Tuesday, February 3, 2004

   d00t
Oy...I'm so very tired.

I'm still having trouble getting to sleep at a reasonable hour. I usually post an update here somewhere in the 10:00 hour, which takes me a little while to flesh out. Then I sometimes go and get ready for bed, or I'll stay up to talk to people on AIM.

I just wish I could do it. I wish I could make myself be ready for bed and be able to fall asleep before midnight. Especially when I get up at 6-something every morning.

I don't really feel like talking about my day; from what I remember it was just another monotonous day of school. Tomorrow will be even worse; tomorrow my Off period drops out of the schedule rotation, meaning I will have all of my classes one after the other. It will certainly be the suck...

I went to fencing practice, as usual. I didn't really do much, as we're getting our novices ready for the Novice Tournament this Saturday. (The bus leaves at 6:30AM, yikes)

We wound up doing a footwork drill. It was basically running back and forth with swords pointed at each other. I was partnered with Steve, our left-handed senior. He ran me ragged, as I expected. I refused to stop, though. I felt like I couldn't keep going, but I continued on, despite having to slow down and limp. My persistence paid off, in a small way. Our captain made note that we were the only ones consistently moving. That made me feel a little better.

After the drill, I caught my breath and drank some water. I got a faint twinge in my stomach like I was about to throw up. It's an extremely rare event that I exercise to the point where that happens. I took a nice long break, since the Novices were the focus of the practice anyways, and then free fenced with John, a team mate of mine. (This is not the same John who plays Yu-Gi-Oh) Me went back and forth, trading points on and off. I'm happy to say that I tricked him several times. Multiple feints drew his blade out of position, and I struck! It was rather fun.

My dad came and picked me up from practice, and I came home. I've been wasting time ever since.

Nothing has changed in the Digipeep votes, unless people have edited, in which case I will be slightly disappointed.

I'm not up to an RPG update right now. Meh, I'm tired and I need a shower. Two girls at practice sniffed me for some reason while I was all sweaty, and thought that I smelled good... O_O Weird? Oh yeah, that's weird.

So, yeah. Must be going. Maybe get some decent sleep.

*cynical laughter* Yeah, right....
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Monday, February 2, 2004

   I know, I KNOW!
Where to begin...

I got up late today. Or rather, I woke up, but didn't really get out of bed for a little while after my alarm went off. I considered just remaining in bed, as I was certainly the only one awake. My mom was at work; on call, and my dad stayed up late most nights playing Max Payne. My sister forgot to set her alarm, otherwise she would've been up already as well.

Had I stayed in bed, I probably could have put enough pressure on my dad to convince him to let me skip school, or I could have at least missed a period or two.

I couldn't do that to him, and I didn't feel like doing that to myself. I got up, got dressed for school, and woke everyone else up.

I'm not going to bother with the period by period assessment of today, simply because it's a Monday and I don't want to report on a boring, tiresome Monday of school.

I went to my Student Council meeting after school today for the first time in a few weeks. We're finalizing plans for a dance that we have coming up in March. We decided on the theme: "Western/Texan." One of my classmates is from Texas and was very enthusiastic about it. He and a friend of mine made plans for a mock gunfight. Yay.

My dad picked me up from school and drove my sister and I to Sacred Heart. Jess, my older sister, works at Sacred Heart for the after-school Daycare program. I talked to Victoria for a minute or two while she was folding the school's flag. Apparently there will be yearbook pictures of the daycare program tomorrow. I shall have to make an appearance. :D

I grabbed my little brother and we were driven home. I lounged around my room, reading and posting up until I scarfed down some dinner and went to Confirmation class.

Confirmation class was, as usual, boring/annoying/a complete waste of my time. I know all of what they are trying to teach my moronic classmates, and any intelligent question I ask leads into a tangent and is never really answered. I DO NOT LIKE THIS CLASS. My mom has even begun to question the usefulness of this class. Or rather, whether their methods are the right ones. The R.C.I.A. group at our church, the classes for adults who have just begun to learn about the Catholic Church; they don't even get as much information as we do. We work harder at things not necessary for Confirmation than the R.C.I.A. candidates do in order to enter the Catholic Church!

*sigh* Yay for rants. :p

I just want this week to end already. ;_; Next Friday I leave for Florida. This weekend is the Novice Tournament for fencing, where I will hopefully be seeing Boba Fett. :-)

My room still needs to be cleaned...rather badly. I have history homework to make up from our second class. >.> That needs to be done for tomorrow afternoon. I have about twenty or so religion questions to be answered or, from what my Confirmation teacher says, I can't be confirmed; another point that we disagree on.

