Fainiel's Dreamwidth

I have a new pudding sim to play with! An evil pudding sim! A sim of such outstanding evilness they make mean old Anna Pudding look like a little furry kitten! But who is it? And why is Anna so disgusted by them?


( duh duh DUH )

I was going to put these in the Show off Your Creations thread on GoS, but the damn site won't load for me at the moment, so I'm sticking them here instead. I made some Discworld themed sims ages ago, but never shared them and now with the fantasy theme at GoS, I figured it's the perfect time!

( When shall we three meet again? )

Laptop is fixed, fully working and the nice man at PC World even reinstalled iTunes for me, which is nice because I was dreading doing that even though I know that my computer was broken long before I thought of installing iTunes 10. I've redownloaded Firefox and I'm in the process of redownloading Windows Live Messenger, so at least I have my priorities straight, and after that I'm going to copy over all my stuff that I saved onto my external harddrive which is probably full to bursting right now.

My screen looks brighter too. I mentioned this to my mum who took one look at it and said 'yes, I think they may have cleaned it'. Hah, oops.

Wow, the new university printing system is complete and utter fail. They've installed a ton of new printers and installed a new payment machine in order to make it easier and cheaper to pay for your printing. But guess what! The payment machine is out of order a week after it's installation and you have to jump through so many hoops to get stuff printed off  I'm beginning to wonder if it might not be cheaper and easier to scrawl my corrections to my dissertation straight onto the monitor in red biro. They've changed the settings to 2-sided printing, which I loathe because I like to scribble notes on the back of my work, and it's taken me 5 minutes to work out how to get round that, and another 5 to actually get the damn thing to print. Argh!

Dissertation is now 6400 words and though that's not a massive improvement on the other day, most of what I've done this morning has been correcting grammar, spelling and adding a bibliography so I don't have to do it all in a rush the day before it's due to be handed in. Now I'm going to go for lunch, I just haven't worked out where yet. It'll probably be Costa Coffee as per usual though, I'm starting to get a little bored and you know you go there too much when the staff don't even ask you if you want marshmallows on your hot chocolate anymore because they know what the answer is. It's 'no', by the way. Even if they were vegetarian marshmallows I can't stand the squidgy texture of them, yuck.

I seriously cannot wait for that film.

So, against my better judgement, it looks like I'm hosting a Good Genes Challenge contest of GoS. Woo! I've gone with the first suggested choice which is this, because I just played through the contest rules and got a pretty decent result, so it is doable, it just doesn't look it! i figure if I start the contest today and give it a month, maybe until the 30th July and then have the voting open for a week that should be enough time.

So if anyone's not interested in playing but would like to donate a prize, that would be excellent and I would be most grateful. I was thinking maybe two prizes for the person who comes second, and those plus two more for First. And if I can think of something maybe a souvenir bonus prize for all entrants. Sound Fair?

Nicked, most recently, from Steerpike.

1. List 5 celebrities you would have sex with without even asking questions.
2. Put all of them IN ORDER of your lust for them [5 - 1, 1 is the hottest].
3. Say which movie/show/thing it was that hooked you.
4. Supply photos for said people.

( Because it beats doing a presentation about Charlotte Smith.... )

I bought a Wii and a Wii Fit with my student dosh, yay! Not entirely happy with the Wii Fit though, it's told me I have a Wii Fit age of 41! What?? I don't think I'm that unfit, I thought it was supposed to be my friend?  Hmph. Are there any other good games for the Wii though? I have no idea because, unbelievably, this is the first console I've ever had. Always wanted a SNES, but mum and dad always said no. I was looking at some games today in HMV, but I couldn't decide on any of them. I need something else to play before I fall out with the Balance Board for calling me fat!

I have literally just got back from the fullest cinema I've seen since I went to the 11am showing of Return of the King on the day it came out (oh come on, you're not surprised I did that?). It was alright though, the kids that were there were incredibly well behaved and there was an overwhelming proportion of pensioners, not with kids, just on their own. Grannies love Potter it would seem! Except mine, she thinks it's awful (she also hates Doctor Who though, so no taste in her house). Anyway full review, including spoilers for those who haven't read the book/seen the film/ read the book but not seen the film yet. Ummm, I think that covers everything?

( Thanks-er, why do I need socks? )