HORRAY! It's time to apply for jobs again, and show your parents that you're capable of doing more than spending your money on bottles of NyQuil and getting so drunk that you wake up in the docks district with multiple knife wounds in your pancreas. Don't worry, I can help!

You see, I'm a special kind of breed. I don't help people because it brings me pleasure, or because it makes me feel good, or any of that other horseshit. I help people, because otherwise, sooner or later, they start to whine to me, and I hate that. So, if you, or anyone you know is planning on talking to me about your problems (any problems at all) in the near future, read onwards! Everyone else, go here.

Here's the starting point. From there, you should have all the tips you need to write an effective resume. Tomorrow we'll be looking at all of the things that you specifically do to annoy your co-workers, but you have to get a job first! So, let's do this.

A resume in and of itself may not get you that killer job, especially since you probably have little to no worthwhile experience. However, the whole goal of this article is to give you the illusion that you're capable of doing more than eating cheetos and hanging out at the local role-playing game store, so follow these easy directions to get hired in no time!

"No time" should actually be read "never"

Here are some blunders, big and not so big, small and not so small, funny and not so funny, to avoid when putting your resume together.

A lot of people unwittingly make this mistake. The best thing to do is actually to put the address of your potential employer's daughter's daycare, and the hours during which his daughter is there. Other excellent information to include is her blood type, which Backstreet Boy is her favorite, and some of your hobbies.

Awesome! We're starting this off on a hard-core tip. I like the idea of putting hobbies on the resume, unless your hobbies include any of the following:

• NASCAR Racing


• Watching fishing shows


• Anything to do with legumes

Lying about your experience.

Augmenting your credentials with job positions like "Laser Guardian", "Galactic Defender", and "Flactoid Remodulator" may seem like a good idea at first, but what happens when they hire you and actually expect you to repair a flactoid? Rather than run this risk, leave the phony job credentials on your resume, but go to the library and take out as many books as you can find about flactoids, and spend weeks reading about them. In the job market, we call this technique "Turning a belly-up schooner into a ripe orange", meaning that fish doesn't age the same way that wine does. We're not really sure how that saying started. Anyhow, following this technique will ensure that you never again have to wake up in a cold sweat after having that same nightmare about your boss calling on you to realign his flactoid. Remember, even a little white lie can backfire, especially if the lie involves ointments of any kind.

I've had an INSANE amount of job interviews in my time, and let me tell you, the ointment lie may seem like the easy way to power and success, but it always comes back to haunt you. Be smart. Don't lie about ointments.

Here's a real workplace example: An employee's company was relocating to another state, and one employee got mad and shot a bunch of people. Do you think he put that on his resume when applying for other jobs? No. This is common sense. If something happened at your previous job that you're not proud of, or even if you are proud of it, but feel it might reflect poorly on your work ethic (like the time you stuck that dead racoon in the heating duct in your office after getting fired), leave it out of your resume. The only time this sort of "hard-ball" resume style works is if you're applying for a job where the manager used to be a member of the Alpha-Betas. Alpha-Betas are known for their solidarity, and a prank like this will probably go over well with them. An easy way to determine if your potential employer used to be an Alpha-Beta is to ask yourself the following questions:

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, leave the dead racoon story on your resume.

If anyone has a job they really hate right now, and they'd like to try out the dead racoon trick, let me know, and I'll pay for half the costs of purchasing a dead racoon. I'm not exactly sure where you'd buy something like that, but there's gotta be a store that sells them. Probably in Sooke somewhere.

Here's another scenario for you: Some man, who we'll call David Marcovny to protect his real identity, used the company fax machine to send a resume to a potential employer. He listed his current position as chief officer in charge of technical reimbursements related to the processing of data enriched sources, when in fact the sources did not have to be enriched in data AT ALL. He was found out because he left his resume in the company fax machine, where his boss found it. Not only did he not get the new job, but his boss hired members of the local mob to stuff him inside a bird cage. Do we need to elaborate? We don't think so.

I love a story with a moral

Listing your "girls I'm allowed to sleep with, should the opportunity arise list" on your resume.

This is a pretty common mistake, and one that is easily rectified. Due to all of the affirmative action that's going on these days, people are quick to set up barriers against hiring people that are obviously in the market for a particular sex. A simple way to rectify this situation is to also include a "guys I'd like to sleep with given the opportunity list".

What could be simpler?

