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5:51am: Girl Gamers...the Issues
I was randomly surfing Google for completely different information and came across this little blog article.

Beauty is the Geek

It made me incredibly thoughtful and I wrote a massive reply to it. The reply I post here as well as it also sums up who I am at this time in my life. It's a recording, how Lifejournal should be treated. So here I go, I can only hope you can read to the end. I find the point rather relevent and up for discussion.

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As a 'girl gamer' in Australia, it has its perks. It has its downs. Having been a gamer and active combat LARPer in europe for 5 years prior to coming back, I saw a great difference of opinion for how gamers of both genders saw themselves and others.
In the Netherlands, I was a shy mouse due to my chubbyness and general disquiet over my appearance. I tried to combat this my using my assets, of which double D bra sizes could be an advantage in the medieval fantasy world of live action roleplay, to the max. It still didn't quite get me to the point of accepting myself. That was until I was drunk, with another drunk fellow with his arms wrapped round me to keep me warm round an open fire in the wee hours of the morning at a LARP event when most of the other players had wandered off to their tents and we were finishing off the last dredges of whiskey that he heard my open complaint about my appearance. I was then in a figure hugging dress with low cleavage, ashamed I had to pull my waist in with a corset to remotely feel comfortable in the garment. He pulled back, turned me around and said, while looking straight in my eyes with remarkable clarity.

"You know what is wonderful about bigger girls? It gives us something to hold."

We have been good friends ever since that night 3 years ago and I have never forgotten it. Now, 25 and feeling it, I am back in Australia finishing my studies and have gained new friends, gamers, in a completely different culture.
I am still chubby. I really do not see an end in sight for this as my body also really wants to hold onto the weight. I was built with a framework that could bear 15 children and work in the fields long hours while churning butter and climbing hills to get to waterwells, all at the same time. It was never meant to be skinny. Though some weight off would be wonderful.
Nowadays I consider the hopefulness of weightloss to be more for a health reason than a looks one. Looks still matter to me though and I still wear corsets to pull me in. Now I try to focus on bringing the cleavage out more and, being a bit gothic, this gets me the right kind of attention and not the kind I used to dread.
Being a gamer too, around young men who are far more introverted than I was used to over in Europe, where a gamer was expected to be social or be buried under the sheer weight of pressure acting would put on you...it has made life interesting. Here in Aust the gamers are generally far more geeky, as the stereotype goes, than in the Netherlands. They are also more conscious of themselves, not all, just most. Where Holland does have its snide models and flashy fab fashions, the general populace accepts that everyone is unique and being curvy or a bit weighty is no real problem. In Aust, weight is a huge deal. It is hard to find clothing that fits long legs AND hips as the stereotype seems to suggest that chubbyness must mean you are very short. It is also hard to find flattering tops that do not look like bags simply because being chubby means you must not show any curves as all.

This affects the Gamer mentality too.

I am one of 4 or 5 females in the Gamers Guild of Perth with over 50 other males present. We have little events, we have individual game sessions. We are all generally friendly with eachother. But when I first joined up when I first got back here nearly a year ago, it took a lot of them by surprise.
One, I was female.
Two, at the time, I was single
Three, I gave hugs.
Four, I loved showing my assets.

These things were a new thing for many and it took a lot of them quite a while to get used to my hugs. It was something I was simply unable not to do. Also being single did have its problems and I hid behind my sexual preferences, that were very strong at the time thanks to too many bad experiances with males, to ward off any possible advance. This paranoia wore off eventually and I am now happily content with a gaming fellow for 6 months and counting.
Having weight did not matter. They were happy to have a female in the Guild. End of story. It was, as time went on, more of an issue though for myself out in the community.
I consider myself a Gamer. Not a Girl Gamer. This lable I do have a problem with as it exists more here than in Europe and tends to have a line being drawn down between what was, and now what it has become now that we have 'trod upon their turf'. No one in the Guild ever calls me this. It is the general community that does and for this I am mocked.
This mocking is something I am used to. The advantage of being chubby and growing up with it is you either cave in, or grow a second and third layer of skin. I got that skin in Holland and now can ignore any jibes about my figure or hobby. I just still wear corsets.

