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I am Lewis. Also known as Speller, or online as Dyson. 22 years old, now working at GAME. Blogging since October 2008.Contact
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Here it is, my Boo tattoo! It’s still healing and slightly bruised, hence the odd colouring, but I actually love it. I just want to show it off to everybody.
Already thinking about my next one!
Up until last year I couldn’t see myself getting a tattoo at any point - I’d sort of disregarded them as quite ugly little things that would look a bit shit when I got older. But the more tattoo’s I saw on people I knew (and some who I wouldn’t have expected to have them), and the more I thought about it, the more the idea started to grow on me. As long as you don’t go and do something silly (like get the name of a fling you’re seeing tattooed across your face, only to have them leave you after a week because you look ridiculous), you choose something that has meaning to you and helps defines you and it’s somewhat concealable then what have you got to lose? And let’s be frank; none of us are going to look at our best once we hit our 60’s or whatever, so who cares what it’ll look like at that age.
The big question is of course, what do you get? And as the idea started to grow on me as the weeks went by, I had a few ideas. Obviously, what with gaming being such a massive part of my life it was going to be gaming related. There were the typical video game icons (which I haven’t totally dismissed) such as the Triforce, the Mario sprite, Space Invaders, Sonic etc etc. At one point I was seriously considering the Sex Bob-omb logo from the film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World as it is my favourite film (as I’ve written before, it’s as if someone sat down in a board room of writers and said ‘Right, we need to make a film for a Mr. Lewis Speller. This is what he likes, this is what he is like. Go.’) but I dropped that the moment this idea popped in to my head about 8 months ago.
In the Mario series there are numerous characters, enemies, items or even scenes you could potentially take as tattoo ideas. One of the characters that has been with the series almost from the very start is the ghost, Boo. Boo is a relatively simple ghost but with one huge characteristic that defines him - he is incredibly shy. When you are in a room with Boo, he will chase you and try to bite you so that you’ll lose health - but, if you look at him, he freezes on the spot, turns transparent, covers his eyes and blushes.. and is no longer a threat. And it is this image of Boo, covering his eyes, that I’d like to get.
Top right Boo. Not pixellated.
And ever since the idea came about in my head, I’ve loved it. It’s original, it’s inoffensive and it’s personal to me. It carries the extra stroke of brilliance that whenever you look at it, it will of course be hiding from you.. and yeah. The Mario games are absolutely classic, and core to who I am as much as they are core to gaming itself. I look forward to getting it done.
The last thing I settled on this week was where to get it done - obviously it needs to be somewhere concealable for I don’t want it to affect me in a professional sense - and that leaves me with two real options. The first was on my arm somewhere, which I decided against in favour of my shoulder, or more precisely, just below the shoulder on my chest. I’ve also had a recommendation on which parlour to get it done at, so I’m not going in blind.
I’m pretty damn excited, if not a little nervous. I’ll let you know what happens!
I’m in a writing mood again! It’s been slowly building up over the past couple of days and as I hit my Tumblr bookmark I realized I wanted to write something. My mind is completely full of all sorts of things to write about but alas - a lot of them are about the people that read this blog. It’d seem incredibly passive to talk about such things openly on here and not expect it to have ramifications. I suppose this is the issue with having people you know read your musings, it ends up restricting what you can say.
I mean a few years ago when only my close friends (we’re talking two or three here) read my blog I could write about whatever I wanted - be it work, college, university, family, my personal life, friendships, relationships or completely inane chatter - and have very few worries about it as it used to be mostly private. But it becomes hard to maintain that freedom once you start to worry about what might happen if you write a certain thing online, there could be unknown ramifications. Frustratingly it works the other way as well, in that if you don’t have anyone reading your blog you feel as if there is no point in writing as there will be nobody to read it. The ideal solution would be to have a group of completely random, anonymous people following you and follow a selection of completely random people to maintain creative freedom, but then it doesn’t feel like there’s as much of a point either, I suppose.
Anyway, writer’s frustrations out of the way, hi again. In case you can’t remember who I am (and I wouldn’t be surprised given how often I update), I’m Speller. I am a Senior Sales Assistant in a Game store in the UK, a massive, massive gaming fan (Xbox 360 and Steam mostly. Represent!) and I currently live in Aldershot, which is just under an hour away from London on the train. Though this may soon all be changing if things go to plan in the coming weeks (except the gaming part, I totally love gaming).
There is a job opening for a Deputy Manager in the Surrey Quays GAME store which I plan on applying for, for several reasons. Point one, it’s natural progression. Moving up from Senior Sales to Deputy Manager is the next step in the ladder at GAME and I intend to climb it.
“Okay,” you may be thinking. “But why Surrey Quays? That’s London! You can’t commute that!”
Which brings me on to point number two: It’s 10 minutes away from Shoreditch. Which just so happens to be where my girlfriend (Rocker94) currently resides. Which means that moving is very possible all of a sudden, and therefore means taking a big step in almost every single direction all in one go. Obviously, it’s all ifs and buts as I need all sorts of clearances and permissions to apply for the job but I can’t help but wonder if I might be overdoing it a little bit by making so many big decisions in one go - assuming it all goes ahead of course. I just feel like I need to start making big steps in my life so I don’t get stuck in a rut.
It’s strange.. I’m 22 in under two weeks. That’s the start of truly growing in to adulthood I think. No more landmark birthdays, the next number starts sounding older. I’ll be mid-twenties before too long, and I’ll stop getting ID’d, and I’ll start getting shocked at how I can have coherent conversations with people who were born an entire decade after me. That really is weird. And it’s this feeling of “It’s growing up time!” that’s sort of kicked me in to gear a little bit and got me moving forward. When I saw the job opportunity pop up on the GAME intranet I instantly started thinking about it, and it fits quite nicely. But I should stop talking about it; for before too long I’ll find out I can’t apply for the job because I’m too inexperienced or something equally disappointing. Let’s hope this is not the case.
