I had totally forgotten that Monday was a Bank holiday - 3 day weekend here I come

Looking forward to Sunday (Great West Run day for various peeps who I shall be with in spirit) - having a picnic in order to provide much needed moral support to the athletes Then afterwards got a meal booked and I can even have a drinky if I want as there’s no work on Monday! *bounce*

In other news, Guild Wars arrived today. This isn’t a true MMORPG in that quest areas are instanced and indeed, they haven’t marketed it as an MMO so that’s fine Not tried it yet (apart from the very first Beta event) but it looks intriguing and a definite possible game to play when not in the mood for WoW, which incidentally I am enjoying a lot more at the moment playing Alliance and PVE with a class that can solo effectively

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I went for a sight test today as I’ve been getting a lot of headaches and tired eyes recently. I assumed it was because my sight had gotten worse again coz I use computers too much or something but as it turns out my sight has actually improved a little! Whilst this is good news and I might yet not become completely blind by the time I retire, it does mean that I have just spent over £100 on new lenses! There’s something about paying for a prescription that’s less strong than my current one that just doesn’t add up to me - I feel cheated dammit :p

Oh - I also have to spend a few minutes a day moving a pen towards and away from my nose as apparently my eyes don’t converge properly. At least that won’t cost me my remaining arm and leg anyways

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As the more astute among you will have gathered by now, I am ever just a teeny weeny fan of Babylon 5, as is Kev, whom I owe for being a fan in the first place This morning Series 3 and 4 arrived 44 episodes!! Let the viewing commence! *bounce*

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Well, yesterday I got home, and proceeded to have a headache for the rest of the evening :/ The kind when you feel like your head is about to implode and you end up hoping it does as that will at least stop it from hurting so much \o/ So this morning when I woke up at 7am and still had said headache plus the inability to open my eyes despite having had a decent night’s sleep I thought “bugger this”and phoned in sick. I then slept til midday, dosed til about 1 and now at gone 6pm I can still feel my head pounding away underneath the surface ominously I’ve got a meeting with the head of IT Services tomorrow so I’ll pretty much have to go in - be nice if my head decides to cooperate

I’ve decided (just now in fact) that this blog, despite the fact that nobody ever actually reads it, serves its purpose quite well. It’s a vent for my emotions, good or bad, and for someone like me that’s important. I can’t let things wash over me or just not worry about something. Conversely I am not good at confrontation and usually take the “anything for a quiet life” approach. I like moaning, yet I don’t like burdening other people with my problems, especially as I’m sensible enough to realise that half the time they’re not actually problems anyways and just something I’ve decided to take objection to. I had considered not bothering to write in here anymore as all I ever get are spam comments. I’d also considered plugging my blog to try and get more people to read it. I think now I’ll just let things carry on as they are

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Oh my God I am *so* tired! Tired almost became itred, that’s how tired I am! Not that it isn’t my own fault - I should really learn to go to bed when my head starts complaining about monitors and lights and generally being awake, but then I feel like work will win, and that can never happen so I stay up and feel like this the next day in the name of victory….:S I wish I could just freeze time so I could stay up, get 10 hours sleep, and still wake up in time for work. There must be some inventor type out there who hates getting up as much as I do!

Anyways, I had a good weekend all told - went out for lunch yesterday which is always a good way to spend a Sunday afternoon if you ask me, and finished watching Babylon 5 season 2 with seasons 3 and 4 on the way any day now I actually started welling up watching some of the last ones - think that’s the first time that’s happened when watching sci-fi And it’s not the first time it’s occured to me that if the various script writers for programmes such as these were also in charge of writing presidential speeches and the like, the world might be a better place

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It occured to me that there are two periods in time that I find interesting. One is the time of Jane Austen, or more precisely, her novels. I love that a busy day for a woman is to take morning tea, take a stroll around the garden or to the nearest shops, and partake in some needlepoint or piano forte. I love the Mr Darcys and Knightleys of that world, and the prim and properness and the large country houses. The other time is the age of space and intergalactic relationships portrayed in sci-fi - the thought that one day a Babylon 5 and a Mars Colony might actually exist, that humans and aliens might live together, is exciting.

In other words, the things that have most captured my imagination are an idyllic past and an idealistic future - what does that say about the present? And I wonder, in the 2200s, will humans look back on our time as we look back on the 1800s, or will Austen and Dickens still shine through? And what will they look towards?…

For anyone who thinks I’ve gone insane, I’m very bored at work and ask that you take pity

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