Realm of the Charsh

[30 Sep 2008|11:17pm]

[	mood	\|	busy	]
[	music	\|	Porno Graffiti - Tsukigai	]

SO MUCH HOMEWORK DEAR GOD.

Will post when not snowed under by essays. Goddamn. I have never had this much homework since school.

On the upside... going to Tennoji for cosplay fabrics on Saturday, and Takarazuka theatre on Sunday for a field trip. :3 Am looking forward to this muchly!

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It's been a while. [15 Sep 2008|03:39pm]

[ mood | optimistic ]

[ music | K.T. Tunstall - Suddenly I See ]

Hi everyone.

... I wonder if you all still even check to see if I update?

As you might remember or just generally know, I spent a good portion of this year a bit wrapped up in myself, coming to terms with myself, and what I have gone through, and what I have yet to achieve.

I lived like a hermit whilst I studied to make sure I did not fail Japanese once more. And afterwards, I spent pretty much all my months spazzing and trying to get as much done as possible before leaving for the year. I did panic and worry and run around in circles, too.

And so right now, I am in my dorm room in Seminar House One of Kansai Gaidai, in Japan.

It's a bit bloody weird, that.

But I'm finally here. I can finally relax (a little) and just get on with it instead of worrying. It's a liberating feeling.

I've been here since August 30th but I feel like I've been here forever. There's stuff I don't like (for instance, the Internet here is utter balls). But overall, I am having a great time and my Japanese is rapidly improving, or so I like to think.

But more importantly, I'm sorry for neglecting to be involved in the lives of my friends and communities. I don't think those words are enough. I just wish I knew a more sincere way to express how much I regret missing out. I have missed you, and I have thought about a lot of you.

How is everyone doing? Please tell me what's been going on in your lives.

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>_ [06 Mar 2008|02:42pm]

[ mood | busy ]

[ music | Mika - Ring Ring ]

I AM ALIVE

Though just barely.

In summary: WHERE DID ALL THIS COURSEWORK COME FROM.

In all seriousness, I'm sorry if I've worried anyone, and I'm sorry that I've neglected you all -_-; I don't want to fail my degree.

I'm not going to be online very much for a while until I feel I'm ahead in my work and able to devote some time to play. I have lots I want to share and lots of hugs to give. I miss you all! x

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[06 Jan 2008|10:09pm]

[ mood | bored ]

[ music | Tatsh - Xepher ~long version~ ]

Not much to report from the Mum house, other than the usual: the PC sucks, Dickface McBastard continues his wankery (just assume it's on-going. It makes it easier than me spazzing at each piece of trivia that makes me wish him a horrible death) and the shower sucks. :P But I am having fun doing lots of sleeping. Sleeping is good.

I have revived my mp3 player, which was presumed dead, and been filling it up post-format with some nice new musics. I have decided I need to change my LJ layout, and I believe I will do something disgustingly emo-esque and have a DDR-based layout for my new love, the song Xepher from DDR Supernova (or Dancing Stage Supernova as it is over here). That or the Little Britain one I designed ages ago and never put up. Hrm. Decisions. First, I need my laptop back. This computer barely handles my typing speed.

I've rejoined GG gently, without post-spammage. :3

I've washed my little sister's hair today, it is now all shiny and smells nice. I love doing my sister's hair. :D I'm going to miss her muchly back in Oxford.

Going to see Dave a few days after my return to Oxford, which will be nice. ^_^ We will have to hide our respective gaming notes from each other, as we're playing in each other's roleplaying games, Cthulu and D&D 3.5. *shifty eyes*

Also, wtf is with this new "adult content" thing? :X surely it can be disabled if you're on their f-list? It's taking me ages to get to your LJ entries, kailan!

I think that's about it. Now to play Solitaire and hope people come online I can catch up with :P

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[02 Jan 2008|02:16pm]

Righty, good news is I have 'til March to find somewhere to live. I don't know why this is all happening, but as it couldn't be explained over the phone, I am guessing it is Very Bad News.

