I'm very sorry that I haven't been very responsive, both on FA and my IMs, university is taking most of my time. :'( I have a mofo of an exam this weekend then straight after that I have three weeks to write two massive essays then the day after that I go out on placement for two weeks! If I survive placement I have two weeks to study (And chat with you lovely people) before my finals for this semester. In short university is being a fun sucker.

Also I am barking like a seal and no that isn't a furry thing. Neither my sister nor myself have been sick in the last two years that we can remember but a week ago my sis' boyfriend came home with a cold and we sort of picked it up for some reason or another. My sister developed a strange symptom today, her eyes are watering that much that it looks like she is crying! XD Me, I have the usual ailments except that I have a gnarly cough, a fever too but I have a higher than normal body temperature anyway.

In other news I was going to write up three massive movie reviews for all of you but I don't have the energy so here are the basics. (In hind sight they are actually pretty long. XD Epic fail, Greenwing.) Also please don't flame/troll me, I am giving my opinion.

Rango: No... just no. I went to see it with a friend and his two younger siblings and all of us hated it. They try to make the movie appeal to both kids and adults at the same time and they stuffed it up big time, their target audience walked out of the cinema bitching. The main character is soooooooooooo annoying until about half way through the film and the story itself is kind of predictable, except the end. Also it is surprisingly violent! I couldn't keep count but I would say that about 15 'people' died in the film, quite a few were off screen (Although you know that they got/get killed) two others are crushed, one is shot and I don't know how many crash/fall to their deaths. Oh, and there is an armadillo that is cut in half by a car riding over him! You don't see any guts cause I presume that they were crushed together but whatever. Somehow he pulls himself back together and walks away though. A few of the jokes are inappropriate too, for example a guy doctor pulls on a glove randomly and says something about a prostate exam. Also there is a character called the 'Spirit of the West' that is played by Timothy Olyphant... I think that they used him cause they wanted it to be a surprise for Clint Eastwood otherwise they would have gatten him to lend his voice. Hell Rango even calls him 'the man with no name' and the character looks almost exactly like Clint in the picture on this wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_with_No_Name The movie is set is a western-ish time so everyone has guns but that is unrealistic at times. A revolver is meant to kill something 10 times your size? In one scene a revolver is pointed at a snake and he gets worried... when the bullet wouldn't even be able to pierce his skull... That isn't to say that it is TOTALLY unwatchable, I just wouldn't pay to see it. (We had free tickets) For example the 'main' bad guy is awesome; evil, clever, blood thirsty, heavily armed... and a snake! Everything that one could ask for. He also has a sweet one liner and Rango makes a joke about them being brothers, something along the lines of "'Our mother had an active 'social life'" XD Also there is FINALLY a movie that has I can gives an accurate depiction of Absence seizers! Another point to note is that the animation is flawless and the movement very fluid.

