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Hiya Unknown Visitor, thanks for stopping by. Make yourself at home, pull up a comfy chair and help yourself to tea and biscuits.
I'm HonestIago and I'm a 25 year old Scouse lad. I was mostly a denzien of the now late Talk Buffy section but I moved over to h2g2 and found that Ask h2g2 and The Forum are great ways to exercise the old grey matter and also to show off. If you're a refugee from Talk Buffy and now find yourself lost you can get transferred to h2g2 by going to this page and making a request. Then come and join us in Slayerville I started watching Buffy when I was 12, and sad as this sounds, it was a big part of my teen years. Unfortunately I was horribly dependant on the BBC and so my adolescence had an extra source of frustration but now Buffy is gone from our screens and it's left a gaping hole.
Time for the almost inevitable 'Favourites' list, I'll try to be brief: my favourite Buffy character is Tara, she was wise, mature, confident and strong, all of which I aspire to be.
My favourite episode is The Gift but there are many episodes such as Earshot, OMWF, Family, Help and Conversations With Dead People which come in as close runners-up.
My favourite Season is probably S5, just because it had so much in it and also Riley left. Hurrah! I also have a soft spot for S2 and for S6
In the real world I'm student at Manchester Uni, doing a highly intellectual subject with a very light workload *giggles at the thought the Government are paying me over 5 grand a year to sit on my backside 5 days a week* I like almost all music, particularly Evanescence. I like drama, more the backstage, technical stuff than the scary appearing in front of an audience stuff and I cycle for miles, or I would if I could find anywhere nice to ride in Manchester.
This year I've been learning to Scuba dive through my University diving club MUSAC and it is awesome, I'd heartily reccomend it to anybody With the exception of Buffy I hardly watch TV but when they are on I adore 6 Feet Under for it's beautiful direction and realistic portrayal of gay characters, The Shield because it is very disturbing and thought-provoking, and The West Wing because it has the finest writers of any show on TV - Buffy included.
That's about it, feel free to leave me a message if you agree/disagree with anything I've said or if you just want to say hi.
As annouced by the picture at the top of this introduction, I am a member of the h2g2 Assassins Guild, holding the rank of midshipman. Enemies beware! I'm a United Friend, a cool group who love Hootoo Another cool place on h2g2 is M2M2 the LGB (Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual) area. It used to be pretty dead but has had a lot of new posters lately and new games such as The Great Gay Game and Wish You Were Queer Apologies for that one, it wasn't my pun For a time I was a Sub-editor, one of a group of people who do some final editing on Entries before they make it into the Guide. If you are thinking of writing and article for the guide, you might want to check out these links: Sub-editors' Guide ML, Special characters and Guide to Sub-editors' punctuation as it will increase the chances of your article making it past the Peer Review stage If you don't feel able, or don't have the time, to write an entire Entry alone you could always check out the Flea Market where abandoned entries need someone loving to adopt them, or there's the Collaborative Writing forum if you think you could help someone on a current project, or you want help on your's. Finally you could always visit the Update Forum if you think you can contemporise old Entries. After 3 and a half years here, I've finally got around to getting a hootoo specific email address. If you are mad enough to want to contact me, you can do so at honestiago(dot)h2g2 (at) googlemail (dot) com
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Sep 18, 2009
My first appearance in the local paper, after two years of doing community outreach work:
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.....Gang_attacks_man_in_street/?ref=mr
Is it weird that seeing the attack written up like that is making me feel worse than actually having a broken nose and all the rest?
And is 4.15 to early to close the curtains and just go to bed?
Being Human
Sep 5, 2009
I missed this the first time around and wasn't too fussed, but I've been watching it on the iPlayer (*love* the iPlayer) this summer and my word, it's really something special.
I've just watched the 4th episode and it's absolutely blown me away, I'm sat here and 20 minutes after it ended I'm rocking in my chair repeating  ing hell, over and over just because of how powerful it was. That's twice this year the Beeb has got me doing this, Torchwood being the other one time.
I just had to express my feelings. If you haven't seen it and like good, dark drama, you have to watch it.
ing hell...
Interview
Jul 29, 2009
As my facebook friends will already know, I had a job interview yesterday, and I spent most of the past 7 days stressing out over it.
I didn't get the job, and that was a bitter disappointment, but I'm worried about the larger pattern that's emerging: in the last year I've applied for 10 jobs in widening participation/Aimhigher and I've failed to get every single one. It seems the best I can do is get a job I hate, that pays me less livable money in a place I'd like to see reduced to smoldering rubble.
Aimhigher is the only real work I know and it's the only thing I'm good at. I know it better than most people because I've worked with it for so long and I've seen it from just about every different angle and yet I seem totally unable to get any work in it.
Yesterday I was smart, I was charming, I was confident, I'd researched and prepared well, my presentation was a walk in the park because I've done it scores of times before. I was passionate. I truly can't understand why I didn't get the job, why I keep on failing.
I'm just at a bit of a loose end and I don't know what to do with myself, whether to give up and try and learn something else, or to keep banging my head on the same brick wall.
Politics.
Jul 24, 2009
Swine flu, the expenses row, the endless and futile point-scoring attempts by both parties, the sheer incompetence of a party I want to support.
I'm getting so sick of politics and it's really disappointing. I'm the sort of person this democratic system needs: I was one of 30ish% of people my age to even bother to vote in the last general election. In the recent Europeans, something like 15% of people under 30 voted and the only reason I did was because the BNP were doing sickeningly well in my area and I know that all evil needs to thrive is for good men to remain silent.
I'm politically literate, heck I've got a degree in the subject, I've campaigned actively, I keep myself well-informed. When someone like me is so sick and tired of politics that I'm seriously considering not voting again, what chance is democracy going to have?
A screechy, melodramatic media, parties who are more interested in maintaining their own elites than serving their constituents, a broken electoral system and mass public antipathy and outright distrust for Parliament: it's not just undermining support for the parties, it's undermining democracy itself. The next generation (though ultimately, as a lover of men, I'm basically a free rider on the next generation. Suckers!) is going to face unprecedented challenges including but not limited to; dealing with the baby boomers retirement, oil and water becoming increasingly scarce, climate change, and the rise of powers who don't share our affinity with civil liberties. Is this really the political system we want to hand over, where even the motivated are ceasing to care?
In short, the current political situation is annoying me somewhat. I want a return to the system I used to idolise and consider worth defending above all else. Right now if someone wanted to remove democracy, I probably wouldn't put up too much of a fight.
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Stabbing
Jul 16, 2009
Had a rather unpleasant incident at work today: a little Year 8 (12-13 years old) lad was stabbed for no apparent reason. Kid had the back of his leg slashed
I get on the radio, call for immediate assistance and try and get a translator for the kid because he doesn't speak much English and he was rather understandably a little upset. A couple of members of senior staff come over - one b****cks me for the radio call! The other sends the kid back to class while they try and round up his attacker who had long done a runner.
I'm giving serious thought about going to the press as the school seems to be doing its best to cover it up. I'd kinda accepted that when staff are assaulted, they'd turn a blind eye, as happened with me a few months back, but one of the pupils brings a knife to school and uses it to stab a defenseless kid for no discernible reason and they do nothing? That just seems totally beyond the pale.
I'm just glad I'll almost certainly be handing my notice in when September rolls around: couldn't even get 15 minutes with the head to talk about my future at the school. So the school is losing their link to universities which they desperately need.
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