To get to the point here, being a chubby female gamer is one thing. Being a chubby female gamer with sex appeal is another.
It's a foriegn concept in this country, one I have been determined to change. Being chubby should not hold back the desire to flaunt what you have to your advantage. For me it is my height and, frankly, boobs. I have nice and well attuned bosums that sit nicely when pushed up. I will not hide them and I don't give a damn if people stare down at me. At my height I can stare down at them in return and smile as I bend over and their boyfriend have to look twice. I might not have pretty legs, I may not have the greatest of faces, my arms are flabby and my butt sticks out. But boy, give me an underbust corset and low top with a dash of black eyeliner, I feel like the sexiest woman alive.
And I bring this to the Guild. This took the males there some more getting used to as the concept of sexy female gamer is yet another foriegn thing. The Conventions here have glimpes of anime girls dressed in very little and some very cute gamers, but they hide their hobby behind layers of normalism and most are ashamed to tell their friends outside the Cons about it.

It is almost like the general public opinion is that if you are a Girl Gamer, you must be chubby, introverted and frumpy. Anything else and you are an anomoly to be avoided.

To finish this with a graceless flourish of personal opinion on the matter, I simply say this.
When I was sitting in my underbust-corset and short skirt with high socks and tights, in my usual chair at the usual time after a good game of Lazer Tag at the Grill resturant a whole bunch of us go to on a weekly basis, I was sipping my bourbon when a male friend came up behind me and said.

Quote "Hi M...WHOAH!!" unquote, as he stared down into the abyss. It made me smile. And that, dear reader, is what stereotyping humans will never truly understand about "Girl Gamers".

10:38pm: Conversions Found
I found a converter. MPG files now work as AVIs on Premiere Pro video editing software. Adobe may kiss my arse coz I BEAT IT!

I FOUND A BLOODY FREAKEN VIDEO CONVERTER AND NOW I CAN EDIT AND BY THE GODS...I AM GOING INSANE FROM PURE GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!


Hah see see you little Adobe. NO ONE can beat the Musemistress. I always find a way short of a nervous breakdown. Have had two in my young life, you nearly pushed me to a third. MAY YOU SUFFER LATER FOR THIS! But till then...Converter found...converter found. MuauauahahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

*coughs*

*waves flag* yay!

1:19am: Editing Fail
Am just about done with it all. Seriously it has gone beyond what I can normally handle. To have my mother spend so much money on buying me a very nice new HardDiskDrive camera with 3mb/second that is not High Def, not crazy with too much things to work through and pretty decent with film and sound capture, and then being left with only pure raw footage I cannot remotely edit in any single way because Adobe Premiere Pro "does not recognize the format" even though mpg IS a recognizable format according to its help files and I cannot find one single converter that is free online to make it into an .avi that will load more than 60% of the file before it says I need to buy the complete version with a credit card online and not through paypal which has no money in it and will not have any money anyway even if I tried putting some into it till Monday when the damn project is supposed to be finished with editing and the complete version handed in by then, with online converters taking half an hour to convert 15 seconds of film files one at a time when I have a good few hours of footage to work through and also plain Windows Movie Maker only sees the files as being sound files and not video ones and then finally giving up...

Just why do I remotely ever bother with trying. Am failing the whole damn course anyway. I just wished I didn't have to fail with the editing too. Looks like I will, simply coz I cannot do a damn thing, ever. All I have yet to do is cry. Currently it's the only thing I know I'm capable of doing at least a halfarsed job at.

5:05pm: Left leg not included
Interesting. We'll see how it goes tomorrow, but currently am rubbing oil in interesting places on the leg and hip and lower back to try and alleviate some tension so I can walk from one end of the house to the other without limping. It's not so bad, I just couldn't go very far on it. Not so much as pain as a sense of weakness and the inability to swing it forward without a twinge going up one side of the back.

It seems that the deal I struck with myself years ago to have fun, no matter the cost, is finally truly hitting back. This is an old injury stemming from that time I fell backwards over a dead body and bruised my lower spine and had to be carted off in an ambulance. This is LARP of course, but still, try explaining THAT to a doctor at 1am.
It started flaring about a year ago when I began walking again for exercising and ended up with me needing a cane for larp events just to make sure I didn't fall over. But it drifted off for a while. I can't recall the exact amount of time, but a few months back it flared again and has just been getting steadily worse with weakness attacks happening no longer on a monthly basis, but on a weekly. Now for the last couple of weeks it has been daily and the dancing over the weekend aggrevated it to become unusable. I had to fall out of bed this morning just to get to the toilet, hence coming to the realization I couldn't even walk to the bustop for classes never mind get over to mum's house for the crutch.

