3rd Year, Morrisons, & Online Games..
Fri, 23rd Nov | 5:59 pm
I'm feeling: 
cold
Hello Livejournal.. I know, I know. I've been neglecting you. What can I say, there's more to life. Well, not MUCH more, to be honest, not at the moment..
Well Holly has a job. What's that? You know already? Well HA! No you don't. See that last post down there? It LIES!
Lol. Yes, Holly quit Primark. It was hell. Worst place to work EVER. No job should try to squeeze the life as well as the money out of it's employees.. never mind all the tears.. so I quit. Never done that before. It was quite liberating, knowing that they couldn't really do anything because you were already done..
However, rent needs to be paid, so now I work at Morrisons. Last time I worked there, I said I'd never do it again, but that was before Primark, and this time I'm not a cashier, I'm a florist. It's heaven. I get to play with flowers all day. It's lovely, and I'm happy. ^_^
But yeah, three months Livejournal, where's it gone? Well the job, obviously, but also uni. Gosh, 3rd year is busy! Lots of new stuff to learn though, which is nice. :)
And Travian has been taking up a lot of my time too.. It's a basic strategy/population based game, where you build a village or three, and send troops to raid and maim other people. That's pretty much it, but when you join alliances and make deals with people, and wars happen.. things can get very interesting..
*Sigh* I haven't been drawing Livejournal, but I have been painting. I bought acrilics over the summer, and the first thing I did was paint Paigan. Once my scanner works again, I'll show you. ^_~
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Phew..
Thu, 16th Aug | 1:21 am
I'm feeling: tired
Well, Holly got the job.. It's three shifts a week, Thurs, Sat and Sun. All in all, I work 12 hours.
It's a pitiful amount of time, half a day in all, but BOY do i feel tired! All of a sudden I feel busy, I'm thinking about the job, the rent, the exam, the appointment, the birthday... I don't have any time anymore. I don't have time to update livejournal, or catch up with Dennou Coil, or draw my comic. The things I want to do are being over shadowed by the stuff I HAVE to do, and I'm a little weary of it.
On the plus side, this coming Monday is my birthday, and I shall be 21, with (hopefully) enough money to pay the rent, and no more worries except for the job. Then I can draw Uriel, Michael, Gabriel and Raphael as much as I like. Hell, I might even get past the intro to the story!
(First, I have to try and ignore the Wii
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cassies_file just bought. Oh Twilight Princess, how I love thee.. even though ive completed you once already..)Link! | Your Thoughts? {1} | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
Huzzah!
Thu, 19th Jul | 8:39 pm
I'm feeling: 
hopeful
Short update: I had an interview! Wonderful news when you're as skint as me, even if it is from Primark. It went well, and early next week I should recieve a call telling me if it went as well as I thought. Watch this space, Holly may soon have a job!!
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Arg.. Job hunt.
Mon, 9th Jul | 1:06 pm
I'm feeling: 
anxious
I'm listening to: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
Sigh, job hunting is hard huh? Scratch that, the waiting is hard. I wanna know if such-and-such-the-employer is intrested in me, but how long do I wait before I figure that they're not, and look elsewhere? Out of the 9 CV's I handed out last week, I've only heard back from one, and that was a rejection. Again, how long before they're ALL rejections? :'(
Anyway. Today marks the day that I cook that cheesecake I've been wanting to cook for so long. I'll let you know how it goes. Hopefully, it'll be tasty good. ^_^
EDIT: The cheesecake turned out to be gorgeous! Huge, but a resounding success. All I have to do now is quarter the recipe so it doesn't require several people to eat it!
And this, because
bobcatgoldfish thought it was good enough to share, and so do I. Link! | Your Thoughts? | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
Happy!
Mon, 2nd Jul | 11:10 pm
I'm feeling: happy
Hello Livejournal, long time no see. I moved house, then I went on holiday, and was consequentially internet-less for about two months, but I'm back now. Have been back for about a week, but more important things than you kept happening.
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*Sigh (again..) *
Sat, 19th May | 8:06 pm
I'm feeling: disappointed
I've noticed that Livejournal is increasingly becoming a place for me to come and complain.
I really don't like that. So, good news first.
Jenny and Kirsty and I are in our flat. We've each moved the majority of our things, claimed rooms, had a lovely meal... all is good. The place is empty, but it really feels like it could be home. Sooner or later, we're all gonna take a trip to Ikea and plan what kinda thing we want in the rooms. Kirsty and I are allowed to furnish our own rooms, while Jenny furnishes the rest, since the place is hers.