Sucker Punch: I walked out this movie rather disappointed. Don't get me wrong, it was pretty epic, a true visual feast and will be a hit with anyone that loves manga but there was just so much of it that was so, so wrong. The start is beautiful, it is dark and sets the pace very well but what you don't realise is that you are going to be seeing a lot more of this than the action that you are came to see. A creepy twist on an old song helps with the start. Seriously, just listen to it and you will get a glimpse of what it is like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQzG-3Vagrk That is something that I can't fault, the music in the movie is really great except for a butchered Queen song. Anyway this film doesn't have the happy ending that most do, I won't say any more but... yeah. The action is really well done if you don't mind it being seriously unrealistic and the story itself is very unpredictable (except for the fate of the main character) but I have some serious issues with the film never the less. First of all you can see this film as two different things, you can see it how it is presented, that there is a mental institution and the owner of it also owns a club nearby, he exploits the girls and they try to escape OR at the end it is hinted at that everything took place in the girl’s head, that she really was crazy and that was just her mind trying to work things out and to find peace. Personally I prefer the former but meh. Also it is just too unrealistic for me, the girls in the dream sequences just own all the baddies too easily no matter how fake it is. Their plane rams a dragon and it still flies, they toss an orc/fugly dude into a propeller and it still flies, the main chick takes down a mother fucking zeppelin with half a WWI machinegun clip! I’m sorry but don’t insult zeppelins like that, they were much tougher. Also the bad guys are so stupid, I understand that melee combat was rather popular in WWI but if you are getting owned constantly you shoot the people! Another pet peeve is that the main chick has a samurai and she is godlike with it. The other girls had cool melee weapons like a kiff knife and another an axe but the best weapon (IMO) never got used! Dude, you have a claymore on your back USE IT! But that is just me loving European weaponry and hating that Japanese swords are given a godlike status in comparison. Then there is always the fact that the good guys need to gloat to the baddies and Not kill them. Dude, come on, they hurt you and if you let them live they will either kill you or hurt you, maybe even give you a little brain damage at the end of the movie, just be a man and kill them. (Can’t tell that I was raised in the RSA, can you?) Anyway there are two REAL reasons why I hate the movie but you should skip down to avoid any spoilers. Like right now, stop reading. A lobotomy is a TERRIBLE medical procedure and... just no, there is no reason to perform it, there are always alternative treatments available. That is a fate worse than death. And then there is the hatchling killing... This isn’t even because I’m a fur, I have always loved reptiles and one of my first memories was going to see Dragonheart when I was... 5? 6? Anyway since then I have adored dragons, they were never monsters to me just misunderstood animals or something. I felt sick watching that and had a 5/6 year old me seen a hatchie get killed that way on screen, holy shit. It was so unexpected, the chick steps over the dragon’s neck and it looks like she is stroking his face before she moves her hand to grab his muzzle and slit his throat. Fuck, I felt so bad, he looked like a little angel sleeping... on a pile of bones... that were probably human... never the less, what was wrong with her? And why would a dragon have crystals in its throat? And if you slit someone’s throat they take much longer to die and there is a SHIT LOAD more blood.

Paul: Yes, dude/dudette, this is an epic movie! I’m not a complete nerd but I am clearly getting there because I understood every joke that was made in it! If you enjoyed either Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz then you will love Paul! It starts off really slow and boring but then out of nowhere -BANG- Paul shows up (Voiced by Seth Rogen!!!) and these two British guy’s lives are turned upside down. They might have been nerds before but now that they are dealing with an actual alien... hahaha, they are completely clueless! Paul is a little bundle of fun; he can go invisible when he holds his breath, the can show you things with his mind, he can do the ET healing trick (Actually he told Steven Spielberg that aliens could do that, but shhht, it is a secret. :P) he has emphysema from smoking too much, he is bi, he is great at telling jokes and he’ll help you get the girl of your dreams! Just be careful, he likes to walk around in the nude and flash people. XD On a more serious note the movie is a comedy (Although one in which a few people die) and it is aimed at a particular audience, namely nerds who don’t mind taking the piss out of themselves. It is still a great comedy but ‘normal’ people probably won’t get the references made in the film. Also Sigourney weaver is in yet another movie with aliens! Anyone remember http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDqTwSO1DDc ? THAT IS IN THE MOVIE! Although it isn’t used in the same kind of context. Still I watched a pirated version of this with some friends (It only get released today in the cinemas in AUS) and we all cracked up at that for some reason. “Get away from her, you bitch!” That line is just too epic to restrict to one movie I guess. Heh, I probably bored you enough with the other two reviews so I’ll just leave it at that but i would definitely give Paul a watch, even if you just download it please give it a chance, it just gets better as it goes on, you even get to see that Paul has a pretty big heart near the end, even going to the person who’s dog he crashed on so say sorry and to make up for all the suffering that she endured throughout the ages. Please, watch Paul, you might not like it even if you aren’t the target audience.

Wow, what was meant to be a short update on my life got really big. Damn, I was even going to start posting my commissions or start editing a story that a really awesome guy put together for me. Oh well, I guess it will just have to wait until after the exams. I need to go sleep if I can stop seal-barking long enough that is.

