Well I think its about time for an update on life, on the whole it sucks but that's a topic for another time. I'll probably say something when the crisis is over.

Working hard, I'm in school two days a week and at work three. This leaves Monday and Tuesday as my chill days... or portfolio days as they have lately become. Gibbo will kill me because the whole of my attention has been on my portfolio since last week. Ok, not the whole of my attention just the motivational part of it. You'll probably see more of my portfolio work as it start to resemble a completed piece, as it stand its mostly just a jumble of sketches, screenshots and prints. which is slowly being rectified and organised. So far i have 16 complete pages not including the scatter-brained mess around me. While some of the art isn't particularly good, I'm still very happy with the quality. I know if I were an lecturer looking for candidates I'd be impressed. Woo! Big-head!

Anyway Left 4 Dead 2 was released today cannot wait to beat some zombies with a guitar that's my treat for working hard on my days off I feel. Well that and Dragon Age: Origins was released last Friday i've been playing that on and off between work, school, portfolio and crisis'.

I've turned the dining room table into a work station... I need a studio. Various bits of shredded paper, glue sticks, pens, pencils, rubbers, rulers, sharpeners, sticky label and marker-pens. and that just the stuff i used for my digital work. Just wait until i break out the paints.

Going up to London tomorrow to visit some galleries and do some art work as opposed to portfolio work. Gibbo can't come its just going to be my art-class up there, so Gibbo won't be there to notice if I sit down and do some first hand ob sketches for my portfolio. I need to draw buildings and where's better than London for buildings?

Currently suffering X-Men withdrawal symptoms. I haven't read a new comic since... Wednesday. I also feel I've been really good normally with new NCIS DVDs I sit down and watch them all reguardless of how much work I need to do but this week I still have some left because I've made my self sit and work. I was so intensly into work yesterday that I completely forgot about lunch and didn't think about it until I started to feel a bit starved around 5pm, by which time I thought I'd wait until dinner.

Went bowling with Zoe, Nick, Alice and various other people in that year on Saturday after work. When did I actually learn to bowl? I won. my score chart of peppered with strikes and spares... why? when? how? I'd say it was a fluke but this is the second time now that I haven't done badly. And they still laughed at my bowling technique even though I wasn't doing my usual spastic bowling dance.

and lastly my film-review gift to you all! Saw DareDevil and Watchmen recently... well actually Watchmen was the second time. ~Mashakosha bought it for me. Both very good superhero movies. Well, DareDevil isn't as good as watchmen but I'd say it was on a parr with Ironman and miles better than all X-Men movies, and Elektra. Though actually on reflection I think Elektra was better than X-Men. Watchmen has to be my favourite Superhero movie, which is an achievement because I found the comic just waaaay to dark and infinitely prefer X-Men comics. I got Danni into comics... she bought the Buffy season 8 comic when we went into Whatever Comics the other day. I love how the stoor-keepers know me, same as the X-Electrical guys and the Costa Coffee people. Comics, games and food just about sums me up.

I think that just about covers it. Oh! Many thanks to ~Mashakosha for buying me Titan Quest and Watchmen as well as getting me into Left 4 Dead and Dragon Age... and Steam and X-fire and for all round generally being awesome

I was going to go as Sakura Kasugano [link] from Street Fighter for the next MCM Expo but I've changed my mind I think I'll be going as Zoey [link] from Left 4 Dead. Its all games anyway! That said Sakura still looks like loads of fun... ah choices.
love you all,

Red-Cougar