... Otherwise, frankly, I shall be pissed off.

Started calling letting agencies and signing up with all my details. Gotta love it.

I hope I find a nice place.

I even hope to rescue one of my co-workers from the dive she currently lives in.

GO SUPERCHARSH '08!

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OH DEAR GOD [01 Jan 2008|08:46pm]

[ mood | wtfohchristbuggery ]

Well.. 2008 has started off on an interesting note!

Text message from housemate this afternoon is as follows:

"Sian and Gareth are moving out. Not sure what to do, have to give the house up and look for something. x"

...

Drama of The Charsh Year, Part I - SHORTLY DUE TO BECOME HOMELESS *soap opera music*

Typically, her phone is out of battery/off and I can't get back to her, either. T_T Y'know, one day, I'd like a hassle-free life. Be a nice thing, that would. X.x

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*plop* [26 Dec 2007|12:49pm]

[ mood | sleepy ]

[ music | Panic! At The Disco - There's A Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey [..] ]

I AM NOT DEAD.

Also, Merry Christmas.

I missed the Internets, and all my friends therein. I hope you're all having a stellar time.

I was caught up in the maelstom that is Christmas At Retail and Advanced Japanese work. My Japanese oral exam went as well as could be expected - I was quite ill and nervous on the day, but I sucked it up and went in and did my best, and I got a healthy 60% - not bad, considering 70% is a First (I think?) and Advanced Japanese is ludicrously difficult - I got the 2nd-highest mark in the class, and I was only 2 marks off of that, so I feel very pleased.

The final exam was a mixed bag; overall I am confident I did reasonably well in it. So that's good.

Work - as in, my job - has been nothing short of a nightmare this year. Every single member of staff has been very, very ill this year, so we've had days where we've been short-staffed and extremely busy. Morale has been low (what can you do when your manager is trying to help but has to keep running out the back to vomit profusely?) and I was dropping to sleep from exhaustion every single night. I made food; went to bed. On my days off? Studied and did laundry. And to top it off, I've fucked my back lifting so many boxes of stock (I work HARD). I'm going to see a chiropractor in the new year.

I have never, ever looked forward to Christmas so much for the sake of getting a good night's sleep.

I'm at my Dad's right now, I worked Christmas Eve and took the train straight to Maidenhead - I fell asleep on the train and when I got in I managed to watch Pirates of the Carribean before passing out to bed. Christmas Day was most enjoyable and lazy. We opened pressies, and watched lots of Christmas telly. The Doctor Who special was the highlight of the day.

Today we're taking it easy - tomorrow, I plan to hit the sales. :D Now I have wages and bonuses and all that, I plan to get me nice things I've had to stare at wistfully the past half-year or so.

I'm off to Mum's for New Year to spend time with her and my BABYSIS! who I miss an awful lot. Then back to Oxford for a few days to do the laundry, tidy up, etc. and to spend some days online finally catching up with the world - then off to visit my Dave in Cornwall.

So yes, even though life has been busy and a bit crap, Dave has looked after me and made me dinners most admirably, so I think I am onto a keeper. :) I love him muchly.

I hope everyone is happy and well and I've really missed you all. And I'm sorry for being absent over the last month and a half. x_x Come early Jan, I'll have dropped the insane hours for weekends-only, and I will be much more active.

How's everyone doing? Fill me in! <3

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Oh, yeah. [17 Oct 2007|08:28pm]

[ mood | amused ]

[ music | Metal Gear - First Impressions [OCReMix] ]

If you wish to harrass the new boyfriend (as all new boyfriends should be) his username is tzeki.

Comment here and embarrass the boy. Ask questions, and shiznits. I know I can trust you all to make his life difficult. 8)

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Life, love, and cake [17 Oct 2007|10:47am]

[ mood | contemplative ]

[ music | Portal - Still Alive ]

I'm writing from my boyfriend's computer. :)

So I'll post about him now whilst he's not here. :D

( Details, gossip... or you can skip the goo. )

Since having real internet, I forgot just how much stuff I need to catch up on. I am spending today studying, doing laundry, etc.