Cutesy-pie layouts and stationery.

Some people believe that their resume will stand out in the crowd if they stray from the conventional layout. This might work well if you are applying for a job at Claire's Accessories, but is a one-way ticket to an eternity spent screaming and burning in hell if you're applying to any other job. When designing your resume, ask yourself "What would Jesus do?" The truth is, Jesus would have used his magical powers to bankrupt the company offering the job he'd want, then build a super mega-corporation and rule it with cunning and lightning bolts.

Yes! Lightning bolts! Don't forget to put a bunch of those on your resume.

Telling too much about yourself.

Shut the hell up about yourself, you're boring and uninteresting, and people probably call you Pearhead behind your back.

If you are named Pearhead, I would also recommend sticking a fork in your eye to spruce up your resume.

That should be enough to keep you all occupied for weeks to come! Have no fear though, I'll be posting a sequel to this article* about how to prevent your co-workers from hating your ass!

*Sometime in 2005

Hahahaha! That title up above is my attempt at coming across dark and brooding, yet mysterious and intellectual. I'm proving that I'm unique by writing pretty much the same type of title as every other single person that has an online journal or a blog.

As most of you have noticed, I suck ass at keeping regular blog updates when I'm in classes. Fine by me, I'll just have to change the site around. The idea of a blog never really seemed to fit me anyhow, because I take a lot more pleasure in making fun of stuff than I do in writing about how my day went. So I'm going to make some changes. Nothing major, but over time, I'd like to make this less of a blog, and more of just... well, a website. All that really means is a change of layout, to some degree, and probably writing less about my days. My days are generally all boring except when I'm hanging out with someone cool or spending time with Bay, so it doesn't really matter that I won't be weaving any more ripping good yarns about how boring school was. If you guys want to read about that, you can go to livejournal and read any one of the other ten hojillion blogs posted there. Me, I'm just going to make fun of stuff.

So, given the speed at which I've been updating, any significant changes to the site will naturally come at a rate that could be measured on the scale of that used to measure the formation of galaxies. Stay tuned over the next couple of decades, because the change could start to happen with no more than a few years of notice!

Today I'd like to put to rest an issue that has been deeply troubling all of my friends lately: What we will do when the apocaplypse comes and we no longer have a sun in the sky. For some reason, most of my friends have been pre-occupied with this question, running around like this will be some kind of crisis, leaving only me to be the level-headed voice of reason, dispensing calm, cool and collected advice with an iron fist.

The way I see it, two main things will happen when the Sun dissapears:

1. It'll get a little bit colder.
2. It'll get a little darker.

See? Hardly anything to worry about. Problem one is easy to solve: We all move down to Florida. Problem two seems like it's easy to deal with, but it's actually a little bit trickier than we might imagine. The answer is easy right? Just buy some extra lamps. WRONG bungnut, because now you've got a bunch of lamps that aren't co-ordinated at all, and your place looks like ass, and your girlfriend is now leaving you for some guy that's got some really fancy looking lamps in his place, some of which probably accentuate his manliness/hood.

So, we've got to determine what the best way to buy lamps is. That's where I come to the rescue, saving you from the potential doom of a poorly accentuated manliness/hood. Let's dive in! I found this all important article here. It's in PDF format, so if you don't have a PDF reader installed, I guess you'll have to get used to not being a part of things, because no one is going to want to be around you or your shitty lamps when the apocalypse comes.

With the subject of good lighting conditions commanding wide-spread attention, the debate over the value of full-spectrum fluorescent lighting needs to be looked at more closely. Lighting design should accommodate six human needs: hunger, sexual magnetism, black-light effect, octagon, light, and not dying. Claims about the superiority of one lighting product over another should be evaluated against criteria in all of these areas. However, this assessment also requires attention to architectural design, the base sexual magnetism of the individual, ergonomics, the stock market, and the current terrorist level in the states (directly proportional to the number of mad cow cases currently pending investigation). No one product fits all circumstances, except for a light-saber, which will be discussed later.

Now, we can tell right from the start that this article bears a lot of truth to it. If you watch the news loosely, the way I do, which means reading the paper about once a month, and getting your smarter friends to fill in the gaps for you, you've probably drawn the random conclusion that the current terrorist level is based solely on how many mad cow cases are currently under investigation. Us Canadians actually have one angry cow in Canada called "Gertrude the hornery cow", and we just keep breeding angry cows from her and sending them to the states because we find it so damn hilarious. Also, we shouldn't forget about the fact that the last paragraph talked a bit about lamps. That is crucial in any paper that is giving advice about what type of lamp to purchase. Let's see if this trend continues.

