If Hikki can do it so can I!

Ok, so I've proven singularily useless at maintaining a blog. Just look at the dates of the previous two posts! That's a laziness beyond even my usual standards (which as far as laziness is concerned, are pretty high). Anyway I've been thinking about the blog a lot lately, wondering what it could offer, and the benefits it could bestow upon my writing, and I concluded that I really need to try and update it regularly, finding the answers out as I go.

I'm a big fan of certain J-Pop artists, most notably amongst them Utada Hikaru, known as Hikki to her adoring fans. She keeps a japanese blog (and very rarely, and English one) and has noticed this past week that she's been almost as bad as I have with the updating side of things (almost, not quite). Her solution? She promised to update once a day for the next ten days. So far (day 4) it's going well and I can't help but wonder if that technique will work for me?
So here we go Seraph is taking up the Hikki 10-day blog challenge as of today!

So what to put in my first entry of the ten?

How about a little about me:

I am currently a student at the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, studying Zoology and, to be quite honest, being rather bored of the whole subject. At this precise moment I'm supposed to be reading background info on all my lectures (check... maybe not) and working on a 6,000 word review essay on the rivetting subject of 'Endothermic Fish'. In fairness to it all, it's dull but it's also what I chose to do. I'm stuck with it, but only for another month and then it's exams and graduation and real life.
As has already been indicated, real life for me will hopefully consist of some sort of publishing deal and Darksyde being magically transformed into a best selling novel.

I have a very skewed idea of reality, don't I?

So, more about me... I was born in England, moved to Northern Ireland when I was 5 and now I live in Scotland. I am therefore rather generically British, with a rather mixed up accent (you'll probably just think I'm English). I like anime, sci-fi/fantasy, modern surrealism, good characterisation, dark stuff, lots of different kinds of music from classical to video game soundtracks (with just about everything else in between) and I'm a gamer geek.

As shameless self-promotion goes I'm not doing that well am I? Oh well more rambling tomorrow.