"I find penguins at present the only comfort in life. One feels everything in the world so sympathetically ridiculous; one can't be angry when one looks at a penguin." – John Ruskin
Yes, I know I should be writing nice long posts on stuff that actually matters, like disability issues or what I think about Prince William getting married to Kate Middleton, but right now I can’t think properly, due to the nice combination of ME and a cold. I was hoping to go to Asda today, but I was just too tired. I dozed for a bit, and didn’t get up until late, but still I’m exhausted and my brain no worky. Maybe tomorrow, maybe sometime next week 😛
I also have realised I still haven’t finished setting this blog up properly. I hope to do some work on that tomorrow.
Don’t look now, but my cold may be getting a bit better…
Today I took part in the /afk EU event (yes, I actually have a video that’s relevant to the rest of the post!). It was a lot of fun, especially when the group of us (mostly level 1-10) decided to raid the Crossroads (a Horde town). We died, a lot.
We made our way to Onyxia’s Lair in Dustwallow Marsh (and people died because this is a very high level zone to us lowbies), where Aventhor said “Brb, dinner’s ready” and went /afk. This was very amusing, and the end of the event, so I did the same.
Now I’m watching Children in Need on BBC 1. The BBC Newsreaders weren’t too bad 🙂
My World of Warcraft character currently has 5620 gold, so if someone can give me a (real life) Greater Heal then I will be very grateful, and still have 600 gold left.
I’m still ill, though slightly better than yesterday. I didn’t go to college today, but I am going next Monday, even if Johan has to take me in my pyjamas (I’m rather stubborn). It probably helps though that half my pyjamas consist of t-shirt + plain bottoms, and I’d have to chuck on a pair of trousers as my legs freeze in the wheelchair. Of course, getting dressed before leaving the house will be preferable.
I am worried about the work I’ve missed. Also, because I was sick last night after taking my medication I didn’t absorb all of it, so my head has been really noisy and I’ve been rather emotional today. The emotional bit isn’t helped by feeling so crappy.
I was in World of Warcraft this evening, and we were in Trial of the Crusader. Very easy instance, and I managed to do nearly half the healing most fights. In the middle of it, my GM ticket about stuff was answered, and I got angry- not so much with the GM as with Blizzard, and their completely unfair thinking. My original issue was that in Ironforge, the pre-Cataclysm elemental event was broken, with the rifts during the city invasion not showing up. He told me this would be fixed before the end of the event, so that was good. While I was waiting for the reply, we had an issue where Icehowl in TotC couldn’t be skinned, as the level required has been upped to 470. This isn’t fair, as you can’t get level 470 until Cataclysm, and Icehowl is a Wrath boss (the highest Wrath level is 450, which is what used to be required). Cataclysm isn’t even out yet. The GM said that it was because of the Cataclysm (which hasn’t happened yet, and doesn’t affect Northrend) and it’s not going to be fixed. This is really unfair, and I’m angry. Arg.
Still no college, because I’m still ill. Add on to that being sick this evening, and I’m feeling too lousy to write much. I did spend a short amount of time in the World of Warcraft Public Test Realm, but had to leave because some parts were making me very upset. I’m really hoping I’ll be well enough for college tomorrow.
Yesterday I promised words. Problem is I didn’t know then that I’d be feeling like a skyscraper had fallen on top of me. Yay colds! So instead of going to college (things to work on- feeling guilty when I don’t go in) I stayed at home and rested. In bed now on the laptop so I can type this.
On that note, Annika (my laptop) is very ill. Vista (yes, I know, but she came with it) doesn’t boot at all, and the DVD drive doesn’t work so I can’t repair it. Oh, and there’s a highly reproducible fault where if it’s past the POST check and you press the DVD drive in, it switches off (happens both in Vista and Linux). Also, the charger is now unreliable and has to be in the exact right position or it doesn’t charge. Tomorrow I will be asking Johan to call the repair people to see if they can sort it out. I do pay for it, so I may as well.
I will see how I am tomorrow before deciding on college. If anything like today, it’s not going to happen. Sleep now, though.
