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02.25.04
– “To love is a journey you make on your own, and if
you don’t take the chance, the angels won’t dance”
– The Highwaymen
Recent
Movies: Aliens, Comic Book: The Movie,
Big Trouble in Little China, Batman: Dead End
Music: Kansas, AC/DC
Literature: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller
Games: Metroid: Zero Mission (Gameboy Advance),
Parodius (Arcade)
Well, it was
a very good weekend, one that I badly, badly needed. There’s
only so many super-busy weeks of school followed by crappy weekends
that I can take. I missed Lucas in Full Tilt on Saturday on account
of my own blazing stupidity. First, I washed my car, which the cats
promptly walked all over. My dad actually wiped off the cat prints
yesterday morning because he thought my car looked so nice. Anyway,
back to Saturday… when I was done washing my car, I wiped
my hard drive and spent the afternoon putting stuff back on, and
totally forgot about a homework assignment that was due by midnight.
When I got that done, it was too late to go to Full Tilt. Now I
feel like a mega jerk… sorry, Lucas.
Fortunately,
it was still a great weekend. Dodgeball was fun and I got to hang
out with my friends, which is a luxury I apparently don’t
have these days. There was a lot of talk later that night—no
TV, no video games, just talk. It was great, and the night was more
than enough to cheer me up until, say, today. Even though I missed
Full Tilt on Saturday, Josh and Brett invaded my house later that
night, so the day wasn’t a total loss. Then on Sunday, there
was even more dodgeball (albeit one game… not my fault, Davis).
Good times, but they didn’t last long.
On Monday, I
had not one but two essay tests. The first one was not so bad (even
though I doubt I did well). The second one… ehh… let’s
just say I’m extremely worried about it. Essay tests are too
much pressure; intelligently answering four or five questions in
50 minutes is hard stuff. Like, three questions in 75 minutes
is very doable, but not this, and not two in one day. And I just
now got done studying for my French test tomorrow. Three tests in
three days, and it’s not even time for mid-terms or finals!
If I had to describe this week, my choices would be A) Ouch, That
Hurts! B) Why Are You Doing This to Me? and C) Please Let Me Die.
I like B, personally.
I don’t
think I realized how busy I am until tonight. The only reason I
have time to do this weblog entry is because I’m putting off
something more important, I’m sure. I don’t even have
any real papers to write, but there are a ton of reading and homework
assignments that are piling up in front of me. I can’t even
read what I’m typing right now, so plaese ingor spelling erorrs,
thanks. It’s a good thing I’m not doing any extracurricular
activities right now, or I would probably die. I don’t know
what I was thinking when I put together my schedule for this semester.
What a terrible error. Taking an 8 AM class or two would have been
better than this. All the while, I’m also trying to leave
time to work on stuff I want to work on, but it’s not going
well. Spring Break: 13 school days and counting…
To think, it
was only a couple of hours ago tonight that I was considering getting
back into Ultima Online. I dug up some old stories and chat logs
and such for a little project I might start in a year or five, and
I got the hankering. The isolationist part of me wants to go back,
but the social, money-saving, get-good-grades part of me is not
willing to give up what little time I have to play a computer game
like that again. Sorry, UO, you lose… for now.
I think my birthday
might be coming sometime soon, but I don’t know what to think
of it. By the time it does come, I might be too tired or too busy
or not in the mood to do anything about it. Not saying I don’t
like birthdays, but it’s the truth.
Whew, end of
the line. Goodnight, folks.
02.05.04
– “One learned to pray, one loved to fight, we were
born and raised in black and white.”
Recent
Movies: Darkman, Army of Darkness, Alien
Music: The Highwaymen – Highwayman 2,
KMFDM - Nihil
Literature: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller, lots of school books
Games: Parodius (Arcade)
The neatest
thing about Army of Darkness is that I got to watch it
for a school project. It’s an appreciation essay on the performance
of Bruce Campbell. The essay is aptly titled “Well Hello,
Mr. Fancy Pants!” on account of all of my analysis and other
pretentious crazy talk regarding a movie nobody should ever be expected
to watch for a purpose other than laughing.
Motherboard
update: I returned the defective one and got an email today that
said they don’t carry that kind of motherboard anymore and
they are going to refund 82 bucks on account of the warranty. This
is what I wanted since I… y’know, already bought a newer,
better one. If you deal in PC parts online, I highly recommend NewEgg.com
for hassle-free returns of defective products, which you may or
may not get a lot of. Me? I get a lot.
Despite the
fact that I’ve caught myself complaining less lately, I was
still pretty down after my inspirational “gonna start looking
at things differently” comments from the last weblog. But
I talked to some people—rather, some people talked to me—and
I’m feeling quite a bit less like “nobody cares”
and am generally feeling pretty well. You folks know who you are…
thanks for setting me straight. I sure do like having such great
friends.
School is still
going well, as far as I can see. I don’t have any grades to
show for it yet, but at least I’m not dreading going to any
of my classes. Lots and lots of reading is keeping me busy, and
this semester I’m actually doing it, as opposed to last semester
when I didn’t read anything and Sparknotesed my way through
most of the short stories and poems and other literature stuff.
It worked, but this way I’m less afraid of exams and papers.
I hope you’re
enjoying the Ohio Adventure so far. I’m glad it’s finally
done, as I felt bad for not just getting it done right away and
then telling people over and over again that it was “almost
done.” However, in the course of it being almost done, I would
change my mind about something or decide to do something different
with it, which eventually caused it to not be almost done. At first,
it was just going to be a recap of everything that happened, but
then I decided I wanted to actually make a story out of it and add
some illustrations and a title graphic that I can, without ego,
say I’m pretty proud of. Additionally, I’m massively
lazy, so a lot of excuses went into its delay. The Ohio Adventure
itself was also delaying a lot of other projects I have coming up
that I am really looking forward to, but YOU are not allowed to
know anything about! (Ha!) A smart or reasonable person would have
just moved on to this other stuff, but I’ve never been either
of those things, so there. Anyway, I hope you like it—it’s
probably the longest non-school thing I’ve ever written, and
this is what I’m supposed to like to do and what I’m
going to school for. I should probably get to work, huh?
Eh, I think
I’m done for now… hope you got your fill of me. Ohio
Adventure, Part Two should be up on Saturday.
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