Ninja Mode

I saw this facebook group recently called "Appearing offline should be changed to Ninja mode". Before I take this post any further, I would like to clarify that I simply joined this group because it made me laugh, and I never expected (two days later no less) that I would be in a slightly different kind of ninja mode altogether.

Right now, I am listening to two of my best online friends talking to each other. One of them knows I am here and the other doesn't. I shall not mention any names here, but I'm mainly listen to them talk because I'm curious how the one who doesn't know I'm there acts when I'm not around. There isn't all that much of a change, just less flirting ;).

But ninja mode is more than listening to your friends without them knowing, I hide offline all the time on skype, and most people never know I'm around until I tell them. Hayley is one of the few people who can guess if I'm on skype.

Bizarrely the only place I actually use Ninja Mode is on skype. I'm not really sure why, and lots of people ask me. Perhaps it's because I don't use the block button on there, and maybe it's because I can't be bothered to kick people from my friends list. Maybe I was hiding and just never turned online mode back on... I don't really know.

Still. For those of you who this could happen to, watch what you say when I'm in the conversation, I might just be listening. ;D

Nerves

For some reason I feel nervous about tomorrow. I'm not really sure why; I go back to uni tomorrow, sure, but it's not like I'll be going back to anything new. I have exactly the same modules with exactly the same teachers. It's not that I was supposed to do anything that I haven't done, in fact, all my assignments were in before the break.

Oh! sec, nail clippers.

So yeah, nothing new, nothing to be nervous of, yet I'm still nervous. Perhaps it has something to do with the hours I've kept over the holidays. I haven't exactly been up early... and last night it must have been nearly three am before I went to bed. I don't know how I'll manage to get up tomorrow, perhaps the prospect of a journey with Hayley will help.

I'm also slightly worried about Alf's team in the GW race. I don't think they've caught us yet, but they stand a chance. Don't get me wrong, I relish in the fact that they can actually take us on, I'm just not really looking forward to being outstripped by a team who hardly conform to the strict barriers we do. I won't go into them here, because some of the team read this, but they are bloody strict.

All being well we should head into the race again tomorrow, of course, I will have to get Hayley and Helen in on this (who both have piles of uni work to complete). Ben will take little persuading, he'll probably be online anyway.

The bogroots runs go on, and we've begun to take Alf with us at times too. I'm considering trying Life Sheath as apposed to Healers Boon as my elite, I wonder if I can find enough healing skills in protection to just play protection prayers in there. I'm not holding my breath, but it'd be nice to be able to take Ether Signet with me instead of Glyph of Lesser Energy.

Anyway, that's it for now, I'll keep you posted.

(P.S. The nail clippers were to cut my toenails before tomorrow, in case you were wondering.)

Gaga Vs Meyer

Ha, so the ash cloud that was making all the airports shit themselves has finally moved and aircraft are gradually starting to take off again. The American's were apparently calling the whole thing "Eruption Disruption" showing their amazing skills with literature and proving that Meyer isn't actually the standard of literary genius in their country.

Speaking of Meyer I was listening, yesterday, to Lady Gaga's song "Alejandro" and I realised that there's actually more revealing character in the first two stanzas of that song than there is in the entire Twilight series (Ok, that may be going a bit over the top).
The lines go like this:

"She's got both hands
in her pockets.
And she wont look at you,
Won't look at you

She hides true love.
En su bolsillo
She's got a halo around her finger.
Around you."

From these two stanzas we get that she's ashamed, that she is in love and doesn't want to show it, that she's innocent, and that she's wrapped around her boyfriend's little finger. From so few words this is a great achievement, after all, if we take a passage from Twilight:

"I lifted my hand from my neck and held up one finger, I dropped my hand to the table moving my left hand so that my palms were pressed together, I stared at my hands, twisting and untwisting my fingers."

Three lines, and more words that the Lady Gaga song and what do we get? Oh, Bella's playing with her hands because she's nervous. That's it. The overuse of the word "Hands" is horrendous too. I have to ask, what the hell was her editor thinking?!

That same passage could be achieved by a simple: "I watched my fingers crawl over each other in nervousness, I couldn't look up at him."

One line, and we get the fact that she also can't look him in the eyes, and the only word I repeated was "I".

