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The other day I saw the extended versions of The Fellowship Of The Ring and The Attack Of The Clones. It was good. It's a shame that they have to cut these things out to maintain some sort of viewer dynamic, things make much more sense when more is explained! Although to be fair I don't think I could have taken much more of the love doves in Star Wars. Sorry, not convinced by any of it. Little things like finding out where Obi-wan got his ship from were really nice though.

Its also really fitting and apt that someone like Christopher Lee should be in both these films. Most people today simply do not realise how much of /the man/ he is, its glorious that he's still acting at all, and fantastic that he's in two such high-profile roles. Dying breed, that lot. Literally. Hope he doesn't snuff it before he finishes. Or has he finished already? Didn't mean to be irreverent there, actors of his ilk are each one of them a living legend, in every sense of the word.

The war hey? War. Hmm. I saw a piece on the news that was seriously talking about how three year olds in pre-school are picking up on their parents tension about the war, and that this is manifesting itself in an increased level of good versus evil play-acting, apparently usually involving superheroes. This was before a nice thing telling about how the war was going to go, with moving arrows and everything.

Edinburgh is lovely and sunny!
-edanx

Feh. I'm feeling pissed off.

Why? Not sure. I've had a good week, it's gloriously sunny outside, and I'm going home tomorrow. I'm also going over in my mind the huge number of things I need to do over the coming five weeks, the insane amount of stuff I need to get sorted that I currently have absolutely no clue about. Half of which I certainly should have done already, all of which I'm dreading attempting to a greater or lesser extent. I'm getting close to a point where I simply cannot afford to faff around anymore. I've already made it much more difficult for myself than I needed to, but its time to start turning it around. It's going to be interesting, I've never succeeded in being at all efficient with my time, especially over the holidays…

Of course being at home will mean I will have no soap operas to worry about, whether they be mine or anybody else's. On the other hand I will be unfettered to free-fall through time and land at the end of the holidays wondering how I managed to fritter away so much time without achieving a single thing, as is my usual wont.

I know why I'm feeling pissed off. It's because I'm feeling bored and frustrated. There you go. With the same old crowd, with the same old places, with the fact that I've never had a proper boyfriend and am pretty unlikely to, with the fact that I find it impossible to get into a good routine of work, with friends bitching at each other, with term in general; I always get more or less like this at the end of term… I'm tired and bored and empty and the only way I know to recharge is to take time out from reality, and I can't do that. Not in the same way as I have done before anyways. I'm not sure it would work in any case.

So I'm going home tomorrow. Things I will be doing, to a greater or lesser extent, include: Working at my Dad's bookshop, lying in the sun on the way there, reading a book or two (or eight), finding out about the scary world of website architecture, a cursory look at the Edinburgh scene, investigation of the various summer job options, climbing Arthur's Seat, learning a third to a half of my course.

Have a fun & productive easter everyone!
-edanx

I just posted on gaygeeks. Ack. And I put a thingy in the pride site to stop spiders going into the exec page. And I'm meant to be re-doing the Pride site over the hols, trying to make it as visually generic as possible, so look out for blue boxes.

Geek? What?

