Tra la la…
Distinct lack of pretty much anything resembling a life at the moment, hence the silence.
Still haven't found a job.
Still barely getting myself out of bed on a morning.
Told the doctor.
Now on antidepressants.
Didn't really expect that, but there you go.
I think I might buy the new sims 3 stuff pack to cheer me up temporarily 
Google and China
There's been a lot in the news the past day or so about Google and the announcement of their intention to stop filtering search results in China, along with their possible intention to pull out of the country.
Now, pottering about and looking at the news coverage for this, along with the original Google blog has me slightly amazed, mainly at some people's reactions to Google.
I can understand why they went there in the first place, even though their motto is "Don't be evil" - China has around 350 million internet users. That's an astounding amount of people, and thus the potential for an astounding amount of money. I don't begrudge them that. It does, as people say, make the world go round. And I fully support and understand why, after 3/4 years, they are considering pulling out.
I know they didn't go their for some great, humanitarian effort, and they are just a business after all, but ... some people's reactions to Google are just bizarre.
Now, their biggest rival in China, Baidu have called the move hypocritical, which I'm entirely not sure about. Then I spot somewhere on the BBC that Baidu have close links with the People's Government. No surprise there. Then I potter about some more and come to the BBC's Have your Say column on this, and I'm just astounded by the amount of people who are actually supporting China's censorship of information and the internet. Apparently Google should just shut up and obey the most strange and restrictive information laws ever, or they should sod off back to America and stop wanting more of that horrible, evil money.
Now, call me crazy for this, but although I know we're monitored in every move we make here in Britain, we still have the right to say pretty much anything (unless you're being a complete dick). We're allowed to mention times in the past when the government have cocked up, or debate whether what they are doing / have done is right (such as the Inquiry in to the War in Iraq), so I don't know how anyone who is a citizen of a "western" civilisation can in any way support what the government in China does.
Oh, and another thing that irritated me - Security experts say Google cyber-attack was routine. Well it bloody well shouldn't have been. These attacks happen frequently, targeting those who advocate human rights and freedoms in china, but nobody seems to do much or say much about them. Perhaps if every time there was a major, sustained attack on a company and they said something about it, the world would begin to get more suspicious. Because its a damn odd thing that these attacks are aimed straight at people who are distinctly not favoured by the "Peoples" Government.
GLEEEEEEEE!
Finally caught up to episode 13, which is where the mid-season break kicked in and I have to say I practically floated when I finished watching the last two episodes. Ep 13, Sectionals, is amazing.
Its just started airing over here on E4 and I really think everyone should watch it. Unless you don't like musicals.
Then you're just a soulless heathen.
*skips off, singing*
The thaw?
It would seem the epic amount of snow is beginning to melt, which is going to cause a whole other set of problems but never mind. I live on a hill. We don't do flooding.
The great job search continues apace, although I've not heard anything back. Admittedly its been less than a week since I submitted my first application so I'm not surprised.
I've been keeping myself occupied by... well, mainly by sleeping. Its all I can bring myself to do. Barely even play on the xbox, which is a pain in the ass cos I've got loads of games to play. Was kinda chugging through Dragon Age: Origins, but I got really cheesed off when they delayed some DLC and haven't given a release date for it yet so I've kinda stopped playing that. I've got Lego Indy 2. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1 & 2, Assassins Creed 2, the Orange Box, Lego Star Wars, and Dead Rising that I've not completed in any significant way, so in theory I've got plenty to do. I've just got no will to actually do anything.
*shrug*
Its just not festive any more.
Its pretty damn snowy.
Being that I'm British I can cope with the other kinds of precipitation - rain, sleet (as long as it s mainly rainy), frogs, herrings etc. But we're not much used to the cold, or at least, not used to this much cold.
And its been snowing for about a week now.
Its getting a bit scary driving.
Long time no post…
.. mainly because my life has somewhat fallen apart in the last month or so.
I no longer have a job, a better half, my sanity or any friends.
I appear to have swapped all of those for a desire to sleep constantly and cry.
Why…
... is the elastic on the waistband of tights so dangerously tight? I'm not a great lover of tights, mainly because if I'm wearing tights I'm also wearing a skirt and I'm not fond of those, but the tightness of the elastic on the waistband of tights distresses me. I know it has to keep the pantyhose up (which frequently it doesn't anyway), but does it really have to cut you in half? Its not a good look.
I've come to this rant mainly because I bought myself a skirt to go with my new knee high boots and I'm going to have to wear tights with this outfit as the skirt shows about 3 inches more leg than the world would probably like to see on me.
And thus it has brought me to my eternal wondering...
Who the fuck invented tights, and was he as much of a bastard as I think he was?
The never ending saga…
... of my faulty nose.
Apparently, I have allergies. I didn't, until I moved back into my parents house, but now I do. I wake up every morning sneezing like there is no tomorrow, eyes and nose streaming (although that's probably just form the sneezing) and tend to go through tissues like they're going out of fashion and I've got a serious bulk stack.
So, sensibly, I went to the Doctors. Admittedly, it took me about six months to actually get around to going to the Doctors but I eventually got there. I was asked what was wrong, and was told quite promptly that I had allergic rhinitis. I basically had hay fever, but I wasn't allergic to pollen. They didn't bother testing what I was actually allergic to, they just gave me a prescription for antihistamines the size of horse tranquillisers. And so dutifully I take my horse pills, shelling out nigh on £8 a month for the privilege of doing so.
And my sneezing abated... for a while.
The Great Cataloguing
I have far too much stuff. Far FAR too much stuff. Since I moved back in with the parents most of it has been sat in the garage in boxes, as I live in a small room in their tiny little bungalow. No real complaint there, other than the proximity to my Mother which is slowly driving both of us mad but that's beside the point. Actually, no. That is the point.
I love my parental units dearly, but I need to move out again.
To do this, I need money.
To get money, I need to sell most of my junk.
*cries*
I love my giant library of books and DVDs, and I was planning to make my own reading/entertainment room in wherever I moved in to, just so I could enjoy my favourite pastime, but they must go. It'll make it easier to move as well.
So now I have to find out exactly what I have. This a fairly daunting task as I did this to the meagre contents of my room last night and not only did it take hours, but it took up five pages of my notebook. This is going to take a while, methinks.
Tv tiem!
I don't watch much tv, simply because I'm usually not in the house enough to actually watch anything, but I've managed to catch the beginning of a couple of series lately and its looking pretty good so far.
FlashForward - Ah ha. A replacement for Heroes, which went so downhill from halfway through season 2. And it totally doesn't hurt that it contains both Jack Davenport (the absolutely lush Steve from coupling, otherwise known as Commodore Norrington from POTC) and Joseph Fiennes, who has eyes like a puppy so I can totally forgive his mildly wooden character. Its very Heroes/Lost/other shiz, and I like that I explained a character interaction by referring to the characters as Norrington and Penny-from-Lost. I'm easily amused.
I'm also impressed that I'm two episodes in to the series and I've not been completely irritated by any of the characters. This is pretty damned impressive, with my tolerance for people / characters.
Stargate Universe - Looking good so far. Once again only two episodes in, but I only hated two characters and one of those is now dead. So thats not so bad really.
Want moar of both, plx. Ta.