Hyzenthlay
Professional Klutz.

Hey just checking to see how you are doing?

we havent spoke in a while

Hey there! I'm doing alright, was just doing some stuff around the house. How are you doing?

Being a cup of espresso would be a grand life, I think.

The Call of Cthulhu is a game too, yes (for original Xbox). Coincidentally, I just started playing it at a friend's house the other day. From what I can tell, it's based on the Cthulhu mythos that was started by Lovecraft and expanded upon by later writers. At any rate, it certainly takes place in Lovecraft's fictional county in Northeast Massachusetts. I'd hardly call it a good game, but I like the feel it has to it. Horror combined with a sort of Tex Murphy (not sure if you've ever played those games) detective feel. I likes.

As far as online gaming goes, I honestly don't do a lot of it. I'm pretty antisocial when it comes to gaming, haha. I enjoy being lost in fictional worlds, so I find it problematic when I have to interact with people who do not act in accordance with the world. It kind of breaks the mood for me. Plus I usually like to do things at my own pace. I may change that when Bioware's MMO comes out though. That thing looks amazing and if it can easily be played solo like they claim, I'll be sold.

Is eccentricity bad? I usually find the eccentrics to be the most interesting, don't you?

As for my future writing, if I ever do get around to finishing it, I'll certainly let you see it and I'd love to see what you've written. We'll do a "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" kind of thing.

As far as academics are concerned, I just finished a bachelor degree in honours history, so right now I'm just taking a year off to get the necessary funds to attend grad school. The break itself is nice too, haha. I think being a music teacher is admirable. Music is more important than many credit it, particularly when it is truly a work of art rather than just a commercial cash in.

Our awesomeness combines to form super awesomeness! All that stands before it shall fall! Yes..........my hair is light brown to dirty blonde, by the way.

Alrighty left it pretty open for you to do something interesting. Our characters are definitely in the same vicinity of each other now. lol

Oh I got new plans now for my first character combined with my second.

That's ok!

Okay, that was the reason why I didn't continue on my first character cause I didn't want to create a life form without knowing what you wanted to do. I'll be adding my 2nd Merc and starting off with his story.

All I can really suggest to you for books is the Penguin Classics collections, The Call of Cthulu and Other Weird Stories, as it's the only collection I've begun reading. He had a bunch of stories (some are like short novels) that aren't included in it though, but I've yet to read them, so I can't yet recommend them.

Morrowind was great, but I don't recommend getting the Xbox version. The load times make me want to cry. You can literally start the game and go eat a quick dinner before the initial loading screen is over. Congrats for when you get your new lappy though, that'll be awesome.

If you were a typical blonde, the term would be a pretty heavy compliment. Creativity and imagination is a good thing. I often wish I had more of both. It's great that you not only have it, but also have so many ways to express it. That's pretty special.

As for my writing, I'm not sure anymore what I'm trying to do. Similar to how you described it, I've got so many ideas in my head, but I'm having difficulty expressing them properly on paper (e-paper?). I was originally planning to do a kind of weird short story, inspired by Lovecraft of course, but I've since wondered if what I'm going for may be better expressed as some form of long poem. I've never really considered myself much of a poet though, haha. I'm used to writing academic papers, so this kind of writing is a little more difficult for me.

Now why on Earth would I be avoiding you? You're always off by the time I get on. I guess that's the trouble with time differences. Ah well, thank goodness for TFF so I can at least experience your awesomeness in small doses.

Sounds cool. Let me know if someone's being stupid in your thread and I don't seem to be paying attention, or if you need some other help.

annnd if it to late to join Haven or is that already gettin down

So what do you want the alien life to be like on EVE...like human size shapeshifting type?

Yay, congrats!

Np, I've been really busy myself. Finally going to get out of the retail abyss. =D I probably won't be posting as much as I have been but I'll definitely try to keep up.

Apologies for being extreamly nosy, but this caught my eye: "My friend Jo's step sister is Cherie Blair."

My favourite primary school teacher was either a stepsister or half sister of Tony Blair. Or was it Cherie... okay, I can't remember. By any chance your friend knows someone called Jane, who is/used to be a primary school teacher, then what a small world this is!

G'Evening

Well I haven't read all of his work, so I can't say for certain, but I've liked most of what I have read so far. They're short stories, so you have some hits and some misses, but most of them I've read have been quite good.

Monkey Island is indeed timeless, haha. I forgot how hard some of those puzzles are though, my god.

Oblivion, Oblivion. Good game, but I was disappointed with it. I thought they took away way too many things from Morrowind. I usually just play that instead.

That's pretty awesome that you're attempting to write books. What are they about, if you don't mind me asking? I'd love to see them published one day. I've been working on something myself, but I'm such a procrastinator that I doubt I'll ever get anywhere with it. It's taken me weeks to write a page and I think I'm going to cut most of it, haha.

You should get on MSN more, yo.