( Quick cut for personal issues )

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Finally. [12 Oct 2007|06:39pm]

[ mood | relieved ]

I am back!

LOVE ME. Tell me what you've all been up to.

Don't have the Internet in my room yet (waiting on a wireless router) but I've otherwise hogged it in the living room. <3333333 INTERNET!

I'll talk about real life soon, once I've caught up on internets. Yay!

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*rocks back and forth in fetal position* [08 Oct 2007|03:43pm]

[ mood | impatient ]

WANT INTERNETS. WANT NOW. MUST WAIT TIL THURSDAY.

I've been coping well as boyfriend is very lovely, and lovely-like, however reading fractions of LJ has just made me tear up a bit because I bloody well miss you all.

I didn't get any e-mails from anyone on my personal account though. You all still love me, right? Right?

/paranoia

I look forward to roleplaying and webcomic reading and porn and big, internet cuddles. Bwee.

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The Diaries Of The Girl Without Internet... [23 Sep 2007|01:24pm]

[ mood | busy ]

[ music | mihimaru GT - Punkish ]

So, keeping things up to date whilst at my Mum's:

Last night I scurried from work, straight down to Portsmouth from Oxford, straight to my grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary celebrations, met all of my extended family, and got home at 1am. NEVER AGAIN! But it was worth it to make my grandparents go all teary as I struggled in a dramatic race-against-time versus the diabolical British Rail and their nefarious train delays.

Today Mum, her beau (named Steve. He seems nice. I am still vetting him) and I are having Sunday dinner.

Erin's at her friend's house but I will give her buffdy present when she gets back :D She's now 11 and I have a boxful of LUSH goodies for her to play with.

I've actually sorted out an awesome cable internet deal - £17 per month - but they had some problems with the installation dates and long story short, I'm not getting Internet in Oxford until the 11th of October. >_< ARRRGH. *twitch* So here I am on the rubbish PC at home trying to sort out life in general and keep my mail boxes relatively spam-free until I have the opportunity to have less neutered Internets.

In more important news however, I acquired a boyfriend last Sunday. :D He is shiny, and together we have formed the support group for Internetless Geeks. Mostly, this involves eating nice dinners together, playing Heroes 3 on the PC, and planning spa days. :3 *fuzz*

Ahem. So in summary: yes, I made this entry just so I could mention I now have a boyfriend, and that he is made of win. <3

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Grrrrrrrr! [11 Sep 2007|02:20pm]

[ mood | irritated ]

As you may have noticed... I've not been on the Internet.

BT are being extremely fucktarded, and long story short: still no phone line.

I just want to say to all my GG friends: I am really, really sorry. I've been writing stuff for GG and I keep fretting its going to be horrifically outdated by the time I actually get the Internet again.

Right now I'm at the University on my day off, trying to get this Internet situation sorted online, seeing as I can't get through to anyone at the BT callcentre. I'm not best pleased; classes start in less than 2 weeks and I need the frigging Internet to actually be able to study!

And I misses you alls. ._.

But this should let you know that I am indeed alive, but tearing my hair out. Gotta sort out my classes now and catch up on e-mails, so <3 and hope you're all okay.

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Motivational post of glee [22 Aug 2007|10:13pm]

[ mood | content ]

[ music | Sum 41 - In Too Deep ]

Wellp, I got my chores done. This means I have nothing left to do other than prepare to move again, and take a good day off doing bugger all.

HOORAY!

I need to book noodlebar, that's about it.

I start work full-time next week AND I need to move out. This.... may be awkward.

But then I will be done moving for a while, and can officially Unpack All My Shit. WOOOO!

Can't wait 'til payday. Moniiiiiiees!

*surrepticiously nags a Frankie* 8D

I'm going to have a Noodlebar birthday and an Oxfordian birthday party. I have decided this. My poor manager, who has so graciously offered her boxroom as accomodation, may soon regret her decision. :3

I think that's all to report, other than playing lots of Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Mmm, retro.

