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A whole week without posting. Oh my! Mostly, I've spent my time, doing nothing, doing web stuff and reading comics. A whole bunder of good Marvel goodness arrived this week, including some of the Chamber issues of Weapon x and the recent Husk issues of Uncanny X-Men. I still don't know quite what to say about the 'She Lies With Angels' storyline... Perhaps it's best to say nothing in that case! I am now about twelve issues away from having the entire run of Generation X (including specials), so to celebrate I've opened a new fanlisting, Misunderstandings, for the relationship between Husk & Chamber. Go check it out and let me know what you think =)

You know what the best thing about having your Mother visit it? She buys you things. Thanks Mum! *g*

I'm currently at Uni, trying to get through these GIS maps we have to do and, it's not going well. The whole thing is so boring and I keep forgetting what I've just done and how to do it again. Blogging is thus an escape from the tedium of GIS-map-making.

Thank you to all who commented on my rugby rant =) Hey Marie! Great to hear from another Irish person on-line. I've been swinging by your blog, so expect me to comment eventually! As for you, Lee, football doesn't even compare to rugby... Bad Lee! *L*

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It's technically Tuesday, seeing as how it's 5am, but as far as I'm concerned, the day is not over until I've actually been to sleep. Ah, sleep.... I've spent the last six hours updating my information at various fanlistings and it was so much more complicated than it should have been. About half of the site have either disappeared, gone on a so-called 'temporary' hiatus or moved without telling me. If you run a fanlisting, you should at least be able to e-mail your members and tell them that the bloody site has moved. Apparantly that would be too easy *very, very annoyed* I'm now in that horrible over-tired state, and I'm not sure if I'll actually be able to get to sleep.

In brighter news, Stepsisters for Lorna arrived today - the first GGBP for a long while that I haven't actually read yet, so hurrah!

*gawps at the computer which seems to have lost yesterday's entry* *fiddles with the HTML a bit* *gives up* I'll fix it tomorrow. *thinks for a few more seconds and fixes it* I'm just painfully clever sometimes, you know *slumps down on the keyboard, unconscious*

Listening: Various Artists Even Better than the Real Thing
Reading: The Sunday Times

First of all, thank you to Susan, Carrie and Rissa for assuring me that I'm not an idiot and suggesting some ways to kill the time in my lectures =) You'll all be pleased to hear that I solved the problem quite simply - I just didn't go in for the other lectures!

On other (more exciting) news, I hope you all watched the rugby yesterday! Why would you have done that, I hear you ask. Well, let me tell you! Ireland (my team, in case you couldn't have guessed) beat England (the big-headed World Champions)!!!!! WOOHOO! No one expected Ireland to win, but we did and pretty convincingly too *dances* I watched the match in a pub and the atmosphere was electric. I have absolutely no voice today and my head is suffering for yesterday's excesses, but it doesn't matter at all, because IRELAND WON!!!! *ahem*

So what have I been doing all week apart from dodging lectures and hugging complete strangers in pubs? Sod all really. It's been a bit of a Marvel-themed week. On Wednesday my double pack of X-Men 1.5 & 2 arrived so I spent the whole day and part of Thursday watching the movies and the extras. Also on Thursday, some e-bay wins arrived in the form of X-Force 32, 33 & 34, which means that I now have the first proper appearance of Husk - huzzah! Unfortunately, the storyline crosses over into New Mutants and I haven't managed to get those issues yet, so I miss most of the action. I decided to treat myself to some shopping on Friday and picked up the first issue of the new series of Alpha Flight. I'm not really sure what to think about it yet. I've never read any Alpha Flight before, but I am a fan of Scott Lobdell from his Generation X days. I think I'm going to have to get a few more issues before I make any decisions about it! I also got the first issue of the new Stargate SG-1 comic, which doesn't seem great. The art is interesting though, so like Alpha Flight, I might pick up a few more issues before I decide to drop it or not. The crowning glory of the comic-shopping has got to be the chance discovery of X-Men Rarities though, as it means that I now have a copy of the Generation X San Diego Con 1\2 which is incredibly difficult to find. Yay for me and my ever-growing comic collection =) *stops talking before non-comic fans pass out from boredom*

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Hello. My name is Lorraine and I am an idiot. I insist that all of lecturers recognise this fact and treat me like the complete fool that I am. I do not know how to cut. I do not know how to paste. I do not know how to select a piece of an image. I certainly do not know how to move it around. In short, despite the years I have spent using computers and graphics programmes, I am thick and did not pick up any knowledge whatsoever.

I get that people don't understand computers and graphics programmes. I get that I know more about these things than a lot of people. Why must I continually be punished for this? I am sick and tired of turning up to classes where I am treated like a complete and utter eejit with a short-term memory problem. Classes like this should be optional, but no. Every last person in this room is supposedly an idiot and god damnit, they're gonna teach us real good!

Today we're in the first of five three-hour sessions dedicated to 'Digital Imaging'. Today we're learning how to use Adobe Photoshop (I prefer Paintshop Pro myself, but that's besides the point) and we are doing it in painstakingly small baby-steps. Fine for those who have never done anything like this before - shit for those of us who've been using programmes like this since 1995, for gods sake! Please shoot me. I am tired of feeling like an idiot who has to have information drilled into my head because there's no way I could learn it in an interesting way.