One of the more frustrating things about all of this is that I have the time to do it. But I don't.

I think that I might have to get rid of my Internet connection again. For a bit longer than a couple hours, this time. It's shoddy as of now anyways. But, would I be able to disconnect myself like that again? :p

Eh, Oh well.

RPG News:

Hunter: The Reckoning. Dead, perhaps...?

Duel Monsters: Quest for Exodia. Nothing new. Someone will inevitably bring it back, though.

OtakuBoards and the Quest for the Holy Otakubot: Nothing New.

The Silmarillion. There might have been something new, but I don't think it pertained to my character.

W.H.A.T.E. I've been talking to Solo about this. He seems to have a post in the making, so hopefully things will pick up after he posts.

Children of Sharess. I hade my second post last night, making myself a nice rock wolf golem to ride on. Domon and I have been closely working together on this, as we are supposed to. The Dra'Coryul will reclaim our honor! And we will slay the arrogant vampire that is played by skedy!

Ahem...heh heh...

11-ish days until I got to Florida. I can never get a sure count...

Digipeep Votes Thus Far:
Ben: 9
Digital Monster: 7
Leh: 4
Takuya: 1
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Sunday, February 1, 2004

...
Congrats to Shin, who has come into the open with his feelings. :) I'm very happy when something like that happens to one or more of my friends. I like it when my friends find happiness.

But I almost always get a feeling of regret, almost jealousy, whenever that happens. They're happy. I'm not. Or at least not as happy as they seem to be. I just...I just wish I could have or be a part of it.


Lonliness dominates you. You can hide it well, but
its there, and your friends can see it. You
constantly feel alone, and need to do things to
fill your time. Your afraid to tell people
this, but sooner or later it gets out in a bad
way, and you think you screwed up everything.
And when you are in love is when you are sad
the most. (Please Vote)


What Emotion Dominates you?
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And no, I did not steer the quiz towards this result. I got this legitimately.

Funny note: Whilst taking that quiz, my dad called me downstairs to do something and then put a flaming lighter to my rear end for being a smart aleck. >.>

So, for the news on my life portion of the post. I had a fencing meet yesterday morning, and I even got to fence this time. o.o Wow, eh? I fenced twice, with one win and one loss.

My loss was 3-4, going to five, as usual. Unfortunately, my opponent was doing absolutely nothing. I let impatience get the best of me and ended impaling myself about...three times...We ran out of time, and I lost.

My second bout I won, 5-4. We traded points back and forth. He got one, I got one, he got another, I got another, etc. It continued on like this until it was 4-4. When the director said: "Fence!", thus telling us to begin, I ran at my opponent and quickly got the last touch. ^_^ It was a totally unanticipated charge, and it worked.

After that, I came home, did some Internet stuff, and then went to 4:00 Mass. After Mass, I went to the mall to find a card or gift for my friend, Tyler. His birthday party was Saturday night. I got him a card that, if he had just followed its instructions, could have made it so that I would never have to get him another gift again. Sadly, he'd seen the card before and didn't fall for it...

He had part of his party at laser tag. I had forgotten my member's tag, which would have recorded all of the statistics from the games that we played, and so I played under the alias of "Enforcer".

My team won the first game, and I came in first place out of both teams. Which isn't all too hard to explain, as the other team was made up of ten 3 foot tall kids. They were pretty amusing, with their: "Move up, move up!" and "Fall back! Retreat to the base!"

I cut through them like a scythe through wheat. They traveled in packs, which made them relatively easy to pick off. At one point, I was standing on their side of the room when one of them sounded a retreat. Waiting in a secluded section of the room, I shot them as they marched pass. They were soon all deactivated and bewildered. ^-^

The second game, it was four on four. My team won again, but I only managed to take third place. I was playing against better people, after all. :p

We went to Tyler's house and played video games all night and into the morning. We had a nice breakfast of pancakes, eggs, and bacon, and then went outside and had a snowball fight. That was extremely fun. ^_^ I was the oldest there, and several people on the opposing team kept trying to drag me back to their "jail". I tossed them off into the snow and mockingly jabbed them in the stomach with my foot. Heh. It was lots of fun.

I came home this evening, at about 5:00-ish. I came upstairs and managed to find an excuse to put off all of my homework except my Photography essay, which I have yet to even start.

RPG News:

Hunter: The Reckoning. Nothing new.

Duel Monsters: Quest for Exodia. Nothing new.

OtakuBoards and the Quest for the Holy Otakubot: Nothing New.

The Silmarillion. My entire orc army was wiped out by a small band of elves...*glares at CB Shin* I managed to spirit away my friend Isen`Tar on a stolen horse and irritate some elf lords. Nice.

