[	Tags	|	blah blah blah, uni	]
[	Current Mood	|	relieved	]
[	Current Music	|	Shashkin (Hefner Remix) - Omar Faruk Tekbilek	]

Blahhh, I feel like I've been so busy this past week, where does the time go?! I don't feel like I've even had time to relax after finishing uni, yet I don't know what I've been doing. Job hunting, of course, as while I do like my part-time job it doesn't pay the rent. Of course there was the epic five-day drama of the last series of Torchwood last week (which I will not even START on. OMG, Davies, you bastard), plus being awesomegeeky with cicak  last week and going to see the midnight showing of ☼Star Trek☼, again.

Of course, I also (...drumroll) got my uni results! I passed! Got a 3rd, which, I know, is not great, but it's a pass which is all I was wanting as I've had such an awful time at uni this year. It is such a relief to have this done and over with, hurrah! (Also scary, obviously, but I'm not even think of graduate plans right now.) I don't actually graduate until November, though. On Friday the 13th - cheers YSJ. But, the fact that it'll be in ~York Minster~ more than makes up for it.

Second bit of good news is that pidgey pidge got home safe!
This being the racing pigeon that Kafers and I looked after for a week after she turned up in our kitchen late last month. We chased her outside, but she was back in the house as soon as our backs were turned (we keep the back door open in hot weather). She wasn't flying, so we herded her into the utility room, caught her and got the numbers off her rings. I managed to contact the owner, and he asked us to keep a hold of her for a couple of days until she was strong enough to get home. Apparently she'd flown all the way from France (!) and had become exhausted only 50 miles short of reaching home in Sunderland. Anyway, weather conditions meant we had her for a week, as pigeons need clear skies and no rain or fog to fly well. I (foolishly) trusted the Met Office forecast when it said Friday morning would the last good weather before a week of rain, so we let her off then, and off she flew! However, the storms arrived only two hours later (some of the heaviest rain I've ever seen in England!), so I was really worried that she hadn't made it, especially when I heard nothing from the owners.
However! I got a lovely thank-you card from them today, saying that she had indeed made it back! Ahhhh, I am so relieved, I was so worried that after all that TLC she hadn't made it x) To you, pidgey pidge!


 
I have the day off tomorrow, so I'll be going in to uni to sign off (and possibly lounge in the library while I still can), and maybe buy some plants from the market. That'll be all the shopping I'll be doing, as I shouldn't really be spending money right now, but it really annoys me to see the yard looking so brown.

Then I must get some housework done, we have an inspection next week. Also want to get some sewing or doll work done, as I have done NONE since I finished uni. My poor resins look so neglected. Also possibly... er... play masses of FFXII, as I seem to be addicted. Ann, what have you done?!?

[	Tags	|	blah blah blah, geekery, omgit's3am, spiffing!	]
[	Current Mood	|	tired	]

This post bought to you by the really-not-recommended but deadline-necessitated combination of thyrotoxicosis, Nescafe and sleep deprivation delirium.

So, there's only so many times the phrase 'linguistically-diverse environment' can be used in one essay (that number being one), and, as my brain would much rather be sleeping right now, my thesaurus-fu is woefully poor. Staring at pages thinking "is 'rich' a good enough synonym for 'diverse' or no, I wonder?" is not getting me far, but noticing that among the suggestions for alternatives for 'rich' were both 'dark' and 'bright', and both 'vivid' and 'mellow' did cause me some amusement. (Yes, yes, I know. That's why I'm an English major).

It's things like this that make me glad to have English as a first language. I can only imagine the headaches that things like this must cause to those learning our often ridiculously illogical tongue.

'Rich' does have some great alternatives, though. I am rather fond of 'sumptuous', 'florid' (thank you, Lestat, for that one), 'mellifluous' and 'opulent'. Had I my copy of 'Tale of the Body Thief' in the house, I would recount one of favourite quotes, on 'wallowing in opulence' (Lestat again, or possibly Louis. Anne Rice: queen of exquisitely florid verbosity), but alas, that opportunity for procrastination is lost due to my restrictively small bookshelf.

