Nature vs. Nuture

Yesterday morning, shortly after waking up, I went to get a loaf of bread and a toilet freshener from my local supermarket. I had walked half the distance back to my house before I realised that I hadn’t actually paid for these goods. I had picked them up and then absent-mindedly walked straight out of the shop. Alex reckoned it was my natural, thieving instincts kicking in but I mustn’t have the balls for a life of crime because I went back and paid for my ill-gotten gains.

On reflection, I believe that at least one of my several convict ancestors was deported to this lovely island for stealing bread so maybe it really is in my nature to thieve and steal.
If that’s the case, hats off to my parents for neutralising these evil genes and bringing me up to believe that this behaviour isn’t helpful. I don’t think anyone has ever been deported for keeping their loo blue.

Today I went back to my kung fu class for the first time in about 4 or 5 months.
I’m not surprised to find out that I’m really unfit and when my Sifu asked me to remind him which colour belt I was training for, it took me a few seconds to remember.

I also created my first auction on ebay today.
A rare, slip-cased, first edition! (By David Eddings)
Somebody out there must be a fan of this fine fantasy author’s work!
C’mon!

Next week I’m doing some unpaid work experience with a production company named Steam Motion and Sound. The company is based in Sydney and London but unfortunately I'll only be seeing the Sydney side of the company this week. They make ads mostly but also some video clips and they specialise in green screen and 3D animation so it should be really interesting.
Looking forward to that.

I’ve been procrastinating for ages this evening by playing Age of Empires II. Yeah, I know it’s an old game but my computer is almost 5 years old and can’t take really good games.
Most of the time it’s not so bad – I can play a lot of older games designed to be played on a bone abacus – but it would be nice to be able to play Age of Mythology. I’m getting a bit tired of Age of Empires’ lack of strategy (build some towers, build some walls, build a castle, kill everybody).
What I really should be doing is working on rewriting my 1-page synopsis for a 10 minute short film for my script class at uni. I had the first draft given back to me last Wednesday, covered in red ink and question marks so I need to have another crack at it. The lecturer didn't really get the point of the film but liked the setting and general idea. It was helpful in that she pointed out what information needed to be conveyed that I either hadn't addressed or hadn't described clearly enough. Anyway, I shouldn't be surprised that the thing requires a re-write.
So that’s what I’ll do now.