The effect I have on most women

There's a woman in the Carnegie Building reception who recognizes me on sight and seemingly hates my guts, simply for the reason that I always ask stupid questions.

I don't understand why; it's not as though my queries take a lot of effort to resolve - usually just a 'no' and then a slightly more forceful 'no, go home' suffices.

Ichi Ni San Shi GO GO GO GO

1. Play World of Warcraft - check
2. Join Roleplaying Society - check
3. Attend Anime Convention - check
4. Ritual suicide - pending

Thanks a great deal to Steven and Alex for also attending D-Con 2009 (Scotland's Only Anime/Art Convention); it made things marginally more socially acceptable. I returned about an hour after you guys left to witness and record the Street Fighter tournament and Cosplay Competition. Most of the photographs were rendered worthless by the darkness of mono and floor five, but I got one of the two Squalls:


And another of the chobit, the girl with the green hair, and the girl with the white hair and companion cube together, but apparently my camera was far too excited to focus.

They exist only in my memories now.

There's also a poor quality video of the bewildering end of proceedings. The Chobit (the one in the white dress with the stockings and cat ears) was the winner.



And so my cosplay adventure ends, and I leave only slightly less confused than when I arrived.

A Life Of Bitter Irony

It looks like I'm the last person remaining in Painfully Single Team. Is that ironic?

I don't know if it's ironic, but it certainly not fun times.

Mr Sandman, I'm so alone

I was intending to spend Valentine's Day drinking and blogging about an imaginary girlfriend, but fortunately I was called away on catsitting duty before being able to follow through on what would surely have been a disasterous plan. Instead, I had the joy of looking after Jam for the weekend and reading my way through most of Steven's Sandman series of graphic novels. Which were good.

In a non-interesting coincidence, the first of the Scout's weapon updates to be released is called The Sandman - Link. It looks alright, but I'm a bit worried at the number of movement impairing weapons that Valve are releasing. They've already had the Airblast and Natasha. At this rate, the demoman will be firing literal sticky bombs that glue people to walls, the Sniper will be harpooning people to surfaces, the Spy will have a sapper that only targets people's shoes, and so on.

Nobody is going to be able to move an inch.

Hopefully the coming two other unlocks will have something a bit more interesting.

Other than that, I really have nothing else to blog about. My free time has been taken up by TF2 quite a bit, so I removed it, but I still need time to catch up on world events. I can't even blog about how much a knob I am for going to the gym because my body has conspired to keep me away from physical exertion. My torso now clicks every time my thorax is twisted relative to my abdomen, so I've chosen to lay off gyming. Also, every time I eat something or think about eating something I feel nauseous, so I don't eat, so I don't have any energy.

If you've ever felt the desire to push me over and not have me get back up, now is the time.