Unfortunately, that means I can't furnish my room at all, cos I'm skint.
A few days ago, I was rich-ish. I had about £800 with which I could;
1. Pay my £200 rent that I will begin to pay next month
2. Buy myself a little 'hurray-your-exams-are-finally-over-with
3. Aquire some new clothes that arn't falling apart
4. Buy bed etc, for new room
5. Buy birthday presents for my sisters birthday
6. Food. I NEED food.
7. A little extra for my family holiuday in June
Then I got a mini statement, which showed me that Uni halls has taken their final payment of £808 for the room. That now means I'm back inside my overdraft, giving me only enough money for my rent, some food, and my sisters present. Everything that I had hoped for has backfired. Suddenly losing £800 (which you had planned down to the penny) hits you like a punch in the gut, let me tell you.
So yeah, I'm disappointed and not a little upset. I really hate being this down, for this long.
Roll on the holidays... :(
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Geeky! :P
Tue, 15th May | 10:36 pm
I'm feeling: gloomy
Well, four out of six exams are over. I think I've done ok, despite a huge mistake in my last one which was biometrics. I used the wrong equations, didnt notice until it was too late, yada yada. No big deal though.
Instead of letting myself get depressed with excessive studying (though I am anyway), I've been treating myself to occasional episodes of Ouran High School Host Club, taking screenshots of my favourite characters, Kaoru and Hikaru, along the way, with points added if I can get them pretty looking, and without subtitles at the bottom... So far I've watched 15 episodes and taken 70 pictures. I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with all the pictures once I'm done, but that doesn't particularly matter at this point, so long as I'm amused for a while.
*shrug*
I'm sure a few of my friends *cofcofLeonacofcof* will be interested in yoinking some of them to use as screensavers at some point anyway.
One thing that did amuse me though, Takehito Koyasu is the seiyu for Haruhi's (Ouran again) crossdressing dad, Ryoji Fujioka. He is also the voice of Aya Fujimiya, an assassin from Weiss Kreuz.
Hee hee! Oh Aya, I always knew you'd look nice in a dress! ^_^
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*Sigh*
Thu, 3rd May | 11:52 pm
I'm feeling: 
stressed
Well, life is slowly falling into the pits of hell - sorta like Crowley, who didnt so much as fall, as saunter vaguely downwards.
Shameless geekery aside, I'm feeling a little blah about things at the mo. Studying for exams is no ones favourite pastime, and I'm already pretty much sick and tired of it all, and my first exam is still five days away. Heaven knows what I'll be like at the end of the three weeks...
I'm also ill, and on the knarky side.. and I wanna go out and enjoy the sunshine, but I cant because I'll feel guilty about not studying as hard as I should...
I'm stressed and ranting. Rawg. >(
I want to wear Jayne's cunning hat and take Vera, and then go out and shoot me down some exams, and sore throats, and menstruation, and doctors, and any other gorram thing I can think of. <Insert a long, interesting curse in Manderin here.>
Then I gotta find a way to stop me watching dvds like Firefly when I should be working.
>_<
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Formulae.. *BANG*
Wed, 25th Apr | 1:33 pm
I'm feeling: 
working
I'm listening to: None, this is a library!!
Arg. I'm in my university library, with a pounding headache. I have a Biometrics (think Statistics for biology students) project due for Friday and Ive just finished all the statistics work I need to do for it.
I'm going to rest my exploded head for half an hour before I have to go show off a poster about cheetahs and inbreeding I spent all yesterday making..
GOOD GOD I WANT TO DIE.
Edit: I sent my work to myself so I could work on it at home (the statistics bit requires a computer program I can only access from uni) after the poster thing, which went well. However, once I got back home, it turned out that I'd done some of the maths wrong. Not fatally wrong, just some data flipped the wrong way, simple stuff. BUT ARG! Of course THAT meant I couldn't do what I needed to do at home, and I'll have to go back into uni and sort the whole lot out. On the plus side, the time I should have spent doing this, I used to write three essays instead...
*cries*
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Over And Done With..
Fri, 20th Apr | 10:07 am
I'm feeling: excited
I'm listening to: iTunes broke! Arg!!!
