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Wow. I had a pretty busy weekend. I was so tired when I got home yesterday that I could hardly watch the TV. Today was great, because it's the first day of the Christmas holidays, so I didn't have to go to uni. I slept for most of the day, then I did my Christmas shopping and also bought some mince. (I think I had a lucid dream last night, but I don't remember much of it. I think I was in a lift at some point, which grew teeth. And I was introduced to this guy called 'Gummi' as in Gummi Bear', it was so ridiculous that I laughed in his face.)

But, let me tell you what I did at the weekend! In sequential bullet point form!

- Saturday am. Like, really am. Like, 7am. I went to Billingsgate Market, which is a big fish market in East London, with James. It was pretty cool. There was loads of fish there, and there were loads of people buying them. Only, if you have no idea what type of fish is what, you feel like a bit of an idiot. Luckily we were helped out by a guy who saw that we had no idea what we were doing, and we got ourselves 2 nice sea bass and a big crate of prawns for 20 pounds, which is pretty good if you ask me. The only problem is that the floor was covered in fishy water, and now the bottom of my trousers smell of fish.
It was exciting though! I really felt that I was in the middle of some living history. The market isn't in it's original location by the Tower of London any more, but I can still imagine Londoners doing exactly the same thing for the past 2000 years or more. After all, what is London if not a place of trade and commerce and market stalls? The whole living history aspect is what gets me really excited about London, but that's a story for another day.

- Steve came down by coach, and Nick flew in (after a delay of 4 hours on his flight). We congregated in James' house, which we soon realised was freezing because the boiler is broken (and it is also the coldest it's been this winter so far; proper scarf and gloves cold). We soon warmed ourselves up by eating some sea bass and watching Robin Hood on the TV.

- We went to go to a concert in an old operating theatre, but it was full up. So we went to a pub across the road instead.

- Retiring home, Steve and I attempted to watch the last episode of the Mighty Boosh. But the episode isn't online!!!! What's going on BBC? I need my Boosh!

- The next day we met Sarah for brunch. Steve had to run off to catch his coach home; we sent him the wrong way, but luckily he made it on time with 30 seconds to spare. Phew!

- We went to the Tate Modern, because it is free. And saw for ourselves this crack that everyone's talking about. I'm not sure about it being art. But it's interesting to wonder how it's done.

- We then travelled back to James' freezing house, then quickly moved on to his equally freezing local pub. Boy was it cold this weekend! One dinner later and it was time for Nick to catch his train home, and time for me to go home and go to bed for a well deserved rest.

Pictures:

Next weekend Linda's here and it's off to Steve's house. Or so I hear.

I've finished my essay guys! I handed it in today! Woo!

I don't think it's very good, but I did get another piece of coursework back and I got a B!
It turns out I'm not failing, and I might just pass this degree after all \o/

To celebrate I watched some of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, and then some of The Mighty Boosh
p.s. I'm going to see that glitterball suit the Mighty Boosh live next October. Eeee!

Also I celebrated by fanart-ing.

I'm sorry. It's Tieria again. I seem to be very much a 'one-trick pony' as of late. I think he's replaced Lelouch as the 'character from a mecha anime that I like to draw a lot'. And I have to get my fill before he suddenly turns female. Not that I think he will, really. Did you see the bit where his eyes went all shiny? I think it more likely that he turns out to be a robot or something, which would actually be pretty cool.
Also, it is cold and I feel wintery. Can you tell?

I WILL KEEP POSTING THIS UNTIL I ACTUALLY WRITE THE DAMN THING

I really hope Tieria doesn't end up being a reverse-trap and actually a girl. That would make me sad. And confused. Really confused.

Maybe he's like Naboo. Although that's no less confusing.

No, wait. I'm writing my essay. I am! You didn't see me, right?

So today I made that huge bourbon biscuit for my flatmate James' birthday. Here's an abridged version of the photo-documentary (I've uploaded the full version to my facebook).

It turned out a little raggedy, and possibly under/over-cooked, but I'm still proud of it. I did it Ma! I did it!

In other news: The Mighty Boosh - Episode 5 - 'Party'
Did you see Naboo??
I...I don't know what to think anymore...
(see also: a hilarious episode. And Tony Harrison at the end...Dear God.)
The word on the street is that Old Greg will be in the last episode. Hooray! I haven't seen his mangina in ages!

Also, re: The Mighty Boosh
Today I have been watching some 'before the mighty boosh' versions:
Julian Barratt - Let me suckle from your many pig nipples!
Noel Fielding - WHY IS HE WEARING NORMAL CLOTHES

Ok. Let's talk about Daft Punk now. Did you know that you can watch all of Interstella 5555 online? I've only ever seen the first four. Oh, go on then; have Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger too, because it's maybe my favourite song in the world.

Also, why haven't I ever heard of Electroma? How on Earth did it pass me by? Hey Steve, have you seen it?

Hooray for google image search.

Although, I'm not very good at writing today. This afternoon I have successfully managed to clean the kitchen then fall asleep for one and a half hours. I've written nothing.