In other news, I’ve been seeing a lot more of some old friends recently and it’s been fantastic getting back in touch with them. I had an amazing night about a month ago in which I saw at least 8 people whom I hadn’t seen for half a year (some even more) and met a few more faces and had an incredible night with. I want to do that sort of thing more often but it’s really hard finding the time to split between the all-consuming work, being at home, seeing family, friends, Lucy and of course alone time, so that night was a total breath of fresh air. I hope to do something like that again soon - perhaps for my birthday?
Finally, I’ve been listening to lots of new music recently and getting in to a whole new selection of bands and albums that I had previously dismissed as ‘not being my thing’. After a poor show at Reading Festival 2009, I had written Deftones off as a completely overrated and overhyped band not worthy of my time, and tidbits I had heard since then had not done anything to change my mind. But having recently acquired Saturday Night Wrist as my friend Rory recommended I listen to, I found myself listening to the fifth track off of the album, ‘Mein’, and loving it. I listened to that track several times in a row. I then went on to listen to the whole thing through and suddenly it clicked, and I discovered what everyone else was talking about. To be fair, I do need to check more of it out and I have Diamond Eyes to look forward to next.
I’ve also been appreciating Nero’s debut album and listening to quite a few tracks repeatedly over the past few days, as well as Chase and Status’ No More Idols. The fact that a lot of the tracks get played at GAME every day probably helps break the tracks in so to speak, but the simple way they want me to listen to them again in my own time shows you they’re doing something right. Having just grabbed another 3GB of music from the internet I’m looking forward to checking out albums from The Bluetones, And So I Watch You From Afar, Dillinger Escape Plan (yeah, really, *head explodes*), Adebisi Shank and loads more. It’s a good time to be getting in to new music as it’s so easy to find and listen to and discover things you didn’t realize you’d like, but also very easy to slip in to the trap of finding something new and playing it a little too much. The same thing happened with Coldplay a couple of months ago and I went on a total Coldplay binge, getting their discography and listening to 15 or so songs constantly for a few weeks. As a result, a couple of the songs that used to send a shiver down my spine (Talk, Charlie Brown, God Put A Smile Upon Your Face for example) have been played to the extent that they don’t have that effect any more, which is a shame. The Scientist, however, remains one of my favourite songs of all time and I intend to keep it that way.
Anyway.. it’s just hit midnight and I need to sleep, for tomorrow at work we have some of the biggest names in the company coming to visit the store and I should rest up for the work load that’ll face us in the morning. Hurrah!
Promise me you’ll come back soon, my lovelies. And I’ll try and have something new for you next time. Thanks for reading, once again.
A clever cat who was thrown from a car stunned an RSPCA inspector by leading him to her litter of four tiny kittens hidden in a barn.
RSPCA inspector Jon Knight had been called out to rescue the young cat, after she was spotted being thrown from a car in the town of March, Cambridgeshire, last month.
The concerned caller had been monitoring the cat and started feeding her, and after two weeks managed to confine the cat in a green house in Upwell Road, March and the RSPCA was called.
The cat was taken to an RSPCA vet for treatment; she was quite thin and had a grazed face as a result from being thrown from the car, she was also treated for fleas and worms and given a good feed.
However, the cat had to be returned to the location as it was clear that she had only recently had kittens and she would need to get back to them as soon as possible.
When Jolie, as she has since been named, was returned she began calling out.
At first inspector Knight believed she was calling out to her kittens so he watched and waited to see what happened. But it soon became clear that she was meowing at him.
Then, amazingly, as soon as the inspector began to follow her, she moved forward meowing all the time and led the inspector across country straight to where her kittens were.
Inspector Knight said: “I had taken her back to the location she had been picked up at so that she could get back to her kittens. But it was such a rural area, I had little hope of finding them myself.
“When she started to get really vocal at first I thought she was calling to the kittens, but then it became clear that she was actually calling to me!
“I began to follow her and she took me through the rear garden, across a ploughed field and into a farm yard. All the time she was calling me and waiting for me to follow.
“She then took me into an old farm machinery barn and led me to behind a stack of old wood and there were her four kittens.
“There is absolutely no way I would have found these kittens without this cat’s help. She was a huge distance away from the garden she had first been found in, and was clearly doing all she could to lead me to her kittens.
“The kittens were tiny and still had their eyes closed. I collected them and took them and mum back to the RSPCA Block Fen Animal Centre, where they will stay until they are all fit, healthy and old enough to be rehomed.
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Cats are amazing.
I’ve just renewed my www.dysonism.com domain name for another 2 years. It’s so cheap it’d be silly not to. £15 and it’s done.
Anyway - and I know I said this last time - apologies for the lack of updates. I constantly find myself with less and less time to sit down and write a lengthy blog article, but I am available on the internets in many other formats. Facebook, Twitter, I even have another Tumblr blog at speller.tumblr.com that needs followers so head over there if you want more goodness (disclaimer: may not be goodness).
I’m not going anywhere any time soon, anyway.. at least not for another two years :)
rocker94 asked: HAY GURL HAY! Clearly they are Annoy Moose. ~~
For real. Also I dislike how Tumblr won’t let you answer asks on different blogs. Frustratingly these always go to my main blog when they’d be better off landing in my speller blog. Silly Tumblr. :(
Anonymous asked: Hay again.
WHAT. WHO ARE YOU. Also what do you want? ._.
Anonymous asked: Hey
Hi! You’re anonymous. How mysterious!
