mood: Very Happy
Listening to: Dark Side Of Phobos
Reading: Howl's Moving Castle - Dianne Wynne Jones
Watching: Blackadder

Tagged, eh?

Tagger: ~kyariko

OK, let me see ... 20 facts about myself.

01. I'm writing a series of sci-fi novels
02. I've been dating my current boyfriend for four and a half years
03. I bought a graphics tablet yesterday
04. I'm designing my own website
05. My three favourite drinks are apple juice, lemonade and snakebite (w/blackcurrant)
06. I have a habit of talking my characters as if they were real people
07. I like math!
08. I like GMing sci-fi roleplays
09. My boyfriend has promised to propose once I finish university
10. My favourite foreign language is german
11. I have autism
12. I'm a WorldBuilder
13. I enjoyed Myst
14. I love British comedy
15. I'm going to spend my time at uni learning how to use watercolours properly
16. I'm vegetarian
17. My favourite food is spaghetti with Quorn meatballs
18. The last DVD I bought was Ulysses 31 (ah, nostalgia)
19. I really, really love reading
20. I once spent £80 on a book

I now tag:

~capntsubasa ~Ridfiel ~eviluser ~GinKitsune

Anyone who enjoyed Doom or just likes industial, game-inspired music, needs to go download this, now:
Dark Side of Phobos

Also, my computer turned up today. ^_^
250gB HDD, 2gB RAM, Athlon 64 3800 CPU, nVidia GeForce7800 GTX Graphics Card and a 17" monitor.

I'm so happy ^_^

Mood: Annoyed/Nervous
Listening to: Doro
Reading: Crisis Four - Andy McNabb
Watching: Bucky O'Hare

Today is my last day in Cambridge, the town I have known since birth. I'm off too university tomorrow, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous.

Packing all my stuff into boxes to ship off is a thought-provoking experience. Do I need that? I mean, really need it? Didn't think so. So why did I just put it back, rather than chuck it out? Do I trust my sister not to sell half the contents of my room on eBay?

The house I'll be living in is small, and with four of us living there, I'm sure it'll be ... cozy. I wish it were halls. Apart from the fact we can now reenact 'Young Ones' sketches, if things turn out badly, and I don't get on with three of them, at least in halls there would be four others.
Right now I don't even know if it'll be an all-female house or not, and I keep envisioning my three flatmates as a pathologically organized preppy-type, a real pink and chihuahua girlie-girl and an anime-phobic 24-7 party girl.

My only really major concern is at what point in the conversation do I drop my little bomb? Do I introduce myself "Hi guys, I'm Kathryn, I like anime, reading and sci-fi. Oh, and I'm autistic" or leave it until they think that I'm a complete sociopath and grade-A oddball?

All the rooms have their own locks, which is a blessing, but means I'll have to carry my keys about the house.

Obviously, the house isn't exactly kitted out for internet usage, so all my access will come from college, or internet cafes. I've already scoped one, over the other side of town, but since Canterbury is so crazy-small it won't really matter.

Right now, my mum is trying to get me to sell half my stuff in her jumble sale. Instead of continue packing and getting the other bits I'll need, she wants me sorting through the rest of 'my crap in her house' to see what she can sell or chuck out. My A-level origami has already gone and she wants to donate my interview shirt to the scouts, too.

If this morning is anything to go by, I'll be glad to get gone for good.

[EDIT] 08/10
I've come back home to get my computer, only to find it's still not here -_-'' I've called scan, and they haven't even dispatched it yet. Now the case is out of stock, amongst a few other things. *sobs in fustration*
I can't afford to keep coming back, so I have to stay until it's here. I'm hoping (read: praying) it won't be longer than a week, or my attendance will suffer.
My housemates seem OK. One never turned up, but the other two girls seem likeable enough, if afflicted with a terrible urge to shoe shop and watch slushy movies.
We seem to have an inordinate amount of free time (all-day Wednesday and thursdays after 12, plus the weekend), but finding a job is incredibly hard, so my disposable income is nearly nul.
Still, all things considered, I've met a bunch of new and interesting people and, by and large, I'm looking forward to the rest of uni.

Let's see how long that lasts.

Mood: Mildly worried
Listening to: Doro
Reading: Crisis Four - Andy McNabb
Watching: Bucky O'Hare

OK, I want to thank everyone for being so patient with me (or else forgetting my existence -_-; ).

I've been so busy dealing with real world stuff that everything else has been put on hold. I'm going to university very soon (Sun 25th), and I think I'm about on top of it now.
I've paid my rent, I have enough for my tuition, my insurance is sorted, I've got my student railcard and am going to Canterbury on Tuesday to get my keys (and have a look around).

I still have to complete my induction form (but only the exam results section). I hope that's it all, though.

As far as my spangly new computer goes, don't even get me started (oops, too late!)
I ordered the motherboard from Novatech, and I have that. The monitor is from Savastore and that's just been dispatched. The keyboard/mouse combi came from Amazon ages ago but it's just everything else is the problem (you know, the little bits like the case, graphics card, processor).
I persuaded my mother to order them from Scan and everything seemed fine, it would just be a short wait until they got the Hard Drive (HDD). When they got stock of the HDD, they'd send the whole lot.
Unfortunately, my mother doesn't trust me to know her password (because I'd splurge on componants I don't need with her food buget or something, I supppose) so I've been sitting around for two weeks waiting for the parts to come. When I finally got ticked and got her to long in, it turns out that she's maxed out the credit card and scan couldn't get the money. The e-mail they sent was handily directed to her junk email by the 'contacts only' spam filter.
So she's cashed the cheques I gave her, hasn't sent them to the credit card company and won't unless she's hassled into it. I have to reorder the componants (probably using dad's credit card) and pray that they arrive before next sunday, and that my b/f has time to put them together before I have to go.

I feel better now.

I want to thank Aku-rei for buying me a one-month subscription to dA ^_^ Thanks mate.

[UPDATE] Scan don't have the DVD-RW I ordered, or a 5.25" to 3.5" conversion blanking plate in stock, and won't have them until monday. That means they'll arrive around Wednesday-ish, about four days too late. I'm going back home on Friday 7th for the weekend, so I guess I'll do computer stuffs then.