*Sigh* So I'm drunk again. Fuck yeah.

I saw the trailer for the Darren Shan movie, The Vampire's Assistant, and as a firm follower of the books, it looks shit. It looks like it glorifies vampirism, when in the first couple of books, he hates it. It just looks like another 'DURP HURP VAMPIRE MOVIE FOR YOU TEENS'. The Vampire Chronicles are so, so much more than that.

The End. I'm too pissed to write anything else.

Last week my internet hub broke. As in really broke. We had to order a new one- it came and is black and shiny. I survived this internet drought by playing Half Life 2 (on the PC, I just found out how good computer gaming is) and Rollercoaster Tycoon 3.

Tomorrow I officially stop being excused from the Palace of Degradation and Social Awkwardness (or, to give its Latin name, College) and must return to the ranks of the superficial and unenlightened. There I shall study Psycholology and Sociology. Also, media studies, for some reason that was only half explained to me by the man-who-controls-stuff.

And I'm scared. All my friends have left and I predict my sanity will take a slow circle downwards again. Then rise a little around February. Then drop again.

Ah well, at least it's the last year.

I bought RE4 for the PC today, so I can grab the cutscenes. I saw RE5 being advertised on Steam, but I'll wait until it comes down in price. No way I'm paying £25 for it. Anyway, I grab the cutscenes and make certain characters have South Park voices again! Woo!

(Also I can make a bunch of videos ragging on Wesker, but that's another story...)

I want to put some parts to relevant music as well, if YouTube isn't such a FACIST CUNT about the copyright shit...

Laser pointers. Best invention EVER. I bought one cheap off Amazon and spent the afternoon trying to trick my younger brother and sister into thinking that a sniper was loose somewhere in the village. Lol.

The dilemma' I am referring to...

I got Underworld: Rise of the Lycans from for my birthday. Thank you, Tom, I love it . However... the scene where [SPOILERS LOL] Lucien is getting punished with the (presumably silver) spiked whip was exactly like a scene I have written for my vampire fic where my naughty protagonist is punished by the Synod for... stuff. Exactly like it.

So, here's the dilemma. Do I change the scene to incorporate a different punishment (IMO the worst thing anyone could accuse me of doing is stealing ideas) or do I keep it since I did think it up myself?

Thoughts?

So I got out of hospital on Saturday, thank God. Hospital is a very lonely and terrible place to be, no matter how nice the staff are. Nothing to do but lie in bed and watch the hours tick past. Boring. I did have books, but after the operation I really didn't feel like doing much. They had trouble finding my veins and stuck the IV in the back of my hands and my wrists XD. I was fine with it, though, but I do now have a lot of bruising from that. Looks like I've been BEATEN.

The worst thing was the steroids they injected in my IV to keep the swelling down. They made me feel very sick, burned my veins and made my feet tingle. Yick.

Anyway, home now and can only eat soft mush for the next six weeks. No more fish and chips, chocolate, sandwiches... anything. It's hard to eat when half your face is as puffy as a toad and a bright yellow from bruising and feels more like a chore than something to look forward to. Luckily the swelling is slowly going down and I'll look a little decent for Thursday (mum's first writing class) and Friday, which is my birthday.

I do get two weeks off the beginning of college (all that ranting about how I wasn't going back next year kind of faded when I got my results and discovered I'd actually done a whole lot better than I'd thought) so a full fortnight of recovering without anyone to bother me is in order.

I did get a new laptop (my great aunt passed away earlier in the year and she left us all a bit of money) since mine broke for real. Also, we have two new cars, one second-hand, one new. Believe me, with the shitty cars we've only been able to afford over the years, a brand new one is the jackpot. We also got the patio doors fixed (no more leaky draughts) and got some flea-stuff for the dogs. Yeah, interesting...

I need to do more writing, I feel like people have gotten bored with waiting for me (probably true and I don't blame them) or have just had their RE enthusiasm waning a bit. That's cool, I know it's my own fault anyway for not posting stuff nad posting crap. I'm writing, certainly and I'm doing my best to write things that are interesting and explore the characters more rather than just write crack and sex for the sake of it. There may still be sporadic one-shot crack-fics, we all have days when we just want some fucking porn after all.

So, since I'm going for an operation on the 26th (wisdom teeth out + breaking my lower jaw and moving it forward) I had to go to the hospital to have tests. Blood pressure and BMI later (don't even want to think about my height or my weight) and the nurse had to take my blood.

I've never had blood taken before, but I now really respect those who give it voluntarily. Needle kind of hurt, and then afterwards I felt cold and sick and nearly passed out. I feel like such a wuss- I know they take about a pint when you donate it. She didn't even take half a pint and I almost fainted. XD It was like being drunk, only without the fun, happy feeling.

Now my right arm is being a drama queen and feels all weak. I don't quite know how that works since it was just the blood they were taking. Just feels like when you've exercised and pushed it too hard, or when you wake up in the morning and immediately try and make a fist or something. Had to ask the nurse to open my biscuits, lol.

What else? Hmm, downloaded Mothership Zeta and The Pitt for Fallout 3, which now means I have all the add-on packs for it. Damn, I feel like Microsoft's whore.

Writing- yes, I still am.

*Sigh* I guess that's everything...