It was my flatmate's 30th birthday party last night. I've never seen him so drunk before. He's definitely feeling it today though. And yet he still plans to go out on the razz again tonight? I like his gumption.

And tomorrow I'm baking him this giant bourbon biscuit. I'm going to use around 1kg of flour. Is that a lot? Expect pictures soon.

Now I really am going to go write an esayz.

Here's a new page of Clematis for the first time in ages. Gah, I can never draw much when I have coursework to do; it doesn't help that I keep drawing fanart instead >_>

And in Flight of the Conchords yesterday, they sung the Lord of the Rings song. It's true! Bret does make a better Legolas than Orlando Bloom! I'll stick by my guns! I want to rewatch Lord of the Rings now, just so I can see the Figwit parts...

Hahahahaha Neil!

NEIL!

No wonder he chose an alias that was clearly trying to be too cool for school.

Bwaha! Maybe the evil!twin (which is a source of hilarity in itself) is called Noel, then they could match.

The other good thing about the episode was Tieria and Setsuna deciding to let their hair down and really go WILD:

Who knew that mealtimes could be so crazy?

In the rest of my life I'm doing lots of reading about how to clean dirty books. Yeah, I'm rocking the party too.

So, maybe you think that the gayest video on Youtube is the What What (In the Butt) song. Well, I used to think so to. Then I came across this one.

Oh go on then, watch this one too.

I...I can't unsee them...

I had, in part, an awesome day yesterday, and a horrific day yesterday.

You see, my flatmates are both away this weekend, and it's really nice to get some space to myself. Also, it means that when I clean the kitchen, it stays clean!
I was very excited to go buy some food yesterday, because I was in a very cookingy mood. I wasn't quite sure what I wanted to cook, but I knew it had to have some plain yoghurt in it! So that was great, and then I got home and CLEANED THE FLOORS. I know. I am amazing. I don't normally clean floors, but they were really dirty, and I figured that the best time to do it was when no-one else was in the house to walk all over them.

Only, and this is where it started to go wrong. I unplugged the router to plug in the vacuum cleaner (step one of cleaning the floors), but when I plugged the router back in again, the internets had stopped working! After about an hour and a half of wailing about how I'd broken the internet, and how was I going to do all that internet research for this essay that I've got to write? I then phoned our ISP, who told me that it wasn't my fault, but they'd turned off our internets because the bill hadn't been paid =_=

Anyway, I told my landlord, who pays the bills, and prepared myself to spend all of today in the library and use the internet there.

Luckily, my landlord got onto the case, and our internet got connected this morning (about half an hour before I left for the library). So now I don't have to leave the house after all! It turns out there was a debit card problem or something, I don't really care.

Now I don't have any excuse not to do all that research that I was going to do >_>

The good thing that came out of it all was that
a) we've got clean floors
b) I'm having fajitas tomorrow
c) I was able to reacquaint myself with my tv last night. I watched lots of Who's Line is it Anyway? which is a great show. Why don't they make it anymore?

So I finally got new glasses! Hurray! I would take photos, but I'm having a horrific bad hair day today, and they look just like my old glasses anyway (the rims are ever slightly thicker than the last pair. I chose these because they said 'archivist' to me when I was in the shop; I think maybe because I was wearing my archivist cardigan at the time. WATCH ME STEREOTYPE THE PROFESSION I'M ABOUT TO ENTER).

The problem is that my new prescription now has a correction for an astigmatism on both eyes, but I'm not used to it. My depth perception has gone haywire. I don't touch-type so reaching the right keys on the keyboard is well difficult, as is not walking into things. Also, it feels like my brain is slowly imploding. Being able to read signs and stuff again is fun though.

Now, onwards! I've got to go plan an essay about moulds on old books or something.

I've just completed another piece of coursework! I always get a pleasant feeling when it's all nicely printed out. Now I've just got two weeks to write a 4000 word essay. Ha ha hahahahahaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaargh! ;_;

Mostly I want to talk about Gundam00. I've started calling Sundays 'Gundam-day', although the subs only came out today this week. It's easy for me to forget, but then I remember; this show isn't good, it's hilarious. Did you see the part where Setsuna becomes a huge liability? What about the part where they all decided to have a nice holiday on a boat for no good reason? My thoughts on the Gundam Meisters, let me give you them:

Setsuna: It has come to my attention that Setsuna is a complete mental case. I used to think that he was full of childhood trauma, but, as it turns out, he's just off his rocker. Seriously, I have no idea what he's going to do next. Kill everyone, probably. Ps I like the fact that he's Kurdish - it's not something that you find much in anime.

Lockon: Lockon hates terrorisms because they killed his family. I've started finding Lockon a lot more interesting now that I've found out that he's Irish. It took me a while, because I'm slow, before I came to the conclusion that he must come from Northern Ireland, or at least close to Northern Ireland. For some reason, the idea of him having a Northern Irish accent is x1000 better than a generic southern Irish accent. Also, I saw a fanart of him on some streets toting a rifle and it was well cool. I wonder if he was a terrorist back in the day; that would give him some issues.

