War is hell...

Pinned down. An enemy sniper watching and covering the base, the ammo bin just a foot away around the corner in open territory, which would leave me wide open for fire. Out of ammo, but luckily he doesn't know that - two other guys on my right moving around the base, one went down maybe, I don't know.
Thirty seconds left. Dammit, dump my gun - it'll just slow me down.
Peek around, he's distracted for a half second - thats all I need, I reach around and grab the ammo bin, luckily lighter than I thought and I run, adrenalin pumping, legs screaming and arms flapping like a deranged chicken. I run for our base as the seconds tick away and pray he doesn't shoot me as I do. Goggles block my sight and I trip and sprawl over a log into a pile of stinging nettles after an ill-timed jump, it doesn't matter - grab the bin again and run even more. Run around to my base and slamdunk the bin down around behind to win, yeah!
So, I played painyball on Saturday, and I ache all over, my legs protest any movement, I'm covered in bruises - but damn it was fun!

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My life, and journal, has been relatively quiet for the last week and I'm getting the gnawing feeling that I need to do something here to say or spout some idea or thing as the time has been otherwise wasted, measuring quality of life here purely in creativity terms, which for me lately has all been dried up.
No word about my (prospective) character for C/A which I'm still stubbornly holding out on despite it's unlikely appearance and I have to rework the characters background and add another flaw anyway to bring it in line with the new Lhiannan I have ideas waiting to go, but no green light still, and it's getting on for half a year I've been waiting for this thrice bedamned character! It would be nice to at least know one way or another what the status is with it... bah.
Prose, a block here utterly; I had a brief idea for a story, drawing on an old RP I once did, but it's not going to do anything.
I need to create, dammit, but the ideas and motivation aren't there.

Blair distraction project

Ol' Tony is trying to make an art out of avoiding issues it would seem, and highlighting the ones he wants - but in my eye he's not doing so great on this. While increasingly people are asking "Well are we going to bomb the s**t out of Iraq or what?" he's saying "Nope, not saying a word, will discuss that when parliment reforms... when I get back from this conference, when I..."

Do yourself a favour and grow a spine man, face the issues. I know there isn't (sadly) any sizable credible opposition, but at least make an effort to look like you're concerned about the issues, eh?

Woohooo!

Yes! Finally found a decent sized venue with parking in Cambridge for the regional - no on site accomodation :( but we can have it all saturday and sunday, now just need to check the place tommorrow and look up some cheap B&B's/hotels in the area for those that can't crash over at a friends or something.
I so never want to organise anything like this again!