So there I was ...

Tweets for Today

2009-03-01T10:45:01Z

20:13 Enjoying a creme egg dessert - served in an eggcup straight from the freezer :) #

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2009-02-28T10:45:02Z

13:22 Harbouring jealousy of the sailors who are about to dock at Reunion Island which has VOLCANOES! Also, mother calls the mayor of said Island. #

16:36 Exhaustioned from a walk into town and back with heavy heavy fruit. Pre-birthday french chocolate mousse for @mytholder. #

23:18 Franklyn:Epic storyOf TruLove found whn psychopath in yr apt tries ShootHisFatherInFantasyWorld misses,hits true love,kills TL imag grlfrnd. #

23:19 Oh bugger - last tweet is maybe spoilers. I promise nothing is spoiled! #

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Tweets for Today

2009-02-27T10:45:01Z

11:36 Off for assessment! #

21:51 Off for a walk in the dark. #

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5 things Memery

2009-02-26T18:06:54Z

I joined the 5 associated words thingy courtesty of natural20.

Fish
I occassionally talk in my sleep - usually when I'm just on the verge of waking up and my dreams are starting to interact with whatever is in my (so-called) real world environment. One such morning, I was apparently heard to exclaim "I am a deli-fish!". There may have been repetitions.

In retrospect, I think I may have been claiming to be a jellyfish and getting it wrong.

Anyway ... this was the beginning of Fish. It's been taken and run with to a rediculous extent at this point. And for your random amusement, I recall that during this same dream, Gar was creating "Milkyfish" from his extended ears. It's a picture I must paint at some point.

Coming back to Ireland
For a long time during my 6 year sojourn in Japan, I rather thought I would never return to Ireland to live. There's a lot I don't love about the country, weather, people, etc. and I've never strongly identified with Irish as a nationality or felt hugely at home here. That said, 6 years of isolation - in terms of culture, speech, writing, food and just in terms of sheer distance from friends and family , took its toll. I'm glad to be back.

Some of the things I don't love are hard to place my finger on, and I sometimes fear I may sound a little arrogant when I talk about them. It's not like I've got everything figured out. Catch me in person sometime and I'll try to explain - I think I can manage stuff like that better conversationally. The weather gets to me because I find the lack of sunlight in winter extremely draining and my mood suffers.

I don't know if I'll stay here forever. My family is here so I'm unlikely to live for as long as far away again. I'm going to be staying for the next few years at least.

UCG
I went to college in UCG nearly entirely because I wanted to move out of home, couldn't afford to pay rent and could only get my parents to pay for it if it was necessary. UCG was the only college that I could make a reasoned argument for, given that both my sisters had gone there, and my father's family is in Galway. I was also able to claim that the course I did was something I couldn't do in any other college and offered a unique combination of practical and theoretical skills. The course wasn't bad. If I had been allowed, I had wanted to study pure Maths in TCD, but my mother felt it was not practical enough. Oh well.

Anyway, the college itself is good, I had a fun 4 years there which would take far longer than this memery to go into detail on. I think UCC has a prettier campus, but at least UCG has a proper quad :D

Meeting New People
I've met a lot of new people since coming back to Ireland, via mytholder. It's different to meeting new people in other contexts - which any of us do when we head off to college, start a new job or move to a new country - in that I've been a degree of "pre-known" to most everyone I've met in this context. Luckily it's been an unequivocally good introduction and it's been like walking into a room pre-filled with people I'm going to get on with.

Creating Art
I'm just going to rip off what I posted as a comment on fluffworld's last entry:

For the longest time I've wanted to draw/praint/make pictures (often, shamefully, of unicorns). But my fear in going down such a "silly, unrealistic" path was such that I wouldn't even take art for the leaving cert. and nearly didn't take it for the Junior Cert - waiting until second year to transfer out of commerce.

Anyway, then I went and studied Maths and Computers and worked in computers. And when the creative urge got too much for me, but still scared to face up to what I really wanted to do, I made websites and gained joy from lining things up.

And then that was kind of killing my soul, and I stepped over yet another decade and decided I had to be happy in what I did - even though at that point, I was still afraid to 'fess up to the fact that I wanted to draw things, coz I always always see stories in pictures - and decided to do some night courses in Graphic Design and short summer courses in drawing.

And now, here I am, unemployed and refusing to work in IT at all ever again. But I have a Webcomic and I love my night courses more than I have ever enjoyed any kind of education before ever, so that's something.

Hopefully it will all work out.

Anyway - if anyone wants words that I associate with them to write about, leave me a comment.

