The what? June 28, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Entertainment, Rants , add a commentThe Happening has to be one of the lamest serious movie titles I’ve ever laid eyes upon. It’s possibly the exact opposite in movie titling mistake to Snakes on a Plane.
In the first, you’ve got the most general title for a film/book/play ever conceived. I mean seriously, how many of these things are there were there is no happenings, no events? I can’t think of anything where something doesn’t happen, where there is no happening. Things must happen in order to create something interesting, it’s just the way these things work!
On the other hand, you’ve got Snakes on a Plane, which essentially sums up the entire movie before you’ve even planned out your weekend. I’ve not seen it, so I can’t be sure but I must assume that there is a plane, which through some kind of event (happening if you will) has been filled with, presumably, many snakes. Samuel L Jackson, being the bad ass that he is, will somehow save the day and get rid of said snakes, probably with some tasty phrases thrown into the mix. I don’t really think I need to see the movie.
Back to The Happening - you may aswell have just called it “Event” or perhaps even “Title” or “Movie”. Seriously guys, lets sort this out, maybe it was just an attempt to make the title so vague people would go and see it just to find out what it’s about, on a whim perhaps, I can’t imagine that anyone is going to assume some kind of original and mind bending cinematic experience with a name like that.
Crazy days June 22, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Life , add a commentFriday was a pretty intense day. I’m not going to go into any sort of detail because that wouldn’t be fair for those involved.
This post could have been filled with talk of slip n slide water fight fun but as it happened the day turned a different way.
Things were left in state that threatened our friendship group, something that has brought me much happiness of the past few months. I’m hoping that given the circumstances of the day things will return to a close to normal situation shortly although things may never be quite the same.
The Penultimate Day June 18, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Life, Misc , add a commentThis is the day before my last exam. By tomorrow lunch time all the worrying, the procrastination and sporadic work will be over and I must simply wait. Wait to find out my fate, to find out what I have the horrible feeling I already know the answer to.
I really don’t like this feeling…
That time June 16, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Life, School, Scraps , add a commentTomorrow begins my final week of exams. My most important week of exams. The exams that could well decided my future. Unless the universities decide they suddenly don’t need grades they will decide my future.
Let’s just say I could definitely be more prepared.
Of course, times like this make me all looky at my life time. And listen to music at a higher than normal volume, that too.
There is really no point worrying, I know this, it doesn’t really seem to stop me doing…whatever it is I’m doing. At least once this is over I really have very little to worry about and I think it’s about time I got some worry free moments. Well, I have to find myself a job but that’s another story.
One nice thing at the moment is that I have been given the job offer by my Ski resort so that is one more hurdle down, only one big one and one small one left. The big one is the visa process. Gee that’s gonna be fun…
Vampires: NHS Style June 13, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Druid, Gaming, Life, World of Warcraft , add a commentSo yes, if you have any understanding of my title you’ll know that what I’m talking about is blood donation. I first registered as a blood donor last year when they visited my school and tried to donate but due to not being 100% I hadn’t receive blood in the past meant that I can’t donate. I found out that evening that I hadn’t and managed to forget to go last time they came round. So, anyway I headed along and got through it all.
I had an appointment but it still seemed to take a while. It was quite busy. Overall it was alright, not particularly painful or anything. It’s just one of those things that it’s important and it’s something I can do to help and there’s no reason for me not to do it. Simple really. A bit of time and discomfort once every 4 months is worth it for the lives it could save.
In other news, my druid hit 60 just now. I sent over 515 gold (!) from my main to pay for epic mount training, the druid would have the money if it wasn’t for enchanting…
Still, it will pay for itself once I hit 70 and can farm a bit better. I was looking at a gold making guide and paladins ranked last in farming ability. Last. And I’m the lowest damage spec. I have no idea how I’ll ever manage to get epic flyer, I’m down to belowe 1000g after maxing alchemy and this mount training. I think its gonna come down to some hardcore grind after my exams are finished.
Alchemy Mastered… June 10, 2008
Posted by Sharny in : Druid, Gaming, Gear, Paladin, World of Warcraft , add a commentI just hit 375 alchemy on my main character. I decided to do this as I’ve not really had a crafting profession for so long and also because I had read that the trinket is so good that BT/Sunwell guilds have healers dropping other professions to get it. Thankfully its also probably the cheapest crafting profession to level, at first I gathered herbs on my druid alt (who dropped mining to get herbalism) and used them to level but once I hit 300 I would need Outland stuff exclusively and a 59 druid became a bit useless. All in all I am about 1000g poorer than when I started, not too bad really.
The only problem now is that I don’t have the reputation with Sha’tar to get the recipe for the alchemists stone which I would then turn into this Uber trinket. Looks like I’m in for a lot of Tempest Keep instance runs…
