Oh hello there :: 12/5/10 ~20:45 :: Comments: 0
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Well then! My exams are over. Uni is not, however; I still have my dissertation to do. Which will be fun, but my first challenge is to get one of the sodding computers in the lab at uni to actually connect to the network. Not as easy as it ought to be. But I shan't bother worrying about that too much for now. I'm pretty much on holiday from now til I either get a job or accidentally fall onto the tracks at the station and get punched in the face by a train. With a bit of luck, the former is more likely. I do need to start applying for jobs again sometime soon, I had planned to wait until the end of the week/start of next week to start looking again, but in reality I might start earlier; I had forgotten how fucking boring having nothing to do it. There's only so much shite I can post on twitter and read on the net before I'm just sitting about doing nothing. Still, trying to keep busy, and utterly losing track of stuff in the process. Trying to get some stuff planned for the summer, will see where that goes though. Current plans are a trip down to Alton Towers with a few friends, possibly followed by a second trip in August with people from my old job, if that ever happens. Also hopefully be going to Amsterdam for a mate's 21st next month, and I'm still considering a trip to Trondheim at some stage. All depends on money really though, this not working thing is getting really rather tiresome. My US bank account has been drained somewhat, primarily cause I used it to pay for my 2nd tattoo, which cost a rather harsh £200.
I'd wanted to get a second tattoo for absolutely ages, finally just made up my mind on what I wanted and got it done. I went to a far more professional place than where I got my first one done. First one was done at Bodyline, where I seem to remember sitting in a room that could easily have passed off as someone's living room, then just leaning over the back of an office chair for 45 mins while I had needles shoved in my back. I didn't take proper care of my first one, it's a little bit faded and cracked because of it; will quite likely get it fixed up over the summer if it isn't going to cost too much. My new one, I went to Blancolo (warning - flash website with loud music which can't be turned off, be prepared to vomit). Felt like a far more professional place, the room was much more like a sterile hospital-ish room, with dentist-esque chairs. Was sat sideways against one of these chairs leaning against the backrest for about an hour and 15 mins for this one, which was alright except my leg kept falling asleep. I'd made a point in past of saying that getting a tattoo doesn't really hurt, it's quite an uncomfortable experience but not sore. From my latest experience, it's a fair bit worse than I remembered it being - I'd still not say it's painful, but it's really quite incredibly uncomfortable at times. Although having said that, I already want to get another one. The two I have are both on my back, one on each shoulderblade. If I were to get another, I have not the faintest clue where I'd get it. I do quite like the idea of getting one from the top of my shoulder down towards my chest, but buggered if I can find a design that'd look even remotely decent for what I want. Also just don't know if I'd bother anyway, in all reality. Only other place I'd consider is the top of my arms, but again, don't know if I actually want that. It'll probably be quite a long time before I get another regardless, if I do. I'll stick to just getting my old one fixed up. Which means another 2 weeks of rubbing pretty horrible nappy rash ointment into my back, blah.
Anyway, that aside, I've done really fuck all lately, my life has been excruciatingly boring. Uni really took over for the past while, even though on reflection I spent a hell of a lot more time procrastinating than actually working. Something that is bound to be reflected in my exam results, but as long as I've passed them I genuinely couldn't care less. I've bought countless pairs of shoes, I actually do plan on updating my shoe page at some stage in my life, it's just working up the motivation to photograph the bastards. And even though I use a basic template for the individual pages so there's really not a lot of typing to do, I just can't be arsed at the moment. Speaking of coding, I had a go at configuring a Captcha for this so I could get comments to go up instantly, but I've run into a few wee problems which I'll try to iron out over the course of the next week or so. Not entirely sure if I actually want to do it too, it might get rid of the spam but I still don't know if I want comments going up instantly, some of you people know far too much about me for me to not want to vet/ignore some of them. Excuse my paranoia, but it's most certainly justified.
Not much else to add for right now, this post is more just to try to kick myself into posting again. I shall have a post to make on Saturday which will either be happy or angry depending on events of Saturday morning, and I have a few other things going on this week that I might ramble on about at the weekend too, but I'm not getting ahead of myself. Plus, if I wrote about them now, I'd have sod all to post at the weekend, which would just be boring. Much like this!