*sighs*

The pain isn't the deal here. It's barable and not needing too much attention. It's the lack of energy and ability to move the leg the way I want to and the weakness that permiates that side of my body when the attacks flare and even my arm feels the tingle (spinal injuries affect major nerve clusters. This affects mainly my left leg but also can make the kidney ache, arm become weak and left eye twitch) well, it bugs the hell out of me. People say I should see a doctor, I keep on delaying. Also I am way behind with my studies thanks to these attacks and generally never have time to get to the doctors when I'm struggling to catch up with the assignments. Excuses excuses. I'm just going to see if I can get through this one, then will take it easy from now on and use the crutch more often to alleviate pressure when walking for long periods and do more stretching therapy. Then I'll see the doc when I get time.

9:53pm: Croatian Birthdays...wow
Well, Tiny's 21st last night was an experiance to be sure. Croatians have a unique way of partying down, and his family spared no expense. Also that they own a vineyard for tablegrapes and live in a practical mansion and can cook like the devil...all guests were plenty well satisfied and the vodka slushies helped.

Of course, this meant I got more of a sugar high than drunk and didn't realize I was getting extremely dehydrated till the next morning when I woke up with muscles screaming for release and a headache to pound down the doors of sanity. The dancing (note that Croatian dancing is extremely tough on the legs and not to be taken lightly. Also, advice. Do not do it in a corset. Or if you have to, make sure you loosen it prior) was a lot of fun and did do a number on my back and leg, so I'll be off to mum's again tomorrow arvo to grab her cruch to alleviate some of the pressure there. Shouldn't have to use it too long. I just really should have stopped when it began hurting, instead I was determined to join in as much as possible.
Now the price is paid and the nerve refuses to send the right level of messages to me leg and therefore makes it a bit more difficult to keep my balance and walk straight.

Apart from that though, I had fun. It was daunting and the family was loud and really out there (also Tiny was given his name the same way as Little John) but the food was veeeeery good, the company fun and amusing and generally just another new experiance to note down in my life.

Just wish Chris could have come too, but his shift hours didn't allow for it and he's really not happy about it. But no biggy, I just need to figure out how to give him the experiance of vodka slushies too some day.

12:10am: Alcomohol is Nice in large doses
Lazer Tag happened as usual tonight (every wednesday night). Loads of new people along with good ol faces. We went to the Lakkers Grill after as usual and this time LOTS of people went out to the bottle shop and brought back loads of alcomohol. I don;t usually drink on a weeknight, but tonight all I could think of was "My sciatica is killing me, I can;t play tag anymore thanks to it, am bitchy, am having fun...what the hell".

First was a lemon/lime/bitter. Followed by a nice light beer. Then came the bourbon. One of the fellows seated on the lunging couches complained that the other guy had poured too much in the glass. It was halfway up. I wanted a bit, so he handed me the glass. I took it, sipped it...then sculled.

The guy closest to me stared then yelled for the others to watch, the ex-marine (who we fondly call Yankee) who had complained of the amount in the glass stared and went "No fuckin way!" as I demolished the whole glass in a few seconds. He then had to stand up and give me a hug.
Apparently downing 4 shots worth of bourbon is a big deal. I could only grin and ask for more.

Am now kind funky and typing isn;t too hard, just got that pleasant buzz.

Weeeeeeeeee!

10:42pm: You Tube sucks you in
So I click onto YouTube. I feel like finding "Best Two years" to recap on fond memories. I find a clip, help translate it in the comments, then following the relevent videos after Kirby Heyborne who acted in that lil movie.

These leads to the following sequence of videos. Not once did I type anything in. It was all related to eachother. Also, not all titles are accurate. I'm trying to remember this off the top of my head.

- Kirby Heyborne beer commercials
- Big T Snickers commercials
(backtrack to Heyborne)
- Scout Camp video
(follws Feature videos reference at bottom of screen)
-Death Star destroys Enterprise
- Prehistoric Mammoth discovered
- Mickey Mouse creature discovered in desert
- Prehistoric Killer croc uncovered
(backtrack one)
-Spooky photo proves life on Mars
-death Star Black Hole
- Three spooky UFO Videos
- Best fake UFOs
- Meteorite strikes ground, seen from 4 different angles
(backtrack)
- Christian Bale's part re-written for Terminator

1:44am: Newb on the Loose
This is an application I'm doing up for a Dorky group on LJ. Since seeing Star Trek today, I'm in happy dappy latrekland and am humming tunes of anything. Am unable to comment on the movie, it simply made me so very very happy. Also got back on Skype today but only Satyrus was on and no one else. Mew.

