I keep wanting to blog and not being able to think what to say. It's kind of annoying. I think I need to do more. I'm feeling strangely unfulfilled at the moment. *sigh*

I have spent an inordinately long time doing pointless things lately, like redesigning Jaffa Kree. And designing that Broken Sword cover. And translating The Two Towers into loads of languages. And having my hair cut (although the hairdresser did offer his opinion up on several Sci-Fi things: Stargate: Infinity is rubbish, Enterprise isn't great and Star Trek: Nemesis is good fun but a bit of a cop-out with the whole Data thing). I mean, what sort of a strange life am I living here?! Ultimately, I suppose that question could be answered by the words "a geeky one". Ah well.

Anyway, this means I haven't done a lot of things to blog about. I did go to the Noodle Bar on Friday with a bunch of people on my course. That was fun, although I can't work up much enthusiasm to describe how fun it was. We did wonder where they get their lovely Chinese music CD's from. I've never seen a "Instrumental Chinese Music" section in HMV. And the CD got stuck at one point. Interesting remix.

I'm so boring...

I could talk about other people's lives, or what I know of their lives via their blogs. A nice person at Revolution Software read mine and the people linked to mine and he seemed to think it was fascinating. He was particularly taken with Stephanie's weblog. He wants to know what's going to happen next with "cute workplace guy". But apart from that, she's done lots of other exciting things. She's even written a play! And she's updated a lot more lately. Which is cool. She seems to be living the student lifestyle, something that I've never really managed. Lack of alcohol mars my "student lifestyle" score. And other things. :)

Mark has been given his start date for becoming a policeman. He has to go and pick up lots and lots of uniform - so much uniform that you need a car to carry it all! And not only that, he's built himself a new PC and had his 21st birthday. Which all sounds a lot more exciting than what I've been doing.

I suppose Ali hasn't been doing anything interesting, because we live in the same house and I would have noticed. But even she has managed to blog about things like... swimming. Scarily she wants me to go with her! I can't really swim. I wouldn't sink, but I never progressed past doggy paddle. Sad but true. Perhaps I should print out my e-mail from Olympic swimmer James Hickman and motivate myself. Swimming is extremely good for you, after all.

Who am I kidding? James is just as geeky as me. Although he might be faking it - he is on the other side of the world, so I can't check. Perhaps he goes out clubbing every night and that's why he doesn't have time to e-mail much. :)

He does write an interesting blog entry, though.

Okay, so the only person whose blog I regularly check that I haven't mentioned is... Daisy. I don't have a bad word to say about her - her life seems to revolve around doing nice things for people. At least, that's the impression I get from her weblog. I've always thought the internet provides plenty more opportunities for being nice to random strangers than the real world. She's certainly been nice to me!

I hate the word "nice".

Speaking of words, I don't want to sound like I'm being mean but I'd really like to know what this means: "I'm just too punctual to tell people that I'm not feeling well." I'm intrigued as to how you can be too punctual to tell people something. Part of me thinks it was probably the wrong word and I'm being mean about Daisy's excellent English (much better than mine - look at the peculiar grammar all over the place!) but part of me thinks there could be a really exciting story behind it. :)

Hmm...

So many people speak English so well! And you meet them online and they apologise for their English! Daisy does it, which is odd because her English is perfect. Not like mine - I know sometimes I rephrase things because I'm not sure about a grammatical point. That's awful, isn't it? I could give you an example. This partial sentence, which featured in this blog earlier: "he read mine and the people linked to mine". Originally it was going to be: "he read mine and my friends", but then I panicked. Should friends have an apostrophe? I'm saying their blogs, so... my brain nearly exploded so I wrote an alternative sentence.

Enterprise was actually good last night. Now we know that the Vulcans brought Velcro to the Earth in the 1950's. Woo-hoo! Mum wanted to know whether the boy (Billy?) was supposed to be someone famous. Whether the Vulcans had unwittingly changed our timeline ever more than they did with the advent of Velcro.

Ah, Star Trek...

A particularly geeky note to end on. :)

posted by Fiery Fred @ 1:41 PM