2012 = UGH

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Ugh. 2012 now. And why is hitting a Gamerscore target so important? If only I knew then what I know now. Other highlights include the stopping smoking saga involving Champix, and the time I inadvertently thanked the universe for having everything I needed. How little did I know back then. Other than that, 2012 was full of videogames (I wrote…

That time I thought I was an app developer

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I'm getting into 2011 now, and this was the time when I got a Windows Phone and decided I could make apps - even though I had never shown any aptitude for real coding in my life. Sure, I could tweak things here and there on a website, or just about fudge my way through and make something look semi-presentable…

Self-awareness is a bad thing?

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On my journey to becoming a counsellor I have developed a degree of self-awareness. With both the self-reflective exercises on the Level 2 counselling skills course and the Jungian shadow work I've done in my journals, I recognise the things I have discovered as nothing but positive. I've uncovered unconscious core beliefs that were blatantly untrue, which were formed as…

We all thrive on stories

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We all thrive on stories.We grow up on them, we tell ourselves them, we communicate with them, we shape our lives with them. Stories make the world go around, and stories are nothing without characters. So, a question:Who are the top 5 characters that shaped who you are now?— Jordan Casstles (@MrCasstles) August 11, 2018 Now, how could I resist…

Looking back at 2009

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And I have to say, it's quite sad. I'm just porting all the old posts over from the old blog, and I'm currently at the Phantasy Star Universe stage. I mean, I know videogames had a big hold on my life, but imagine if I had devoted myself with such vigour to philosophy and psychology instead of a videogame. Imagine…
Dream recollection

Dream recollection

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I yawned. I brought my hands up and rubbed my tired eyes with the backs of them. As my heavy eyes closed deeply and heavily I was transported backwards to a dream I had about seven years ago, I think. It seemed like seven years ago. I had not thought of it at all since I had originally had the…

Site update

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I'm moving all the posts over from my old blog, and I'm doing it manually so i can fine tune them a little, for example making sure all their tags are relevant and consistent, they all conform to the correct category, and I'm seeing if they could be organised to make things a little easier to find. I've added some…

Nice day

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Today feels a little bit like before Jake was born, back when I had unlimited free time. Man, I had such narrow perceptions of that unlimited free time. I have purpose and drive now. I thought I used to have it. Turns out I was wrong. No urgency. No haste. I'm just spending the day messing with this website, trying…

On hold. What to do?

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Potentially, I may have to hold fire on continuing my Counselling training for this upcoming academic year. We booked our annual holiday pretty much as soon as we came back off of our holiday last year, and it happened to coincide with the external assessment for my counselling course. So the problem is that I can't take the assessment because…