The future is here! This is equal parts creepy and amazing and exciting. Watch this video.

God, I love science.

Bob and Dekaff have corrupted me. They kept insisting that Spock loves kittens, so I drew Spock cuddling a kitten on the first page of the sketchpad that Dekaff bought me. Then I decided the kitten must be Uhura. So this is the picture, and if you click on it you can read the accompanying fanfiction.
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It's so cute. How could I not have realised before that Spock loves kittens? It's just so obvious.

I don't have a camera, so this is a transcript of my receipt.








PRICE REDUCTION
ORIGINAL PRICE 0.65
   TRELLIS APPLE                                               0.20
PRICE REDUCTION
ORIGINAL PRICE 0.89
    BUN CHELSEA                                                0.10
PRICE REDUCTION
ORIGINAL PRICE 0.89
    BUN CINNAMON                                             0.10


    4 BALANCE DUE                                              0.40
         Cake 3 for 2                                               -0.10

           TOTAL TO PAY                                         0.30


I am keeping this forever.

I got a card in the post:

To Nat
Happy Birthday
Love Mum (very boring message)
xxx

Roar Roar Roar
From the Bob (no love here!)

You smell
From Goat Boy :)

And nothing from the man who is in Pittsburgh, home of Heinz baked beans!

Possibly the best card ever.

Also, I've made a tattoo appointment for Tuesday. Me and Lyn (whose back is half-finished and needs colouring) bought numbing cream. I'm going to test it by numbing my arm and poking it with needles to see how much I can feel it.

Dekaff and I have had the best idea ever.
For anyone who doesn't know who Dekaff is, she's a friend of my sister's who lives in Gibraltar and I haven't actually met her. She was at the same school for crazy-awesome types that my sister went to, but this was three or four years ago, although they're still very close on MSN and I've also become close to Dekaff through MSN and on DeviantART. We've drawn each pictures for each other and we often talk about drugs, alcohol and crazy fun times.

( This is our awesome idea. )
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Oh my God, guys.

If you aren't reading this comic, you really should be. Unless, for some reason, you don't like Doctor Who.
Wait, scratch that. Read it anyway; it'll make you like Doctor Who.

HEY PEOPLE!

This is the most adorable thing you will ever see, OK:



That is all.

Oh, one other thing: click here for cute pics of a sleepy rat. Don't think I've posted this link already, but there's a chance I may have.

I'm so frickin' pleased with how these turned out. I have been drawing my two favourite authors, Neil Gaiman and Sir Terence of Pratchett.

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I would've drawn Douglas Adams too, but these two fit together as they are friends and have written a book together. Perhaps I shall draw Douglas wearing a dressing gown.

It didn't occur to me until now, but I seem to have developed a style for drawing simplified humans. These are similar to the Stargate Atlantis fanart (Laura Cadman with my sister's character Kitty and another picture of McKay and Zelenka) and the Doctor Who fanart (the Doctor and the Master) I've drawn in the past.

The Neil Gaiman picture is like that because I liked the sketch and clean lineart better than the coloured version. My Terry Pratchett linearts are nothing special and I'm happy with his finished, coloured picture.

While I'm being a fangirl: Stephen Fry has a Twitter account for chatting with fans and getting away from work related stuff. If you're a fan, I suggest reading because he's awesome. Plus, he signs off his Tweets with kisses.

I know I've already posted today, but I didn't want to tack this on to the end of my previous entry.

If you haven't read Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, or if you've already read it and enjoyed it, you should listen to him reading it. He reads it so elegantly and does the accents and you can heard giggles from the audience. It's like hearing a bed time story from a dashingly handsome knight. (Oh gosh. I should delete that. But it's true. Even his stylist agrees with me. Or maybe I'm taking "low maintenance" out of context. The stylist is as camp as they come though. He's probably in love with him too. Who wouldn't be?)

Also, if you've heard Terry Pratchett speak you'll agree with me that he should do a reading of one of his books. Maybe Carpet People.
They could read Good Omens together. And my brain could explode with glee.

Click here for the first chapter. Scroll down for the other chapters.

I'm going to listen to the rest now. If you don't hear from me, it's because I melted. Please send someone to 66 Monks Road with a mop and bucket.

I've been reading Neil Gaiman's blog (well, the Livejournal RSS feed.) If I wasn't in love with him before, I definitely am now.

But that doesn't have anything to do with much. Apart from the fact that I don't think I've squee'd over the new Coraline movie yet (Neil Gaiman marries Tim Burton and has a stop-motion love child.)

Oh, and (quoting Neil) "The biggest and the best news of the day is that Terry Pratchett is now Sir Terrence of Pratchett. Hurrah.
I shall buy a cap first, specially." (interesting fact: Neil now owns a hat. Yes, I made a Twitter account just to keep up with his.)

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Gah, I'm spiralling further and further into a fangirly pit of digression. Here's why I posted:

I've been researching Robert Burns because I thought he'd be the kind of hoopy frood to stick in my creative writing journal. And then I decided to turn my half-formed idea of an ode to a hangover into a fully-fledged parody of Scots Wha Hae (except I used the English translation because I'm not awesome enough to write it in the Scots dialect.)

So here's my version. I quite like it.

And while I'm here, here are two other short stories I've written for my course:
They Came At Us With Dragons
Culture Shock (badly titled. Couldn't think of anything better.)

Read 'em.

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And now for something completely different: kitty_cross (my sister) suggested a Doctor Who themed drinking game based on my last post. (I went overboard and decided to turn it into a new post.)

RASCAL ^_^
( Photographic evidence )

Fan of Joss Whedon? Annoyed by the Writer's Strike? Always wanted to be an evil genius? You need to be watching this. Better hurry though coz it's only up until Sunday.

It's a musical, too.

This will come as a surprise to some of you:



I was going to post on Saturday saying that I had an appointment today but I thought it would be more fun to unexpectedly post a picture.
NAT HAS A NEW TATTOO. This one cost £45 and was more painful because one of the paw prints was close to the inside of my elbow - very sensitive area of skin.

In other news, I have been revisiting my childhood. I could give you lots of links to Sesame Street clips on YouTube, but you can search for them yourself. I'll just show you this one:



That, my friends, is Johnny Cash singing with Oscar the Grouch. It may not seem like a high aspiration, but when I leave uni I want to be like Oscar, living in a dustbin and hating everyone. And after seeing Walk The Line, I have a special place in my heart for fucked-up Johnny.

"You're Johnny Trash, aren't you?"
"Cash." (bangs guitar against dustbin) "Have a rotten evening."
"There goes my kinda guy."

Seriously, though - you should search YouTube for Sesame Street clips. Look for the 2-Headed Monster, the Yip-yips, the Count, Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch. And prizes for telling me where the title of this post is from.

I am doing a dance of barely contained glee.

Reepicheep is going to be voiced by Eddie Izzard in Prince Caspian.

This is me right now: (Disclaimer: me no draw)