6ix7even said, early this morning as we approached the All Night Wal*Mart...

Male voice: "Hi, this is my buddy Chip, we're here to move your paradigm."
Female voice: "My paradigm doesn't need moving."
Male voice: "That's okay, his name's not Chip."
*pornfunk*

I found this immensely funny at the time.

The school year is almost upon us.

This makes me happy. I want the school year to start, because the summer does stuff like be unpleasant. Also, cool stuff happens over the course of the school year. I want Tae Kwon Do to start up again. I need the exercise. I want archery to start up again. I like archery.

Lot of large, beefy posts today.

Going to go pick up and deposit my paycheck today. Hopefully it'll clear by Friday. I'd like to get to spend a little money in the vendor room at Otakon. If you're going, and you want to say hi while you're there, drop me a comment or an IM or something. Include pertinent and useful contact information.

Took today off work. I'd better fucking get stuff done.

Yawn.

The General.

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I keep forgetting that, at least in the movies, Charlize Theron is quite the hottie.

I remembered this today because I saw The Italian Job.

I highly recommend this movie to anybody who likes one of the following things:

• Movies about thieves.


• Movies with Edward Norton in them.


• Movies with Charlize Theron in them.


• Movies with Brits in them.


• Boobies.

Though not so much on the last one.

So I'm home again. I'm feeling pretty good, though kind of tired. I should go to sleep, get some rest. Tomorrow I am supposed to finish the Marvel Superheroes module with aprivatefox, 6ix7even and tempralisis. That should be fun. Hopefully more Go. On a board. With stones. It results in less cheating. In fact, so far the reduction rate is 100%, statistically speaking.

Ran into some people of yore. 2 years changes a lot. Thought about some stuff.

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And that's been my day.

I just lost my first LJ friend. This is both amazingly cool and horrifying, simultaneously.

It is horrifying because I do not understand the concept of somebody being so offended by my request to put lyrics behind an LJ-cut that they would yank me from their friends list. It is, at worst, a minor inconvenience. It is still a perfectly readable entry, and anybody who is sufficiently interested in the lyrics to click on the cut can do so.

I am, consequently, baffled. Though it's a nice way to weed out the unreasonable folk.

I am going out to a movie. Ciao.

The General.

Went out to dinner last night with aprivatefox and 6ix7even. We went to Applebee's. I had the Chicken Quesadilla Grande, sans onions, tomatoes or jalapeños. It was very grande. It was also pretty good. I also had strawberry lemonade. It was tasty. And I got free refills on it. It was expensive though, I'm going to have to remember to get just a soda or water next time I go there, if I do.

I was so full that I didn't get desert, as much as I wanted an Apple Chimicheesecake. That thing's really good. But it's probably for the best that I didn't get it, for both monetary and dietary reasons.

After we got back from food, myself, tempralisis and the aforementioned two played some of Marvel Superheroes. Well, 6ix7even GM'd, the rest of us played. Captain America is pretty cool, though the level of abilities that the Marvel system accounts for is insane. What you realistically get to is not as insane, but it's still pretty insane. We didn't finish the module, so we're going to pick up where we left off on Sunday, hopefully.

My love affair with apple juice continues, as its inexpensive and tasty nature makes it wont to do.

It continues to perplex me how every human being that I am sincerely interested in is otherwise occupied, lives a great distance away, or possesses both of these qualities. I have yet to let distance be a stopping factor in expressing interest, though it does weird things. I have occasionally forgotten, much to my own dismay (and more often than not, that of others,) to let the former be a stopping factor. This tends not to have pleasant results.

I played speed Go last night. No clock. Just fast plays. I got slaughtered. This is unsurprising. I need to play more Go with a board and stones.

Today's outlook: Pleasant.

Tomorrow's outlook: Also pleasant.

There is Games Club today. That makes me happy. I will consider withdrawing money for lunch.

I think I will have peanut butter and jelly instead.