A full-spectrum fluorescent lamp mimics daylight in the north sky, while a half-axle-spectrum incandescent mimics a laser beam, like James Bond has on his watch. Having emissions in all parts of the visual spectrum, some emissions in the ultra-violet range, and even some emissions in the mega-violet range (also called the "cancer-range"), most fluorescent bulbs are only good if you want to pretend you have a lightsaber. Sometimes they appear slightly blue, or sometimes green, red, chartruse, or periwinkle, depending on whether or not you are good, neutral, evil, an insurance salesman, or named Fabian, respectively. Some people claim that the megaviolet range of light coming from a fluorescent light makes it inherently better for meeting human needs by irradiating all of the food in your kitchen, and thus removing the need for you to cook anything.

Now, a lot of you are probably thinking "Man, that sandwich I had for lunch was sweet", which really pisses me off, because you should be focusing on this article, not on the stupid sandwich you had with lunch - especially since the totally awesome lightsaber part is coming up, I think.

The National Research Council's Institute for Research in Construction is the Institute with the most N's, R's, C's and I's in their acronym (NRCIRiC). They have taken this intimidating name, and used it to bully around scientists. A number of these scientists have banded together in a renegade faction called the r337 1amp crew, and routinely play pranks on the NRCIRiC. One prank included publishing an article claiming to be one of NRCIRiC's own, that talked talked about using lamps to find the Sasquatch. Shortly thereafter, the Sasquatch was found and submitted for testing, and the NRCIRiC's clout increased considerably.

I had a run in with the NRCIRiC once, and barely made it out alive. That's a subject for discussion in another entry some other time, because for right now, I'd really like to stay focused on the awesomeness that is lamps.

Visibility

Being able to see is imperative, especially if you are driving on the highway. As a result, NRCIRiC recommends having at least three lamps in your car, on at all times. Seeing also depends on characteristics of the viewer (age in particular, and is also correlated directly with the brand of jeans they wear). Some researchers theorise that lamps with relatively more blue light make better weapons, and are in negotiations with the Ultimate Fighting Championship Coucil to make this a possibility. However, if this were true, would it actually make the UFC more exciting, or would we just end up with more close-up shots of guys getting drilled in the groin with blue lamps? Definitely food for thought.

I have no problem with more close-up groin drilling shots.

Performance and behaviour

Several prominent studies involving classroom lighting received widespread publicity, and have led some classroom teachers to change the lighting (even at their own expense!). This is because certain types of lights can be focused directly into children's retinas, causing a very acute blinding pain, that typically smartens kids up very quickly. However, close examination of these studies revealed several problems in the research design and statistical analysis, mainly that this type of scientific study resulted in kids that were "scarred for life". Many of the scientists in the community "pussed out" and started to complain that this research and it's findings were "unethical".

So instead of going and standing in the corner for an hour, being bored and lonely, you just had to suffer a little retinal burn for five minutes and then you could go back to hanging out with your friends? Sign me up!

Mood and comfort

Probably the most common claim for Mr. T being a star is that he exudes a comforting sexual magnetism. As was mentioned at the beginning of this article, sexual magnetism is a crucial factor that lamps must contribute to. As a result, studies have recently popped up all over the place advocating the use of lamps shaped like Mr. T to enhance the over-all mood that you have at your place. Also, it has been proven by various infomercials that Mr. T therapy is an effective treatment for many clinical conditions, including Hurt Brain Syndrome (HBS), Retinal Eye-burn Trauma (RET), Post Syntactic Narcoleptonic Disorder (PSND), and Rear Audiolectomic Goats Disease (RAGD), and it might even be helpful for other forms of depression. As an additional finding, the expression on Mr. T's face does not seem to be important. Any very intense look, administered at the right time of day, is effective. Furthermore, the effectiveness of this medical treatment doesn't mean that everyone should be exposed to Mr. T all the time. Six to seven hours a day should be more than enough.

I can vouch for this treatment. I saw Mr. T preaching about Jesus and god when I was in Phoenix and it was the best day I've ever had.