W.H.A.T.E. Nothing new, unfortunately...

Children of Sharess. I made my first post. It's not a doozy, but it introduces my character and some of what he can do. I'm supposed to be working with Domon in this RPG, so I should probably contact him soon.

I sent an e-mail to the company that provides my Internet service, and I hope to get an answer soon. More specifically, I want an answer that fixes the problem.

Eh. I suppose that's all for now. It's 10:37, and I'm tired. I'm going to say that I might go to bed soon, even though it's probably not going to happen.

Disney in 12 days, or thereabouts.

Digipeep results haven't changed as of the last time I looked. There were a few abstinations.
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Friday, January 30, 2004

   An update? What a novel idea!
Let's see, where to begin...

My internet connection has been.....[understatement]frustrating[/understatement]...

It will work fine for a few minutes, and then randomly stop working. I can either test the connection repeatedly, and then get it back for about a minute, or wait several minutes until it fixes itself, and then be on for a bit longer. I keep telling myself to find out what's wrong and how to fix it, but I keep putting it off or forgetting about it. Eck...

Something of note: At practice on Thursday I fenced twice electrically. We use electric equipment to determine score, basically. Do you remember the team mate I lost 15-3 to at the JV tournament? Regardless, I fenced him last night, to five points. He got four touches on me. the score was 4-0, again, first to five would win.

I came back and tied the score, 4-4. Considering how he routed me at the JV tournament, I was impressed, as was he and everyone else I excitedly told. Heh, despite my great comeback, he got the last touch and won. :) But still, after coming back like that against an extremely good fencer, it truly felt like a victory.

I fenced again electrically, against another team mate. It took me a few moments to adjust my thinking from fencing a left-handed fencer to fencing a right-handed fencer. I was fencing my friend, Ryan, a Junior who'd been fencing for 3 years. I beat him 5-3, and boy was he ever ticked about it. We had done one-touch bouts earlier; first fencer to score a point won. I was the first person he fenced, and I got a touch about the first ten seconds. He was not pleased. :p

I sure was, though. It seems like a sure sign that I'm getting better. We'll see how things turn out tomorrow morning, when I have a competition. According to my ever-so-reliable coach *rolls eyes* I will indeed be fencing tomorrow morning. I hope, as always, that I do well.

I got my report card today, and managed to get Second Honors, as usual. I'd get my report card and explain our Honor Roll system, but I'm too tired to do it right now. :p


RPG News: I'm making this section to remind myself of what RPGs I should be posting in; maybe guilt myself into doing something.

Children of Sharess. I signed up for this, Raiha's RPG (finally :p). It looks interesting, and I was even graciously invited to take part. I really didn't know too much about the world it takes place in, but there's a nifty webcomic that explains most of the stuff; the rest I just pestered Raiha about.

Hunter The Reckoning. It looked really good in the Recruitment forum, and still looks pretty good, but I just can't think of how to introduce my character. >.<

Duel Monsters: Quest for Exodia. An RPG with good potential that's going nowhere fast. Lots of short, low-quality posts. Deathbug is trying, but the overall quality is poor. I like it, though, because I play the part of a clown with a country accent. :)

OtakuBoards and the Quest for the Holy Otakubot. I've been trying to find a copy of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so that I'd have a better idea of what to post. Ishap could be a little more unfortunate, as well...

The Silmarillion. My character is at sort of a stand-still until Boba Fett does something. *hint* *hint*

When Humans are the Enemy. *cough* Right, got to work on that. >.> Silly Ben, help your own RPG.

I've been toying around with another idea for an RPG. One where people pick fairy tale characters to do something. (Note to self: Develop a plot) Sort of like how they are portrayed in the movie Shrek. Robin Hood shows up, as does Peter Pan, Pinnochio, etc., etc. It just seems like it would be fun.

Digipeep Votes thus far:
Ben: 8
Digital Monster: 7
Leh: 4
Takuya: 1
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Incidentally....
JamesOtaku01: Ben = OtakuBot v2.

EDIT: I'm saving myself the trouble of fighting with my Internet connection by going to bed early; at 11:00. Yay for me! It's a start. :)

But of course, my Internet gives out mid-post.... :p
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   What's the Deal with Mushrooms?
I just finished eating chicken lo mein, which happened to have mushrooms in it. I carefully picked them out and deposited them in the trash can. Such is the way I deal with mushrooms. Yesterday, I went to a pizza place. Eric, Steve, and I ordered a chicken cacciatore pizza. I found out when it arrived that their were mushrooms on and under every other inch of the pizza's cheese. After carefully picking them out for several slices, I developed a working system for eating the pizza.

