Sometimes Up To Something

Recent feelings of irrational biterness and resentment have motivated me to write a storyline based on it, and quite an early one as well. If this is what helps me work through my frustration, then I'll do it. Anyway, in Asterism, many characters have objects called Attachments that can heal them if they're injured, but there's some kind of corruption that can affect them which can result in the characters becoming Misunderstood - that means they become a version of themselves based on negative perceptions of them, which inreases their own negative feelings. Very often, they'll demand some kind of catharsis, which they will try to obtain by taking out their negative feelings on people they believe have wronged them. They also take on the physical traits of the personifications of their Attachments, resulting in some rather terrifying appearances, which don't really help matters.   Here is someone who became Misunderstood, resulting in his irrational grudge towards a...

Today was a bit stressful and annoying. I got a message last week saying I had to have a review for my Universal Credit claim. Not only did I have to arrange a time that my Mum and I were both available, but it wasn't even a proper appointment, it was just them telling me what to do - which is exactly what they'd told me in the message last year without having to call us about it. Apparently they changed their system. WHY?! IT MAKES NO SENSE!!! Seriously, we could have avoided having to go out out today (in this awful weather), if they'd just told me online that I needed to show them my recent bank statements just like they did last year!!! But no, instead we had to give up some of our time just to be told we would later have to give up some more of our time!!! I swear they're making our lives harder for us on purpose (is this their way of making us work for the money?), but it's not just our time they're wasting, it's their own time as well. Anyway, hopeful...

Unlreated to my previous post. So I'd agreed to make lunch at the social group today. The idea I had in mind was a Thai style curry. The simplest recipe I could find ended up having to have some modifications, though, namely replacing the prawns with chicken because not everyone likes prawns, and also not having onions because one of the people can't eat them for some reason (some kind of allergy?). I also wanted it to have more veg in general, so I went for courgettes and peppers (actually those are technically fruit). The person who runs the group wanted to have it with noodles instead of rice. I thought that was a good idea because as much as I like rice, I find it so difficult to cook without it sticking to the pan that I mainly just go for microwave rice, and it would be a hassle to microwave several packets of those for the number of people there. He also suggested adding beans to it, which I wasn't sure about because I didn't think they would go (I have been tryi...

It's like the weather suddenly remembered that it's nearly March. Although the clouds are still able to creep up on you. Which means still not much chance of clear skies at night. I've been trying to think of ways to make my lunches for work training more interesting. I think I might need a new lunchbox, one that doesn't have those compartments in so it's easier to wash, and then I want to see if I can get some dividers to keep my different foods separate, and if they're microwave safe then I can bring things to heat up as well! But the lunchbos I have right now has stickers on it and I'm worried that there's some I won't be able to take off without ripping them. Recently I've tried to eat some more healthier things, but I'm not sure if it being mostly fruit really is healthier even if they only contain natural sugars. There's this new craze with fibre, but I don't know if it's really making that much of a difference to my body (a...

I thought I'd try and get home from work training faster today (especially since one of the buses came really late) by getting off the first bus and going to the nearby tram stop. Did it make a difference? Well, it actually took around the same amount of time. The only real difference is that I had more space, and it had more movement that wasn't interrupted by traffic jams and stuff. Maybe I'll try it again tomorrow while remembering which bus it was that I caught so I can see if it arrives before or after the tram does.  

Seriously, the commute to get home is just so frustrating. There was a new game demo today that came out an hour earlier than I expected, while I was still stuck on the first of two buses, and I needed to stop at the shop on the way home as well. Now, there's 2 buses I can get home. One of them goes over 2 sets of train tracks which means if there are any trains, it slows you down. The other one stops near some crossroads that take ages to get across because the traffic lights and stuff take ages to change, and it's only if the road isn't too busy that I can just cut scross before I reach them. So usually I go for the first option, but for the last several times I've gone that way now, there's been a long queue of traffic, caused by something going on at the train tracks around a corner or two. Seriously, the traffic goes quite far back. And since I was in more of a hurry to get home... I'm starting to think those crossroads might actually be preferable.

That's more like it!!! Nice, blue skies and some sunlight!!! It makes the whole mood so much better!!! Or at least it did before the clouds crept up again. But at least it hasn't been raining where I live. Don't know about the rest of the UK, though.