well im actually awake at a reasonable hour, the house is tidy, dishes are done and brekkie is done.. all annoying things (forms) filled and sent.. was going to start work.. but blackboard isn’t working. i assume i have official permission to take a few more hours off… horray!
mmm i had an odd dream last night.. i had mice in my house.. (again) and i caught them and killed them.. as in i actually killed them.. er yes.. i bet you’re all scared of me now.. sob.
alright… now .. if there’s one thing i really really dislike its official papers and application forms… any mistake that you’re ever going to make in life.. youre going to do it on that sheet of paper in front of you. TFL student oyster application forms.. nonrefundable.. no mistakes.. and then university admin who don’t know what they’re doing.. forgetting to fill bits in.. putting the wrong signiture in the wrong place.. who don’t realise till you prompt them.. greato.
Im now filling in an application form for my provisional driving licence which i lost about six months ago.. the application has been sitting in my flat for 3 months now.. every other line of fine print seems to contradict the next.. great… and theres actually a handbook included with the pack.. incase you get confused.. couldn’t they just make it really clear to begin with.. well thankfully sifting through the book brought me to a telephone number.. much less painful.
my council has also sent me a form to renew the status of my council tax exemption. well.. i was giggling.. ‘yours faithfully..[blank]‘, nice.. not so faithful and trustworthy to put a name down eh? then whip out the envelope … ‘please complete the application form overleaf and return the whole letter to the address above.’ NICE… no address.. then it proceeds to say ‘complete the form and return the whole letter’. um.. so do i also return the bit addressed to me which has my account details..which the form doesn’t have? oh well in it goes.. lets hope it arrives.
oh and on a side note.. that ‘urgent’ situation with my electricity meter being exposed… well a month after the i called in and could (eventually) arrange a time to sit at home and have them come (because i HAD TO BE THERE so that i could make sure that things worked?!) … they came this morning.. um.. yes it was a two minute appointment really.. ‘well your box needs fixing.’ (yes. i can see that.. thats kind of why i called) ‘but your box is too small for the meter.. i mean we’ll need to change your meter too, so really we’ve just got to install a whole new box but we can’t do it now obviously we’ll need to get permission and the likes.’ that was it. i gave the contact details of my agent to them and off they went on their merry way.. so they took a month of waiting for this? i got told off by the woman at southern electric because i kept having reschedule the appointment. why didn’t the two previous electrician make this judgement. i didn’t have to be at home for them to look at the box that is ON THE EXTERIOR WALL OF THE HOUSE and conclude wait a minute.. we need to start from the begining. great work folks.. i guess everyone makes mistakes and over looks things, but if this is the conclusion then surely it could have been established earlier and the problem dealth with sooner. having said that.. they seemed like nice people.. i dislike intimidating handymen that like to flaunt their testosterone, their seeming knowledge of how some whatsit-d-bubbly works when in reality they really look as if they have no idea what they’re doing and cannot piece together a coherent sentence.. sort of like what im doing now.. you know what i mean. the nice handymen.. they’re out there somewhere. alrighty more later.. time to send off these damn application forms.
i could be wrong.. but i do believe my oven has died… bye bye bacon sarnies…
last night i was in a large panic to find tomatoes with the stalks for my deadline the day after. i went to sainsburys.. nope.. fine.. back down to the other way.. tescos.. no.. m & s shut.. waitrose shut.. 7 mins before the other sainsburys shut… RUUUNNN…. i caught sight of another girl coming from a different direction running too.. and we smiled.. ahh the last minute rush into sainsburies. having found my desired purchases i used the extra two minutes to stroll to the far end of the store.. mmm frozen food section.. having decided i wouldn’t spend any money on ice cream as it was all too expensive and none particularly desireable i walked along on my merry way, on towards the checkouts and there it was…. bird’s eye artic roll….