Safety and health

A good lamp should make you healthier whenever it is on. This can be done in a number of ways, such as spritzing vitamin C mist into the air, speaking verbal encouragement, or even using tiny lasers to destroy airborn viruses. One of the main benefits ascribed to full-spectrum fluorescent light are based upon its megaviolet component. By irradiating everything within a four mile radius, these lights ensure that no viruses or diseases are alive anywhere around you. As an added benefit, you'll be sterile, and won't have to worry about unwanted pregnancies. The studies are confusing on this point. One group suggests that the presence of megaviolet light kills you instantaneously, while another group asked us if they could borrow our sample light and take it with them to their next rave. In fact, many of the members of the raver group actually started to look healthier after being exposed to megaviolet light rays.

The fact that the ravers got healthier doesn't really say much - most ravers would probably look healthier after being burnt alive - at least it would put some color into their skin. Naturally I'm just kidding, I was raving hard to Sandstorm in my room with the black light on while writing this article.

Aesthetics

Some lights look ugly, and thus should not be purchased. When you go to buy a lamp, you should ask the lamp salesperson "is this is an ugly lamp?" If they say "yes", steer clear of that particular model. This is a fool-proof way to ensure that you get the best lamp for your home, and is also an excellent way to pre-screen someone before asking them out on a date.

Why the hell not? Next time you want to ask someone out, first go up to them and say "Are you ugly?". If they answer no, make your move. If they answer yes, they've just saved you a lot of work.

Light sabers and lasers

Lasers make the best source of light for a home - they offer cheap sources of lighting, and make it easy to cut something if you can't find a knife. Additionally, they make for convenient paper-shredders, and make any house look very high-tech and futuristic. Taking this theory one step further leads us to lightsabers. Lightsabers are essentially "lasers-on-a-stick" and can be placed at multiple places in your home to give it a cozy, lived-in feeling. Another nice feature about lightsabers is that it allows you to give people an indication of the kind of person you are, based on the color of your lightsaber.

But where the hell can you buy a lightsaber?

Conclusions

Lightsabers are pretty fucking cool.

Well, I don't think there's really anything else I can add to this extremely well written article, that I have quoted verbatim from the PDF document. Peace out!

Yes it has! As the one remaining reader may have noticed, school and work have combined their powers tenfold to make it very difficult to garner time to write in the ol' blog.

Anyhow, whole lot of action going on this week - actually, no.. All I've done is stats homework. But Graham gave me my Christmas gift yesterday - the complete first season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is easily my favorite show. For those of you that aren't in the know (you're dorks), Curb Your Enthusiasm is a show about Larry David (the co-creator of Seinfeld and inspiration for George Costanza's character) after Seinfeld had finished. He plays himself, and the characters are a combination of real and fictitious friends and family of his. Part of the reason the show is so damn awesome is because it's shot essentially without any dialogue scripted for the seasons. There is a general idea of how the scene will progress, but most of the dialogue is ad-libbed. This gives the show a total candid feel, and comes off feeling really real. Characters laugh at stupid things that I would laugh at, that you probably wouldn't see scripted laughter for in a regular sitcom.

It's an awesome show, and if you don't like it, you'll burn in hell for all eternity. Jesus told me so.

I also finally downloaded the first season of Oz, which is an HBO show about life in prison, and have been watching it non-stop. The show's great, having plenty of scenes with anal rape, prison riots, aryans, and drug usage, as well as more racial slurs than you can shake a stick at. Seriously though, the show's great, and I couldn't explain to you why.. It just is.

I took pictures a week ago and I still haven't put them up, because I'm LAZY, and can't be bothered to do it yet. I also bought new shoes about three weeks ago, but NONE OF YOU KNOW THAT, because I haven't been updating my blog enough to tell you all about that sort of important stuff, nor to tell you all about the latest results of the online personality test I took! (My personality is thatch roof. I look pretty, but am not very good when it starts to rain. I can most often be found in England. Wow! I'm unique and interesting!)

Anyhow, anyone that isn't yet aware of it, I think a Curb Your Enthusiasm marathon is in order at my place sometime soon, so e-mail or MSN or ICQ me to let me know you want to come if I haven't already asked you.

Third day back into classes, and I've just finished my homework for the evening. The term is shaping up to be filled with work, but nothing utterly overwhelming (though I'll delay judgement on that until after I've seen the full details on some of my projects).

