"YOU PEOPLE ARE SUPPOSED TO TELL ME ABOUT THESE THINGS!"

http://www.londonexpo.com/

*headdesk*

I spent my fucking weekend sanding and polishing tools, bored to death, and this was going on 40 MILES FROM HERE?!

*headdesk again*

Kyselypysely

Rakkaan ystävän plokista pöllitty ^^

1. Sukupuoli? Nainen
2. Ikä? 27
3. Mitä konsoleita & pcitä omistat? Tavan pc, kannettava Fujitsu Siemens sekä Playstationit 1 ja 2.
4. Missä asut? Keskellä ei-mitään, Englannissa. Tällä hetkellä...
5. Millaisessa talossa? Ikivanhassa kartanossa.
6. Kuinka nopeasti kirjoitat? Aika nopeasti.
7. Kuinka nörtti olet? Koko ajan enemmän ja enemmän...
8. Harrastukset? Lukeminen, kirjoittaminen, piirtely, elokuvat, tosin tällä hetkellä en paljon ehdi/jaksa harrastella.
9. Mitä pelaat tällä hetkellä eniten? En mitään. ;__; FF7 kutsuu taas kunhan kotiin pääsen...
10. Kuinka kauan sitten tulit tietokoneen ääreen? 15 minuuttia sitten kun sain työt tehtyä.
11. Pituus? 163-165cm, en muista tarkalleen.
12. Paino? Liikaa >__>
13. Silmien väri? Harmahtavat.
14. Horoskooppi? Kauris.
15. Lemmikkieläimet? Pari kissaa joita on kova ikävä.
16. Minkä kirjan luit viimeksi? Andrew Greig: That summer
17. Minkä leffan katsoit viimeksi? Eilen näin Kummisetä-leffan viimoset 15 minuuttia.
18. Kuinka monta limonaatipulloa näet tällä hetkellä? Ei yhtään.
19. Koska viimeksi söit roskaruokaa? En kyllä muista.
20. Kesän lempijäätelösi? Taitaa mullakin olla se lakritsi. ^^
21. Minkä pelin ostit viimeksi? Hmm... Kingdom Hearts 2.
22. Mikä on kaukaisin paikka jossa olet käynyt tänä vuonna? Lontoo.
23. Kaukaisin paikka jossa olet käynyt koskaan? Venetsia.
24. Mitä radioasemaa kuuntelet mieluiten? En mitään.
25. Koska viimeksi kävit vapaaehtoisesti ulkona? Tunti sitten.
26. Jos olisit supersankari, mikä olisi voimasi? Lentäminen.
27. Noudatatko mitään erikoisruokavaliota? Kasvissyöjä.
28. Mitä nettiselainta käytät netissä surffailuun? Mozilla Firefox
29. Poltatko/juotko? Juon joskus harvoin.
30. Lempinäyttelijä? Sanotaan Ewan McGregor, on niitä muitakin.
31. Lempipeli? Final Fantasy VII. Always and forever. ^^
32. Lempibändi ja kappale? Ei ole yhtä lempibändiä. Lauluista X Japanin Art of Life.
33. Mikä on seuraava peliostos? FF7 – Crisis Core on harkinnassa. Pitäs vaan ostaa PSP sitä varten.
34. Lempiruoka? Sushi. ^^
35. Mitä elokuvaa odotat nyt? Taitaa se neljäs Indiana Jones olla.
36. Nettisi nopeus? Emmäätiijä...
37. Kengänkoko? 39.
38. Uskotko Jumalaan? Enpä pahemmin.
39. Mottosi? Life’s a beach and then you learn to write.
40. Irc-galleria / ii2-nickisi? Sehän se galleriassa vanha irkkinikki on.
41. Suosikki TV-ohjelma? Dexter! 8D plus Mullan alla, Babylon 5.
42. Koska viimeksi kävit elokuvateatterissa? Viime vuonna, taisi olla Stardust.
43. Lempi kouluaine? Kuvaamataito
44. Mitä keräilet? Sarjakuvia, action figuureita... en paljon muuta.
45. Oletko oikea- vai vasenkätinen? Oikea.

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Okay so it's actually a bridge BOARD, not port. Good to know. And the reason the other two didn't work was because they were made to work only with one drive, not with two as we were attempting. You learn something every day.

Pissing with rain for about the third day in a row. Luckily the weather was nice yesterday while I was in Reading. Ah, British weather.

Changing Sun-kissed update schedule into weekly since that's far more realistic than daily. Not that it seems to have any readers... *cries* heh.