P.S. I hope that this all made sense, it was written at a late hour after a day of studying... while barking at the screen like a seal. XD

Woah, university is really kicking my ass this year! I have a few journals to write as well as quite a few commissions and what not to upload so expect those in a few days.

Anyway, just a quick little laugh for you guys!

I am really scared that some random bird or neighbourhood cat is going to snatch away my precious snake (Or alternatively that he will slither off) and so whenever I take him outside to have a run around I lay on the grass with him or climb the same tree. Today I was just chilling on the grass with Strike while my father cooked some meat on the braai/BBQ when someone decides that he is tired of the vegetation/wants a nap and spies an opening in the legs of my pants. I thought that he would just crawl halfway onto my thigh and then back out but for some reason he kept going, one part of him coiling on one leg, the other on my other leg.

I was like ‘cool, whatever floats you boat, just don’t get hungry’ but then my dad asks me to go inside to get a plate for the meat and, well, I needed to be able to get up in order to retrieve one for him and not having a snake dangerously close to your crotch might help too. Anyway my sister walked outside with a drink for both of us just as I was slipping out of my pants, the button holding them together already undone and the pants down as far as possible without me having to undo the zipper. She was like “What the fuck are you doing?” and I really didn’t have a good excuse so I simply told her the truth, “I’m just getting my snake out of my pants, what does it look like?” lol, you should have seen her face!

She was probably about to tell me to go masturbate in my room or something until I zipped down the fly and little Strike’s head popped out all like ‘Hey, what’s the big deal?’ before he started to slither out. Lol, my dad almost pissed himself he was laughing so hard at my sister’s expression! She was totally shocked, not really knowing why there was an actual snake in my pants and when that head popped out, lol, snake cawk anyone? XD I kept a straight face but the entire time I was dying to laugh as well but whatever. So yeah, slipped out of my pants, got the snake out, put them back on, wrapped snake around my neck, passed still shocked sister, returned with plate passing shocked sister, had a drink and saw her boyfriend walk outside with a bread roll to put on the fire.

“Dude, what happened to your sis?” “You know that random stuff happens around my family but sometimes it is just too random even for us.” “True, true. Then again your entire family is completely fucking insane anyway.” “You say that like it is a bad thing.” “Lol.”

She was just like “Soooooooo many questions...” before she walked back inside. XD Oh, and before anyone starts I certainly didn’t put or encourage my snake to explore the inside of my shorts, nor did it ‘do anything’ for me. And yes, I was wearing underwear. I would make a joke about Strike needing a friend but that would probably be inappropriate, right?

So what are your thoughts? Did anyone giggle at this or did I just waste five minutes of your life?

Some things cannot be unseen! :P

I hope that you have fun today no matter if you are religious or not. Meet up with friends/family and have a blast but please spare a thought for those who don’t really have anyone to share the joy with. If you know someone like that send them a SMS or note if they are on FA.

For those that are going to have a massive dinner/lunch I hope your belly is hurting by the end of it and bulging a fair amount. Merry Christmas to one and all!

EDIT: Oh yeah, sorry about the last journal, hehe.

I am so slack... this all happened a week ago and I’m only putting it in a journal now, lol. It is late, I am tired and this will probably be a mess but read it for laughs.

So you know that party I was at? That massive two week affair? Well last Thursday someone thought it would be funny to bring some hash brownies/weed cookies to the party. Lol, I didn’t have any but the people that did got more sick then high, but that isn’t what I wanted to tell all of you. The next night there were cups of coke set up on a table off to the side of the BBQ and I only found out that they contained LSD after I had drunk two of them! There wasn’t meant to be any drugs at this party, the cookies were a one off, but someone did mention that it would be funny to bring some. Never the less I was completely shocked to learn that I had just taken double of whatever it takes a normal person to get high, apparently I went white and everything!

