tooth soup

Been a while since I updated one of these things. Somehow I fell out of the journal updating loop. This is due in most part by my heightened involvement in the deviantART community which has seen a marked increase in the quality of my writing. I’ve got a bunch of people that I can rely on for constructive critique, which is incredibly important and has helped me a lot. I even managed to grab a daily deviation (a feature in the main part of the site for a 24 hour period, it’s pretty nice) for a short story of mine, ‘Toilet Paper’, which has given me a lot of confidence.

I think I’m just about ready to give up video games. This is a rather large step for me, since they’ve occupied so much of my life, and provided a means of escapism when the environment around me (especially as a young kid) was less than ideal. But nowadays, rather than enjoying the experience, I’m using it only as a distraction from things I should really be doing. Like writing, or study, or creativity in other forms. I haven’t surprised Louise in what seems like ages, and that makes me sadface. Almost time to move on, methinks. Plus there’s the issue of constantly having to upgrade my computer to play the latest. Instead of spending three-thousand dollars on a new computer, I could be investing that, or spending it on more practical things.

Let’s see, what have I done since the last update. Got into my PhD, dropped my job at Dymocks down to one day, wrote a lot, went to Sydney to see NIN courtesy of my incredible girlfriend (and although it got cancelled had an awesome time), learned a lot of computational chemistry theory, got addicted to Chuck Palahniuk, wrote a lot, and generally just lived day-to-day. There’s probably a lot more to it, but them’s the main highlights. The PhD takes up a lot of my time (it’s basically a job, without the glamour or good pay). I’m going away with Louise to Margaret River in a week or so for a weekend, just to get away from it all for a couple of days and gather myself up. Pretty much all I plan on taking with me is a notepad, a fountain pen, three ink refills, my wallet, vodka, apple juice and a set of clothes. Should be great fun.

I’m reading ‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Nabokov and finding it pretty darn amusing. Humbert Humbert is just such a tragic character, it’s hard not to laugh at his helpless slavery to a desire he considers totally and utterly inappropriate. The style is difficult to get used to at first, it’s very rambling and filled with tangents, but once you get used to it it’s incredibly readable. More when I finish it.

So, I promise to update this more often, that way I’ll be writing something, at least. I’m going to switch to livejournal now, rather than insanejournal. Mainly because of the implied emo-ness that my brain associates with the latter.

Ta-ta.

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