*sings to her playlist*

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What I've been up to [18 Aug 2007|09:54pm]

[ mood | hopeful ]

[ music | Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out ]

I feel a lot better right now.

My god, have I been feeling crap. I got knocked every whichway by the most lethal cold, and then had a depressive slump to boot. I spent 4 days down in Cornwall with Dave last week and it made me feel all shiny again. We got to walk along the coastline via cliffs and hills and beach, view meteors at night, I saw seals in Falmouth harbour, and Dave made sure I was well-provided with tea. :D I had a lot of fun and I feel more refreshed and able to get on and do things.

Tomorrow I need to go down to STA Travel. I am sick of being stuck on their premium line waiting for no-one to answer (25p per minute, the fuckers!) on hold and I need to sort out my fecking flight to Japan I am no longer going on. Grr. I also need to call Chancellors again, and make sure they actually sort me out with this bloody refund. I'll walk down there Monday if need be.

I did however get to swap shifts today, which means I get my massage on Tuesday. Ohhh, joy of joys, as my back aches like I've recently done a marathon, ugh! I think that's from where I had my cold, just haven't been able to get the aches and pains to shift...

Slowly, but surely, I'm approaching something resembling life again, instead of endlessly in a cycle of sleep, work, fail at making dinner and eating cereal, sleep, work, sleep. I want to catch up and actually chat to people online instead of going into a half-asleep stupor midway, and I want to get my life on track and see my sister before term starts. I also want to practice drawing, finish a few pictures I've started, and write more in LJ. I want to get back into Arts, period. My imagination seems to have hit a low, and I wonder if maybe I just need to feed it to get it started.

I also haven't had my birthday party yet, due to fucktardery on my part and needing to cancel Noodlebar. There will be Noodlebar Trip II in the next couple of weeks which I will give everyone the date for, and then I will have a PROPER PARTY when I have A House. I want an excuse for fancy dress! I want a party! *tantrum, etc*

It's also really cold here right now... the weather is more like October. I want a summer too! Why hasn't summer started here yet!? It's August! Raaaaaar!

... Okay, I'm done complaining. I'm actually quite content at the moment, just moving upward slowly ^_^

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I fail at life! [03 Aug 2007|12:24pm]

[ mood | tired ]

[ music | Scissor Sisters - Filthy/Gorgeous ]

So I called up to book my table at Noodlebar and it turns out they have reduced hours on Sunday. :< I PHAIL.

So birthday is officially on hiatus. It's probably a good thing, I still have my cough/cold. I'm going to go visit home instead and be (hopefully!) looked after by Mum and babysis.

I am officially in poverty, as I have an erroneous charge (partially my fault!) for £1020, leaving me with about -£1000 in the bank. Oops. It's in the process of being reversed, but it means I cannot book my massage and buy things I wanted for my buffdy. Le sigh.

Still. Got work tomorrow then off home for my buffdy on Sunday. ^_^

Today is lazy day. I shall sleep a lot. Wheee!

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Blaaaargh, unstructured update post to make up for my absence. [29 Jul 2007|06:18pm]

[ mood | sick ]

[ music | Sick Puppies - It's All The Same ]

I'm off sick from work today. I feel like the poop. x_x

I have a cold, and/or manflu. I've never had a cold that's left me so much like a husk.

Anyway. I've moved back into Halls - unfortunately, they've decided to turn the heating off for "summer". My room is so cold I'm wearing 2 jumpers. Methinks I will go to the Hall Manager tomorrow and complain, particularly as I asked for heating to be put on today and the guy behind the counter responded with "what do you want ME to do?" like I'm supposed to psychically supposed to arrange this myself. Screw that. I want a thermometer and have them PROVE my room is over 18c (the legal temperature limit for rented housing) before telling me to fuck off.

Grr.

I was so ill when moving - I was barely packed when my Granddad and Dad arrived. I just wanted to go back to sleep. Worst day to move EVER.