Anyway. Application. Seeing as I couldn;t see WHERE they asked me to post this, I figured to just post it on here and then link it back like they said I should. If it works, then good. I'm a geek, but I'm not uber genius when it comes to the whole internet thing. No, I CAN do webdesign and am a Tuber, but guessing where stuff is when I'm supposed to apparently just KNOW is not my best strong point.

Mew

So I write this up and hope to Gods it works,



( Something Witty )

4:58pm: Vampire Purists
A few weeks back, Kyu sent me this marvelous avatar to use in LJ just coz he knows how I feel about a certain book and movie.

Only now do I remmeber I have yet to use it, so it gets its own little post.


Yay for Kyu Kage!!!!

12:57pm: The Dutch are Crazy!
This is what happens when you have friends that email random shit to to. Namely fun livejournal groups.


http://community.livejournal.com/heavenly_dorks/

I only went in there to check it out and came across a video that made me laugh. It made me laugh so hard I had to post it up. The Dutch might be aware of this event, but the rest of the world is still oblivious. Of course, I could also be just naive.




Am currently chickening out of class thanks to not sleeping at all last night and waking up to blackness coz my eyes fused shut during the 1 hour I did sleep. This does mean I have some serious sucking up to do on my assignments, but it's doable.

As to local events. Anzac weekend the last three days, where we remember the soldiers of WW1 and such. It's becoming a lost tradition, I don't think we have any Anzac soldeirs left anymore which I find sad. The main problem with the holiday is that more and more young folk are wanting to just do away with it as it no longer relates to us.
well, if they turned it into a day of "Remembering all wars we fought", then maybe they'll see just how huge it is to remember those who fell fighting wars they could never avoid.

Remember, we learn from the past so as to live in the future.

Just my two cents.

(ps: I KNOW Antwerp is in Belgium. It's just a case of me knowing it's because of the Dutch that the Belgius do this. Responsibility affirmed!)

4:07pm: yo yo and missing friends.
Touching base. Am indeed alive.

Facebook is taking over as well as college. Too many assignments, too little sleep.

Going to Lazertag tonight, have already seen new release of Red Dwarf, all three episodes. My advice...SEE IT!!! Living life hard. Not much sleep of course...tends to be haphazard but can survive well enough on 3 hours a night if I have a health or Mana potion in me. No, am being serious. They exist.

http://www.manapotions.com/

Mostly illegal here, but sellable in our (fantasy and sci-fi hangout zone) bookshop. I live on them.

Geekery is still strong with the gaming.
Tabletop games per fortnight are as follows:

- Unhallowed Metropolis
- Iron Heros...Ancient Greece that lost their gods 100 years previously
- Werewolf
- Warhammer RPG

The D&D 4th folded as the GM couldn't handle both that and UM. Though prefer UM withg him as GM anyway. The uberness and freakout factor intensifies every session. Backup character made already, backup for that one in progress.

Am now doing promo for Conventions...yeh, only here a few months and already getting my claws into the system. Even paid to mainly do volunteer work at the Swan Con last weekend...typical. OH and saw finback as a nice surprise, he was doing a panel for Transformers and has had a girlfriend for a year now. WOW I need to get back in touch there.

Am learning Cosplay...but am adding the Larp Touch. The fact it's harder to remove oneself from their surroundings adds a challenge so complete costume immersion is needed, so for my 'on stage' idea for maybe next year I need to find a new pair of Nightelf ears and some more other kinds of elf ears. Anyone know how to get them to Australia?

This land shall be Dutchified yet ;).

9:46pm: East Australia is Burning
The fires in Victoria are raging still, the numbers of deaths are rising ever more. Australia is under attack...many believe it's terrorists, many believe it was the perfect recipe of 44C degree heat plus high hot winds and the ninths driest year on record for them. All this, has created the worst fires in Australia's written record.

