Dark Liquid

This week has been pretty cool so far. Dru and I saw The Simpsons Movie on Wednesday (advanced screening). It was quite funny, but nothing special. Too much computer-assisted animation for my liking. CAA always looks more fake than regular hand drawn stuff because its 2D moving like 3D but without the depth perception, so it stands out really badly, while standard animation looks better because you don’t have this glaring lack of depth jump out at you.

I also bought myself tickets to go see Porcupine Tree and Anathema in Oxford come November. I’m not much of a concert goer, but the chance to see 2 of my favourite bands at the same time can’t be missed. I’m quite excited!

I also joined a WEG D6 Starwars roleplay on Tuesdays run by my friend Bill. I’m playing an Ortolan Chef with some extra skills that I wont disclose, though he is specced towards a scouting/recon role.

I think the best thing abut this week though is that it’s been fairly relaxed, there was only one minor down point.

After watching the Simpsons Movie, I went to catch the bus using my pre-paid for a month ticket, and got accused of being a criminal. The bus driver accused me of having a forged ticket, and he did with such an air of disdain towards me that I was really offended. Whatever happened to innocent before proven guilty? Also, he seemed to have some kind of problem with students since he made quite a point of telling me ‘there is a lot of forgery at the college’ as if I would know - having not been in education for over 2 years. Obviously my dress sense must have made me look like his conception of however a student dresses I suppose. Prejudice much…

What was even more annoying was that the only reason the ticket might be considered a forgery is because it was on a different kind of card than usual because they ran out of it. With forgery ‘at the college’ so rife, I’m surprised they didn’t have stacks of the proper card left due to all their sales lost to forgeries. Fucktards.

We found our receipt and showed it to him, but the driver didn’t want to know at first. Eventually the guy came back to look at it and after saying, grudgingly I might add, ‘alright’ he spouted some more of his anti-student ‘forgery at the college’ propaganda at us. No apology, no nothing.

So thats the Wilts and Dorset bus company. If you’ve gone to the trouble of pre-paying them you get treated like a criminal. That’s if you get a chance to use it. The bus service in generally unreliable anyway, they are rarely on time, often have busses missing entirely from the schedule and on Friday, I needed to wait half an hour for bus that was meant to come every 5 minutes. We must have had 3-4 busses ‘not on service drive past our stop, and 2 others full to the brim because the bus company can’t get it’s act together and organise themselves.