Well, I finished reading through the Death Note manga this morning. I'm a little sad it's over, and a little annoyed it all happened that way (read, 'more than a little pathetically'), but at the same time, I'm glad it managed to climb past it's little rut and at least interest me to read for reading sake, not just to finish it. No detail, for people who dont like spoilers, but I have to say one thing.
I <3 Nate River.
Aww, he's a sweety really! (Creepy at times, but hey, who isn't?)
On the subject of manga and comics in general, I'd like to take this little opportunity to mark the time when my own comic raises it's head shyly. Yes, I have indeed started drawing. I know the plot, I know the characters, I own a scanner and photoshop. Thus, a new story is about to be told, and while I have no illusions to the fact that it's going to take its sweet time in getting going (never mind getting online), it has nevertheless begun, and I am childishly excited about it too!
Arg. Unfortunately, the dear thing raised it's head a little too early. When I said it may take its sweet time, I wasn't joking. Right now, I'm more concerned about my exams, moving into my new flat, and finding a job. It'll have to wait, as it has been doing these last few years, until the summer, where I'll have all the free time it desires to rope me and my muses into drawing it. But as I said; childishly excited. I hope I'll get quite far with it, because it certainly isnt going to be a chore!
P.S. Oh yes. Just as a little piece of not-quite-trivia. My lj username AngelArchetype, was chosen because my comic, some day way into the future, will be called/named Archangel Archetype. This has been my username in other places for a while now, but lj unfortunately limited how many letters I could use. So there you go. ^_^
I <3 Nate River.
Aww, he's a sweety really! (Creepy at times, but hey, who isn't?)
On the subject of manga and comics in general, I'd like to take this little opportunity to mark the time when my own comic raises it's head shyly. Yes, I have indeed started drawing. I know the plot, I know the characters, I own a scanner and photoshop. Thus, a new story is about to be told, and while I have no illusions to the fact that it's going to take its sweet time in getting going (never mind getting online), it has nevertheless begun, and I am childishly excited about it too!
Arg. Unfortunately, the dear thing raised it's head a little too early. When I said it may take its sweet time, I wasn't joking. Right now, I'm more concerned about my exams, moving into my new flat, and finding a job. It'll have to wait, as it has been doing these last few years, until the summer, where I'll have all the free time it desires to rope me and my muses into drawing it. But as I said; childishly excited. I hope I'll get quite far with it, because it certainly isnt going to be a chore!
P.S. Oh yes. Just as a little piece of not-quite-trivia. My lj username AngelArchetype, was chosen because my comic, some day way into the future, will be called/named Archangel Archetype. This has been my username in other places for a while now, but lj unfortunately limited how many letters I could use. So there you go. ^_^
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Headbangin!
Sat, 7th Apr | 4:27 pm
I'm feeling: irritated
I'm listening to: Fall Out Boy - Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
I know I know, long time no posty. I dont care, it was the holidays - I didnt have the interweb for my beloved laptop Alucard, and also, nothing much happened.
Not until I came back to Glasgow anyway. Carling Academy, Fall Out Boy. CONCERT!
*LOVE* their music, love the hoody I bought, could do without all the 14 yr old fangirls who scream their love for pete/patrick with no concern about the fact their sexy bandmember fantasies would never happen. Not cos they're young and it would be oh-so-illegal, but because said band members are gay. Whoot. How much do I wish that it were legal to use gratuitous violence on anybody that appears to lose braincells in the presence of emo hair.
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EDIT: Good news! The house that my friends and I tried to get that was taken off the market? (See my 1st post..) WE NOW OWN IT! WHOOOO! We can officially move in May the 11th!
Not until I came back to Glasgow anyway. Carling Academy, Fall Out Boy. CONCERT!
*LOVE* their music, love the hoody I bought, could do without all the 14 yr old fangirls who scream their love for pete/patrick with no concern about the fact their sexy bandmember fantasies would never happen. Not cos they're young and it would be oh-so-illegal, but because said band members are gay. Whoot. How much do I wish that it were legal to use gratuitous violence on anybody that appears to lose braincells in the presence of emo hair.
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EDIT: Good news! The house that my friends and I tried to get that was taken off the market? (See my 1st post..) WE NOW OWN IT! WHOOOO! We can officially move in May the 11th!
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It's too early to be late...
Mon, 19th Mar | 2:52 am
I'm feeling: tired
Gosh I'm tired. It's 3am.