oh my this brings back childhood memories.. theres something almost a bit odd and understated.. about this ubercute old schooly british dessert ( a bit like an underdog.. yes this icecream is very deep indeed!!) . we used to eat it at school too.. hmm sponge cake.. raspberry jam… ice cream? yes please!!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3792084/Arctic-Roll-makes-a-comeback.html
mum and dad came to visit for a little more than a week. unfortunately i didn’t really have time to go take them places, worrying about my work.. and now the flat is empty again.. :’( i miss my parents. And im a tiny bit pissed off with myself for spending so much time on this project. the deadline is tomorrow.. and i don’t feel like doing it anymore. my final idea is mediocre at best.. the final work doesn’t really represent the all the time and effort put in. well.. thats just the way things go sometimes. yes i’ll keep telling myself that.
i really like these animations, totally capture something that i want in my comics, that mundane everyday matter of fact occurances that noone realy takes the time to talk about.
hmm.. i may aswell change the name of my blog to ‘the life and troubles of a pig’. this has turned into a blog primarily about things that happen to go wrong.. with my flat and uni work. hohoho. ANYWAYs… the latest development.. um.. my boiler is doing funnies.. lukewarm radiators and no hot water.. great.. now im going to smell like a pig too. early days but i might be moving to a new place soon. no central heating though. yes its that kinda house. well on the upside.. if there is no central heating then thats one less thing to break down. who says i can’t be optimistic!
holy moley.. . you know those old subscriptions and updates you get from subscriptions you made like 2 years ago when you were going through a phase in secondary school… well this is a link i’d never thought i’d put here http://www.tokyopop.com/product/2685/Orange/1 heres my suprise when i saw Benjamin’s work being published by tokyopop of all evils. (yes he’s only know and ‘benjamin’ ) um.. i found out about his work at a HK comic convention, and athough his work is very typically asian.. (if you get me) he does some great stuff with movement and colour. i have big posters of his work, and even a few of his comics, one signed too (thanks bro). well the upside to having his workpublished by tokyopop :% is that at least he’ll be a little more googleable as soon as the fangirls kick in.. really how does one google ‘benjamin’.
tired. a bit worried about the focus and general well being of my camera having dropped it.. noes.. its become my sketchbook, don’t know what i’d do without it. i’d rather carry my camera than my wallet.
hmmm not so great pictures but heres an observation… spinkles go ratherwell with brown…. funny that.
Are you desperately trying to work, deadlines tomorrow with the ratio of time spent on work greatly outdone by time spent on the computer, then what you need is this, BEHOLD!!
well that certainly put a smile on my face.
Go to linkie for the rest!
source: http://www.christophniemann.com/man/bpages/gallery6.html
[btw i think im losing 2 years of life for every hour i puy into this project .. GAHHHHH]
oh you lucky duck!
Hey folks. stumbled across this on iplayer:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00hcrtd/New_Nation_Chips_and_Chopsticks/
Oh i do love the BBC.. hell i am a BBC. watch it folks (before it expires!!), we’re a part of your comunity whether you like us or not. If theres one thing about chinese people is that some how our parents all end up behaving a similar fashion. i might have my cousins parents for mum and dad but there probably wouldn’t be that much difference. i love Britain and you crazy and rather ‘proper’ Brits, rain, your wonderful comedians, sunday roasts, apple crumble, british film, pies, queueing………. a nice cuppa tea!!
i must say.. the lady’s biggest selling dish…. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! thats like one large portion of chips paired with 3 medium (biggerthan the average small chipshop style) sausages (?!!) and gravy.. you could feed at least 2 people with that. crikey. yes mum was watching with me.. flabbergasted.. goodness knows how she makes profit…. On another note, i wish my parents were as out going as the family. and on ANOTHER note.. the daughter who married a welshman.. goodness cherub faced! a little like moi… face of a 10 year old 
[pics taken back in december 2005 (that is A LONGGGGG time ago. taken with my first camera.. a no longer functioning canon that had a personality of its own doing crazy things with light and colour. i mishu dearly..)
