Lali ho...
Today has not been a good day. For a Valentine's Day, a day recognised the world over as a time for love and peace, there's been a little too much conflict for my tastes. Here's the skinny.
My friend Erin has been in a relationship for some months now, and I thought nothing was wrong, always seemed lovey dovey when I saw them together. Turns out this whole time the guy's been abusing her. Getting drunk/high, getting violent with her, and it all came to a head today when instead of taking her out for a romantic meal, he went out drinking with his lads, got blitzed, charged in and smacked the shit out of her. She got away from him long enough to text me 'SOS' and so I've spent the last five hours sorting this mess out. Erin was taken to hospital and her wounds are quite serious. She has a nasty gash across her midriff after he threw her through a glass topped table, cuts on her head from the fragments, and severe bruising all across her body. She'll recover, physically, but things have never been this bad for her before. She's in a state of shock right now, scared to be alone, so she's here with me and my closest compatriots. With the three of us close by she knows nothing can harm her. Any one of us is a force to be reckoned with, put together we're damn near indestructible. She's safe for now, but quite how bad this will get in the long term is unclear.
As for him...let's just say he didn't want to come quietly. Typical tough guy, you know? All bark and very little bite. When I arrived on scene he took a shot at me. The sort of wide swinging arm flail of a punch that couldn't cause any injury to anyone with a brain cell in a million years, never mind hurt someone who's studied martial arts for most of their life. I just stepped out of the way for the first one. But after seeing her with blood pouring down her face I kinda lost my temper. Big style. He took another swing at me and I countered it, and....kinda broke his arm. In about five places. And his nose. And a few ribs. And cracked his skull a little.
What can I say? He deserved it. And to be fair the ribs thing wasn't my fault. I only meant to shove him back out of the way and onto the sofa with a palm strike. It's not my fault he has such weak ribs. And contemplate exactly what damage I could have done given that I own several swords and know how to use them. He'll also be fine physically within a few weeks, but with any luck he'll have learned exactly what it's like to be on the recieving end of it all. Or at the very least not to fuck with my friends if he values his life.
Erin will be staying with us until further notice, until she can get her head straight and we know she's safe from any repurcussions from any of his dumb drunken buddies. But what a way to spend Valentine's Night, eh? The girl in casualty, the guy in prison. That's really unfortunate. I remember seeing them together and they seemed happy. I feel like I failed her. I didn't protect her, I didn't see it coming when I'm normally on the ball with things like this. Guess all I can do is try to make it up to her.
Sorry to bum everyone out on Valentine's Day, but hey, it's never all fun and games for everyone, right?
In other news,
- I was sifting through my Xbox 360 collection earlier and I came to realise that a good 80% of them could be traded in and I wouldn't even notice they were gone. Either I've finished them, as is the case with things like Arkham Asylum or Bayonetta, or they just plain aren't worth my time, like Infinite Undiscovery, which simply hasn't grabbed my attention. Star Ocean could go without me caring 'cause I stopped playing it when I got my Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition (the one with all the DLC), the only games that get played on an even remotely regular basis are Black Ops, R.U.S.E, Dragon Age, and the games stored on my hard drive like Super Meat Boy. Everything else could fuck off and I doubt I'd care, or even notice. That's how little I bother with my games these days. My DS hasn't been used in weeks, my PSP only gets played every once in a while. I guess I'm just going through a phase right now where games don't thrill me. Kinda like a depression. Hopefully the 3DS will cure it.
- Thinking part of my depression is that I'm always alone. I've stayed out of romance for a while in order to sort out a few personal daemons, but now everything feels empty to me. Starting to think at least part of the reason is my lack of companionship. Perhaps time to settle down and pick a girl. God knows there's been plenty of interest over the years, I just ignored it all until now 'cause I've been bisy sorting my own stuff out, getting my job situation sorted, trying to escape my god-awful family, etc. But now I just kinda figure fuck it, anyone worth being with will have to accept the bad parts of my life too. Accept that my dad's a total cunt and my brother's so brainless he's a chef that only knows two recipes. That I live in a room no bigger than a cupboard and spend most of my free time writing. They'll jsut have to meet me half way.