Allelujah: I used to think that Allelujah was the wet blanket of the group. And well, he still kind of is, but Hallelujah makes him more interesting. But if we're ranking characters in terms of hair, and we should be, then Allelujah comes out top with the prettiest hair (that doesn't mean that it isn't ridiculous hair...WHERE IS HIS DEPTH PERCEPTION). Also, I like his boots.

Tieria: You've heard this all before, so I won't repeat myself about how Tieria is awesome because he hates everything. What I will tell you is that I find it hilarious how they give the girliest member of the group the largest Gundam they could find. Seriously. He must rattle around in there. Tieria wins because his Gundam (Virtue...WHY AM I REMEMBERING THE NAMES OF THE GUNDAMS) has the most destructive weapons of the four. I'm sorry Lockon, but sniping the enemy just doesn't cut it when compared with a huge mofo cannon.

And hay, it gets better. Did you see the original character designs?
....The cardigan. She designed the cardigan D:
Although I shouldn't be surprised to see Yun Kouga randomly throwing women's clothing on male characters. I like the kind of cowboy boots she's given him though; why didn't they transfer to the anime? (Also, I am glad that Billy isn't there. Maybe I can persuade myself that she didn't design his awful awful hair.)

Still on the Gundam theme. WHY CAN'T I STOP WATCHING THIS. Patrick is the best.

So Dragonaut seems to be getting worse with every episode I watch. And it started out so promisingly too! Episode 7 was laughably bad. Why are they having a swimsuit episode? Why hasn't there been any plot in all the episodes I've seen? Why are both main characters sickeningly dull? How on earth do the female characters all have boobs larger than their heads? I thought that maybe the best friend was going to be the interesting one. He was certainly cultivating some angst. But what does he do when he's really really down and angry? HE RESTYLES HIS HAIR. There is no hope for this show. I might give it another try, because I'm reluctant to drop something that I've wasted 3 and a half hours of my life watching. But I don't know, if I hear 'Toa!' or 'Jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnn!' one more time I might punch something.

In other news (and I really need to stop saying that) it's my flatmate's birthday soon. I thought I'd be nice and bake him a cake for his birthday. So I asked him what type of cake he wanted, you know, like a lemon cake, or a chocolate cake, or a victoria sponge...
And he tells me that he wants a giant bourbon biscuit.
...
Thanks flatmate.
So it'll be an impending culinary disaster for your birthday then will it?

And I know I was going to mention something else...
...it'll come to me at 3am most likely (the something else, not the giant bourbon biscuit).

So I got new sunglasses today.

Which is handy. Seeing as it's the beginning of WINTER and all. I should get some actual glasses that will be actually useful to me in about a week.

Right, I have to go do lots of work, and find out exactly what kind of felony John Stringer committed back in the way back when.

So I finished that picture of Ritsuka. Click for big:

Drawn for the Shoku-dan contest. I wanted to try and make Ritsuka look as ridiculously cute as possible, so I added extra pillows, and pyjamas. I like to think he's waiting for Seimei to come to bed. Poor Ritsuka, if only your big brother wasn't a mental case. Then again, Ritsuka isn't exactly the picture of mental health himself. In fact, I'm not sure there's anyone in the whole manga that isn't off their rocker in one way or another.

In other news: I went on a visit to an archive yesterday and got to see their storerooms full of cabinets.

In other other news: apparently some debt collectors will be coming round on Thursday. Great.

And I almost forgot to write about what I wanted to write about, which is. Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations! I have to say, it didn't fulfil my dreams completely. The animation wasn't super duper. But, it was a darn sight better than the TV series, and it was true to the manga too. Don't get me wrong though, some bits of the animation where really nice. Surprisingly, the action was the best part. My favourite scenes have to be the part where Shaoran gets shot in the leg, and the part where Kuro-daddy gets all worried because Sakura stops breathing. Oh, and some of Kamui fighting Kurogane was nice too. The problem with the animation seems to be the direction more than anything. I think that maybe part of the problem is that they've tried to be too faithful to the manga. The whole thing seemed to jump from image I'd seen in the manga to image I'd seen in the manga, with not much cohesion in between. The animation didn't seem to flow quite as well as it should. Sometimes things that look good in a comic don't look so good when animated (although maybe this is because CLAMP just drew it better than the animators). The last five minutes flowed pretty well though; it was all rather exciting.
So, overall, I'm just glad that BeeTrain isn't animating this arc. And I remembered why vampire Kamui is great it's the catsuit. I'm well excited for the Shaoran/Shaoran fight now. Clone!Shaoran was boring until he started eating eyeballs, when he promptly became awesome, and Real!Shaoran is less boring because he does all the cool magic stuff.

Annnd Gundam00 episode 7. I'm loving that this series is trying to be true to life with the locations of the conflicts. The terrorisms makes it much more contemporary; it's an interesting twist. And I like how there aren't any specific badguys, apart from, like, the whole of humanity. Also, the beach fighting was great @Tieria: What's wrong with you? Stop pulling guns on people. No wait, don't stop. It's brilliant.