Very well, enjoy yourself will you? I'll probably finish editing the existing chapters of Telina and send them forth to Alex in that time, as well as punch out a new update I suppose.

Sometimes, being a sickly creature by nature has some advantages.

Since the 2nd wave of H1F1 flu hit the land and at the same time I gradually started feeling worse during yesterday's work (nose becoming a fountain, sneezing every 15sec, unable to even talk to customers) my boss got scared crapless and told me to go to doc, rest over weekends and further into next week. Doc also sent me to get my blood checked and lungs scanned, never mind the fact that I don't have fever, don't caught and that I've always had sinus and nose troubles.

So now I'm feeling a bit better and trying not to think about those three poor sods who are left to run the entire shop at the start of holiday season. On th other hand, I've had my share of 13-hour shifts, so I can only guess it's karma. At least I'll get some sleep.

Good health to everyone and keep yourselves warm.

Sorry to hear you're ill but at least you're making the most of the rest.

I am warmer than I have been now becuase our downstairs neighbour have put their heating on a timer which means the flat only ever gets so cold. Outside is horrible here though, freezing fog might be the worst weather of all (unless you need an organ donation). Means I'll be walking to uni because I just down trust drivers here to see a bike in the fog - they often don't in bright sun. Still one advantage of the cold is that it gets me to uni because they heat the library nicely.

Of course with the flat being warmer condensation has begun to dribble off everything so t might be time to get out the fungicide.

I am now seriously considering a career change.

At the minute, I work as a recycling advisor for the local council. This entails visiting householders, schools and local business outlets to encourage and teach them to recycle.

My visit to a householder today ended up with my being sworn at, pushed, and finally punched in the back of the head.

And I couldn't do anything.

If I turned around and punched him, which he truly ******* deserved, I would have been fired. Instead, I had to take it, then inform my manager -who decided to do sod all, apart from offer fake sympathy.

I am really, really pissed off.

That sucks fairly majorly.

If you want to kick off take three days off because of a headache at which point your employer is legally obliged to report it to their 'enforcing authority'. On returning ask for their risk assesments and records of the arrangments made to minimise risk (records are legally required).

Sounds like you could get them under the The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, I imagine a few paragraphs of either quoted to the right person would wake them up some.

Hope things get better anyway...

I haven't been around much lately; sadly, this is becoming normal for me and I really miss hanging out in the fanfic forum. I do still try to read stuff when I can, but I usually don't manage to find the time to make meaningful comments. My apologies and thanks to all the people who continue to write great stories here.

I also want to mention that I did find a new job I'm now working as a post-doctoral fellow at the Anderson Cancer Institute, researching pathways (and perhaps eventually treatments) of cancers. Thanks to all who wished me luck on the job search.

Hey all, haven't shown my face around here much lately, but this has been one hectic year, let me tell you. Just a short while ago I've moved into a new appartment with my girlfriend, and we're still in the process of setting everything up. The kitchen is mostly done, the most important curtains are hanging and all in all it's going well, but it's a hell of a lot of work and it leaves me very little time for anything else. I'm on vacation and I'm still getting up at 5 in the morning to get enough work done before christmas.

But it's worth it

Merry christmas and best wishes to everyone here at Chorrol.com, I'm really glad you're all still coming here.

I second that, I'm glad so many people still frequent these forums as well, I've really loved this community and its good to see that its still as active as it is.

Merry almost Christmas everyone, now its off to bed for me so I can get up and go to work tonight...then I'll get a few much needed days off for food and family.

Doubt I'll be on tomorrow or much until the new year (at parents for the begining of the holidays and my computer system here is awful, the monitor is older then me and only has intermittant red) so I'll say merry christmas now.

Hope everyone enjoys it. The snow is thick here which is really unusual because there's salt on everything, looks like it might be the first white christmas in over a decade.

Excellent excuse for a mulled wine .

Merry Christmas!

Just found out I can't play MW on this poor pc, I reckon my hubby has just filled it up with his things and/or the CD is a little scratched. The game crashes or freezes after about 2 minutes of gameplay!

Anyway I got really annoyed....

Well- I think replacing the MW CD is fairly easy- even in Sweden... Although I admit to having a soft spot for my original game material....

The PC... spouses (and children, dogs, cats, etc.) need to understand that the purpose of having a PC is to play games (and surf Chorrol, naturally). All other uses will be vetted and decided upon by a board of TES enthusiasts.

My PC certainly exists primarily for games; although I don't have as much time for those as I once did. That's not all bad, but it is a change.

I hope everybody that took a break over that last week or so has had a relaxing time.

Hello everybody, I have returned.

Well I'm back to full activity seeing as I'm back in Edinburgh and have a decent computer to use again. It's only when I go to my parents that I realise how nice it is to have a good monitor (the one on my system there is older than I am and the cathode ray which does the red pixels is dead which makes everything look weird). Anyway I got back to find ice inside the bathroom window and the thermometer in my bedroom reading 3*C. That's with the heating on twice daily.

On the plus side I haven't had to brave the fridge yet, just left the milk on the table.

Well, the new semester starts in a week, and I just discovered that there's a missing part of my junior college transcript that could muck up my entire graduation plan. And here I was thinking I had everything under control. Silly me.

In any event, I've resolved myself to study hard, but also get out and enjoy myself once in a while. I'm so much happier when I do, but I haven't done that nearly enough. It's my greatest regret so far, and I hope to rectify it soon.

Minque may no longer play the MW??? You should teach your family not to mess with your MW computer! My roommate and I play Morrowind occasionally still even.

To those who have the computer capacity for it, I highly recommend checking out the Mods section in the Officials. The 'Renaissance' of modding is starting I believe, better trees, better graphics, Ive even seen someone working on a new body supposedly better the Better Bodies even, cant say too much, but it looks promising. Viva la Morrowind, cuz modding it is far from dead.

I still play the odd game of Morrowind, though I've been so busy of late that I've hardly had time to play much of anything. Been captaining an ultimate frisbee team for a big tournament in Las Vegas. The lead-in was hectic (weather screwing with everything) and then the weekend in Vegas was wild. That's a crazy city.

I've been playing Morrowind again lately, and even cranked out a couple (very simple) mods specifically for House Redoran. One is a set of bonemold armor that gives you increasingly powerful bonuses as you level up in House Redoran's favored skills; the other is a combat trainer in the council hall practice room that you can engage in one-on-one combat to train combat skills (see forums threads: here and here). /shameless plug