Monday, December 8, 2003

   Quick! Get him in a straight jacket and a padded room!
I've begun to wish misfortunes upon myself in a passive attempt to get out of doing my paper and/or getting ready for my oral presentation.

I was just thinking as I stepped out of my family's van: "Is that ice there below me? Perhaps if I landed right, I could slip and injure myself!"

The frightening thing is, the idea was presented in a positive light, and accepted as such. I want to do something to myself in order to get out of this.

I know I've been in worse situations than this before and pulled through, but that just doesn't seem to be having a profound effect on my thinking at the moment. I'm just not well right now.

I don't see how I can get that 4 page paper done by tomorrow morning. Normally, I wouldn't even attempt something like that; I'd have made an assessment and stuck with it: It wouldn't get done. But I think I may try tonight. I know it's a change, but is it for the better?

We'll see, I guess.
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   Walls closing in....O.o
Ergh. I just finished my Saint Paper. Somewhat ironically, I chose St. Gabriel Possenti; who's famous for procrastinating. I thought that he would be sort of appropriate, heh.

I just found out today that my 4 page Photography paper is due tomorrow, and that I need to have my English Oral Report (the second half of my paper/project) ready by Wednesday. My class was given today and will be given some of tomorrow's class to work on them; but neither me nor my partner had the materials to really do anything. Neither did anybody else in the class, but regardless, I'm just not happy about the arrangement.

I've just hit another bad spell in the school world, I guess. My procrastination and bad memory have caught up to me and slapped me in the face. It'll be all right on Friday.

I just saw one of the most impressive displays of dedication to a hobby today. One of my friends from school, a Yu-Gi-Oh duelist, has a deck comprised of almost entirely Super Rare to Secret Rare cards. I don't quite see how it possibly works; but then again, I've never used it nor have I seen it be used. As I understand it, it uses a great deal of Special Summoning, so I've added a Jowgen the Spiritualist to my Deck.

I would guess that last paragraph had significance only to Solo. :p I sometimes dish out favoritism like that.

So, why am I sitting here typing this? I ought to be off working, shouldn't I? Of course I should, but it just seems so hopeless from where I'm sitting. I need a walk. >.>

Unfortunately I can't due to the ice and snow covering every inch of the city.

Maybe I'll get really lucky and be sick tomorrow. Or maybe there'll be a big storm. Yeah, that would be good.
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Sunday, December 7, 2003

   Quite an Odd Lunch...
(Leftover) Wanton soup lightly poured over (leftover) white rice.

With two slices of pizza on the side? O.o

I have an extremely tolerant stomach, it would seem.

Anyways, now that I've eaten lunch, I've got some work to do. Rather than do it first and then tell you all about it, I'm going to put down in writing what it is I need to do.

1. See if I have any homework, and if so, do it.

2. Get my laptop hooked up to the Internet. My dad has alread made mention of it today, which is a very good sign.

3. Shovel snow. Where? When? Why? How? *shrug* I don't know, but I feel like I should be shoveling today.

4. Talk to godparents about being my Confirmation sponsers. I figured they'd be the best choice, as they're the ones who took repsonsibility for my Christian vows in the first place.

5. Decide on a saint and write a paper about them for Confirmation.

About numero five-o: I need to choose a Saint and adopt their name as my Confirmation name. The Saint is supposed to have some special significance to me.

I've narrowed it down to four based on a book of 365.

Saint Vincent of Lerins-He had trouble remembering things, so he wrote the Commonitorium to ensure his sanctity. The passage about him in this book is all about "special places", somewhere you can go to get away from everything and think. I feel that this is connected to me and my walk. I enjoy going on my walk, as it gives me an hour away from everyone and everything to just be by myself and to think about whatever I want to. I lose all the anxiety I feel about school projects and the like. My walk is my special place.

Blessed Brother Andre-The patron saint of laughter. I very much enjoy making people laugh. It just stirs some wonderful feeling deep inside me.

St. Cuthbert-patron saint of stories. I feel a link to St. Cuthbert because he is directly linked to imagination and the use of it. I love to use my imagination, whether it is writing something or losing myself in a character in a video game. When I was younger, I used to love pretending to be my favorite characters from movies or TV; it was just so great to be someone or something different than myself. To be able to do or be anything I wanted, just by thinking it. I love to listen to my mom dad, friends, siblings; whoever, I just like to listen to them tell stories about what has happened in their lives or their dreams. In a more biblical sense, Jesus taught people with stories.