I think I should maybe just leave this until tomorrow morning when I'm a little more coherent. Apologies for spamming your flist page with my nonsense.

[	Tags	|	dolls, fangirl_is_a_verb, photoposts	]
[	Current Mood	|	accomplished	]
[	Current Music	|	'The Battle of Evermore' - Led Zeppelin	]

Just a few pictures of the new girl, Tabby. I was actually trying to photograph the faceup, but I got lucky and the lighting turned out unusually well, so I'm quite pleased with these. I also got a bit
carried away with layers and screens in Photoshop, but I kinda like it, makes a change to the natural style that better suits my other guys. Looking at these, I think I'm gonna redo the faceup; the freckles barely show up on camera and I'm not happy with the eyelashes anyway, too dark.

So yes, another girl, how did that happen?! When I first got into BJDs, the only sculpts I really wanted were male, and of the quartet of characters I wanted to doll-ify (which were the only ones I intended to get, back then) 3/4 are male. Ah well, more opportunities for pretty clothes, hm?

Details if anyone cares (or if any BJD folk should stumble into here and want reference); doll is CP Kid Delf Ani in the now-discontinued normal skin, old-style girl body.

Character based on is Tabitha Sheehy, an (at present) minor character in my 'verse, Sable's cousin and daughter of Fenn's boss. Age ~13, tomboyish, wanna-be-but-too-middle class-to-be street urchin type, can be bit of a smart-arse but generally good kid, hangs around with some mischievous sorts but doesn't cause too much trouble.

She needs some different, high-quality eyes, and eventually I want to compile some sort of Victorian street child + cute punk style outfit, but for now it's handmade clothes :)

Edit: OMG. OMG like... guh. I know no-one on my flist follows Tsubasa, but I don't care, I need to flail.

Chapter 185 = utter win, just... wow. I... am reduced to puddle of incoherent fangirly goo. Clamp, as long as this moment of pure awesome is not just making up for some up-coming cruelty, I forgive you for the previous, somehow-just-off chapter, because wow. Bitchslapping? Finger licking? You know how to make our brains melt. I like this new assertive Fai. A lot. And so does Kurogane.

[	Tags	|	blah blah blah, dolls, photoposts, york	]
[	Current Mood	|	cold	]
[	Current Music	|	Ikebana - Kevin Shields	]

Dear self; you appear to have been watching Naruto for the past three hours. Yes, NARUTO. In fact, you've been watching it every day for the past week. WTF?! How the hell did this happen? 
Actually, I think it came about through having no TV, limited internet, and having no DVDs that I haven't already seen, followed by discovery of discs of 40 episodes that I was given by a lovely German biochemist I met in Japan. Still; NARUTO. I fear for myself.
Possibly this is a sign that I need to stop being such a freaking hermit and go outside and socialise with human beings.

Um, in other news; I am sick with another cold (or possibly some Viking plague that Kafers bought home from work, who knows), buuuuut, the new house is going well! Even though it's terribly cold, I'm still really pleased with it. Although having to handle bills and taxes is terrifying, it's really nice having my own place. Plus, I have a Kafers as a housemate! ♥

Anyway, the first point of this post is to say; go watch the new CLAMP In Wonderland OVA! It's so good XD It's a music video featuring their series from 1995-2006, so go play Name That Character! Possibly only really funny if you know the series it's referring to, but still cracktastic. (See my new Kamui icon).
Er yeah, but the real point is: Autumn photos!

[	Tags	|	photoposts, york	]
[	Current Mood	|	relaxed	]
[	Current Music	|	Beef or Chicken - The Teriyaki Boyz	]

First off : International 'Pretend to be a Time-Traveler' Day!
We go freak out the normals, yes/yes?  

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Went for a potter around town today with 

cicak