I have to get up in only a few hours for a 9 'o' clock doctors appointment and I can't sleep..
*sob*
It's not even nerves. If it was, I'd understand. But it isn't, and I don't.
I have to give blood you see, they have to do tests and Ive never given blood even voluntarily before. Despite that, I'm not nervous. I JUST CANT SLEEP! >_<
Rawr.
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An added bonus - my sink is blocked. I have a plunger and that hasn't worked. I need Mr Muscle to do this job that I hate, just like in the adverts.
And my post hasn't come yet. I ordered two manga volumes a week and a half ago, and they're not here. I'm not impatient...
(Volume 4 of Loveless!! Volume 1 of Gravitation Ex!! Whoot!)
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Aaaaaahhhh!!!
Fri, 16th Mar | 10:46 am
I'm listening to: Staind - Epiphany
Good GOD it's been busy around here! Uni has done the usual 'The - Holidays - Are - Coming - So - We're - Gonna - Cripple - You - With - Work - So - You - REALLY - Appreciate - It' thing. Class tests and essays and all sorts are getting handed in and marked, right as we speak. Its insane. Oh well, I now have three weeks of freedom! Whoohoo!
And what have i been doing with my free hours, the ones I have scrounged to have a break from course work? I made myself a mouse costume!
You see, iO had an easter party that was Alice in Wonderland themed. I was the dormouse that always sleeps at the Mad Hatter's tea party. I was so cute!
(Other than that, Ive been enjoying going slightly mad with the game Eternal Darkness. Heads have rolled!)
And what have i been doing with my free hours, the ones I have scrounged to have a break from course work? I made myself a mouse costume!
You see, iO had an easter party that was Alice in Wonderland themed. I was the dormouse that always sleeps at the Mad Hatter's tea party. I was so cute!
(Other than that, Ive been enjoying going slightly mad with the game Eternal Darkness. Heads have rolled!)
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Ahh.. friends. What would we do without them?
Wed, 7th Mar | 8:41 am
I'm feeling: pleased
I'm listening to: Panic! - The Only Difference...
Well, yesterday was quite good. It started off as a normal busy uni day, but then I got chatting to a friend and she pretty much made my year with her reply.
Side note - I know what a squirrel sounds like. Imagine a crow cawing, then make it do an impression of a crying baby. That's what a squirrel sounds like. (Or at least, that's what the squirrels lurking around my uni sound like. I'd be the first to admit they're probably mutated somehow..)
Another side note - Went to see Ghost Rider last night with
cassies_file and bobcatgoldfish, as well as a few others. It's funny, but only because it's so stupid it's good. Not the worst film ever, but my, could they have done better. Go see Hot Fuzz instead, now there's a film worth watching, especially if you like laughs.Link! | Your Thoughts? {5} | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend
Rant!
Mon, 5th Mar | 3:43 pm
I'm feeling: annoyed
I'm listening to: Nightmare: The WORLD
Well, I've just finished chapter 68 of Death Note..
Grr.. I really like Death Note, it's the most original idea for manga that i know of, but ever since L died.. I'm just not happy with it. I'm not as fond of Near as I was of L, and I have very little opinion of Mello, and even Light's disappointing me at the moment. Near kept calling him incompetent, and I'm afraid to say, I pretty much agreed. He went from beating L, to losing to Mello in a heartbeat. I know years passed in between, but Light's intelligence really suffered.. and why poor Misa is staying with him I'll never know, he treats her so badly.
*Sigh*
I know it's just a story, and I shouldn't get worked up about something so trivial, but I just feel so blah about it, I find myself just wishing they'd get on with it.. :'(
If you don't know what I'm talking about, go here and watch them.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Ligh
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My First Post!
Fri, 2nd Mar | 10:20 am
I'm feeling: creative
Whoot!
Well, isn't this nice? Bright, lets in all the sunlight..
Heehee!
Just so you know, this lj is gonna get filled with all sorts of crap (pretty crap mind you, or creative anyway..) with serious life-type things thrown in for variety.
For example, my friend's and I may be buying a flat!
It's really nice inside, and fairly cheap for this area too, only thing is, dude that's selling has gotten ill, badly ill, and has posponed selling indefinately... Oh well.
As for creative crap, I made myself a bracelet recently, on my bead loom, and the design I created first was this.
Hence the bracelet came out looking the same, except longer.
That's it for now, gotta go to uni!