#1 My full name is Daniel José Govan-Prini
#2 I am ¼ Spanish, ¼ Italian, ¼ English ¼ Scottish.
#3 I get my Mediterranean ability to tan from the non-Mediterranean side of my family.
#4 "I have no straight side" That"s a quote from more than a year ago.
#5 I have a very good phonographic memory.
#6 I want to be entertained; stop boring me. We"ve had this conversation before. You"ve told that story.
#7 I always take stairs two or three at a time.
#8 I was born on the 7th of November, 1981.
#9 I have two half siblings, a brother and a sister, very much older than me.
#10 I had a sister but she died of cot death. My little brother was born on the first anniversary of her death.
#11 My little brother is now quite a lot taller than me.
#12 I'm 6 feet tall, though everybody insists I'm taller than that.
#13 The lower lumbar in my back are fused. I will never be able to touch my toes :-(
#14 My elbows bend backwards slightly. My knees bend backwards a lot.
#15 If I stretch my arms behind me, I can count all my ribs. In front of a mirror. Topless.
#16 This pleases me.
#17 I have no respect for the instructions on the back of medication.
#18 If a sweet drops on the floor, I"ll probably eat it anyway.
#19 I value pragmatism above all else, or try to.
#20 I love my hair. Even if it does look like some stripy woodland creature.
#21 I take too much time over what wear.
#22 I find great amusement in pretending to be arrogant.
#23 I love indie music. Indie dance like Primal scream, indie pop like electric six, indie rock like ash etc. It"s all good.
#24 I love early 90"s dance and euphoric trance.
#25 I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis aged 11. After they ruled out osteomyelitis and having me in traction for a month FOR NO REASON AT ALL.
#26 I don't remember when they worked out I was asthmatic.
#27 And the anaemia went away after a while. I think.
#28 I know that Teclis and Tyrion are twins, that Milamber and Pug are the same person, that Rand al"Thor is becoming Lews Therin Telamon, that Garion"s Aunt Pol is no relation of his, that Carrot is a dwarf, that Aslan is a lion, that Eldric is the man and I know what THAC0 means.
#29 I know that the Drow and the Dunmer are just Dark elves, who are a subterranean subset of Elves, a concept created by Tolkien in his Middle Earth books that were based on the Sidhe of Irish mythology.
#30 I love RPGs, RTSs, TBSs, Mech games and god games.
#31 When I was small I had a ZX spectrum that I used to program to do cool things, but we had no way of saving them.
#32 I am not a geek.
#33 My father used to threaten to put me in a cardboard box and put me in the back garden "for all the little doggies to eat" when I was small. I cried every time. He thought it was very funny.
#34 I like dogs, but I am definitely a cat person. Big cats are somewhat sacred to me.
#35 I didn"t speak to my father at all for seven years, despite living in the same house as him. We"re fine now. Comparatively speaking.
#36 I hold a grudge inna big stylee.
#37 I had an imaginary friend called "Raymond the bat" when I was small, who was a vampire and rode a black panther. He came into my nightmares and chased away the baddies.
#38 I have a vivid imagination. I am the most escapist person I know, though I'm sure some peeps would dispute that. They"re wrong.
#39 I am usually right. I would normally say "I am always right" but I'm erring on the side of caution. I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
#40 99% of my favourite memories are in the last 3 years, 80% of those are in the last year and a half.
#41 I was infamous at school for being able to get out of doing any rugby or CCF. I got a school prize for it.
#42 I have a self-destructive desire to appear enigmatic in times of stress.
#43 I like a clean kitchen and a dirty bedroom.
#44 I didn"t mean it like that.
#45 But know that you mention it…
#46 I'm getting quite good at this innuendo lark.
#47 I could not live without music.
#48 I am habitually self-destructive, though usually through wilful negligence.
#49 I hate people who shuffle their feet.
#50 But not as much as I hate people I don't know unconsciously touching me. Only because if I know them then I can tell them, to stop it.
#51 I am lazy.
#52 I am pretty moody.
#53 I rarely get to sleep before one. I am also a big fan of catnaps and siestas.
#54 I can"t cook to save myself, but I'm getting better.
#55 I began to play the cello but stopped after a few terms.
#56 I used to really want to learn to play the sax.
#57 Tall, thin, big eyes, generous mouth, expressive, effervescent.
#58 I think I can dance, until I actually try this theory out, and find I can"t, but by then I invariably don't care.
#59 I cannot be bothered with politics; people are too stupid, too ignorant and too wrought with their own particular set of small-minded preconceptions to vote on anything of any importance.
#60 I am excited by the prospect of new technologies. This is the 21st centaury, and it"s beginning to look like it!
#61 I enjoy speculating on stuff, especially the macro, but I dislike speculation about people.
#62 I am a hopeless quidnunc.
#63 I would live on cereal, pasta and pizza given a chance, but I hardly ever eat red meat.
#64 I love coffee and pastries.
#65 I hate competition. Most of the time.
#66 I am unapologetically thoughtless on a regular basis. Sorry about that.
#67 I'm not very patient at all.
#68 I love Edinburgh, where I live. It"s not the biggest or the most vibrant city" Except during the Festival, and then it /is/, and then I love it more.
#69 My dad owns the best second hand bookshop in Edinburgh.
#70 My mum teaches at the school I used to go to. She used to teach me Latin and Spanish. That was fun :)
#71 I don't "do" randomers.
#72 I'm rubbish with names, but good at giving people monikers that stick.
#73 Whenever I"ve left the UK, its been to go to Spain. From Madrid to Malaga, Tenerife to Mallorca, many different parts, but always Spain.
#74 I like castles.
#75 If something is too recent to be called history and too soon to be called speculation, then I'm not interested.
#76 I tend to spend about the same amount of money on a pair of shoes as I do on a pair of boxers.
#77 I am currently wearing £315 worth of clothes on my torso, £45 worth of clothes below the waist and hair that cost £40. Fairly atypical really, but amusing to me.
#78 I don't like laddishness.
#79 I'm way too homocentric. But then society is overwhelmingly heterocentric. I"ve felt completely overlooked for seven years. Backlash?
#80 I have enough skin for two people. Well, too much for one, anyway. As long as that one is me.
#81 I like animals and geography. I had lots of those types of books as a kid.
#82 It surprises me when people don't know where places are.
#83 I never learned to ride a bicycle. I learned to drive a car, but never drove one since passing my test.
#84 I"ve been scuba diving off St Kilda, from a converted fishing trawler. We did more dives on the way there, natch. Including a cool shipwreck.
#85 According to proverbs I'm going to hell for wearing a diving belt, but shit happens.
#86 I have a huge Epic Eldar army, including 6 titans. I have several small Epic armies. And 14 titans in total.
#87 I painted them all myself. They are quite good.
#88 I"ve tried a few drugs a couple of times, but the only one I do regularly is alcohol, and even that not to any excess anymore.
#89 Lucaozade tablets don't count as a drug. I eat loads of /them/
#90 I take way too many photos. I'm scanning them in as I speak. It"s too expensive. I need a digicam. But I think I"ve gotten pretty good at taking pictures.
#91 I"ve never had a proper job in my life.
#92 I rarely have breakfast or lunch; I either have small snacks all day, or one /big/ meal.
#93 I usually wear black. This is not because I have no imagination or self esteem. This is because I like black.
#94 I didn"t cry when I was born, I just looked around accusingly.
#95 I once broke my best friends finger whilst laughing manically in primary school. No, really.
#96 I have never had surgery or broken any bones.
#97 I can jump really high from a standing start, and do so often.
#98 When I'm drunk I tend to pick my smaller friends up and spin them around.
#99 I don't like spicy food.
#100 I'm a work in progress.