Home for a few days, just to re-pack clothes and such, as well as preparing to live in a house with three dogs and two cats. I'm allergic to furry animals. Hence my specialization in herpetology, I guess.

The lizards are coming along. We've re-spotted one male since the release in June. He's officially been there for a whole month now. Now to find the other 17... We've respotted two juves as well, but juves don't really count, as the mortality rate is quite high on sand lizards.
Speaking of juves, the eggs one female managed to lay before release have hatched and the new-hatched 'uns were released just a few days ago. They were cute as buttons! And we got a total of 10 out of 12 eggs!

However, it hasn't all been sand lizards! When ever writer's block for the report set in (which was too damn often to my taste), I wrote some on Germania bei Nacht. There were 11 pages when I started last week. I am now at 15 pages. It's quite information-intense, that story, so I'll have to check some facts in Inside the Third Reich for date confirmation etc. Also, if you're used to slowly unravelling psycho-dramas like say... Team 8 by Viridian, this is not for you. GbN gets going fast once the going gets.

Also, found this in my mailbox when I got home today! [link]


Working on:

Vostroyan Colonel for =TotenVeloren
Vostroyan tutorial part 3 - High end skills
A'mon Ch'aka'i coloured version
Germania bei Nacht - Prelude (What I just mentioned above)
Space Outlaws - 10 years of service picture
to be less of a procrastinator with everything else...

So, I've sucumbed. I've gotten myself twitter. Why? Well, I hate writing the same thing twice so folloe this [link] to my blog for an explanation of why I got Twitter.

[link]

All for SCIENCE! So, it's a science-twitter. More of a journal for me to keep track of what the crikey I'm doing out there more than anything, I guess. So, complex scientific words will happen. And the occasional post in Swedish, no doubt.

It's only for a month.

Cheerio and see y'all when I get to a computer with Internet the next time.

Seriously, I have little to no idea what all this is about. I only have second-hand info from on the one hand Cracked.com articles and on the other journals and blogs of friends and people who's judgement and taste I trust fully.

And they all seem to think Twilight sucks dingo's balls. I have no reason to doubt them (at least my friends), but how come then that this purple-prosed piece of crap has become so popular? Is it the "Eragon-effect" again? Or something else?

It can't just be that 14-year-old girls all over the world are in unison "SQUEEEEEEEEEEE!!1oneoneeleven!1!!"-mode. Although, with Internet and globalization, you can never be too sure.

What is Twilight really? From what I can see, it's a book that builds on Anne Rice's eroticised vampires, but has torn out all the sexual undertones, made it kid-friendly and replaced all the genuine emotions with laughable angst. All horribly written.
Also, the vampires sparkle, I'm told.

Either way, I'm glad I can now bury myself in work and ignore the whole business until it blows over, like Eragon did. Who talks of that piece of shit now, eh? It was Star Wars with swords and dragons and with less likeable characters. People seem to have realised that.

Maybe I'll re-read Dracula just for the hell of it. Now THERE'S a vampire novel!

Oh, yeah: Happy World Environment Day!

And tomorrow is 's birthday and Sweden's National Day. As well as D-day Memory Day.

EDIT: Oh thank sweet Lord Raptor Jesus there's a Twilight re-cap at Agony Booth that I can read! What better way to enjoy something like that than through a humour-filter? Also, I admire the balls of Jet (and Albert, web-master of AB) who took on this titanic piece of shit.

Now, wasn't that strange?

I said I'd be busy and not upload much, and then what happens? I upload a ton of stuff (for being me) in the past two weeks. Also, I finished the commissar for the Vostroyans for =TotenVeloren in about two days time.

Goes to prove: I shouldn't go public about anything I do until it actually hits the web. Which by extension means my sand lizard project is doomed. Let's hope not.
I'm currently trying to formulate an introduction and background bit for it. Very sketchy, but I'm getting there. Tell you what; trying to find a particular government decision to expand a road to a motorway/autobahn is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. ohgodmyeyes...

Also, I recently made my presence known on the RODOH-forums. Won't be very active, but I have an interest in Holocaust history. And I hate Holocaust Deniers with "the firey intensity of a million Forman-grills", to qoute Noah 'Spoony' Antwiler. My best friend, ~Pergamentum can vouch for that.
Either way, I love the RODOH forums because the HDers never know when they've been pwnt. Hilarious!

And whilst on that tack:
I recently found this

I'm happy!

About time for a status update, eh?

So, the grad. work seems to finally be on the move. I started as of this week. Actually, I started last week what with joining the group that went out looking for a relocation spot for the little buggers I am to study.

So, what's this all about? What am I going to study for my Master's Degree 1-Year?
In short, I will be studying the behaviour (mainly reproductive) of a relocated population of sand lizard (Lacerta agilis) outside Strömstad in Sweden. I'm looking to getting started proper in a few weeks time, what with the studying bit. So, right now, I have to go write a synopsis and send off to my contact at Uni.

What this means for my activity here is pretty self-explanatory, I guess. I haven't been smashingly active of late, I know, but it's going to be even worse the next few months.

I will try to draw and eventually upload stuff when I have the time, obviously.

Also, sincere apologies to =TotenVeloren for not being able to send her the Vostroyans all painted and nice to arrive for your birthday in June. It just won't be possible to finish them in just a few days.