Anyhow, if anyone is still reading the blog, some of you may have noticed that I've sucked ass at updating the past couple of weeks, and the gallery hasn't really been updated at all. This is all true. There's not much I can do about it. It's difficult to find time to write a really long entry, complete with some humour in it (which really saps my strength), when I'm taking classes and working. On top of that, it's been more difficult to get out and take pictures due to the weather - snow has prevented me getting any where at all, and rain really puts a downer on taking pictures (For me at least - I don't have an umbrella or anything to work into the mix).

Nevertheless, don't give up hope! I'll keep writing, and every now and then when I find time or need a distraction, this will be the first place I'll come, and that will inevitably lead into a humour entry (I hope).

I really wanted to write in here tonight to tell all of you to watch Average Joe Hawaii - Nerdy Mortal Kombat. This show was filmed in Hawaii before the first one even aired, so no one yet knew exactly what was going on. It doesn't really matter, because all that is necessary is that the main woman on the show have no idea what she's getting into. For those of you that didn't watch the first Average Joe, the premise is this:

They take a bunch of ugly, obnoxious, idiotic, irritating, or boring guys, and put them all together. Then they take a super model or beauty queen, tell her she's going to meet her prince, then go Surprise! You're actually meeting these guys here instead, and then pull up a bus and unload all of the guys. I can't believe they ignored my suggestion to unload the guys from a big dump truck. The show is generally the same kind of fun as a combined enema and lobotomy, and as you can well guess, it's difficult to tear your eyes away from it.

I've included some of the warrior's battles in the blog for you to peruse through, and learn about their special moves.

Minion of the Appocalype

All y'all playah hatahs can kiss mah dizzle!

Bio: David's job, apparently, is to do everything in his power to annoy YOU. And by YOU, I mean whoever is reading this. David's got one of those annoying ritalin-deficient personalities that really just makes you want to stick his head in a tree chipper.

Special Moves:

• Yelling loudly - By raising his voice to be roughly the same volume as eight jet engines directly in front of your face, David is able to deafen his opponents and cause them brain anneurisms.


• Drinking one beer and getting trashed - With his superior ability to get drunk off of the fumes from half a beer, David can challenge his opponents to a contest to see who can get drunk first, then laugh as his opponents liver gets weaker, while his only has to filter a quarter of a .05 beer.


• Throwing watermelons into pools - By lobbing watermelons with more muscle tissue than his body into any pools that are near, David is able to splash water onto his opponents, irritating them.

Finishing Move: Jumps on the couch and talks to himself at the top of his lungs.

Weaknesses: Ritalin

The Streamlined Daemon

Fear the deadly power of my uneven beard!

Bio: It is rumored that Tony was created from the souls of vanquished warriors. This would explain some of his superhuman powers. As everyone knows, souls do not have sweat glands, and as you may have expected, neither does Tony. This leads us to his super powers:

Special Moves:

• Uneven beard combo - With a different shape of beard on either side of his face, Tony can throw his opponents into a state of vertigo, causing them to completely lose their sense of balance. Tony then unleashes the full power of his beard by talking about how creative it is.


• Streamlined super combo - Having shaved off all of the hair on his body, Tony is capable of moving faster than anyone else. Making use of this unique trait, Tony is capable of speeding around his opponent and pummelling him with attacks. Used in combination with his uneven beard combo, Tony is truly a force to be contended with.

Finishing Move: Being born with no sweat glands in his body, Tony is capable of not sweating. As a result, he doesn't have to buy deodorant, and saves tons of money. After battling for long enough, he's saved up enough money to buy a big gun and shoot his opponent with it.

Weaknesses: Heat. Without sweat glands, Tony dies whenever his body overheats, since it can't cool itself off.

The Voice of Destruction

Hey Gaowhogeeyass, you n' I, wicked pissah. Yah?

Bio: Growing up in the heart of Boston, Brian has developed the ability to mangle all parts of the English language. He has turned this ability, along with poor hygene, into a weapon that even the most battle hardened warriors fear.

Special Moves:

• Wear the same clothes over and over - By never changing his clothes, Brian has developed a funk that is able to stun a buffalo from 50 paces. Using this putrid stench, he can knock his opponents unconcious, then rifle through their belongings, taking anything of value.


• Not wash hair - By refusing to wash his hair, Brian can also add to his odor, combo-ing the opponent with two different, but both uniquely disturbing scents. With his two unique types of pong, Brian has been known to roam through the countryside, rendering entire species of bears extinct.