This was my first experience with LSD so everyone pitched in to help guide me through it and I am bloody lucky that they did! At first I didn’t feel anything then as the night wore on the pictures and words on people’s shirts started to move, fire and strobes started to look incredible and, wow, things felt so weird. It had random effects on me and everything was going great until something caught my eye. My friend has a bunch of these little palm trees and the shape of the long blade-like leaves looked like something indistinguishable until my mind decided to completely fuck with me. I was seeing necromorphs in the shadows the trees created, holy shit, I have never been that scared in my life!

For those of you who don’t know what those are they are horrifically fugly monsters from the Dead Space video games and, well, they aren’t very sociable. I was cowering under the table trying to figure out what to do; I could probably make it over the fence and bolt down the street, I knew that there was an axe and a chainsaw in the shed a little way away... then again wetting myself seemed like a good option too. Lol, my friend’s girlfriend dragged me out and gave me an excellent punch to the face and that snapped me out of it a bit. Just when I was going to do option number 1 or 2 my friend (The one whose girl friend had just given me a blackish eye and the one whose house we were partying at) tossed a couple of glow sticks into the darkness and handed me his beautiful 4.5+ metre olive python. Those two actions put the necros right out of my mind although I didn’t go into any dark rooms and was quite paranoid for some time after that.

For those that don’t know I LOVE snakes so this adorable creature really helped to get me settled. Besides that her scales felt like they were electric, each little move she made sent jolts into my skin! She never left me that entire night and I was in heaven! Lol, that was my only bad experience with it, the rest of the night was AMAZING! Everything was a million times more awesome, even ordinary objects were mind boggling. We downloaded all of Pink’s songs and we had a mini concert, wow, that was epic. It was funny watching the other high people too, lol. If it were not for the seeing evil space zombies and almost doing something stupid I would actually recommend it. Oh yeah, and I was having problems speaking but apparently that isn’t common.

See you all soon and thanks for reading!

Just an update to let people know I'm not dead and to tell you all about the crazy stuff that has been going on in my little part of the world. Oh yeah, I should probably also say sorry for not commenting on all your stuff... I'll get around to it sometime.

First and foremost MY SISTER (Thankfully only almost) GOT DATE RAPED!!! We have this thing called schoolies which is basically a week long party for grade 12 graduates where every freaking kid in the state comes to my town to celebrate. A lot of the over 18s get pissed or go to a club for the first time but there are raves and concerts for the underage kids too. My sister was at one of there raves and someone slipped something into her and her friend's drinks. I don't know if it was roofies or not but it doesn't matter. Luckily they had some big guys in their group and they got back to their apartment safely. I hooned down there but there was nothing I could do sadly. I wanted to kill someone... they were so messed up.

That was Tuesday last week then when the next day my father comes back from the doctor shaking. His family have a history of melanomas (His mother died of one) and test results for some that he had had cut out came back as 'positive'. We were distraught but as it turns out the doctor was over exaggerating, one of them were likely to have become cancerous in about two months. Still, he needs to have checkups more frequently.

Lastly I have been at a mate's place since last Friday i think it was. We are having celebrations of our own for surviving another year at university, lol! It has been so fun just doing random crap, catching up with mates, laughing your ass off at your friends drunken stupidity and I managed to join them the other night too. (Normally don't, lol) Haha! Last thing, this music video came up the night that I was intoxicated and it was a million times sadder than what it actually is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Qs5Wgp4Qw Lol, my bf and I were on the couch watching it and he got the biggest hug at the end of it!

I was meant to go home today but, meh, apparently it isn't over. Haha! I have a few commissions and a gift sketch that I need to submit but I'll do that when I get back. See you all later and be safe!

I completed my placement on the renal ward two days ago and I have officially passed that subject for the year! Heck yeah! Now I need to get up to date with my comments and get a story finished before exams in four weeks.

Oh but that wasn't what I was going on about in this journal's title. I saw that someone had watched me and  narse's icon popped up when I checked who it was! I was caught completely off guard and my heart stopped for a second. I have no idea why he watched me but I feel so honoured! I wasn't even watching him because I was waiting until I had gotten a few stories done before I watched any of the greats, just in case they decided to check out my profile. Wow, I feel like I just won the lottery! I'm his 2368th watch!