St. Peter Canisius-patron saint of the overworked. Heh, there are a lot of times where I feel like I have far too much to do; but at other times I'm at a total loss at what to do. So for those times that I really just can't seem to have enoug hours in the day, I would take St. Peter's name.

A penny for your thoughts?
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Saturday, December 6, 2003

   Yes!
I just passed both Arcadia and The Harlequin! Keep visiting! ^_^
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Update: Hooray!
I was spurred into action updating MyOtaku when I discovered that Arcadia and The Harlequin, crafty scum Mods that they are, just surpassed me in MyO popularity. I just passed them a couple days ago, gosh darnit! :p

So, from now on I want everyone who visits here to double, no, quadruple the amount of times that you visit! Spur me to victory!

Heh. That wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

For those of you that don't already know, my laptop arrived on Thursday. It was a pleasant surprise for me because the Dell website had told me that it would only be shipped on Friday. Apparently there was some misunderstanding there.

So, I have the laptop that I've been craving for years to get. All that money saved from birthdays and Christmas' past, denying myself those minor things I wanted, has finally paid off. (pardon the pun :p)

So, I brought it into my room upstairs and went through all the first time start-up procedures and stuff. Then I got down to business. I watched my favorite scenes from X-Men United and Matrix Reloaded, the only two DVD's that I own. (Edit: Two of three) Then I installed Life and played a round of that before going to bed.

Oh, here's a funny little story from Thursday.

Me and my friends, John and Mark, left our lunch period early to go play Yu-Gi-Oh in some secluded part of the school. If we were to play in public, we'd be mercilessly ridiculed and probably have our cards destroyed, damaged, and/or taken away.

So, we checked the Student Activities office; too many people. We try the nurse's office, again, taken up with people. We went to the computer lab; there's a class going on. So, my friend Mark suggests we play in a secluded stairwell near the front of the school. We go there to find that it's empty, and yet quite chilly. Mark and I duel (I don't remember the result) until the bell rings.

When it does, we hop down from the landing we had been playing on to find that the door was locked. We pounded on it, but there was no one around and the door wouldn't budge. Desperate for a way to get to class, (we have three minutes in between periods) we run through the outside door and across the front yard of the school; this could have merited us a detention and/or a suspension. John and Mark run around the wall and then up the stairs. I just ran across the lawn and leapt over the wall. We run inside, breathless and cold. I grin at one of my other friends, saying: "It's pretty cold outside." He gives me an odd look and I walked to my next class.

Yesterday was rather uneventful, as far as Fridays go. Classes were shortened due to a Pep Rally we had. During the Pep Rally, I went up from the stands with the rest of my Fencing Team to an onslought of jeers and catcalls. We're not the most popular team at the school....

We are not, however, the minority any longer. This year we have a rifle team and it's smaller than our fencing team. Until just recently, I had been a part of that team as well.

It started snowing after I got home and it was still going when I left to babysit at 6:30. I babysat until about 11:30, went home, ate some Chinese food and started watching X-Men United. I watched that until about 12:15 when my dad told me to go to bed. It's nice having a laptop in my room.

I woke up this morning and finished watching X-Men. The rest of today has been spent cleaning my room, moving stuff upstairs, and of course, talking to people online and writing this.

Phew....long post.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2003

   For those of you who didn't think I could do it...
HA! I DID IT!

I finished my 5-7 page paper on Japanese Kabuki and Noh Theater, in one night! And, as with all of my projects, it's pratically guaranteed a passing grade. :)

I got it all, too. Name, Date, Teacher, Course, Pages with my name on them, the title, parenthetical footnotes, bilbiography; everything.

In your face, Boba Fett! :D

Whew. 10:26 at night. A great weight has been lifted from my shoulders.

Now the realization of my other projects leap on and drag me down once again. *falls*

I have a Photography paper/project due sometime, probably before vacation. I have a French Project, half due the 17th of December, and half due the 7th of January.

I'm not sure if I mentioned it here, but my laptop is due to be shipped out on Friday. Until then I'll have to use cruddy AIM Express.

Phew...I'm tired. Yet, in a good way. I may have a more coherant post tomorrow.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2003

   Impossible, Boba Fett? I think not!
Ergh...my paper hasn't even been started yet and it's due Thursday. It's supposed to be 5-7 pages on a subject that I just plain don't have interest in. I'm sure that I've already said that before.

So, as for the subject of the post. Boba Fett, from OB, doesn't think that I can finish the paper on time. Not by choice, I shall see if it is indeed possible.

