I don’t update this enough. This is because I have nothing interesting to say.
Still at home, doing nothing much besides working on Muffins. Lots of new content recently. Not getting any donations anymore, and new registrations are still low. *shrug*
In other news, I love Mai.
Maybe that’s not exactly new, but it’s still true.
The MC Frontalot CD I ordered last Friday arrived in the mail this morning. Faster than I expected.
Cute stereotypical air mail envelope. Address written by hand, and obviously very carefully to avoid misspellings. The custom paper thing pasted onto it is signed MC Frontalot. Dunno if that’s legal, but it’s funny.
So yeah. Surprised that it’s not obviously a we-send-out-hundreds-of-these-in-a-month kind of thing. Gewd thing.
I had already heard most of the tracks, but they’re rerecorded. Most of them are worse than the downloadable versions, but still worth my money.
Speaking of which, this is technically the first thing I’ve ever bought with money I earned (even if it’s Muffins donations; I worked for that, dammit). Doesn’t feel very different from money I get given by random relatives.
Calling people by their real name on the internet. I mean, yes, it shows to other people who are listening in on the conversation that you’re close enough to that person that they’ve told you their real name (or that you’re an effective enough stalker that you found out on your own), but given a choice between calling someone by the name they were given and the name they chose for themselves (and thus, presumably, like better), why would you go for their real name?
That being said, I don’t particularly care about what people call me. It annoys me when nubs who never knew me as Xarn call me Xarn, and it annoys me when morons call me anything at all, but on the Koen/Cairnarvon thing, I don’t give a fuck. Just struck me as odd, is all.
Anyway.
I think I need to advertise Muffins more. Registrations are down quite dramatically, oddly since I rolled out the rabbit hole. Probably a coincidence.
Meh. I guess it buys us some time until we need to go dedicated.
Yeah. I guess I should post about this.
My exam results came in the mail last Friday, and as expected, two zeroes and six or so NAs, for “niet afgelegd”, meaning I didn’t take them.
Didn’t come to the huge argument I expected (pity in some ways).
Upshot of the whole thing is that I’m no longer a Japanology student. My original intention was to switch to whatever the name of the thing Coren is doing right now is, only with Dutch instead of French (and English, a’course). So I went down to Student Administration on Monday, and they told me that you could only switch before February 28th. They could make an exception if I got written permission from the faculty head, because it was the same faculty, but she was home sick that day.
Probably a good thing, really, because it gave me some more time to think.
My parents seem to be pushing me in the direction of some type of CompSci somewhere not in Leuven, which might actually be a good idea. Not sure what or where, though. Guess I’ve got six or seven months to figure that out.
As for what I’m going to do for the rest of the year, meh. If it were up to me, I’d just follow a few classes that interest me, in a passive research kind of way, and work on Muffins (and similar projects) a lot. I have a feeling my mom is going to make me get a job, though (despite the fact that Muffins is making me more money than any job I could find for that length of time on this short a notice probably could), or at least annoy the fuck out of me for the duration by cutting my internet again (very productive, no doubt) and/or by imposing other arbitrary limits.
The moment she even hints at charging rent, I’m moving out, liquid funds or no.
All in all, I’m fairly optimistic about the entire situation, but I have a feeling she’s going to make it a fuck of a lot harder than it needs to be, for everyone involved.
Working on Skatje’s script. A lot more painful than you’d expect, but I’ll get there. Massive, but professionally done. Change of pace, anyway.
I’m out of funny, I think, when it comes to Muffins. I think the mayonaise description is a new low.
I occasionally come up with cool ideas, I think, but not in the way of witty text. My cool ideas tend to be things like the imps and the tortoises and the clan types. >.>
So yeah. I need more staff, I think. One coder to write our chat (or maybe I just need to get off my ass and look at more existing chat; and not just ones that are known to be borky), and two funny people to write our content.