Alasdair Watson

Which Buffy character are you? Apparently, I’m Spike. I was expecting Xander, but while I’ve no idea which suits me better, I do like Spike more as a character, so hurrah! But god, the bit at the end that describes the character is just awful. Exactly how can one be “a rebel with a capital yeow”?

I fear I am coming down with yet another fucking cold. I’m absolutely exhausted, and I feel headachey and generally rotten. I’ve had far too many colds lately. They really piss me off, as I always, always get at least one night of entertaining fever dreams with a cold. It’s just the way my system works. Additionally, it really fucks up my gym-going, because not only do I miss a while with a cold, but it always get my asthma going as well, and I can’t do my workout without coughing up great chunks of lung.

I have nothing useful or interesting to say. I have had a pleasant, if rather dull day, doing not very much, followed by a quiet night out with Antony, Marcia and Andrew, which was nice, since we haven’t really just had a chance to go out for a quiet drink in ages – it always seems to be big sessions with a large crowd.

Like I say, pleasant, but hardly anything worth talking about. So tell you what, why don’t you go and read about Anna’s day, which sounds like it was more interesting than mine.

Go on, sod off.

Despite the fact that I have been listening to Enya all morning, I’ve got Mudhoney’s “Touch Me I’m Sick” playing on repeat in my brain. I don’t know why.

I can’t decide if my relatively hangover-free status right now means that it’s going to get worse before it gets better, or if I’ve just got lucky and managed to avoid the level of hangover that I deserve. I hadn’t planned to get that drunk last night, but I seem to have managed to do a pretty good job of it regardless. I’m now racking my brains to check what astonishingly stupid things I said at various points throughout the night…

My Monster Match is The Mummy, apparently. But when the description opens with: “Has anyone ever told you that you look sharp in linen, and white is definitely your color? From head to toe, you are the best dressed of the zombie clan.” You know something’s flawed in their testing procedure.

Found in the comments of some code I wrote last year : “We are sexier and more clever than their simple scripts.”

I don’t recall writing that comment, but everyone else at work is frightened of that particular piece of code, so I’m the only one that touches it. I must have been in a odd mood that day.

Another one of those “get to know your friends” questionnaires arrived in my mail today. Frankly, most of the quesions were dull ones, that I’d seen on other surveys but I thought these ones were sufficently different to post up here and give you lot something to think about.

“Pick one :love, beauty or creativity.”

“If you were another person, would you be friends with you?”

“Who are your second family?”

Things I have just remembered: I have a large bar of Green and Blacks organic dark chocolate in the fridge at home.

Hurrah!

Two of my favourite things: Dave McKean art and Harry Potter novels. According to this article (about a cartoon adaption of the book “The Day I Swapped My Dad For Two Goldfish” that McKean worked on with Neil Gaiman), Dave McKean has been named as the Art Director for the second Harry Potter film. This should be good…

Now if only the next book would hurry up…