- Looking to finally start paying for my own broadband as this stolen connection is just kinda shite. Anyone know any good deals on wireless broadband here in the UK? Let me clarify, I have no intention of paying for a phone line, TV package, unlimited weekend calls or any of that bollocks. I just want the broadband. Nothing else. Cheap if possible, reasonable speed, no download limits. Any ideas?
- Also looking to redecorate my room, this wallpaper's a wee bit past its prime after nearly seven years. I was at one point thinking of really going all out and buying custom paper. Saw it on TV, you can have any image blown up to wall size and have a tropical island scene all around your room, or whatever. It's bloody expensive but what the hell. If I'm gonna live in a cupboard it may as well be a fuckin' nice cupboard. The problem is A) deciding on an image, and B) resisting the urge to do something geeky like get the inside of the TARDIS or something. Or knowing me it's more likely to be something Final Fantasy related. Maybe a chocobo farm
Suggestions are welcomed, of course.
Could be worse though. Ran the idea past Kai and he now wants the same thing done to his room, only his design of choice was the inside of a vagina. Evidently he hasn't grown up yet. Strangely he's two years older than me and still the most childish of the group by a long shot.
Well, I'm depressed so I think I'll follow Amelia's example. Sit and eat ice cream and watch a movie. Seems to work for her. Although I do worry about the day her youthful metabolism finally fails her and the many years of ice cream abuse start to take effect. Toodles.
Blaze.
'I hate it when you walk in to the chip shop and ask for a bag of chips, and they say 'ah, you'll have to wait for chips.' What the fuck have you been playing around at all day? What did you think when you came in and saw the deep fat frier and the potatoes? That the chip fair was in town? You lazy bastards.' - mark Lamaar on his standup video.
Today has not been a good day. For a Valentine's Day, a day recognised the world over as a time for love and peace, there's been a little too much conflict for my tastes. Here's the skinny.
My friend Erin has been in a relationship for some months now, and I thought nothing was wrong, always seemed lovey dovey when I saw them together. Turns out this whole time the guy's been abusing her. Getting drunk/high, getting violent with her, and it all came to a head today when instead of taking her out for a romantic meal, he went out drinking with his lads, got blitzed, charged in and smacked the shit out of her. She got away from him long enough to text me 'SOS' and so I've spent the last five hours sorting this mess out. Erin was taken to hospital and her wounds are quite serious. She has a nasty gash across her midriff after he threw her through a glass topped table, cuts on her head from the fragments, and severe bruising all across her body. She'll recover, physically, but things have never been this bad for her before. She's in a state of shock right now, scared to be alone, so she's here with me and my closest compatriots. With the three of us close by she knows nothing can harm her. Any one of us is a force to be reckoned with, put together we're damn near indestructible. She's safe for now, but quite how bad this will get in the long term is unclear.
As for him...let's just say he didn't want to come quietly. Typical tough guy, you know? All bark and very little bite. When I arrived on scene he took a shot at me. The sort of wide swinging arm flail of a punch that couldn't cause any injury to anyone with a brain cell in a million years, never mind hurt someone who's studied martial arts for most of their life. I just stepped out of the way for the first one. But after seeing her with blood pouring down her face I kinda lost my temper. Big style. He took another swing at me and I countered it, and....kinda broke his arm. In about five places. And his nose. And a few ribs. And cracked his skull a little.
What can I say? He deserved it. And to be fair the ribs thing wasn't my fault. I only meant to shove him back out of the way and onto the sofa with a palm strike. It's not my fault he has such weak ribs. And contemplate exactly what damage I could have done given that I own several swords and know how to use them. He'll also be fine physically within a few weeks, but with any luck he'll have learned exactly what it's like to be on the recieving end of it all. Or at the very least not to fuck with my friends if he values his life.
