Current mood:	sad
Current music:	REM

Standing Alone while Blinking
It really hasn’t been my week. There have been a couple of highlights, but these have been somewhat overshadowed. To speak of something first so as to safely assume that someone is still reading since he didn’t have the sense to obligingly send me his phone number when I asked and instead extended my wait time – this person should take note not to bother showing at any cinemas later this month. In a more clear sense, having delayed a couple more days that desired while making a call to clarify something that wasn’t making complete sense on a website I managed to be informed in person that I had missed out on the last ticket to Howl’s Moving Castle by a grand total of two minutes. Two. Fucking. Minutes. Add to this the ten minutes I spent on hold and the half hour of engaged attempts at calling beforehand and you have a recipe for frustration. Secondly, while moving computers all over the place just over a week ago someone managed to break the scanner. It seems that part of the plug just sort of stayed behind in the USB socket, making it effectively useless. As such I’ve been running regular trips next door in order to continue getting my Uni shit together for mid-year assessments, which is both slower and impractical, although I should at least be thankful that I have an alternative means.
Thirdly, these computers were all getting shuffled around because dad spontaneously decided to clean a couple of them out. This included the machine that, up until late last year, I had based all my work, both academic and recreational, on and as such had a lot of stuff stored there even though I didn’t use it very much. This was all wiped without first asking me if I wanted everything backed up. Almost two years of Uni work documentation, the finished designs for my website, no less than ninety percent of the intended content be it artwork or pieces of writing… all erased without any sort of heads-up. It took a few days for this to click, and when it did I very nearly snapped and with everything else that came before it I honestly wanted to cry. Of course, I seem to be incapable of crying, so I instead just had to shoulder the brunt of it without any means of venting the frustration as past experience has taught me better than to go around punching brick walls. It’s a little ironic that I recently picked up a copy of Out of Time… I may have wanted it for ages and finally found it at a reasonable price, and my collection may have been in need of something a little more upbeat, but that doesn’t stop the CD from being a bit too happy for the present moment. Even if, against all purism, I actually like Shiny Happy People.


Outside of this I had some happier times re-visiting the underdog masterpiece that is Beyond Good and Evil, and reminded myself of certain atmospheres of creative magic in the process. The save points are perfectly dispersed to allow the game to break into perfect slices should you be in for a long or short sitting, and somehow it has an ability to make you happy to simply be playing it. Unless I can borrow anything of significance then I expect my Cube will be going quiet for a while now as I want to turn my gaming attentions towards missed classics and Dreamcast revisited until I’m done with Uni. No more cube games until Twilight Princess or Killer 7 most likely. I’m hoping to move into a bit more anime, taking advantage of Gamesmen while it’s still open to pick up the newly released Someday’s Dreamers box set and putting a paid order in on His and Her Circumstances, and to focus my gaming on getting to play stuff like Panzeer Dragoon Saga, Little Big Adventure, and Burning Rangers. Maybe I’ll resurrect Dreamcast Ecco as well if I get the time.