Random stuff

[thistlechaser]

* Work sucked today and will suck worse in the coming week. I've been resisting posting a rant and death threats all night.

* Google loves Catlove... or at least in Canada and Hong Kong it does. After this long they've finally indexed me in their image search engine (which has a different index than the text one, apparently) for those countries. Getting tons of hits on the various images on my site. That's mostly a "yay", I suppose.

* I'm not sure what's up, but some Russian sites are linking big-time to some of my images (anime ones, and the Naruto game). Lots of Russian message boards. Odd.

* Since Naruto is what I really want to watch, I'm watching the series through again. It's a wonderful thing. Love the music, and the characters' rections and emotions keep making me want to cry. Is nice. :)

* On a related note, I bought four of those metal throwing stars to use as wall decoration. Unfortunately they're darned sharp (aie! me + sharp things = ow ow ow). I'm afraid to put them on my wall, because if they fall off and land on something (my cat, my foot) they'll do serious damage. They come in cool black "pouches" (like you'd wear on your belt). I have no idea how you'd get one out of it and use it in a fight without cutting your hand to pieces.

* I'm really depressed with my lack of time for anything. RP is a laughable desire, and even something like taking up Animal Crossing again just won't work. Five and a half free hours a day. Grand total, whole day. Five and a half hours. A couple anime eps, a TV show, dinner, and then I have to go to bed so I can go to hell work for ten hours.

Gods, I miss being a college student. Even a high school student, as sucky as school was. Even with classes, studying, and a part-time job, I still had lots more free time than I do now. If not for health insurance, I could easily survive on less than "40" hours a week -- I'd love having only a part-time job now.

Sigh.

* Oh, I suppose I should mention this: For former PokeMUSH folks: We're in the process of winding down. The MUSH will remain up, but no more applications are being accepted, and no puppets/ONSes will be run. I made the public announcement today. I should be sad, and in a way I am, but... I really don't need the work of it. I don't want my paying job, be damned if I want one I have to do for free. (But we didn't close it for me, the theme finally did us on.) Oh well. (Wish I could live in the land of RP... Characters' lives may be hard sometimes, but ... oh, this is a pointless line of thought.)

* Perhaps worst of all in my sucky day: I ate a little meat today. First time in over six months. There wasn't a veggie option, so I figured I'd just get it and pick the meat out... and I have no idea why, but I ate some. Stupid, stupid, stupid me. There wasn't even a reason, I wasn't craving it or anything, it was just there so I did. I'm such an idiot, I really am.

Sorry for the less than cheerful post. I must be PMSing, I can't believe I'm crying my eyes out over nothing more than a bad day and me being stupid.

Comments

[bouteillebleu.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to say thank you, Thistle, for running a MUSH that has been a pleasure to play on (and, for a short time, staff on). The theme was excellently done, the players were fun - and from my short time on helpstaff, I found that the staff were also great fun to work with. There are many things that will stay with me from the time I've spent on PokeMUSH, both stories I heard and wrote with other people, and increased skill at writing. Thank you, Thistle-Chaser, for being such a good head wizard.

And, of course, for corrupting my mind in subtle and un-subtle ways. Though at least I'm not as corrupted as poor Hyper. :)

As for the meat, I did something similar, about a year or so after I started being vegetarian (which was about 7 or 8 years ago). Was at the buffet lunch after my grandmother's funeral, and of course almost all of the stuff had meat in it. So I ended up having some of the tuna-and-tomato pasta, and felt really bad about it afterwards. Haven't had meat again except unintentionally once (our local Chinese restaurant has "Vegetarian Sesame Seed Prawn" on their menu - which doesn't actually have prawn in it, but if you say 'prawn' while ordering it they'll bring you the non-veggie one), so don't let it discourage you. Best of luck with being vegetarian.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had fun! (Heh heh heh, and that we succeeded in corrupting you a bit! ;)

And thanks for the other advice, too!

[sileas.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I hope tomorrow is going to be better for you.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I hope so, too!

[tersa.livejournal.com]

Five and a half free hours a day. Grand total, whole day. Five and a half hours.

That much? That's generally more than I have.

I *am* sorry you were having such a bad day yesterday, but, five and a half free hours a day is pretty typical for working folk. This is why I complain constantly about not having enough free time to do all the things I want to do. :} (But, I also accept that as a limitation of having a place to live and food and the money to support my free-time habits. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

five and a half free hours a day is pretty typical for working folk.

But! But! Why doesn't anyone see a problem with this? Why do people just accept it! Why don't people beat their chests and demand more time to themselves so that they can enjoy their lives before they die?

Rage against the machine, I say!

;)

(Hee, I think I'm in a better mood today...)

[evilgrayson.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Throwing stars. They're probably illegal here, like other nice toys I'd like more of. And for those of us who don't slice themselves to ribbons on the closest half-blunt thing around, they're probably bloody effective. I wouldn't know, though - never managed to get my little mitts on one.

I'm sorry to hear about the MUSH ending. We had some good times there, and some truly amazing RP. I knew that it'd come sooner or later, but that doesn't make it any easier when it happens.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

probably bloody effective.

I suspect as effective as throwing any sharp metal thing at someone, though no more than that. No super-ninja power.

MUSH endi

Yep.

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

The effectiveness of the shuriken as a weapon depends on the skill of the user, but in general, they were designed to be either a poison delivery system or a very pointy distraction.

[hamburger.livejournal.com]

The name for those throwing stars are 'shuriken', if you ever want something shorter to call them. :)

As for the MUSH... yeah, it's sad. Yet at the same time it's a bit of a relief, isn't it? Thank you for allowing me to be a part of it.

I'll make a post in my LJ about all my thoughts in a couple of days from now. It's something I need to do.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Thanks for being a part of it!