• Act surly - By acting surly and grumpy, Brian can throw a normally engaging conversation completely off track. Opponents will find themselves totally confused and unable to remember what it was they were planning on doing next (pulling out some nose plugs). Before they know it, Brian will have devastated them with his pong combo, and will have won the match.

Finishing Move: Speak in tongues - By speaking with his special accent, Brian can confound and infuriate his opponents. Merely hearing Brian castrate the English language for five minutes is usually more than enough time to make an opponent's head explode.

Weaknesses: Soap.

As you can see, it's shaping up to be an EXTREMELY exciting match-up. Stay tuned for more bios!

Woo, what a huge break! I'm so lazy, it's amazing. Truth is, the lack of updates have been a result of multiple factors, some of which were not under my control. The holidays are always busy anyhow, and buying Christmas presents and dealing with the multiple obligatory relative visits, etc. is always time consuming. In addition to that, I got hooked on an older RPG put out by the Black Isle crew (who are now disbanded) called Planescape Torment. For those of you that actually find this stuff interesting, Black Isle are the premier makers of RPGs for the PC - most of their games are centered around the Dungeons and Dragons universes, though they've also ventured into science fiction and cyberpunk genres. Planescape Torment plays out a lot like the movie Memento - you wake up on a slab in a mortuary with no idea who you are, what you're doing, why you're in a mortuary, or anything else. As the game progresses, you regain memories, and of course, get giant swords and spells to vanquish vile enemies!

That took up a bunch of time, and, much to my surprise, I actually played it through to the end, making it one of the first RPGs I actually played through to completion. Typically, my video game ADHD kicks in at about 5 minutes before I finish the game, usually before some huge boss, and I lose complete interest in it. Yay me.

On top of all that, my internet connection ran out on the 28th. I was planning on switching from UVic's ResNet service anyway, because I got slapped on the wrist for downloading a movie, and I'd also had trouble with them earlier because I was doing something I shouldn't have. Three strikes and you have to talk to the Dean, so I figured this would be a good place to stop. That ran out on the 28th, and the soonest Shaw could install for me was the 2nd of January. That's actually pretty good compared to some of the delays that Ben and Ashley had to deal with.

So, I'm set up with Shaw now, which potentially means the site will load faster if anyone cares (the news of which should cause Graham multiple succesive orgasms - I think he was taking the reduced bandwidth harder than anyone else) . Hopefully that also means I can download some movies and slip under the radar. Nothing too illicit over BitTorrent though, because that's just asking for it.

Yesterday I finally got a hold of the first book in the Malazan series, and have so far managed to get through 450 pages of it (amazing what I can accomplish without the distractions of internet). The book so far is good, though, as Graham warned me, you get dumped right into things at the start. I'm not sure whether or not I appreciate this or not, but I don't really like it. Yes - there's a difference. I can appreciate something without liking it. In this instance, I think that dumping you into the middle of things is just another way of introducing you to the characters, and lets the author burn through some antecedent action that they may feel is unnecessary. It definitely lets things start up faster, in some ways. In other ways, however, I feel that it slows things down, because reading the first hundred pages, none of the events really have any meaning until you can relate or become attached to the characters said events are occurring to.

In any case, the book is definitely interesting, and seems cool so far. The characters are somewhat interesting, and the magic system is complex and well thought out, as well as being very diverse (magic structure and stuff is usually my favorite part of fantasy fiction (and RPGs too) - that could actually be another reason Lord of the Rings doesn't appeal to me like it does a lot of other people - the magic system seems relatively unimpressive, and isn't described in much detail - all we really know, at least from the main series - is that there are these wizards and they can do wizard shit. Any case, back on track, so far, I'd still have to say my favour lies with the Wheel of Time series. I'd recommend this as the starting point to anyone that is serious about a good engrossing series, and appreciates good deep character development - I'd have to say that in my eyes, the depth and breadth of the character and plot development are the strongest points of the Wheel of Time series (though there are a LOT of other really good things about it too).

Anyhow, all that being said, those are mostly the reasons for my absence from the blog. Hopefully things can get back on track now that the holidays are over. It's all about classes and co-op jobs over the course of the next couple of months, so if updates stay light, you know why.

I've got a few photos to stick up in galleries, though that's also been pretty light - I haven't managed to find much time for that over the holidays.

Stay tuned..