Money!

I have money now, huzzah! I have now paid up my FFXI content IDs until the end of June, and Friday has the unholy trio of Aegnor, Fenchurch and Satomi terrorising the beastmen of Gustaberg ... possibly. See, weaselbitch has this yen to try magedom, so she's going to run her Elvaan through a few levels of BLM. Meanwhile, dodgyhoodoo will be using our newfound capacity to pick which servers we want to be on to create his Hume thief Fenchurch. Whereas Satomi, for her part, has Bard and Beastmaster to level. It does mean that I'm kind of ahead of both of them whichever way I look at it, but at least with Bard and Beastmaster it's not much. So I can either party up with them as a level 3 Bard (or maybe it was lvl 4, I don't really remember), a lvl 7 Beastmaster, or I can just stand back and powerlevel those two with my lvl 17 WHM. (I really need to level WHM so I can say 'sod this' and start levelling BLM again, thus getting high enough in level to do some of these missions on my own.) Still, world of possibilities.

Not tonight, though. My mother sent me an email at some ungodly hour last night informing me that she would ring me this morning sometime to set up dinner tonight, after I haven't heard from her about it all week. And when I get home from that, I have a RP date. This is, of course, assuming I survive day from hell. At least it's not JusNoctis tonight - I logged onto the OOC chat over there and someone asked if I wanted to play, and I realised that I was in no state to play Visionary/Bon Vivant - I tend to be able to manage IC pretty well despite mood on most occasions, but feeling like you hate the entire universe is not conducive to playing a character who has been less than perky for maybe five minutes of one session.

Anyway, unfortunately, I have to go back to helljob now. Wish me luck. Or possibly axes, whichever.

Serendipity

Met my mother for dinner tonight. Since I figured I wasn't going to see her on Mother's Day, and seeing as I've skipped the last couple of Mother's Days in general, I thought I'd get her something. So I wandered the King's Road before I met her up to see if I could find something appropriate. Wound up in the diddy little Virgin store in a out-of-the-way shopping arcade and found "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" for a fiver. The price was right, the film kicks arse and I figured Mum'd like it, I thought "My serendipity must be on" and picked it up. (Turned out I was right about the serendipity being on, as it turned out that Mum had really wanted to see it and had considered renting it just the other day, dithering for ages with Stepdad before choosing "Children of Men" instead.)

But even though my quest was completed, I had this urge to keep poking around the shop. When I feel that my serendipity is switched on, it's usually a good idea to give in to those urges, so I did. I wound up in the Soundtrack section pretty much by accident, looked up ... and found soundtrack for the most recent two Doctor Who seasons. I've been talking about wanting this OST for ages, incidentally, and they were only charging a tenner. Since I felt I was owed a treat after the months of utter suck, I bought that for myself. So yeah - my serendipity was seriously switched on this evening.

Dinner was nice, though I couldn't finish all of it because my stomach's acting up. Unfortunately, finding Eternal Sunshine at such a good price and the Who OST I've wanted for over a year must have used up my luck, as when I got home, I discovered that my FFXI update download timed out while I was at work and now, after an hour and a half or so's load time, it's going to be just over another hour and a half before the whole thing is loaded. Suckus maximus, but I suppose these things happen.

Now I'm sitting here waiting for my stupid FFXI update to go through (I don't want to leave it sitting again) and wondering where darkdanc3r has got to. There was supposed to be RP but I guess that's not going to happen tonight. Oh well.

Must remember to bring my timesheet tomorrow. Whee.