Hello folks.
I have missed a lot of action, sadly not because of RL action, but because my laptop is slowly dying a painful death. I am awaiting funds for a new spiffy little beast. Not little, or even a laptop. I'm hoping to be able to afford a nice desktop pc with a shiny dual core processor and newer graphics card. It's so funny really, I've been looking at these "mid-range" PCs, which cost around £1,000. WTF!?!? Seriously, who the hell can afford that? On a student budget? These are obviously gaming specs for sad bastards who get their parents to buy it for them. Or self-sustainable professionals that are too tightfisted to get a "top-range" one.
I wish I could be one of the latter group.
I thought I would put a bit more energy into my websites now that summer term is over. I've got a pile of books to read over summer as research for my dissertation, which is due for Christmas this year. But I can only handle so much of post-modernist ideas entangled with semiology, and auteur theory in contemporary film practice (my main case study). In fact, I keep renewing books from the library, not because they are that good, but because I can't be arsed to read them within the loan period. Oh well, I get to keep anything borrowed over the summer till late September so that is good...ANYHOW, my original point being, ashke.nu is due for renewal soon and it made me realise I need to used the services I pay for, so I'm definitely going to work something out on that end.
I am gutted, but my laptop refuses to play my computer games anymore. My fav game guildwars lags too much from my graphics chip heating up too much. It used to be fine, but it is giving in! I haven't played properly in weeks, apart from a lone occasion when my chap let me play for an hour to finish factions. I nearly cried from the amazing performance, no lag whatsoever, and I was suddenly a massively better player. Ahem. Yes. Enough of that. But this has limited what I can do during my days. I wake up, late, have breakfast, enjoying being bored for about 5 minutes before it gets annoying, play my ds, think about my next meal, think about how much I've been eating, go for a run (only started this week, I'm just trying to make myself sound fitter than I am), come home, cook, eat, watch big brother, bored again. Actually, I cannot recall doing anything over the past few days really, apart from reading forum entries about weight loss and what food is best in health terms. Reminds me I haven't drunk enough water today...
This is mildly entertaining, reading about recipes, calories, and how to adapt your favourite foods into a healthy lifestyle. Apart from the fact that it makes me think up stupid ideas such as cooking up a moussaka, that now will have to be frozen for future lunches, as it was clearly too exotic for my englishman's pallet. Shame really, a quarter of an aubergine went to waste, but it's my fault. I was the brave one making it, as I knew I was the only one who liked it in the first place.
This entry has been a rather chaotic one, being one to make up for a lot of time I haven't written anything at all. So any apologies to people that have made it this far.
I really do need to find things to amuse myself with. At least my mum is coming over for a week next Sunday, that will keep me on my toes for a few days.
I have missed a lot of action, sadly not because of RL action, but because my laptop is slowly dying a painful death. I am awaiting funds for a new spiffy little beast. Not little, or even a laptop. I'm hoping to be able to afford a nice desktop pc with a shiny dual core processor and newer graphics card. It's so funny really, I've been looking at these "mid-range" PCs, which cost around £1,000. WTF!?!? Seriously, who the hell can afford that? On a student budget? These are obviously gaming specs for sad bastards who get their parents to buy it for them. Or self-sustainable professionals that are too tightfisted to get a "top-range" one.
I wish I could be one of the latter group.
I thought I would put a bit more energy into my websites now that summer term is over. I've got a pile of books to read over summer as research for my dissertation, which is due for Christmas this year. But I can only handle so much of post-modernist ideas entangled with semiology, and auteur theory in contemporary film practice (my main case study). In fact, I keep renewing books from the library, not because they are that good, but because I can't be arsed to read them within the loan period. Oh well, I get to keep anything borrowed over the summer till late September so that is good...ANYHOW, my original point being, ashke.nu is due for renewal soon and it made me realise I need to used the services I pay for, so I'm definitely going to work something out on that end.
I am gutted, but my laptop refuses to play my computer games anymore. My fav game guildwars lags too much from my graphics chip heating up too much. It used to be fine, but it is giving in! I haven't played properly in weeks, apart from a lone occasion when my chap let me play for an hour to finish factions. I nearly cried from the amazing performance, no lag whatsoever, and I was suddenly a massively better player. Ahem. Yes. Enough of that. But this has limited what I can do during my days. I wake up, late, have breakfast, enjoying being bored for about 5 minutes before it gets annoying, play my ds, think about my next meal, think about how much I've been eating, go for a run (only started this week, I'm just trying to make myself sound fitter than I am), come home, cook, eat, watch big brother, bored again. Actually, I cannot recall doing anything over the past few days really, apart from reading forum entries about weight loss and what food is best in health terms. Reminds me I haven't drunk enough water today...
This is mildly entertaining, reading about recipes, calories, and how to adapt your favourite foods into a healthy lifestyle. Apart from the fact that it makes me think up stupid ideas such as cooking up a moussaka, that now will have to be frozen for future lunches, as it was clearly too exotic for my englishman's pallet. Shame really, a quarter of an aubergine went to waste, but it's my fault. I was the brave one making it, as I knew I was the only one who liked it in the first place.
This entry has been a rather chaotic one, being one to make up for a lot of time I haven't written anything at all. So any apologies to people that have made it this far.
I really do need to find things to amuse myself with. At least my mum is coming over for a week next Sunday, that will keep me on my toes for a few days.