Even Orlando Bloom, an ENGLISH actor is on the phones in the pollcenter answering calls for donations. All I can ask if for others to do the same. I plead with you, if you can, find a way to donate from anywhere in this world. I am in Perth, a long way from those fires, even though we had a dangerous brush with them recently (the winds manged to not make it fly out of control) and I cannot afford to donate anything but a few dollars. But if anyone else can, from anywhere, we can see even English people flying in to help, Dutch, Canadian, American...they are all able to help.

Gods. I don't know when this will stop, but Gods...it's only getting worse.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/indepth/0,,5018723,00.html

11:26pm: Australia Day
Or in other words...

Be Patriotic for a day, Then Screw the Rest of the Year.

So yeh...the fireworks have been around for 25 years now. Apparently mum took me to my first Fireworks Display barely a month after I was born. Just found this out. Am also falling big time for the man I am dating.

Uhh...You Tube blog helps. Is very late to be posting here, but you might as well see it, even if the Vlog is belated.



Wow.

Am just feeling...wow right now. Brain melted over the weekend thanks to some seriously bad comments made from one of my gaming groups (ps, also started playing Unhallowed Metropolis on Sat night...I recommend this setting to ANY tabletop rpger. Seriously, a MUST to experiance) earlier on Sat afternoon wheich led to me finally envisioning two shrubs having sex and me curling into a fetal position.
Also today, sister Jannine's birthday where I got into a heated "discussion" with other sister Cat and niece Jade (daughter of Jan) about how farking bad Twilight (book AND movie) really is and how Vampires do NOT bloody sparkle in daylight. I am sorry...but

NO!!!!!

There. :). When the major exclusive Sci Fi and Fantasy bookstore in the entire city refuses to stock the book series coz it's just so farking BADLY WRITTEN and destroys all concept of Vampire Canon...I can't help but be defensive. Mum told me to let it lay as it's teenage romance and at least Jade is reading something.

I just wanted to puke.

So yeah. Happy Aust day everyone and have a great life!

(PS: Got into College...starting next week Monday. Digital Media Certificate 3...which means I will be certifide to work in a WAY better job than I have ever been in at the end of this 6 months. And after that...the world.

10:47pm: Quarter Century
Well, today was me birthday. And it made me think a bit. See, I haven't been updating due to the sheer amount of work and business that has been around me the past two months. My muses have vanished again, I barely work on my Online RP group. Making new characters comes secondary to making money as fast as possible and the desire to hold onto a job that I struggle often to hold onto.

At 12am this morning, I drank to me health at Sin and had, all up, 15 straight shots of vodka and 1 Absinth with Lime bought for me by others. Me mum gave me $100 to buy my first set of goblins and dwarves for Warhammer and dinner was bought for me this evening. It has been a good birthday, even though it felt like some family members' arms needed twisting to get over here, and my muscles are paying for it with the neck, back and legs stiffer than a board.

I do have concerns about tomorrow. The Christmas rush at work and the fact I worked Boxing Day at the beginning of the stocktake sales, alongside the fact I had troubles keeping up with it all in the first place, it's making me determined to try double hard. This also means less time and energy to keep up to date with informing people how I am doing.

I got a gorgeous shirt sent clear cross from Holland the other day in the post from Aart for either me birthday, Christmas or both. And I loved it. Dorie'Idar Kaldorie it read...one who did LARP over the past few years might know it, especially if they were in Vortex. I have a note here from the post office for another parcel I need to pick up and I am curious what it could be.

Seriously guys, I have been smiling at all times I have not been thinking about work.

This is just a general post as I am full of sugars, fats, cake, lard and biscuits...so yeah, am going to bed now. And now 25 and trying to get me life together.

11:06pm: YESS!!!!
I gave a massive WHOOP of joy today (I work at my new place, Target Sales Assistant now) when I heard the news. Some folks looked at me oddly, one college even remarked why it should even bother us Auzzies.

But I think this is time for that Dream to come true, and the world of Change has finally become truth.

Dear gods if it weren't for the stabbing pains in my feet, I would have danced down the aisles. It's just that, ye know, the OBVIOUS thing that he is black and all and that makes history already. Yeah very obvious, but it's also that this man exudes such power and grace that hasn't been seen in so long. I hope to see a lot from him and would have voted if I could. Man, if only there were a World Vote...duuuude.

(can't wait for first paycheck btw, must get better shoes. This ones are hell and it feels worse and worse as the week goes on, like walking on broken glass by the end of the day. Gods. But at least he won...weeeeeeee!!!)