Erin will be staying with us until further notice, until she can get her head straight and we know she's safe from any repurcussions from any of his dumb drunken buddies. But what a way to spend Valentine's Night, eh? The girl in casualty, the guy in prison. That's really unfortunate. I remember seeing them together and they seemed happy. I feel like I failed her. I didn't protect her, I didn't see it coming when I'm normally on the ball with things like this. Guess all I can do is try to make it up to her.
Sorry to bum everyone out on Valentine's Day, but hey, it's never all fun and games for everyone, right?
In other news,
- I was sifting through my Xbox 360 collection earlier and I came to realise that a good 80% of them could be traded in and I wouldn't even notice they were gone. Either I've finished them, as is the case with things like Arkham Asylum or Bayonetta, or they just plain aren't worth my time, like Infinite Undiscovery, which simply hasn't grabbed my attention. Star Ocean could go without me caring 'cause I stopped playing it when I got my Dragon Age Origins Ultimate Edition (the one with all the DLC), the only games that get played on an even remotely regular basis are Black Ops, R.U.S.E, Dragon Age, and the games stored on my hard drive like Super Meat Boy. Everything else could fuck off and I doubt I'd care, or even notice. That's how little I bother with my games these days. My DS hasn't been used in weeks, my PSP only gets played every once in a while. I guess I'm just going through a phase right now where games don't thrill me. Kinda like a depression. Hopefully the 3DS will cure it.
- Thinking part of my depression is that I'm always alone. I've stayed out of romance for a while in order to sort out a few personal daemons, but now everything feels empty to me. Starting to think at least part of the reason is my lack of companionship. Perhaps time to settle down and pick a girl. God knows there's been plenty of interest over the years, I just ignored it all until now 'cause I've been bisy sorting my own stuff out, getting my job situation sorted, trying to escape my god-awful family, etc. But now I just kinda figure fuck it, anyone worth being with will have to accept the bad parts of my life too. Accept that my dad's a total cunt and my brother's so brainless he's a chef that only knows two recipes. That I live in a room no bigger than a cupboard and spend most of my free time writing. They'll jsut have to meet me half way.
- Looking to finally start paying for my own broadband as this stolen connection is just kinda shite. Anyone know any good deals on wireless broadband here in the UK? Let me clarify, I have no intention of paying for a phone line, TV package, unlimited weekend calls or any of that bollocks. I just want the broadband. Nothing else. Cheap if possible, reasonable speed, no download limits. Any ideas?
- Also looking to redecorate my room, this wallpaper's a wee bit past its prime after nearly seven years. I was at one point thinking of really going all out and buying custom paper. Saw it on TV, you can have any image blown up to wall size and have a tropical island scene all around your room, or whatever. It's bloody expensive but what the hell. If I'm gonna live in a cupboard it may as well be a fuckin' nice cupboard. The problem is A) deciding on an image, and B) resisting the urge to do something geeky like get the inside of the TARDIS or something. Or knowing me it's more likely to be something Final Fantasy related. Maybe a chocobo farm
Could be worse though. Ran the idea past Kai and he now wants the same thing done to his room, only his design of choice was the inside of a vagina. Evidently he hasn't grown up yet. Strangely he's two years older than me and still the most childish of the group by a long shot.
Well, I'm depressed so I think I'll follow Amelia's example. Sit and eat ice cream and watch a movie. Seems to work for her. Although I do worry about the day her youthful metabolism finally fails her and the many years of ice cream abuse start to take effect. Toodles.
Blaze.
'I hate it when you walk in to the chip shop and ask for a bag of chips, and they say 'ah, you'll have to wait for chips.' What the fuck have you been playing around at all day? What did you think when you came in and saw the deep fat frier and the potatoes? That the chip fair was in town? You lazy bastards.' - mark Lamaar on his standup video.
