i'll be left to my own devices soon enough ;) what with Uni starting up in September... i'll need a job for nobody but me ^^... perhaps that'll give me that extra motivation or... i guess real WANT for employment that i've never really had before :)

"always sucks when they live hundreds of miles away"
i bet ^^ i hate the idea of long distance relationships :) or tbh, i don't even feel i'm ready for a relationship at all right now. i've hit a point where i really don't feel i could devote a lot of my life toward a person... to go out of my way just to "spend time" with someone. which is silly :) although i don't think i could handle that here in the physical world, over the internet i'm as social as ever given the chance. which... tells me i'm not ready for a commitment like that i guess *shrugs*. we'll see though... one day :) i guess........ ANYWAY! :P -
you hold a lot of respect for those who died in the wars?? although i think, just plain volunteering must be a good experience to go through... cleaning the graves of the dead though, i guess i'd just feel my time could be put toward things so much more valuable than that. what with all the bad stuff going on all around all of us ^^, it didn't feel like a waste of your time at all?? i guess that all depends on your view of the dead hmm :) personally i see no reason to mourn, making gravestones pretty damn useless really ^^ imo their only purpose is to mark the holder of that specific grave. the dead definitely shouldn't be forgotten, but... spending our time caring for / worshipping corpses just seems ever so slightly wasteful to me.
we should learn from the lives of these people imo :) revere their accomplishments in their time among us, and whatever positive traits there are to be embraced / reinforced we should take as our own ^^ i can't imagine there'd be a lot to learn through cleaning gravestones. what's your opinion on all of this anyhow? your time was very well spent? or are there more important issues you'd like to contribute toward resolving.

Holiday! latest one ;) The New Forest - still yet to whack up the photos with the rest of them ^^ sometime soon though i guess. it was pretty crazy, animals all over the roads roaming free. slept in a tent for the week ;) with trees all around us very close to out in the middle of no where.... but not quite ^^... there were a fair load of people around though... so not quite the isolated dream i had in mind. although saying that the fields and the forests were quiet as hell! i swear i didn't see a single person walking through this one wood... i spent like 2 hours just roaming on my own :P haha... i liked it though ^^ i'd planned on stopping somewhere to read a book, but... just kinda kept wandering around. hmmm i'm typing too much again aren't i ^^ it was ok though! aside a couple issues with the family, i enjoyed it!

Wales! :O i've been there twice this year, love that place ^^... i need to learn to drive so badly! what with being over in Stoke on Trent soon, i'll be even closer to the place!! :) totally worth a long weekend's visit here and there.

"better late than never" haha :P i used to think so ^^... though with most things, especially education :) i completely disagree. i'm hoping to stick with the attitude of getting my work done AS I GET IT come September, the sooner i get done what i can, the longer i'll have to perfect it all :) what with forking out all this money for the course... i REALLY don't want to be screwing anything up. how're you getting along with your course anyhow? :) all's going well i hope! (i'm still kinda gutted i'm only just starting Uni at 22! :P not fussed by it too much, but OH MY GOD am i a late starter)

ciao!

hah, you totally just didn't reply to ANY of that last comment you mentioned :P in 10 minutes though!
i am NOT enjoying my summer ;) not all that much... got myself caught up in a really crumby job, though... kinda saw to that earlier today :P so yeah! ^^ i SHOULD enjoy the next few weeks a little more, what with going back to all that free time for a while before uni :)

volunteering, oooo leme know how that goes. definitely have me on the edge of this seat :P what're you actually doing?! i'm off to have a week's worth of holiday on August 1st ^^, soooooo won't be here to throw any replies back if you chuck me anything before the 8th or so :) assuming you don't slack again! :P mahaa

hope all's well with you too ^^ speak to you whenever!!
take care n all

Belgium :O tell me! what's their chocolate like compared to here??? i'll never know now.... gave up chocolate bars and sweets from the shops and stuff (still eat cookies though :D which is wrong i know... but it's like... once a week if that!!!)
lol, speed ropes :( i've ruined my ankles/feet because of the damn thing. when i run now, i can't seem to put too much pressure on my tip toes... i can't help but run flat footed! and i'm still in pain when i do! :S buggered something up.
when i was skipping though :P i used to go out really late at night and just skip for like half hour, it was great though, i'd have no shoes on at all, that REALLY hurts when i catch my toe. only other damage i took was on my arm, and the back of my head :P it was all worth it though, i don't think there are many guys who can say "i know how to skip! oooraaaa!!".
as for technique :) yeah i get you completely, it was kinda cool actually. when i first started i managed a maximum of 31... by the next night i could go for as long as i wanted! :P doesn't take long to get used to it at all! although i'm still not so hot at going really really fast... 2 per second is a comfortable speed, my bro used to be able to go loads faster >.br />
5 hours to drink 3 pints!!! :P jeeeez, no wonder i'm always ill, haha. it'd take me not much longer than 5 minutes to get through a pint, that's without even really noticing. if i have a drink i'll drink it :P if i don't, i'll go get one. usually 3 pints and i'm drunk though, well it used to be... last time i went out i tried a little beer, hated it, wound up spending just short of £40 on 11 Malibu + cokes... 2 double Malibu + cokes :P and a hobgoblin i think it was called... which i didn't finish... beer tastes horrible to me now!!!