OBAMA!!! OBAMA!!! OBAMA!!!!

5:25pm: Ahem...
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8:46pm: Education and Work fun times!
My heart is hammering and my fingers tingle. I have just posted my application for TAFE college course Certificate II in Multimedia to be starting in February. The following semester would be Certificate III. 4 would take a year in 2010 and the Diploma will be in 2011. So in other words, I can NOT afford to miss this opportunity. In general it's now just a matter of waiting to see if I get in.

Also my interview with Target has resulted in an 80% chance I will be hired for a 5 to 6 day week on Part Time, yet long term basis of which the hours will merge nicely with studies over the next 4 years. It's the 20% I am mainly worried about that the position may go to someone else slightly more qualified or younger.

These two things are fully in my head and won't let me relax. If mum weren't here I'd grab a ciggy and light up outside and puff frantically for an hour straight (this is me quitting very slowly and often failing hard with a sudden packet dissapearing in one go, then several weeks of nothing.) My whole future is depending on a well-paying stable job and certain education for next year as the older I get, the harder it is going to get to beat and mash the younger kids in a highly competetive industry alongside the recession. I need to be studying at the beginning of next year or I'll be nearly 26 by the time I START getting anywhere.

Yeah. I need this to work. Am praying to the spirits of the universe to make this work. Am asking Science! for this to work. I would quit rpg for this to work...oh man, am I desperate.

2:48am: Politics
A subject I do not speak of much in LJ, that being politics and especially foreign politics, just became fun.

Basically http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com has brought it to my attention that maybe there's not really a competition if the whole world could indeed vote on the upcoming American election. (this is basically a quote from Miss Cam)

What does this tell me? Well...it just makes me smile. I shall not hide my own little non-interfering support in this area. I mean really, what will happen? Someone will come and vehemently tell me off for having an opinion? Whatever :P.

(and for a bit of fun and having a sense of humour...something that was put online a while back but should be shared if only to hum the tune while standing in line for something to do with the government. I tend to hum it while applying for my fortnightly dole payouts for being unable to find a full time job...heh)




Yes, I'm insomniatic again and a liiiiittle freaked out about having TWO job interviews in a few hours. Also one with Games Workshop which will require me to learn all the rules to Warhammer 40K in 10 minutes flat just to see if I would be a viable applicant.

Dear gods.

1:19am: Am grouchy and irritable lately. Like post PMT or something. Might be the stress of things and scrambling to do A course at TAFE as I keep missing deadlines for other course subjects. So I'm considering taking Teachers Aide for a Semester so I'm legally allowed to mess with kids' heads if I ever opt for teaching them Drama...which is what I want to study. Drama teaching would probably help me understand the science of the subject and just how hard it really is to make kids interested in something you yourself can be so enthused about.

But yeah.

Am cranky ever more so and getting rather snappy even towards mum, short tempered and easily provoked. Might be that I'm suffering from LARP withdrawl. Good news was that now I have my swords and brought them to the Guild tonight to bash my DM in the evening session for Iron Kingdoms with when he sort of got distracted. The DM for the D&D session doesn't need that treatment, I reserve it for some of the players instead heh. Speaking of the D&D group, we got our 6th player who's a guy playing a female halfling rogue. "Original" to say the least, but it almost made poor DM look like he was going to cry when he got the gender issues mixed up between me and him and begged us two to swap sexes or else. We refused and went on with the game. (Eventually it will level itself out, but right now it remains confusingly funny).

Might be getting a job in sales in Target. I hope. I REALLY hope coz theres a 36-38 hour/week job opening going on in airconditioned environments that is as far from food as you can get that I want to do. Interview on Monday. Yes it's sales, yes it's working in mass clothing departments, but I'm reaching snapping point with the kitchen duty that now has me cleaning the whole place alone every afternoon while the rest go to the office to serve the food we spent all morning preparing. It hurts my back too much for some reason and could be one of the reasons for my irritability. So sales will be a nice change and leaves openings for weekend work too when I start studies thanks to it being the city of 7 days...yet still only from 9 to 5.30. Lame but so.

