This journal is full of useless stuff and the username no longer means anything, plus, I never post. So I'm moving. Please add <lj user=teacupsauceror> when it gets made.

I hope to see you all soon, I'll be posting regularly, or at least try to remember to post more often.

1) I am in love with Natalie
2) I am actually a man with pink grapfruits strapped to my chest
3) Yes, you do look fat in that, you know who I'm talking to
4) I hate Latin
5) I'm going to Amsterdam for uni

One of which is true, another is a strong possibility, can you guess which?

Sooooo we have arrived in Hamsterdam, against all odds. Without me throwing up as well, which is impressive.

However, as we were going to see Watchmen (more on that later), we were almost KILLED DEAD by a scary lightning bolt. it was right above us and he pressure wave set off all the car alarms around us. Scary stuff, eh?

Anyway, imminent death aside, Watchmen is actually quite good, if a little heavy on the blood and nudity. Occasionally at the same time. However, if you are determined to laugh in the face of all emotion, here are some things to watch out for (contains spoilers):

( SPOILERIFFIC )I think that's everything.... if you have any more, tell me and I'll put it on the list. AND THEN TO TVTROPES! (Femke-- Hell no! My turn on msn now!!!)

I hate my family. Dad's just gone on about how "you can never be bored in school, you just read ahead", not realising that they won't let us do anything early anyway, so there's no bloody point. And the teachers shout at you for not listening. When will the man learn to get off his high horse and  remove the tree from his arse?

Also, am I the only person who has never done a cycling proficiency thing?

Have you ever had a day where you just couldn't be bothered to exist? Sounds weird, I know, but if you've had one, you know how annoying the intense apathy is. Thankfully there is a cure, and its name is chocolate. And also, really long discussions in Physics about the nature of the universe that really aggravate everyone around me & Portia. Mwahahaha!

And I got an easter egg today! The boy I teach swimming to, his mum gave me an easter egg for teaching him, which is really sweet seeing as I'm pretty sure they don't celebrate Easter. I think I've touched a life today.

Now if only I could stop fantasising about having swordfights and punching people in the face after witty one-liners, my life would be complete. And also whiten my teeth for Delirium, the white face paint makes them look horrible...

Oh yes, and do Latin and get into Cambridge and find somebody to love. Who, you know, is attainable and you lot don't know about. Wow, my life is incomplete.

One of these days I will learn the art of conversation. I'm not saying that day will be soon, I still have to get over my inability to hear words before any real conversation can commence, but that would require me to devote my entire brain to something, and we're still way off that. Concentration never was my strong point.

Of course, people never will understand why I don't like phones, even if the fact that I hear only half of what anyone is saying pretty much spells it out. People's names are the hardest to catch. Plus, why are we still using phones anyway? They're ineffective and involve actually speaking to a person, which yields awkward silences and constant misunderstandings, whereas msn.. well, it actually has both of those, but at least you can't accidentally blurt something out unless you're drunk or sleep-deprived. Or maybe I'm just an antisocial git.

I found the best camera angle in DMC today. Not exactly that awesome when you're staring at Dante's manly manliness, but still, I feel proud. Now I just need to hit the wrecking ball in the right direction and I can defeat Vergil in all his glory. Or just fail miserably and restart the whole level leading to more wrecking ball kerfuffle.

Legend is also giving me hassle bcause I only have so many hands. I need one to move, one to shoot, and one to control the wildly swinging camera because I have inevitably jumped at the sight of a jaguar running at me. Also, they took away my ability to stand on things and shoot down at wolves and the like, because they either hide under the ledges like the sneaky bastards they are or DISAPPEAR. For games with realistic boob glisten rendering on getting ever so slightly damp, they sure ain't hot on realism in the animal kingdom. Goddamn bats. And jaguars.

AND the camera keeps zooming in. Lovely though they are, Lara's jubblies are not the next ledge/ grapple/ stripper'spole I need to jump onto, and it gets rather annoying at times. Plus it does odd things when there are enemies around. I swear it gets more reactive. Although since Half-life did that too it might just be me...

Well that was long and rambly. Ah well, focus never was one of my strengths.

