I'm not obsessed, I'm just bored

[minervasolo]

The internet is struggling to hold my attention. What a strange sate of affairs. I've got pretty much everything I need to have laid up for the magazine (exclusing content, becuase I can't do that until the mag is finished, and Kate, if Marie still wants to submit that). I've written notes for my seminar tomorrow. I'm probably going to start reading the book for next week later today, and I'm saving the Latin til Thursday. I have roughly £3 a day for the rest of the month, not including wages, whch I'm very tempted to spend all at once on Amazon (Stand Alone Complex! £30!), but I'm going to hold off at last until Wednesday on that.

Any second now, I'm going to go into the other room and start playing Prince of Persia again. Much like yesterday. I'm a third of the way through the game, and enjoying it. I've probably had about five hours non-continuous gameplay on it, so I'm feeling quite proud of myself. The controls are easy, and maybe a little too helpful (he's got a strong self-preservation instinct, this prince), plus there's the whole "rewind your death" thing that's coming into it rather a lot. The amusing thing is how English he sounds (and how wet: "The defense system seemed more likely to harm me than those sand creatures"), spouting very obvious bits of plot ("despite the fact I had every reason to dislike this girl, I was beginning to find myself strangely drawn to her"), while apparently the working class in Persia are all Australian! Most odd.

It's my game, in the same way Lara is Mike's and GT3 is Toast's. And now I'm going to go and have something more than an apple to eat, and probably play some more. Oh dear.

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[almighty-frog.livejournal.com]

I've got Prince of Persia! The controls are a pain in the arse on a PC, though - but the way he bounces around the place is really amusing. XD But yes, very randomly British and wet.

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

I had a suspicion it would be easier on the PS2. Unlike Tomb Raider, which is a pig to play on PS2. She keeps randomly vaulting over things! And won't hop backwards. Grr at Lara. Grrr.

[almighty-frog.livejournal.com]

I even went out and bought a handset to play with because I thought it would be easier than the keyboard controls. And then the stupid handset wouldn't work - oh, the computer would recognise it, but the game wouldn't. >.<

So! Since we haven't talked in ages - ;.; - how's life? :D

[minervasolo.livejournal.com]

rolling along. My course actually starts today, which should be interesting. Back to the two hour seminars. Odd dream last night, where I popped back to Surrey to visit the doctors and really didn't want to come back to work (and also, it was Tuesday). Working fewer hours now.I have £46 for the rest of hte month (according to my budget) and it's taking a lot of willpower to not spend the whole lot on GITS:SAC and Hopeless Savages. That will probably happen on Wednesday, when I have money again. Mmm, shiny things. Oh, and far too much Prince of Persia!

So, what have you been up to? ^_^

[almighty-frog.livejournal.com]

When do you have normal dreams? :P

Hmm, what have I been up to. . . . Tearing my hair out trying to get a taxi to go get my sodding soap and deodorant from Rose's (got it now! Ah, to feel clean XD), apping a character on CFUD and failing miserably at getting him in (which is a good thing, methinks, because it would eat my soul and I really don't need another distraction, so I'm kinda relieved), eating lots and lots of pizza . . . that's about it, so far. I think I have a tutorial today, but I'm not certain. Need a job, thus must write a CV, and what I've got so far is an overwhelming amount of crap and Civilisation IV keeps distracting me with promises of taking over Persia. I want to take over Persia, dammit! XD