stafford :) i have myself an unconditional offer for the 3D Animation + Special Effects course. just have to decide once and for all whether to go on the damn thing. everyone seems to want degrees now... so i guess :S bleh. keep running it through my mind now and then, i guess the main thing that bugged me was, the exact same course is running at the uni near me, i just didn't want to stay at home. i seriously think the main drain on my motivation is being here in this house. anywhere i go i get distracted, people in and out of my room all the time. not to mention the shouting, it kills me a little inside every time i have to listen to that stuff :P

how was your holiday anyway? this was a drinking holiday? or with the uni or what :)

Coventry is nice at a glance :) sure, did you look at the ground at all? pretty sure it'll be the same all over the place in the UK, but the amount of chewing gum stuck to the floor is getting pretty ridiculous. tiz such a simple thing we should all be taught when we're young... but so many people seem to be happy to just chuck their litter on the ground once they're done with it. kind of irritating really :) it's like... one of those tiny problems that nobody thinks all that much of individually, but altogether, with every person "doing their part", the place is just a mess!
their argument being :P "i'm keeping people -in the job-, if it weren't for people like me, there'd be even less work out there"... it's just unnecessary though! rather than collecting trash, these collectors could be off doing any number of other things... i'm not saying there's anything wrong with collecting trash for a living, if a person can keep their self-respect, and their head held high :) then why not... jobs like that just seem so... well the potential people have is far more than that... as with most jobs really... irks me... irks me gooood

stuff is good really :) i've just changed my exercise routine a little, had a few weird run-ins with strange feelings around my heart. the doctor figures it's just something to do with the surrounding muscles, but... i've gone for a little more cardio anyway :) and gotten myself a speed rope. only been skipping a week and i can go forever :D i just can't go as fast as i'd like to yet is all...
one thing i did try earlier today is skipping with ankle weights, that was... interesting :) especially with no shoes on. you'd think it'd make me a whole load better, what with learning through pain... but i still can't go insanely fast :( one day... i guess...

finally feel like i'm getting my ass in gear though, the right mindset for being more productive than i have been previously :D so yeah! all's pretty damn well, for now anyway.

off to Stafford this wednesday ^^ interview for this animation course... which i'm no longer sure i want to go on... still really have no clue what i want to commit a huge portion of my life to :) the idea of diving in hasn't ever appealed all that much... cuz if i can't hold my breath.... meh
believe it's your turn anyhow ;) what with me hogging all the words, old habits die hard hmm. how're you then? still surviving over there??

Hey man!

I'm great, how've you been?

quick quick then! :) gotta get this WoW stuff out the way so i can go back to pretending to be cool :P
i was stuck on the Alliance! dragged onto the game by a few college friends a few years ago, and was kept there by Blizzard for 3 whole years just over (they had my soul btw... though i got back!... *shines knuckles*)

been to Coventry once, "not a bad place"?!?! :O you went and forgot your glasses didn't you, lol. the people around here suck! so many youths and stuff more than happy to tenderise those meaty buttocks :) bleedin hate this city tbh. there's one hell of a loada history here... but... i'd rather just look on from a distance somewhere :P i'd love to get into Bristol uni, though i kinda crashed and burned in the interview... next step Stafford! for the "3d Animation + Special Effects" course :) seriously having to prepare a whole load more this time round.

:( why do i never heard about this stuff, i love the sound of an orchestra... you know :) i've lived in Coventry all my life... and i must've only been into the cathedral like twice :P i've checked out the ruins a whole load though, they're pretty cool, went to grab some reference for a model i was making :D no idea where the hell that went though... don't think i finished it anyway (surprise surprise (i don't really ever finish any of my work btw :) i'm a perfectionist who can never really manage to get things perfect :P sucks hmm)

and buying another month :O don't happen to be on Stormrage do you? i still have an active account, though haven't played it in absolute yonks :)

sorry about this being so late btw, i slacked off for a good long while, blame MSN! :P
(i'm kinda wary about asking people for their msn addresses now tbh... comments on here rock n all, but it seems with a lot of people :) from the second i get their address, we talk fine for a couple of weeks :P then... no contact at all after that. tiz both the maker and breaker of friendships i guess you could say :P you're more than welcome to join me on the thing, though you'd have to promise me you're not a lazy bones! lol)

I'm afraid I have no idea mate, I'm horrible at this stuff myself. ;)

You've missed quite a bit while you've been gone actually. :D

There's now a leftish core IP group called, "The Global Café". GC is it's own private network though you'll know everyone there, almost everyone. Kimo is the admin for GC. I'm more or less just a technical adviser.

There is a group for poets and one for story tellers in there as well. Possibly more to your tastes. Hungry Writers is still going strong also. If you'd like an invite to GC just let me know. If you've forgotten your HW user name or password then I can help you with that also.

Np, man, hope to see more of you on the forum!

And make vlogzzz!