DarkSlinky

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I got a formspring account.  I don’t know what possessed me to do so, or its reasons for possessing me against my will.  Perhaps it was an intelligent alien lifeform… who knows.  Anyway, it’s here now and here to stay.  My question to you is,
do you dare..?

I finally got hours at work this week.  I didn’t get any work for two weeks before I left for New Zealand and then I returned home to find they’ve hired a charming group of younger, cheaper employees.  I’m here to tell you that the amount you pay for your staff represents the quality of work you’ll get.

This week I’ve been called in numerous times to cover for staff who can’t fill their shift or just don’t bother showing up.  If you put reliable staff on to start with, you won’t have this problem.  If the same thing happens next week I’m going to look for another job to sustain me until I hopefully return to university next year.

I’m sick and I’m still going to cover for someone today.  Customers better be nice to me or heads will roll.  I have some feral sort of headcold – nothing bad, but enough to irritate me with the sneezing and body aches.

Snags’ computer has died, which in turn means my gaming life is dead.  It feels too cruel to sit here playing games in front of him while he slaves over his computers carcass.  Instead I half-sleep on the couch watching movies, occasionally patting his back in a supporting manner.  This can’t go on forever though, Pokémon Black and White comes out this week and I will allow it to eat my life.

Time to prepare for work… Happy, happy, joy, joy.

<3 DarkSlinky.

I haven’t updated since last year, can you believe it?

It shocks me every time I realise how long it has been since I last ranted and raved about something entirely useless… but onto more important matters…

I’ve been on the doorstep of three natural disasters in the past two months.  How unlucky could you possibly be?

I live in Queensland, Australia, which most of the world knows was almost entirely underwater before being battered by cyclones.  75% of my not-so-small state was declared a disaster zone in January.  It was so sad to watch my city, the third biggest city in Australia, be swallowed by the Brisbane River.  I stayed put on my hill that became an island for a few days.

The cyclones up north just proved what a tough state we are, with no deaths and two births during cyclone Yasi.  I’m not going to bother with meteorological details but believe me when I say it was pretty big.

It was very comforting to know that I live in such a strong community.  I volunteered to help with the clean-up but hundreds of people were getting turned away because there were simply too many volunteers.  The strength of humankind is only revealed through trying times.

Despite drought, flood, fire and cyclone, I still wouldn’t live anywhere else in the world.

Of course, the third natural disaster was much scarier.  I was in New Zealand for the Christchurch earthquake.   Luckily I was staying in Wellington and not too close to where the earthquake struck.  Apparently it was felt in Wellington, but I was driving over the Rimutaka Range at the time so my friends and I didn’t feel it.  We heard about it briefly on the radio but I only realised the extent of the damage to Christchurch when I got online and had received about 20 worried messages from friends and family asking if I was alive and okay.

The night before I left New Zealand there was an earthquake in Wellington which my friends and I definitely felt, but it wasn’t big enough to cause damage.  I love New Zealand but I was glad to be heading home, back to stable ground.  Floods and cyclones are one thing, but earthquakes strike without warning and are unlike anything I’ve ever felt before.

Mother Nature is a terrifying thing.

Given my own personal witness of the upheaval of the Earth and stirring of the weather, I can honestly say you’re a fool if you don’t believe something should be done about climate change.  It’s real, it’s here and it’s going to eat us.

<3 DarkSlinky.

What have I been doing, besides neglecting my blog?

Work, work, work.  The past couple of weeks I went on a bit of a spending spree – new clothes, Canon 550D SLR, 32” LED TV, etc… You catch my drift.  It’s good, but now I have so many boxes to sort through.

I also tried vlogging, only to discover I’m terribly boring on camera and don’t have anything interesting to talk about.  All this lack of sleep just makes me look like a zombie on camera anyway.

Insomnia is nasty, but it also gives me the opportunity to watch anime and sit around drawing creepy sketches of birds. It’s not as bad as some people I have come in contact with, that’s for sure.  I do love it when people with sad little lives underestimate me, but I think it’s just my own internal satisfaction.

I’m pretty certain I should write a book – but where to start, and what about?  I figure it’ll come to me with time.  I’ve already started making random notes in a sketchbook I bought at the beginning of the year.

This sketchbook also contains all the work I’ve done towards practising portraiting (did I just make up a word?).

Maybe one day I’ll be the artist, musician, teacher, writer, gamer, photographer, singer I want to be.  People mistake my habit of practising these skills as being lazy and messy, specifically, my mother.  Some people just don’t understand how the creative mind ticks.

My time will come, or so I like to believe.

<3 DarkSlinky.