So I went to a wargames convention today. Last time we were at Salute we were running Black Hawk Down, but this time we hadn't gotten any sort of game together so we went round looking at the shinies and playing other people's games. First thing we found was a single-fig game entitled something like "Fight for Galilee", which was quite fun, even though I died because I was stupid enough to get into the line of sight of someone who took no notice of cover. Although at this point I was shaking because I was so high on caffiene and had to get cookies to soak up the

OH GOD I FORGOT TO HAND IN MY PHYSICS COURSEWORK BECAUSE I WAS SO TIRED LAST NIGHT.

Shit. Okay, I'll be back later, I have to go and have hysterics now.

Okay, now calmed down (a whole day later). So yeah, there weren't many decent games there this year it has to be said, but we now have an EPIC PLAN for a Three Musketeers game. With hats. And extra points for stylishness. And I was also the only plane to survive this one game the whole day.

Also, I now have the entire crew of the not-Serenity, as well as the not-Serenity itself, and a not-Lara Croft to paint up. Although all my painting skills have disappeared now. -_-

Eh, so that's about it. Bye now.

We have another taker for Amsterdam! Now I have someone to sit and giggle with while Femke goes round all the art museums. Not that I don't like art, but after a while one naked goddess merges into another, and all those dotty people make my eyes hurt.

Also, got home today and guess what was on the doorstep? Only the swimming costume I'd given up waiting for. I have to tighten the straps to oblivion to get everything in the right place but other than that it fits. So now I have two, and one of them doesn't show off a large quantity of cleavage. Yippee!

Eh, other than that not much has happened. Parent's Evening was same as ever, except now I want to do Latin again, so I feel a talk with the Brashinator is in order. Hopefully she'll let me drop it if it turns out to be too much work, but I think if I translate the set books during the summer or something that'll take some of the pressure off, and she can't not let me do it. That would be mean. Probably might work better if I hand in all my homework. Or prove the Riemann hypothesis, which doesn't actually look too complicated (she says, having read maybe a quarter of the problem description).

It seems we shall all be doing a Rocky Horror cosplay in October, which I will actually push for and make people make their costumes so we can enter the masquerade. Because it would be totally awesome if we did. More pressingly, however, I need a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy costume for Mum's party (guess how old she is -_-), bcause I am not joining Femke as archeologist woman no 2. Ideas anyone?

EDIT: IS THAT LADY GAGA HUMPING A DOLPHIN???

Thank you, and goodnight!
xxBevxx

Desire - <lj user="desrie_eternal">
01 → Do you like this character?
Not as much as my Del, but Del was taken when I joined DDD. But I love how I get to post flowing evil purpleness every other post.

02 → What name/s do you call this character?
"Des" occasionally, which now makes me think it's actually called Desmond and changed its name to stop the other Endless laughing at it. Which would explain the bitterness.

03 → What image/color do you associate with character?
Red, obviously. Flowers, pretty things. Elata bopping people over the head with a Gay Rose of Death.

04 → What image-song do you associate with character?
Erm.... do people seriously do this? Tch... nope, I got nuttin.

05 → What blood-type do you think this character is?
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZpi (is it weird that I sang that as I typed it?)

06 → Of all of the titles that this character appears in, what character do you like to put this character with?
Desire does not get put with anything except itself. And unless you're into Endlesscest, there really is no-one there to put it with.

07 → What would you want to say to this character?
Now that's a seekrit. What else am I going to do but ask it for my heart's desire?

08 → What do you want to do with this character?
Have awesome RP logs. I've been trying to goad other characters into worldhopping but it hasn't worked, and now my comp is broke.

09 → Please choose 5 friends with your choice of character
Serei - Cori
Elata - Del
Sarah - Chris? Did anyone take Chris already?
Uhh... that's all my RP buddies. I need more internet friends.

BROKEN I TELL YOU.

Hope fully the wires that connect to the screen have just come loose, becase it isn't showing anything right now. Stupid technology. Unless it's a virus, the other one did that a week ago.

GAH. And just as I'd got back into the RP spirit and found Soul Eater as well. And there's a new meeeme.

WTF BEING HUMAN INVISIBLE RAPE.

(From behind by a girl???)

Um, I had a point. Somewhere. Before invisi-rape distracted me.

Why the hell can I not stay awake for more than half a day without collapsing into a stupor? Srsly, I fail. Also, when I do stay up, TVTropes sucks me in like a big... sucky thing. A hoover or whatnot. Not to mention I have 16 years worth of homework to catch up on. Bleh.

