Shannon Apple

How's this for cheesy creeperness in the pub the other day. I'll have to paraphrase here, but the conversation went on longer. The guy was way too old for me anyway, and looked pretty weird, so I told him I was taken. Ugh!


"Hey babe how's it going? Fancy a drink?"
"No I'm fine, but thank you."
"Yes you are fine."
*leans against the wall and being all creepy*
"What are you doing out here all on your own looking miserable?" ...

I wish to apologise to anyone that may be waiting on me to help them out with stuff on A4. RP Realm and that Anime Review competition. I've been under a ton of pressure atm, and I do come on A4 to post in my spare time to relieve some stress, but I just don't have enough time to do a lot of other things.

Turns out that the due date for my paper is 17th October, so I will be tied up til then. You have no idea how delighted I am that I have 3 weeks longer than I thought. Now I have a ...

WHAT IS IT WITH CLIENTS AND MICROSOFT WORD?
OH EM GEE, I swear to God, I'm going to murder someone.

A few months ago, I sent the final design template to a client. They asked for the raw InDesign file + template that I set up with style sheets and everything.

Do you know how long it takes to set up style sheets for an entire ****ing book? Especially when there's several kinds of pages? No? Well a long friggen time.

I sent it to them, and they said that ...

You know those mannequin heads that hair stylists use to practice on? Well, yeah, my brother, the eejit got hold of one of these. A life-size male head. They took it from a skip. The hair was already cut, so it was no use anymore.

He took it to his friend's apartment initially, where he thought it would be a great idea to build a body for it. He and his friend put a hoodie on it to make it look extra good, put it sitting slumped on the toilet, turned the lights off and left. That night ...

An online "friend" more like acquaintance contacted me today after like a year. He used to play an MMO with me a couple of years ago.

Hilarity ensued.

I'm paraphrasing because I don't want to post up the full convo. He doesn't hang out on anime forums or know my "Shannon" username, so I can put this here.

Him: "Hi, how are you?"
Me: "I'm good thanks, long time no hear. How's yourself?"
Him: "Doing ...