If you are reading this thank you very much! You have no idea how deeply honoured I feel!

I’m at the midpoint of my break in between my exam period and my placement and because of my uni anxiety and my injuries I obtain two journals ago I haven’t really been able to write much. :’( It’s pathetic really, I have been on FA for well over a year and I haven’t completed a story yet! Grr! Anyway to take my mind off things I decided to go with my friends to a concert. The bands that were playing weren’t really that appealing to me but one of the boys’ cousins was working there as a roadie and he got them for almost nothing so who was I to pass them up?

So the first group that preformed was Cancer Bats. (Please note that I have nothing against them personally before anyone bites my head off) I had never heard of them but they are a sort of punk rock/rap-mixed-with-heavy-metal band with a base guitarist that looks like a stoned/zombie Santa Clause. :D The lead singer appears not to have washed his hair while on tour in Australia and added to his unappealing image by spitting in the air and running through the cloud of saliva. The main guitarist looked kind of normal and the drummer came across as a decent guy.

We were all making jokes about the band and insulting them when they finish a song and the lead singer gives us this gem of a psych-phrase; “Hey! Are you all ready... ready to ROCK YOUR DICKS OFF! Come on everybody, I want to see you all rock your dicks off!” Um, no thank you. Never mind that half of the audience was comprised of women but could you explain what that means? Is that a euphemism or something?

We were all ripping into them at this stage when one particular friend one mine pipes up. He is a Canadian and is one of the sexiest, kindest, modest and well spoken people on this earth and is also sadly straight. *cry* Anyway he says in that adorable accent of his, “These people are absolutely foul! Who the hell let them on stage, ay? Thank you very much for this dipshit band, Americ-“ When he was cut off by the dick hating singer again.

“We have come all the way from Canada and we thank you all for showing us such a great time! Enjoy this next song, it is called bla bla bla...”

You should have seen his face, he was mortified! Shame, poor fellow. :) To the band’s credit the singer did hip off stage and walk through the crowd to meet fans. A British band played after them and were slightly better, then it was Bullet for my Valentine’s turn. I’ll admit I have one or two of their songs on my iPod and they are great to listen to when going for a run though I’m not a huge fan, but holy shit do they know how to work a crowd! They were awesome to watch and we were right at the front of the mosh pit! One of my friends caught the base player’s guitar pick and we all had a great time, though I think I injured my hips more. I’ll survive and they are definitely getting better. Thanks for all of your well wishes!

If anyone ever reads this that is… please don’t. I’m just having a little whinge but please check out the new Maccas ad.

Grr, I am so disappointed with myself! I have been here for over a year and I haven’t completed a story to a level that I am satisfied enough with to post. There are two main reasons for that. The first is that I am always busy with university study and placements and when it’s holidays I tend to have a massive, hyperactive lifestyle… you know hanging out with friends, clubbing, chasing girls/guys, diving, bush walking… everything that a 19 year old nature freak does. :) But that’s no excuse. University is the most extreme form of torture for my brain but I still should be able to produce SOMETHING! I mean everyone else seems to be able to do it, when do you people find the time?

Anyway the second reason is that I work on far too many stories at once. I have about twenty stories at varying stages of completion but none that are ready to be posted here. I just need to focus on one story and put a little bit of time each day to work on it, but seeing as I’m at the start of my exam block I doubt that’ll be any time soon. :’( I think I might change my status to watcher until I have written something.

Anyway, enough of my excuses/self loathing, what do you guys think of this McDonalds ad? link My sister couldn’t stop laughing at the boy’s ‘Oh if you only knew, dad!’ smirk. I reckon it’s good of them to make an advert that acknowledges the gay community, but I don’t know. I can see the humour but I find it kind of sad. Being closeted is a horrible thing and the fact that he has a lover but can’t open up to dad is rather disheartening. Wouldn’t they appeal to the gay community more if they showed a happier situation? Although that might drive away homophobes and I can see the humour and cleverness behind it so it's a plus I guess… Maybe I should cut down on studying my psychology subject…

Thanks to those who read this!