Lol, Being Human sucks epically.

I can't believe I just spent £68.

On a tankini.

Which is orange.

You fall asleep for one day and so much stuff happens! Noffair.

So, yah, the meeeme:

Comment to this post and I will give you five subjects/things I associate with you. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

Sandman
I first picked up Volume 11 of this masterpiece in a comic store in San Francisco, and shortly thereafter found out that my dad owned volumes 1-7 (excl 2) and devoured them excitedly. Many years later, I found Volumes 8-10 at Expo, and the Expo after found Volume 2, at which point the collection was complete and I could lend it to my friends and get them all addicted and cosplaying. It's a brilliant series, if a little lacking on the clothing front, and I heartily recommend it to the one person who hasn't read it and loved it yet.

Desire
This is my only muse on DDD at the moment, I wanted Delirium but when I joined there was already one there, and now vergils_girl has her,and is doing an excellent job of it I must say. Desire is rather hard to do, but usually just antagonising people works, and the occasional insane rant doesn't hurt either (RUN LITTLE BOY RUN). I'd like to say something about the character suiting me because I'm so desirable, but really the only thing we have in common is being subtle as a sledgehammer.

Watchmen
Another of my graphic novels, and the best that has ever been written, although it is a major inspiration for the "AAANGST" phase of superheroes. The concept is brilliant, and it's well executed and features no disproportionate anatomy at any point, which is one blessing. My copy (my father has denounced geekery, so I own all of his comics  by default) is generously described as "well-loved" and accurately as "in pieces". This is another of my obsessions which I have passed on to my friends, and they are better for it, now knowing not to dress in a purple leotard and destroy the world.
While Rorscharch and Dr Manhatten usually get votes for best characters, being all, well, cool, actually I prefer Nite  Owl, who is the only human in the group (Laurie being female and thus suffering from the maximum of two dimensions given to female characters, although this being Alan Moore she does score right below Tara). Hopefully they'll keep that in the film.
Ah yes, the film. It's an 18, but shhhh, I look old enough. Laurie's far too young for a start, and her costume has been upgraded to full bondage gear. Rorscharch's face is wrong, but we can forgive them for that, and Dr Manhattan is likely to distract what with glowing away in a corner of the screen. Still, I think we can hope for a faithful adaptation.

Uhhh, Magic? Whatever that card game's called. Pick one...
Ah yes, Magic. Carl taught me at the tender age of 10 and I have never looked back. It's a wonderful game involving cards and the rules are far too complex to explain here, but believe me: awesomeness cardonified. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nowhere to play it around here unless you want to trek to London or Reading, and I've heard enough about both of those to steer well clear. Fortunately, if I can teach Femke to play WoW, I should be able to become a judge and start running events, which could conceivably lead to both fun and profit. This entire paragraph probably made no sense to anyone |P.

...Maths. A lot of maths.
Maths is and will always be my first love. It involves almost no rote memorisation, it's challenging, and whatever stupid stepmothers say, you use algebra in spreadsheets so nyer, shut up and stop hampering my freedom of speech you old bat. But anyway, Maths just makes sense. You can sit there all day and argue about what particles do, but with Maths you can rattle off a quick proof and Bob's your uncle. Maths is the reason I can't remember deadlines or my own name, but it's also the reason why I get out of bed in the morning. However, I have no great love for numbers. Instead, patterns are my thing, like how Pascal's triangle makes a Sapinsky Gasket.
Also I sit next to Natalie in Maths, who distracts me constantly when not mocking me, and still refuses to let me use her as a pillow. However, she's intermittently entertaining and not bad to gaze at sleepily whilst trying to have a nap on the M1 book when she decides to wear stuff that has a shape, so we'll let that slide.

Hope that answered your questions. Night!

</lj>

Yeah, so, Expo.

....

It was okay.

Less busy than London, obviously. And a higher concentration of kids, oddly enough, which meant that before the Masquerade there was this Sarah-Jane person from CBeebies, which in turn meant lots of cosplayers dancing to the kidpop. Which just goes to show that we really are just children at a fancy dress party. There are even prizes for the costumes.