Can't for the life of me remember what else I was going to write, and since it hasn't come to me in the ten minutes I've spent staring at the screen, I'll leave it until the next time. Bye!

Sir Spamalot here, g'day!

"we've been scribbled in the margins
of a story that is patently absurd"

Amen, Nick. Amen.

Dig, Lazarus, dig!!! sounds quite good. But Mr. Cave's moustache... he he he...

Half past one now, bedtime soon. I hope.

"one day I'll buy a factory & I'll assemble y/
on a production line"

...that moustache... bet it tickles.

Continuation of the last one...

It's now 00:58, and the third bridge port I installed finally works. Wahey. The bloody poppy seeds are in from the rain. My hair is a little wet, but at least it smells nice (strawberry & cream shampoo, mmmm).

I'm hungry.

44 more days...

Reading from Reading

To my great surprise, I got to go to Reading (the closest big city, 10 minutes in the train from the village) this afternoon. I had asked a few weeks ago whether I could go there one day to buy some socks, since there are no clothes shops in the village and I was down to my last two pairs or so. Walking around all day tends to wear out socks pretty fast.

I'd already bought a few pairs on my last trip to London, so I just went on a spending spree in the big mall called the Oracle. I bought some neat things for the X-gig: wrist warmers and a choker necklace; two dvd's: The Elephant Man and second 'season' of Hamish MacBeth; Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' Dig, Lazarus, dig!!! -album (haven't listened yet but by the lyrics booklet, looks very interesting; and a few books, Jeff Lindsay's Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted Dexter plus M. C. Beaton's Death of a Dentist. That last one is one of the Hamish MacBeth series, and if you haven't seen the tv-show you've missed out! It's got Robert Carlyle, and he's always good. Except when he played Hitler. Oh, he played the part well, but you know what I mean...

Oh, I also bought... *drumroll* CHOCOLATE! From a place called Hotel Chocolat. Shelves and shelves full of all kinds of chocolaty goodness. I'm surprised they didn't have buckets all over the place to catch all the drool in.

The Oracle is only about five minute's walk away from the Reading train station, but there is still room for the city's only (at least that's what they claim) sushi restaurant on the way. And they make real good sushi there. Have to go and eat properly there next time, this time I just took a few cucumber bits as takeaway since had to get back here. Now it's after midnight, it's raining heavily outside, and I'm writing this while fighting with few drives and bridge port, since it apparently bloody well cannot wait until tomorrow morning. Bah.

Wish I had that chocolate here... *drools a little*

44 days to go!

Oh yeah, I told the boss last Wednesday that I won't be coming back when I go home in July. And today she started to ask why I want to go back to Finland, what's there for me, what my plans are. And that I am needed here. I know that, and I do feel rotten about leaving, in a way. But I need to go home. To get out. For one, it's half past midnight and I'm fighting with a fucking bridgeport! I've been here near six months by now, and I've been out of the house & village four times. I've not had a single proper day off since I started here. I've no time and very little urge to draw or write anything. And when I do get the urge, five minutes into it and I have to go and do something. I need my fucking life back, thank you!

So yes. I am going home and staying there.

Right now I have to go outside into the pouring fucking rain and take the bloody poppy seeds in. So, bye for now.

~48 days to go!

Yesterday I changed a power supply to a computer, rewiring the drives and everything. The amazing thing is that the computer actually WORKS.

Well, it worked yesterday. No one's yet tried whether it still works today...

I started to put up one of my stories onto the net. You can read it here: http://kashiistories.blogspot.com/

it's also linked on the front page of this blog. Correctly, this time. I wrote the address incorrectly at first and took me two days to realize it. Updating schedule is (tentatively) supposed to follow the days in the story, so first actual part coming today, the next on Wednesday. After that I'll try to keep it up, but I've only written a few days of it. Well, a timetable should be enough reason to get my ass writing. If I have enough free time. And that's a big IF.

Umm, what else... I feel much better about being here now that I know the end of this gig is really coming, and not too far away. And especially because the bosses seem so cool about me leaving and not coming back. I was terrified about telling them.

Right-o. I think that's it for now.

Psst! Your geek is showing...

"It was the dawn of the third age of mankind, ten years after the Earth-Minbari War. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It's a port of call, home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers. Humans and aliens wrapped in two million, five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it's our last, best hope for peace. This is the story of the last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is Babylon 5."

If you don't get that one, you're not as obsessed with numbers as I am. I've actually been waiting for this day since... oh, 2005, I think. Just to pull that quote.

Sad.

In other news, I told one of my bosses yesterday that I won't be coming back here once I go home in July. She took it quite well. I don't know if the other one knows yet. But 10th of July is now officially the latest that I shall be working here. Woot! Less than 50 days to go!