So yes, enough about my dislike of Twilight and my enjoyment of Lady Gaga songs. That's it for now, have fun everyone :D

The Frog Quest

Recently, Ben and I have been doing Bogroot Growths a lot. Over the last week we have done it at least ten times, probably more, and why? both of us want a froggy. For some reason this mission seems almost futile when you look at it in the right way, especially when you think about which attributes we would like our sceptres in (his channelling and me prot/healing). Yet we carry on, even though the drops have got worse and worse.

Yesterday we decided to give it a break and take ourselves to another dungeon: CoF. Now CoF is hard, much more so that Bogroots, more than a lot of the other dungeons to be fair. But we managed to almost complete it, the boss is, however, at complete and utter bitch and we gave up. Yes that's right dear readers, we gave up.

Now we're looking at Kandathrax and Arachnnis, but with Ben's sudden realisation of an essay that needs to be done before Tuesday, it doesn't look like we'll get there tonight.

In other news, the week at Alex's was fun, his new RC car works almost perfectly, but doesn't seem to like Hayley. All my pets survived the week without me, much thanks to my parents.

There will be no Hayley at my house this week, as she's still burdened with the same load of essays that she was at the beginning of our 4 week holiday (talk about procrastination). I am not ashamed to admit that I miss her, we haven't spoken at all really on skype this holiday, and I have seen her only once, and that was with Ashly too.

Compliments from Dave and Mark (and Dave's girlfriend Wendy) have been streaming my way with regards to monking, which is lovely though I'm not entirely convinced it's deserved. I'm also wondering whether to work for another Dread Mask, but this time for my monk. And perhaps some gloves too, though I'm not sure which pair I would like.

Anyway, that's the update for now, I'll keep you posted.

Let The Race Begin!

Over the last few days a new event has come up on the AoM page of Facebook! Actually orchestrated by Ben and I. We decided to challenge everyone in the guild to a race through the first campaign, Prophecies. For those who take up the challenge, it's to be done in groups of 4. Our group consists of: Me, Ben, Helen and Hayley. I'm monking it, and so far we're doing a fine job (granted we've only got to Fort Ranik). I was thinking, perhaps we could get out of Ascalon tonight. Though I'm still not sure if Ben will be on, considering he got drunk last night.

In other news, I finally forked out the money for Pokemon Heart Gold. I ordered it last weekend, and Amazon told me 3-5 days on delivery. I sent it to Alex's because I'm there all next week and thought it might not arrive until the weekend. Unfortunately, Amazon were on the ball and sent it out asap, so it arrived at Alex's yesterday. Now I am forced to wait until I get there tomorrow before I can play on it though it could be worse.

On Friday the Alliance are having another quiz night (YAY!). It's set to be a good one, and it's possible to make A LOT of money in the hour or so that it's on. Last time we won first prize in the scavenger hunt, and I'm hoping we'll be able to again, though there's no guarantee that the prizes will be amazing. Still, it should be fun.

The guinea pigs are all fine, currently running around in their outdoor run. Today's weather is overcast, but not cold, so they should be fine. Right now it's just prep for going over Alex's tomorrow, and looking forward to Friday and Sunday nights when we have various friends over. Other than that it's also preparing for the next mission, mentally pushing ourselves to move as fast as possible.

Distractions

I miss my other blog. Unfortunately it's in for assessing as it is actually stemming from an assignment for uni. Since then all my profound thoughts have been undocumented, swimming around in my head of random coincidences and lost memories. It will be at least 3 weeks until I get it back and can take up being literary again, my brain is clogged, and because of this I cannot think.
I have still not got the new Pokemon game, that's probably first on my list after the weekend. Alex has finally fixed the Wii, which means fun filled games and racing in mariokart wii. Actually looking forward to it, well, almost everything about the visit except the temperature (as the heating at his house is broken) and missing the guinea pigs. Still, I have taught my brother how to look after them, and am confident that he can do it without much difficulty.
Before I head over to Alex's I have a list of things to do. I need to: feed myself; feed my fish; resist the urge to go and cuddle the guinea pigs again; find clothes to wear while over there; find several other randoms that have strayed across the house; and call Alex to tell him when I'm coming over. I have half an hour to accomplish everything, but am currently unwilling to move from my chair. I'm also being distracted by one of my best friends on Facebook.
Wow, life is full of distractions.
Ah well.