Ok am all blah now. Just got home from the Guild and brain is rather numb. Have been offered a location for my first larp...now I just need to work out what to DO with it as I'm rather nervous I might be paying off an organisation that will take my money and then close down coz it was going bust anyway...but it might not be so. I do need a government backing for this project though, a Stichting to Dutchies, to make it legal and these guys look like they're willing to be that if I can give them enough revenue in return. It's a hard haul though and I'm very unsure about things till I get more info, and cash. It'll take a bit of work to get this thing off the ground and I can only hope I have enough time. Some people suggested a large get-together of crafty folk to just work in making props and costumes and all sorts of things and hopefully donating them to the cause of making the first European-based Perth LARP ever (as the others in the past have all been based off American systems...and boffers) and a way to get kids doing something fun outdoors.

So far, looking ok. Just need maybe some people who know more about how this kind of thing works before I dive into the unknown treks of a world never before seen. Am not financially secure enough to take a plunge with this kind of investement...yet.

Also a craft session 3 or 4 times a year can be a great social event and a chance for folks to advertise their skills where they donate one thing they make, and show off other things they could sell. Bit like a small fair. It's just an idea for now. Need more energy and time and...well...people to make it work.

Meh. Still pissy.

10:32pm: 23rd October...again
Hi dad.

7:46am: Perth Royal Show: Finished
It is done. It all uploaded much faster than I thought, though maybe staying up a little late to wait for the flattening and then leaving it to upload online through the night could have helped. Is now morning and I'm late for work...again.

And so, a bit of Australian Culture ;).

10:20pm: Three
All good things must come in three...this goes also for bad, but today it was pretty much all good.

Chaos ensued when I slept in and was confronted in my nightgown by the security inspector for our lot of houses to see what can be improved. So he comes in, does a perusal and figures we need new security locks on our windows and sliding doors leading to the balcony...and so forth.
So eventually he leaves and I go off to have a shower and get ready on a stinker of a humid hot day for mum, who's borrowed my sister's 4WD and hired a lil trailer to drive down to Fremantle to the Quarantine depot to check through all my boxes that I was finally allowed to pick up today.

Now this is where the power of Three kicks in.
( Three's a Charm )

These acts of kindness and greater acts of financial help really set our moods at a sweet level that now has me tired, yet satisfied. I have also finally finished the Royal Show video and am waiting for the editor to flatten it and make it ready for upload online...an earlier try of this resulted in some images cut out for some reason, so this is my second try and I hope it works better. It's on the severe slow side now though so I guess I'll just have to keep the pc running all night and get the upload running in the morning before work. So, logically if it works out well, it should be viewable in about 12 hours from now on You Tube. Check it out when you have time, that or wait for me to put a link up here.

Now after that long load of stories, I'm off to bed. Be well all...life is good.

11:23pm: ...what?
Taken from satyrus

( Meme )

At least I got Abe second...

(kinda wanted him first)

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Am currently plowing through two hours of footage and a memory stick full of photos from the Royal Show for the compilation. Have been putting it off for far too long...it's taking shape now. Not much longer before it's done and crammed into 6 minutes of You Tube goodness.

Heh

11:56pm: Sin! More than just Temptation
Went to a Steampunk/goth club night bash last night and got home eventually when the birds were chirping their damn tunes and the evil sun had riseth...and me with a few drinks in me and a hard night of fierce dancing...the bones are now like jelly without cups and the 20% concentrate home made Mead I was gifted with after the bash is annoyingly tempting me on a work night.

In short...better update later, hopefully with pics as we took no pictures ourselves but had someone from the Guild do it for us...and we (being the 5 that dressed up in Theme AT the Gamers Guild to head out while all the rest continued gaming) won't see them again till next weekend.

Oh hell...head hurts still and should sleep coz eyes are hot.

Danced like I had no restrictions to music I loved in a hot sweaty club of awesomeness...one HELLUVA night! Neck hurts...ow.

(is why 'Sin' really is the perfect name for a club)

7:58pm: Proof with Pics! Entry #1
You know that saying that's circulating the web in ever growing spirals and seems to have many under its iron grip?

"Pics or it didn't happen!"

Well, I'm ready to flow with that. A lot of things in my life have not go pics to prove it, so I try my best with a realistic retelling of it. But those things I DO have pics for...well...I shall post em.

This is my non-biological niece and I holding a python for the first time. For me, I have never held one so small and kept on jumping when its nose butting up against my hand. Therefore I scared IT. But next time I think I'll be better at it.

Madonna


and me