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27/01/07: I've got most of the site back up - I basically just need to re-do the character galleries now, and then I can start on NEW stuff (yay!). I've taken down my previous "Rants", as they were frankly embarrassing. Look for new, shinier, less paranoid (never! - ed) rants soon, true believers! I am now a few weeks into my second semester at Bath Spa University and have moved from being gainfully unemployed to being UNgainfully EMPLOYED. I am currently offering my services (unpaid) as designer, proof-reader, and general dogsbody for --H20 Magazine-- *, the University newsletter. My contribution for the February issue will be an article I was asked to write on one of the four towns with which Bath is twinned (as if anyone would actually want to read about that) and a comic I volunteered to do to replace at least one of the terrible "stick theatre" comics we use to fill up space at the moment. My comic is called "Something Is Terribly Wrong" ("SITW" for short) and in true SRegan style, pokes lighthearted (read: disturbing) fun at the darker side of student life. My first one examines student depression in light of academic obligations and can be found --here-- .
Anyway, thanks to the ridiculous semester system (where you come back for three weeks after Christmas but it's still Semester 1 and you've done all your assessed work), I don't have much Uni work at the minute, which gives me time to do more char sketches, update my website more frequently, and begin work on my new, top secret project (hint: it may be a novel). It also gives me time to completely reformat my laptop, which is what I had to do a few weeks ago when I noticed suspicious named processes like "SVCH0ST.EXE" (not, as it should be "SVCHOST.EXE" - note the zero in the former) slowing my system. I also noticed that the "Folder Options" menu had been altered, so no matter what you did, "Do not show hidden files and folders" remained on, and every 2 1/2 minutes, it would turn on "Hide extensions for known file types". Not good. Thankfully I am an obsessive backer-upper and am a dab hand with the System Restore Pack.
In other news - I've been making cookies! Unfortunately, I didn't have nearly enough margarine and the mixture was dry and crumbly. In the oven, the outer layers expanded and burned, whilst the interior remained doughy and undercooked (upon consulting the Internet recipe again, I realised the recipe called for two dozen discs 1/4'' thick, whereas I had rolled five large "cookie balls", and in addition, I was supposed to freeze it overnight before flash-baking it at a much higher temperature than our crappy Uni oven can handle). I am determined to get it right next time (with a different recipe, natch), and will be purchasing fresh ingredients tomorrow (hey, I don't drink, smoke, or go to pubs - I think I can be excused a small expenditure on flour, sugar, and vegetable oil).
Anyhow, hopefully by my next update I'll have something new website-wise to show you, but until then…
Signing off, blessings all round, don't stick your head in the oven, etc.
* Their --website-- looks flashy, doesn't it? Much better than mine. That's until you start clicking around and realise NOTHING ACTUALLY WORKS. David Jones, the "friendly neighbourhood communications officer" is supposedly working on a new site with a dedicated domain name, but he keeps trying to get out of it (he sent an email to our Editor with words to the effect of "I do not believe the magazine has changed sufficiently to warrant a redesign of the website" several MONTHS into the project). He also won't let anyone set up any other sites (he complained about H20's --Myspace-- page, because it "violated Bath Spa's Communications policy").