Tweets for Today

2009-02-26T10:45:02Z

16:16 @ocultado Shite testing is clearly the result of too many cowboys and not enough indians... #

22:38 Tired and still ill, but still made it to course. Home in time for #Armageddon and a sore finger. #

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2009-02-25T10:45:01Z

13:55 Gah - the internet is broken everywhere and coffee shops - which sell overpriced greasy sandwiches - are filled with v. annoying people. #

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2009-02-24T10:45:11Z

15:14 De-blacked! Upped early today and spent a large portion of the morning walking. Now with sore feet, I print CVs. Small child was watched. #

16:16 I fail at speed. CVs remain (albeit nicely packaged and labelled) in house until the early morrow. #

10:22 Up before noon twice in as many days?! Lesser things have foretold Ragnarok. #

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Tweets for Today

2009-02-23T10:45:01Z

15:38 Being healthy for the most part, but a Cadbury Golden Crisp holds my doom in its chocolatey grasp. #

21:12 I created crispy duck a l'orange! (successfully, much to my surprise). @mytholder claims that duck makes him stupid. #

00:25 Finished the very slow creation of strip 2 for 100% Reality Mind. I know, it's mean to talk about it when we won't publish for ages. #

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Tweets for Today

2009-02-22T10:45:01Z

11:11 @bluejava Using preview you can 'save as' to change the quality and hence file size.Can also "drag,select,copy" to crop-prob not enough tho? #

11:14 About to head off shopping and dropping heavy books to charity shops. Happy Saturday all. #

16:26 Some books gone to their new home in secondhand bookshops. I need to get a bike - with a basket for shopping without a car. #

10:40 Making aluminium hats to protect us from the alien space-rays. #

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2009-02-21T10:45:01Z

15:26 A sunny day here for once. It feels like Spring may have finally sprung. I shall be a good fish and get to work while looking at window ivy. #

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2009-02-20T10:45:01Z

15:48 I join the blacked out. #

15:59 Goulash for lunch after bloggery and Chapter 4 completed over at thatsnotmysquid.com #

16:41 @ocultado anti the whole "guilty until proven innocent" thing that's going on with internets copyright in NZ: creativefreedom.org.nz/ #

17:29 Amazon associates is being really annoying. #

23:52 Home from dinner in blarney. I've spent the afternoon messing with amazon affiliates stuff for the website. Must get some game PDFs up too. #

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Tweets for Today

2009-02-19T10:45:01Z

14:45 Brain continues to explode while I change addresses and get insurance discounts due to Shiny New Driver's License. Being slow on fff layout. #

22:22 Still exploding, but made it to my class tonight all the same. T'was fun - I opened a photoshop door on an evil photoshop duck. #

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Tweets for Today

2009-02-18T10:45:01Z

13:18 Stupid migraine attack - loss of vision in the gym this morning, followed by word mixing up and a killer headache. #

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2009-02-17T10:45:01Z

00:25 Finished all of Chapter 4 paintings -I'm trying something new with this chapter - also shorter than the others. Soberlanebreakfast tomorrow. #

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2009-02-16T10:45:01Z

16:27 Back from the gym and fed with sandwich. I am about halfway through drawing Chapter 4 of Fish for Fish. Nothing scanned yet though. #

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2009-02-14T10:45:01Z

12:28 More late sleepage. I appear to have a painting block. On the other hand, I'm having lots of fun with photoshop. #

13:46 @ocultado No,you just shove water up one nostril and let it run down thru' another -thus sucking your sinuses clear(well, that's part of it) #

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Tweets for Today

2009-02-13T16:31:52Z

17:52 @ocultado @Luciddestiny There is a procedure called Jala Neti which is great for sinus clearing. Google it - it works really well. #

12:28 More late sleepage. I appear to have a painting block. On the other hand, I'm having lots of fun with photoshop. #

13:46 @ocultado No,you just shove water up one nostril and let it run down thru' another -thus sucking your sinuses clear(well, that's part of it) #

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2009-02-12T23:34:10Z

17:52 @ocultado @Luciddestiny There is a procedure called Jala Neti which is great for sinus clearing. Google it - it works really well. #

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Tweets for Today

2009-02-06T10:46:28Z

16:48 Frozen fingers, empty boxes to fill, Coraline-visi-lust, car lamp fixed, driving test impending, tholderbirthdaysurprisebooked, gym done, .. #

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2009-02-05T10:46:08Z

00:18 Plotting tholderbirthday plots. #

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2009-02-04T12:33:29Z

22:52 Upstairs is free of our stuff! It is, however, still filled with our dust bunnies. Reproductive little so&sos .. #

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2009-02-03T11:16:31Z

12:06 Still messing up on roundabouts, but everything else is improving. 8 days to test day. I have the fear. Packing boxes will assuage it. #

14:24 More heavy boxes for me. No gym today as I was spleepy in the morning, so tomorrow morning is a can't miss. Off to Internetless land ... #

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Tweets for Today

2009-02-02T11:35:42Z

15:09 Doors decimate fingers as I carry heavy boxes that I can't see over. #

10:07 Off to my driving lesson. No snow here... #

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Tweets for Today

2009-02-01T11:42:21Z

20:41 @mytholder said my food tonight was "not the best". No more food for him EVAH! #

07:30 @mytholder has run off to London. Airport driving scary - went wrong way round a roundabout on the way out of carpark! #

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Tweets for Today

2009-01-31T16:35:50Z

21:39 Anyone know anything about: comixpress.com ? #

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