Man, there's a lot I need to write about...

Having Karlie and Dave down was awesome. Dave is full of fuzz. He was with me during the great 999 incident, which was basically this crazy guy jumping onto our bus and screaming at the bus driver non-stop for about 3-4 minutes, refusing to get off etc. so I called the police and took the license plate, because I was afraid he might turn violent. Bus driver was cool.

I also got naked for an environmental protest with LUSH. I have proper photos which I will add at a later date. Apparantly I have someone who was interested in my nekkid body call the shop to try and find out what hours I worked @_@ Needless to say, he does not know when I work. :3

Um, saw seienchan on Friday. I was not well then but did not phail too hard. I think.

At the moment I want cuddles, and my sinuses to not feel like crap.

Hayley, Frankie, please e-mail me and let me know your address, and stuff. *sad and lonely*

Mum is supposed to be coming up next week and I'm worried I won't be well enough. :S

I think I am now going to make something to eat, something to drink, curl up with my feet on the warm laptop adaptor, and write out some shiznits for groznyj_grad.

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Quick "I'm not dead" update [13 Jul 2007|03:29pm]

[ mood | stressed ]

I am very tired and a little bit unwell. Doctor knows and is helping. <3

A bit stressed right now - phoned 999 for the first time today and am a little bit shaken. I was very brave and feel proud of myself for facing up to a potentially violent crime. I am now going to have a very relaxing bath to calm down, have a nap, and return to life shortly. Love you all, peeps.

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Good news! [05 Jul 2007|11:30am]

[ mood | hopeful ]

Okay, the University has approved my year deferral. This means I can now start getting stuff into action.

The downside is I will be registered as a part-time student on my deferral year in order to re-take my class, which is more expensive and does not give me any entitlement to any student loan or grants etc. The cost is £700-750. Ouch. This is considerably more than the £200-400 I was expecting to pay.

So I have until the end of August to work out how to play this. I think this should be enough time, fingers crossed. I have a lot of options, I just need to work out the best one.

The interesting thing about being registered as a part-time student is this automatically allows me to take up to 4 classes on that cost. Now the class I am re-taking is a double, so essentially worth 2 classes. This leaves me with 2 classes I could potentially take that year. This might be worth doing, as my current timetable has me overworked in 4th year, doing 5 classes apiece per semester (the normal number is 4.) This would allow me to redress the balance, provided the classes in question allow distance-learning (in case I can't stay in Oxford due to the ridiculous rental costs.)

I will ask about etc. after I've moved, because lord knows I need to cope with one thing at a time. @_@

But at least I feel able to definitely make some plans now, and know my options. I'm going to buy some chocolate or something for my tutor, because he has saved my life. He is awesome and full of win. I salute you, John O'Regan of Oxford Brookes.

Today I have work, and I am now going to have a nice, relaxing bath. <3 I feel I have thoroughly earned it.

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Brief flyby entry [30 Jun 2007|05:57pm]

[ mood | accomplished ]

[ music | Rose & John - Living In America (Extended Mix) ]

I now have one month until I move places again. Ebaying seller-ing goes well, but I still have a shitload of stuff to pack up. @_@ Wah.

I've done a load of chores this week, so I feel content that I'm not sitting at home and sulking when not at work. My room is fucking spotlessly clean. I took a page out of imre_nico's book and had a mad feng shui of my wardrobe, too, so now I actually have some space to store more of my crap. :3

Oh! I quit Gamestation. I now work solely at LUSH, who actually sympathise that I am quite ill, when on Saturday at Gamestation I'm run absolutely ragged, as well as bullied by a member of staff. To hell with that. I need to talk to my managers at LUSH, actually, regarding some future employment options.

I have my LUSH forum specials here, they are so shiny and pretty. Mmmm, limited edition products. <3

I was going to do a photo-post with my corset and stuff, but right now I canna be bothered, and I have henna to wash out of my hair before my girliepeeps get home from work and moan I'm taking up the bathroom. ;D

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