I just get too frustrated by the subject of the paper and seek distraction. I' very good at finding distractions. >.>

I had a nice converstaion with Nerdsy today on AIM, while I was taking notes. It was pretty fun, especially when I began to repeat myself four times, just to be sure that the cruddy AIM sevice I'm using got the message to him. :D I managed to have "the most confusing conversation" he's ever had with him.

Ergh, I got more papers today but don't have the time or energy to talk about them. I think I'll go to bed now.

*Note to self, talk to Shy.
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   <--- Grin
My laptop is due to be shipped out on Friday. I don't know whether or not I'll actually get it then, but at least I know that it will be shipped by then.

This morning I awoke and found that it had snowed. It wasn't very much and it melted before noon. It was enough, however, to delay the buses of my school by an hour. Several were pulled over my police until the conditions improved. Anyone not taking the bus was required to be at school at the regular time.

Sadly, I was not taking the bus this morning.

Instead, my mom and I were stuck in traffic for a while and I arrived late to school only to find that my first period teacher arrived only moments before I did. So all I had missed was a couple of rounds of hang man.

School was pretty normal. I have to keep reminding people that they owe me money, though. -.-; I have a paper due Thursday, which I plan on working on right after this. It was assigned about a month ago, so I don't really have any reason to complain, but...eh...I just don't want to do it.

I have a Photogrpahy report due sometime, too, and a French project due on the 17th. Not to mention truckloads of homework my teachers are piling on before the Christmas break.

Speaking of Chritsmas, I still need to go out and get gifts. But before I do that, I need to stop by the bank and take out some money. I'm down to what I get from the S.F.C.E. each day, plus money that people owe to me.

I need a job. >.>

Tonight and tomorrow night I have fencing practice, and we have a meet on Saturday morning. I hope that we're ready.

I hope that I can get this paper done on time.
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Monday, December 1, 2003

   School as usual, pretty much
Nothing too special going on. I found out today, though, that I've been spelling hypocrite wrong for a long time. I feel like such an idiot. >.< I cringe when I think of times where I've used the word and spelled it wrong.

I should be getting my laptop this week at some point. I'm so excited! I can't wait to get it.

I have fencing practice tomorrow night and Wednesday, and I might have a competition on Saturday. I'm not sure though, I'll have to ask my coach tomorrow night. I have tentative plans to go play laser tag on Thursday after school, which would be great since I haven't had much chance to hang out with Eric and Steve; two of my Senior friends. I'm a member at the laser taga place under the alias of "Benbo Baggins". I need to go and find my membership chip, though.

I actualy tidied up my new room a bit last night. I threw away some of the random trash lying about and picked up all of the dirty laundry and washed it. It's looking slightly better now. :)

I actually grabbed my school calendar last night and got an approximate count on the Seventy-Five Cent Empire Profits.

Counting today, I've made $42.75, I think. I'm still trying to knock Tim out of his 2/9 ownership of the Empire.

EDIT: LOL, where's Nerdsy when you need him? Big Papa Hump's birthday is today.
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Saturday, November 29, 2003

   Meh.
My topic in the Lounge has recieved 21 replies! Yay! I actually started a semi-successful thread. Heh, it's sad that I consider that an accomplishment. :p

It actually had an underlying purpose that just totally fell apart on me. It was quite clever and for a good cause, but it'll never reach fruition, I'm afraid.

*cough*

Anyway, W.H.A.T.E. has once again staggered to its feet, but I'm not sure about R.O.T.E.F. Heh, I love acronyms.

W.H.A.T.E. = When Humans Are The Enemy

R.O.T.E.F. = Return of the Exiled Foe

W.H.A.T.E. is an RPG that I started, based on the book that I wrote. Thinking about it on my walk today, I concluded that the real W.H.A.T.E., the book version, that is, just isn't really a good book. I sepnt too much effort trying to get all of my friends into it, and I think it killed the plot. I'm thinking of just rewriting the whole story.

R.O.T.E.F. is another attempt of mine at a quality digimon RPG. There have been truckloads of others, but most of them were mindless and had too much melodrama and/or lack of post quality. It seems that all digimon related stories I write or imagine seem to intertwine; it seems like they're all connected with some massive underlying plot. Quite odd. O.o

Sometime this week I should be getting my laptop. Hopefully, as soon as I get it I can hook it up to the Internet and be back on my AIM account. I look forward to it very much so.

I'm struggling to remain anxiety-free until at least tomorrow. :p
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