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Thursday, 11:43 pm in Archive

Yeah, so… I’m still here. Woo.

For those of you that missed it (and those of you that didn’t), my birthday was on the 12th. Big fat 21. Hm. Anyway, ~Mat [h] being the extravagant sweetness that he is bought me a (sneakily organised) trip to Melbourne for my birthday to do Shopping. Though I kind of ended up visiting three shops before blowing all my cash, but that’s okay; I’m nothing if not predictable. My small-but-treasured haul included: A Spooky (of I Feel Sick fame) t-shirt and a Brom 2005 wall calendar from Minotaur. One of these and one of these from starsnstripes (both of which were more expensive that if I’d ordered them straight from Lip Service, but oh well). And another pair of jeans from Ministry of Style. I also got us lost on the tram, had room service for the first time, and stayed in a very, very nice hotel. It also meant I didn’t have to stress about packing my room or cleaning the house before moving out on the 14th, which was nice. ~Mat [h] is always far, far too good to me… and next year it’s his 21st. Hard act, I’ll say.

Coming home is nice. My parents gave me more money as a birthday present, with which I’ll probably wind up buying clothes. I’m currently lusting after one of these. Yum. The dollar is good at the moment, too, which means spending spree. Which will be fun. Then I’ll feel guilty for spending money on myself again. But I’ll get over it.

The other consequence of coming home is unpacking. The problem is, my room is already full of junk before I bring another one home. Actually, my two rooms (I have a very, very large study) are full of junk. So I’ve been going on a mad throwing spree; getting rid of the various nostalgic detritus that’s lying around the place. Including clothes. It occurs to me I almost totally replaced my wardrobe this year; this from someone who wasn’t at all interested in clothes until about age 16. It gets weirder and from further away each time, too. Next thing I know I’ll be shipping in handstitched titanium-and-tubing cyber stuff from Mars.

Maybe I really should get a job.

In the downtime, I also managed to come in second at a writing competition at Aussie Gamers.net (the first place winner had a catchier ending line), scoring myself a free copy of World of Warcraft, shipped straight from the backs of Vivendi themselves. I’ll probably give it to ~wolf [h] as a birthday/Christmas present, since nothing less than the WoW CE will do for me onesies. Mmm, Blizzard artbook. Mmm, mini-zerg/Diablo pet… did I mention WoW slaughteres your mothers (in a good, not bad, way)? Go join my guild. Bloodlines also has an imminent release, and hopefully that will have a better take on the (now old) World of Darkness than Redemption did. So many games, so little holidays. Still haven’t finished Morrowind and they’re releasing screenshots of the sequel…

Look, I’ve wound up talking about games again.

I’m really tired. Need sleep. Going Postal is a really good book; about public services and private enterprise, the internet, monopolies in telecommunications and gnus. Can’t beat a book that has a group of three geeks called the Smoking Gnu…

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