Pop Quiz!

When is the best time to start work that requires dexterity, speed, accuracy and very exact timing?

a) First time Monday morning;

b) Tuesday afternoon;

c) Any time during normal working hours;

d) Between 10 and 11 Friday evening?


Anyone who answered d is welcome to this job. You can claim your prize at any time. Pls hurry, though.

London again!

Yay I got to go to London again today! Blimey, only been about a month since the last time...

Went to Harrods first to get the bosses what they needed, and got utterly lost in there. Nice place, though. Bought some souvenirs for peeps at home. Then I walked over to the corner of Hyde Park and sat on the bank of the Serpentine for a while, eating some chocolate. It was a cloudy, gray day after about a week or two of sunshine and warmth.

From Hyde Park I headed back to Knightsbridge tube station and traveled to Westminster. Coming out of the station this was what I saw:

The Big Ben. ^^ Well, Big Ben is actually one of the bells in there, but anyhoo. Went over the bridge to the London Eye...


...and in it!

It looked like London stretches on endlessly in every direction, even when the day wasn't too clear.

I think we were at least twice the height of Big Ben when at the top of the Eye.

My shoes, and some ant poo. No wait, those are people. I like heights, but have to admit, my palms were sweating.

The Thames, towards south, I think.

And, because you asked for it, N, me. Hello!


Look, you can even see my natural hair colour! First time in years.

After half an hour of going around slowly in the Eye it was time to start heading back. So tubed it to Paddington, where I bought sushi (yum!), a small map book of London streets, and some sweets. The wasabi really went to my nose, as always. But it was good. Yum yum. Train was in time and full, had to stand most of the way. And when I got a seat, I nearly fell asleep and could have happily dozed past my stop.

Now it's evening again, raining a little after a nice good shower. Feet are hurting and I'm quite tired, but it has been a nice day, even though I couldn't enjoy London fully, since these 'days off' always come with a deadline: have to be back then and then to do this and that in the evening. I haven't had a full day off since I started here. But just a few more weeks to go! X Japan is in Paris on the 5th of July, and after that I go home or come back here only just for a few days. We'll see. Freedom will come!

Wait... WHAT?!

X Japan is touring again?!

They are coming to Paris in July?!?!

@__@

My brain just broke down. It is oozing out of my ears in little squealing pieces.

Obviously hide won't be playing, and it won't be the same without him, but...

Hot diggity damn.

I must see about going to see this gig. I mean, shit. Paris is like next door.

I just watched Art of Life live and thought I'd check this old fan page for X and there it stands in big pink letters.

If I don't stop grinning soon, the top of my head will fall off.

I can do handstands too!

I can, I just tried! I used to be able to even walk around on my hands as a kid. Then my boobs grew. Now, thanks to this work, I have actual muscles in my arms (and other places as well. I'm gonna kick so much ass when I get back to kickboxing), so I thought I'd give it a go. And after tossing myself on my back a few times, I managed to stay standing for almost two seconds!

Wahey.

In other news, the temperature here was about 24 Celcius with barely any clouds. I walked down to the post office in sandals and a t-shirt. And some pants as well. Not bad for the beginning of May.

Känkkäränkkäpäivä

I suck. No, really. You see, no matter what else I've done here during the past hide knows how many weeks, from actual work to cutting wood or being a plumber or a locksmith, it's my skills in vacuuming that are praised. That makes me feel so good about myself, you know: wow, I can point a metal tube at dust! Go me!

This is exactly how I like to spend my Saturday afternoons and evenings. Who cares about spending quality time with friends and family or -god forbid- resting on a day off (what's that? A whole unknown phrase in this workplace!). No, it's vacuuming tons of dog hair that I love to do!

And do you know what I'm gonna be doing tomorrow? That's right, boys and girls! WORKING! Yaaaaaaaaaaay!

Please excuse me while I go and choke on all this sarcasm, and pull out a small witch from my ass.

Roliga Vappen!

Or happy 1st of May to those who celebrate it. Have some pictures!

Moooooooo?

There's a whole sea of bluebells in the nearby forest. This picture is pretty bad, can't even see the colours well.

And a pretty flowering tree from the garden.

Crikey, tomorrow it's been 10 years since hide died. So about five years since I first heard of his music and became a fan. Time sure flies... speaking of time and flying, yesterday was day #135, if I remember correctly. Right now it looks like I'll be heading home around 10th of July.

Every time I see a plane flying over I long to be in it. And since we're not too far from one of the big airports near London, a lot of planes fly over us. Not too long to go!