1. Tilt pizza sideways.
2. Separate the cheese & toppings from the crust with fork.
3. Eat the sauce-infused crust.
4. Pick mushrooms out of cheese and other toppings.
5. Eat cheese and other toppings.

It was messy, let me tell you. >.> Oh, and by the way, I don't like mushrooms.

Not much happened yesterday during school, so I won't bother getting into too much detail. We had a 12:00 dismissal due to inclement weather *insert laugh* that didn't come about until a little before midnight last night.

I had Off last period, so I loop-holed my way out of school early, claiming that one of the two Seniors I was with was my ride home. The Secretary was nice and let me go.

We went to the pizza place I mentioned above via Steve's truck. I was privileged enough to learn what the "jump seat" of a truck was, and even forced allowed to ride in it. The seat was about a foot by a foot long and maybe three inches thick. It came off of the wall in the cramped back of the truck. Whee...

After eating, Steve dropped me off at Sacred Heart, where I chatted with a few friends for a while, marveling at the immaturity of a few of them. I was soon driven home by a friend of my dad's.

I went home, did a little bit of homework, and started watching Shrek on my dad's computer. I got quite warm and quite cozy. I dozed off a couple of times before actually falling into a full sleep. I woke up as the credits started playing. I exited the movie, and went up to my room. Naptime. I got a couple of hours of sleep, which was just fantastic.

I got up, ate some Chinese food that my dad had brought home, and then came back upstairs to my room. I inevitably entered "tehsillycircus" that evening, and stayed there until 1-2 in the morning. It was snowing hard, and I hoped very much that school would be cancelled, or else I was screwed. :p I shook my fist at the unseen snow plows that I knew were out clearing the streets.

I woke up this morning at 8-something, noted the time and guessed that school had been cancelled. I fell back asleep. I woke up at about 10-something; noted the time and went back to sleep. Then after fitfully sleeping for about another hour, I finally got up. Fitful or not, sleep for that long was very helpful.

I had leftover Chinese food for breakfast, heh. Then I went upstairs, did some random Otaku-related stuff, and built myself a new Yu-Gi-Oh Deck. I also built one for my younger sister to use, as she left hers at our aunt's house. We played Yu-Gi-Oh for a few minutes before I got a phone call from my godmother. She wanted me to shovel her steps and walkway so that my godfather (who had been out since 4:00AM plowing the streets) wouldn't have to do it when he got home.

So I spent a little while shoveling her steps, her walkway, and the sidewalk in front of her house. I was given $20 for the job and $50 with a belated birthday card. Then I listened as she gushed over her new granddaughter, and I looked at the pictures she had of the adorable little baby. I love my Aunt Rosemary. :)

I came home and finished up my Yu-Gi-Oh duel with my sister. She had eliminated one of the four cards of the combo I was trying to get out, which was rather disappointing. I stopped holding back at that point and mopped the floor with her. We dueled again, and again she foiled the combo. I beat her into the floor. (figuratively speaking :p)

Several hours later and here I am. Alive still, and angry at my Internet connection. It just randomly kicks out, and sometimes right back in. It's very frustrating.

Digipeep Votes thus far.
Ben: 6
Digital Monster: 6
Leh: 3
Takuya: 1

w00t
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Monday, January 26, 2004

Darned bold font....
I hope that whatever caused all of MyO to go Bold will have stopped, disappeared or whatever by now. I use the Bold tag for emphasis on certain words, and that emphasis was robbed from me when everything went Bold.

So, in today's news....

Day C at St. Bernard's!

Period D: Photography. I spent the period following my classmates around as they took pictures. I took one shot, which wasn't even my choice of subject. Tomorrow Wednesday I should be able to finish up my shots. If I can somehow manage to get it scanned, I will be sure to post some on OB.

Period E: Algebra II. Simplifying radicals again? Oy....

Period F: Honors English II. We're doing Greek Literature! Yes! I can already feel my GPA rising! And the Vocab test was postponed untul next week! Things are looking up in this class. ^-^

Mass: Many a paper hat and boat were made out of the programs today....

Period G: Honors U.S. History. I just found my book for this class last night, so the homework wasn't ready for today. >_> I still have to get it done after I type this.

Period H: Honors French III. More vocabulary and review. Ma classe est petite. Pas beaucoup est complete.

Or something like that, anyways....

Period A: Off. Spent it in the computer lab talking with Eric.

Period B: Chemistry. Mr. Woodmansee might as well give up. Teaching is not his forte.

Gosh...that was..........morbid.

