Well mainly because my sister and her boyfriend have set off of Download. Lucky sods. Anyway, now I'm here, I may as well update my journal with what's been happening in my dull-but-at-the-same-time-hectic life.

Firstly, my Quest for Employment isn't going well. I've handed CVs out like takeaway menus, and like my simile/analogy they're largely being ignored. It's rather annoying that after three years at university I can't get a job. Even more annoying is that I can't go on Jobseeker's yet, as I'm technically still a student. Yes, a service designed specifically for getting people into work is alright for thousands of deliberately lazy chavs but not for me. And speaking of do-nothing wasters who take money from decent, hard-working folk... No, I shan't go into a rant about politicians, it's too early in the morning.

Now that Ashes to Ashes is over, and like the rest of us TV schedules are entering summer, there's bugger all on television to watch. Big Brother starts tomorrow night, I can't wait Well, only if it ends up like Charlie Brooker's Dead Set, in which case I'll be fully prepared . A friend of mine borrowed (lent? I've no time/use for proper grammer) me his copy of The Zombie Survival Guide. You can't help but take it seriously, since some of the advice in the book makes perfect sense to me, but at the same time it makes me more annoyed at stupid people in horror fiction - not least the not-Frank-West humans in Dead Rising (Screw you, Otis). One bit of obvious advice is to not use fire. The only thing worse than a zombie is a flaming zombie. The only thing worse than a flaming zombie is a flaming head-crab-zombie (I'll get to that in a bit). In short, I doubt I'll watch much television over the summer, I'll be doing something worthwhile, like procastinating.

As for video games, I'm not usually much for First-person-shooters, but Half Life 2 isn't your run-of-the-mill FPS. In a surprise that's shocking to no one, I think it's absolutely brilliant now I'm further into the game than "Get the hell out of City 17". The Gravity Gun and Antlion Pherrepod are unique and fun to use (Antlions are quite cute when they aren't trying to kill you) and Ravenholm is a terrifying place (there're more head crabs and head-crab-zombies than ammo), but I got through with only mental scars (Damn those flaming head-crab-zombies and the noise their screams ). I'm also playing Okami; the art style is brilliant and the concept of using an omnipotent paintbrush as an item should be in more video games. However, I'm going around in circles and the game isn't giving me any indications on where to go next (or maybe I'm incredibly dense )

Being the tortured artistic genius, I can't seem to focus on one creative outlet at the moment. I keep putting off trying to get the script I wrote for university published. One company I emailed said theyed only publish the play if I put on a production of it (I'd like to, but who would help me? I should research this more...). If I haven't already told anyone who'll listen, the play is about a guy called Carl who is attempting to start a communist revolution, starting by protesting against a businessman who wants to build over the local park. It's called "Die Legende von Carl das Radikal", a homage to the work of Karl Marx if you must ask. Given the whole economy situation we're not, not to mention the MP expenses controversy, I wrote the play as a response to it all (The moral of the play: Let's start a revolution! ). I also started writing a self-referential novel, charting the life on a bored unemployed twenty-something. It's written in a sarcastic, humourous style. I'll have to put the remnants of the first chapter on here to see what y'all think before I (attept to) carry on with it. In the meantime I've been doing my usual thing, writing down video game ideas, hoping that one day these ideas will soon be playable video games. As I type, I'm also downloading/intsalling Dance eJay. For some reason I'm in a music-making mood, but I want to do it in the laziest possible manner.

I can't think of much else to say, so smell ya laterz!!!