Oh yeah, the costumes. Most of them were definitely not home-made, although the ones that were were stunning. Demyx Time people (I find it really weird that people refer to them as Jenn and Kelly, it's not as if they know them personally and celebrities usually have last names or "from the Internet/Boards/Cosplay.com" attached, or occasionally usernames) were awesome as always, even if Demyx did get her cape ripped and staff broken.

And I did the Time Warp to a captive audience while the otheres were sideways and not holding an audience captive.

Oh god (I can say that again!), my brother has just announced he is giving up butter for lent. And my mother doesn't see how stupid this is. I will butter all the slices of bread in the packet to show him how stupid he is now.

Anyway, back to the Expo. Or rather, after the expo becasue there's not much else to say except Hannah didn't win a prize ( =_(  ), Becca abandoned us ( =_(  ) and Natalie can't sit still to save her life ( |_P ).

Yah, so, we went back, stopped off at a Little Chef on the way, where Femke was being really worrying with not eating or drinking, but she perked up considerably after the condiments and complimentary lolly. Then we went to Hannah's house sans Femke and I adopted several of her cats. It's been so long since I had a cat, and they are lovely lovely creatures, all snuggly and loving, but not barky and smelly like dogs. Or heavy. But all soft and purry and very good conversationalists. Stupid landlady nopt letting us have pets (*hides rabbits under bed*).

I didn't fail too horribly at Umbrella Chronicles either. well, it took me an age to work out how to reload and I accidentally emptied the grenade launcher and missed the big boss thing entirely. Still, not failing is good, and the game actively encourages social interaction by making single player fricking impossible. Seriously, I saw Wesker's scenarios and even they are horrible. We got stuck on the second one with orange glasses man, it took us about half an hour to work out that we should aim for the head. Making some attacks undodgable is mean though. And he kept standing in front of the herbs.

Yeah, so, awesome time, and we eventually managed to get Natalie to be interesting by confiscating her computer and throwing pillows at her. Also sitting on her (um, sorry?), which I really must stop doing. And I will. Soon.

On a weirder note, I had lost half a stone in three days, how weird is that? I think I put it back on with the pocky though >.< (*actually, at one point it was about a stone, which is rather scary) (No, still half a stone off, w00t!). Of course, NHS being what it is, I wouldn't actually be able to fix this, so yoghurt it is. The NHS is just sucky all over, I said I was havingreally bad moodswing all the time, and they went "Oh, it's got a hormonal component, onto the pill you go!"; I swear if they could they would make me a JJ with eyebrows. Also, they won't do anything else unless I am over 18 or in full-time employment, greedy bastards. Grr.

Lalalala.

Yeah, I've kind of run out of steam.

TO THE YOGHURT!

I'll read all your posts later, I'm going to bed in a minute even though I slept half the day because it has been a looong, long weekend.

So, I go up on Thursday because word is all the schools are closed on Friday anyway, which is confirmed by "I Have Contract!" Femke, and I get up the next day at 6 to meet the lorry which unloads three palletfuls of stuff which I have to help move and set up according to the logic of a strange Belgian man. Then to stave off the boredom I set out the most part of 106 green tablecloths, doing my back in in the process.

Over the weekend I have had encounters with:

Over 200 chairs
123 card gamers
106 green tablecloths
8 Zebras (1 of whom was cute but girlfriended, we spent all of Saturday chatting)
4 minatures
and 1 scantily clad night elf

All in all, a good week and I think I got some work out of it, and a new friend.

Mum's shooing me off to bed now, so niiight.

Also, Natalie, tight black t-shirt. Or your original idea ;).

I thought they were exaggerating about Neon Genesis Evangelion. I had to lie down after the third episode. I mean, I wasn't phased at all by A Clockwork Orange (mostly because random women having horrible things doen to them as meant to be disturbing, but it was just boring: who can feel sympathy for random screamer #3?), but... *shudder*. Not often is something I have set out not to be phased by phasing (does that sentence need commas?). And I need more. MORE!

However, I have overcome my dub hatred and instead am watching Spirited Away as I originally saw it. And it's still awesome. I can't wait for the cute little rat to show up ^^. Really I should've stocked up on Studio Ghibli while they were still on the sale rack, a copy of Princess Mononoke will set you back ten quid now, ouch.

I'd better get back upstairs, I still have half an hour left to watch...

Oh yes, and I need to seek out this Sarah.... (hello, btw, if I found you, tis Desire-mun!)

Love and Robots
xxBevxx
chuu~