More About Myself

More About Myself

Greetings, mortals!

So, I promised in my previous post that I would create a new post describing myself.

Let's just make this clear now: no-one cares about this, right?

No?

Excellent, we may now continue without that concern in the back of my mind.

Look, I'll just confess this now: the main reason for this post, and more broadly this blog, is for the benefit of my tutors here at UCS. This blog was created at their wish, and this post in particular was ordered to be created.

So, hello to them!

Please understand that while this is a blog for the purpose of my education and ultimately my university portfolio, I will be maintaining an informal and frankly rude air about it, most likely much in the style of the previous post ("So it Begins"). This isn't very professional, I know, but I feel much more comfortable about it, so please humour me this.

ANYWAY, onwards, finally, to the purpose of this post; more details about myself.

As mentioned previously, I have inhabited this planet as a sentient being for nearly 19 years now (the anniversary of my arrival will be celebrated on the 31st of December this year).

My favourite films include Aliens and Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail. My favourite book series include Skulduggery Pleasant (with Derek Landy being my favourite author to date) and A Song of Ice and Fire books (better known as the Game of Thrones series of books), of which I am about to start the fourth book. I don't much dip into non-fiction books, as I find them both uninteresting in comparison to fiction, and annoyingly educational. The last non-fiction book I remember looking through with interest was about various species of spider. I still have nightmares.

I haven't been to many live performances of music, dance, drama, etc. The last one I attended (which was by far my favourite) was an excellent play based upon The Woman in Black. I still have nightmares.

I don't really follow news either (it's a very sheltered life I lead), and the most newspaper-like informer I regularly use (about once per week) is Yahoo News. I still have nightmares.

I have recently been privileged enough to attend the EuroGamer Expo in London, 2012. Whilst I enjoyed every minute of it (two hours of waiting to play Call of Duty Black Ops 2 aside), I feel I didn't receive the correct amount of "swag", only managing to acquire three t-shirts and a pair of posters. I gave most of this to a friend of mine, anyway. He'd better be damn grateful.

Using my highly advanced mathematical skills learnt during my year of AS Maths during 6th Form, I can roughly approximate that I muck about on my computer roughly 30-40 hours per week, approximately 25 of which might be gaming in some form or other. I rarely do any hardcore gaming, being of the belief that I have more fun playing Skyrim than grinding towards a higher level in Guild Wars 2.

I spend very little time playing any kind of non-digital games (unless you include a digital version of Chess on my computer. I'm quite good at it by now!). The last non-digital game might have involved a great deal of drinking by both myself and a number of other people, some of whom I actually knew.

Anyway, that's the end of the mock-interview questions I asked and answered, and frankly enough talking on my part. You can feel free to take your turn at speaking now, if you like, but I won't be able to hear you; there is both too much distance between us (unless you happen to be in worryingly close proximity to me), and there is far too much Sabaton being pumped into my ears.

Praise the Emperor of Mankind!