I'm sorry. I need to go right now. I feel like a walk.


EDIT: I went for a walk, 11:00 at night and very lightly hailing out.

I wasn't allowed to go all the way down our street, just up to my godparents' house. I was free to walk that multiple times, though. So I did.

I also stopped on my last lap, eyeing the field of snow untouched by neighborhood kids. I took a few steps into the field, selected a likely spot, and turned around.

Then I flopped myself onto the ground and made a snow angel. I don't really know why; it just seemed like the thing to do. I got up, surveyed my handiwork, and came home.

With melting snow trickling down my back, I didn't feel very worried about the homework assignments I have yet to do. Even now, they don't seem like too much. I feel much better.

I only wish I could take these night-time walks more often. They're even more calming than the ones I took during the day.

Well, thanks for reading. I'll be back soon with another update, I hope. Thanks for caring. : )
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Sunday, January 25, 2004

I decided to try out a new font for MyO. I just changed around my AIM font because I care ever so much about the opinions of my dear friends. This little font tag at the end is getting rather annoying, though. >_>

Yesterday I had a fencing meet. Whether or not I was fencing was uncertain on Thursday, which was our last practice before the meet. I showed up to the meet yesterday and was told that, yes, I was going to fence, and that I should get ready. Moments later, the coach of the other team came over and informed us that Junior Varsity would not be fencing.

Grrrr.....

As it turns out, Varsity wasn't even fencing. Our coach surmises that our reputation-crushing win over them had their coach decide not to pit them against us again. Well, not Varsity, as their results would be posted in the newspaper.

So I sat around for several hours, watching our Novice girls be absolutely annihilated by the other schools. It disgusted me to watch and very frequently I found myself covering my eyes. Fortunately, our Novice boys did pretty good.

After the meet, I was driven home my Eric's grandfather. When I got home, I found out that my friend Kevin had called and wanted to know if I could sspend the night at his house. I called him back and was picked up a little later. We spent the night and following morning in a fairly limited regiment. We ate, drank, played video games, and played Yu-Gi-Oh.

I absolutely destroyed him when i first played him in Yu-Gi-Oh, so I went and built him a new deck from the cards he had. I beat him again, so he insisted that we switch decks and play until I managed to beat him. So, we played a couple times until I had beaten my own deck enough times to convince him that the new deck I built for him could work. :p

I left around 2-3ish and was dropped off at my house. At 5:00, I went to my Youth Group meeting for an hour, and then went to my cousin's birthday party. We had a nice spaghetti dinner and I enjoyed actual intelligent conversation. Yay for the educated!

Okay, now that I've recapped the past two days in about seven paragraphs, maybe I'll actually post and opinion or two.

"OMG! Something other than a post about Ben's life?!"

It occurred to me a little while ago that any opinions or anything I post tend to be absorbed into my daily happenings and ignored/not given sufficient notice.

So....yeah....









I think...uh....







Drat....















Sleep is good. Homework isn't.

Homework = Lack of sleep = Loss of good in my life.

Maybe I could explain the equation to my teachers....

Really, though, it's probably not homework that is doing it. I think it's the fact that I can be talking to people my friends and posting on OB rather than sleeping. And at the time, I'm not all that tired, so it seems like the perfect arrangement. It's not until the following morning and afternoon that I begin to feel the effects of it. And, despite the obvious solution of "Go to bed, you know you'll feel miserable if you don't" I just can't seem to do things that rob me of my immediate gratification in exchange for future aid.

I am so weak. >_<

Ah, yes, I just remembered. My new Puppetmon pictures!

First of all, What do you think of them?

The larger one I found online a while ago when I Googled Puppetmon. It's a kind of drawing where a Digimon is portrayed in a human-like form. Gijinka, it was called, or something.

The quote under it is the only thing I could come up with to put under such a sad-looking picture. It does, however, express a strong opinion of mine. Puppetmon's was not done justice by his death. He was routing the digidestined who had come to destroy him, even taking control of WarGreymon and sending him chasing after the kids. Then Matt and MetalGururumon step out of the foliage, blast him, and walk away.

While I find this very appropriate, the child with the Crest of Friendship destroying Puppetmon, who had no friends, I just don't think it's right.

One...freaking...attack!

*seethes*

The other picture is an avatar that someone (I can't remember who >.<) made for me a while ago. It's so cool; it's got Puppetmon and my name!

Okay, that's enough opinions for now, I think. I'm going to check OB, do my homework, and get in bed.

And the weird thing is, I might get it done and be in bed early. :p


Edit: For some reason, this whole post got put into Bold, and I can't find the slipped up HTML....
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