And now, as I am bored, an actual entry.

As the title mentions.
...And since poor Trav is getting antsy at the lack of blog. Sheesh. >.>

So I have this brochure-type thing I have to make up for work... that I need to have done for tomorrow. I reeeeally don't feel like working on it right now. Maybe I'll format the page tonight. Do the rest before I go to work tomorrow.
Speaking of work, Joy's been shoving even more stuff onto me. First paying the bills and doing all of things regarding money and what-not... And now all sorts of 'projects'. Clinic promotion, maybe - but I don't have time for it all. Cheryl, the new girl, is going to need coaching and stuff during this week, and probably more, if Joy doesn't fire her...
And if she does fire her, well, at least I'll probably have time next week on Monday and Friday afternoons to get things done.

I got cacti. ^^ I haven't had the spiky lil' things for years... But I convinced Mom to buy me some yesterday. One's got a bloom on it that looks almost about to open.

Things have been escalating lately between Mom and I, other than the cactus thing... She's resorted to banning me from using the car, because she feels I disrespect her. Of course, I don't think I do... I just refuse to follow every whim she has, and I ignore her when she starts being silly about things - and the rest of the family knows about these whims. They, however, keep telling me that I'm stupid - no one dares cross her, apparently, not even Dad. She, however, says I do nothing around the house - which isn't true; she just fails to notice what I do, or when she does notice, thinks they're shoddy jobs. Whatever.
Eh, well, the worst she can do is kick me out of the house, and I haven't been spawned from her without learning a few tricks of cold vengeance.

Eternal Forest is slowly, but surely, making its way back to the living coil. Finished off the Hybrid descriptions today, which gives me 96 new dragon colours. Um, wow. XD I hadn't bothered to tally that number before. It'll be more, too, since I'll be adding in a couple new base colours, as well as finshing the Ethereal's description. Then it'll just be player species to do, and the grand-re-opening shall occur!

Had a bit of an interesting week on Furc... Began on a sour note. One of the folk decided they were going to try and start a 'war' in AKP, on the basis of a single reference in a single book written about kitsune and Inari. Not even a well-referenced one, either - I've never seen it mentioned in any book-lists I've seen about the subject. I told him the basis of it all was rather weak - he was thinking that a kitsune could take on a god and win, or that the god was a parasite (which s/he is not, by all other sources of lore) - and he replied "oh well, it doesn't matter, not like it's real anyways". Of course, that tingled my 'open-minded-ire' radar, and I replied along the lines of 'to some Shintoists and Buddhists, it is'.
This, of course, leaded to the discovery that he was a fundamentalist Christian of some sort, and a discovery on his part that I was a pagan.
Nothing good ever comes out of a discovery like this (except for some folk, like dear Raz-chan, who know when to quit).
He tried, rather in earnest, to convert me. XD Spewing bullshit about how I was unhappy (which I'm not) leading the life I'm leading now, that only bad things would come to me, how he could show me true happiness, and what-not...
Of course, my reply of how I was doing just well and dandy without his god - have folk who care about me, and those that I care about (some more than others, admittedly), that I have a good job (if somewhat stressful at times) and was managing to stick out schooling - didn't sit well with him. Oh, no, he wouldn't give it up, no matter how many times I persuaded him to spend his prayers on something else that really needed solving, like poverty, or hatred, and not on one insignificant soul such as myself.
So, I finally put him on the silence rule for harrassment and religious persecution, and if he speaks to me again, I have more than enough reason to get him banned from Furc. XD
I just found it kinda funny that while he was playing his religion-cards like nothing else, I never once brought up the details of mine, other than how I believed it was wrong to convert people, to try and change their views and stamp out entire religions - and I still ended up trumping most of his arguments. Let folk follow what they want to, what they believe in, as long as it's about good things - we don't really know what's out there, after all. All of us who believe in anything - or nothing - could be wrong. *shrug*

Later in the week, got promoted to Taneest, if only to shut Denali up after a while. XD He's been going on about how I should be a co-Rah... And maybe I will be, eventually. Kari'll take her time in deciding that sort of thing, though.
So now I have access to the map, the DS file, the patches, and the uploader avatar. I'm an uploader! Yay! This sort of thing, for those who know nothing about Furc, is a big show of trust indeed - maps, DS, and patches are highly sought after, especially those that've been really tweaked and customized. For one that has as many special items as AKP has, to release it into the wrong hands could be devastating - artwork'd be leaked everywhere, patches stolen all over the place. Of course, they're safe with me. I don't handle huge deposits of money at work for nothing to say of my trust factor, after all.

Also had some good playing-times with Serenne and Icewing... Found someone in TSC that Serenne could conspiratize with, and they made a bloody break for it last night, cutting through hoards of guards on their path to freedom. XD Yum!
Icewing, meanwhile, has set up home in the bar of a slaver's guild. >.> Since she's not a slave or slaver, it's relatively safe for her, and the folk there all seem to be good roleplayers, so it's been some fun.

Hmmm. I had a good rant in my head last night, but I can't seem to remember most of it now. Too bad. In the meanwhile, I think it's bedtime for me... So that I can get up early and work on that damned brochure. >.< Gah.