You should be dating an Aquarius.
20 January - 18 February
Your mate is communicative, thoughtful and caring.
Though he/she can be tactless and rude and
sometimes self-interested, he/she enjoys the
intellectual experience of sex.


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I'm a Pisces, if you were wondering (March 1.)



Water is prevalent in my life.

I am worried about my friends.

This is a point that should stand on its own and it does. But what it means alone, that I am concerned about my friends in the passive sense, i.e. I care about them, is not what I meant.

I am actively worried about my friends. More and more, I am seeing my friends' emotional problems, and it's distressing to me. I don't know how to help, I don't know what to do. Everything I consider saying, the "It's all rights" and the "You're a wonderful persons," they all sound trite and hackneyed. What do you do when the truth just sounds like another line?

I spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself. I do stupid things. I've even hurt some of my friends, never intending to. I believe that I have ruined the relationship of one of my good friends recently, the other party whom was also a good friend of mine. I feel bad that I hurt them, yes. But I also feel sorry for myself, because I've been injured as well. How's that for awful? I go and do something like that, and have the gall to feel sorry for myself.

But... That sort of thing pales. On occasion, I get a brief glimpse of what's really going on around me. And when my friends are suffering, I can't really give them a hug, even though it's instinctually what makes sense to me. Because it's also instinctually weird, and off-limits. Go social consciousness.

So here I am. I'm friends with these people because of what I get out of it. It's the little things, like intelligent conversation, or just "Want to get food?" That's what really does it for me. And those little things... they're the take. If the give is left derelict...

So yeah. I'm a selfish ass, but we knew that going in, right? Right. And further, there are people that I think myself superior to. But feeling sorry for somebody, or feeling bad for them doesn't mean you think yourself superior. And really, I think pretty much all of my friends are better people than I am.

Though right now, if somebody were to propose to me that I was not a worthwhile person, I would be hard-pressed to fight back beyond politely and insincerely disagreeing.

Be that as it may, if you know me, and I mean you know me, then this is directed at you.

You are more than a worthwhile person. If you do not believe that, then at least I've gotten it off my chest.

This is your hug. This is your affirmation. If the above was not true, then I'd have barely wasted a moment's breath on you. Yeah, there are people I think I'm superior to. But there are people who can hold it together, and simply choose not to. Maybe they outright refused. That kind of person... well. I don't really need to go there.

So here we go. Tomorrow's coming with amazing speed. Wanna go get food?

I'm going to make a post after this, it's probably going to be longish. Before I do that, I would like to put in the request that anybody who sees this please honor my request:

If you're going to post song lyrics, please hide them behind a cut. I know, I'm bad, I didn't cut the first set of lyrics I posted, but it takes up a lot of space just to make a one or two line comment on the song--or even none at all.

Thank you.

The General.

I don't understand.

Why do people feel the compulsion to cheat (yes, cheat) at Internet Go? I do not understand why it is necessary for somebody who seems to be a decently strong player to abuse a bug which permits laying two stones in "a single move." There is some way, it seems, to force the other player to pass. I don't know how it's done. I am left with little recourse, as my stones are removed from the board in a situation where my structure was alive, or a dead structure miraculously lives as I "graciously let it escape." It makes me angry that people feel the need to cheat at something like Go.

I hate people.

The Hero Without A Past
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Must have gorgeous hair, blue or green eyes (a
mixture is also acceptable), and be proficient
in the use of bladed weapons. Instant and
unconditional love for the Lovely Heroine a
necessity. Must also have at least two of the
following:
--At least 5 years missing from memory
--A dysfunctional relationship with 1 or more
Reluctantly Protective Father Figures
--A distinct aversion to helping others (must be
willing to go through attitude adjustment)

Examples: Cloud Strife, Squall Leonhart, Zidane
Tribal, Tidus


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My eyes are green, though they turn blue when I get stressed out or really mad, so I guess I meet that requirement. And I guess my step-dad counts as a Reluctantly Protective Father Figure...
Hm. Well, having blocked out all of elementary school counts as five years missing from my memory!

Go me.