Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Amend this, fool. *BLAM*

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Shin- I've found that if I listen to anything enough (assuming I've kept an open mind about it), I will eventually learn to at least tolerate it. Genres excluded from this offer consist of but are not limited to: Giggly teen pop, most hip hop, and mariachi music.

Godel- For what it's worth, my friend read The Restaurant at the End of the Universe in fourth grade, but forgot about it until we got out of the movie.

<_<

James- I was looking through guild emblems for the OB Guild.. I didn't realize how much of a variety there was before. Regardless, I wish I had more dye so my character wouldn't look so stupid with a cape.

Tony- See, a big part of music, for me, is the vocals. If I can't hear it quite as clearly, it can take away from the song.

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So, the triplets. I went to the mall yesterday to find suitable dolls, wishing that I had invested more money in anime plushies in the past, but eventually I found a bargain.

These little bastards.

They were only $2.50 apiece.. Normally, I would have invested in "real" babies, but when you have to buy three of them it's kind of difficult to do that.

So I gave them names, put them in a little basket, and proudly showed off my freak-babies to people at school. For whatever reason, mine were automatically the footballs of choice, though other interesting things happened to other babies as well.

You know the kind where its mouth moves when you stick the bottle inside? Well, someone had that, so what do 14-year-old guys do when babies make funny shapes with their mouths?

Roll a piece of paper up into a joint, stick it in there, and close the baby's eyes halfway. Naturally.

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Testing ends tomorrow. We did the first half of the English part today. Very easy. Probably the easiest one yet. I drew once i was done.

I really have nothing else to say right now. This update is rather superficial, but I'll probably make up for that some time later this week. Until then, I'm off to sleep some more.
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Sunday, May 8, 2005

Omg u retards

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Shin- See, I thought it might have been "Cinqo" or something. You know, I don't want to offend the culture.

Tony- Alkaline Trio's a tad whiny sounding for my taste.

satan665- For some reason I've always been interested in B-sides. A lot of people don't care about them, but if I like a band it's almost a necessity for me to get their B-sides. No idea why.

Godel- I blame the Canadian economy.

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I remember mentioning that little music store- the only one in the entire town- and how I wanted to go there sometime. Well, I did on Friday, and I was moderately impressed. Somewhere deep down inside, I was expecting the place to be some sort of indie rock haven, but there wasn't much of it. There was a poster for the upcoming Pixies concerts (small and on recycled paper), and a bunch of rare colored and uniquely shaped vinyls. I saw a heart-shaped one, and a table saw blade-like one, but there were others.

I did, however, find the aforementioned Jesus and Mary Chain 21 Singles for twelve bucks instead of $18 or $20. I brought it to the counter, and the guy freaked out because he didn't think they had "good music" in the store. Then we got into a quick conversation about random bands like that.

So, yeah, the CD is good, but I can't help but find the feedback effect on the songs on the first three tracks irritating. I thought that the guy had sold me a crappy scratched disc at first, but I listened to the samples on iTunes, and they were still there. Go figure.

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Guild Wars has been going well. I'm at Level 10 now, with some pimpin' armor (though I'm considering an upgrade), and yesterday I had a blast killing a ton of random shit with Alex and a couple of random people he found.

The warrior guy, though, seemed to be a pervert and took pictures of all of us innocent female characters, though, which kind of creeps me out for reasons unknown.

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I saw Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night. Technically, I wanted to read the book before I saw the movie, but it was an excuse to get out of the house, and that's enough for me.

People were seeing it as a comedy, but I was looking at it more for the symbolism and metaphores that I spotted. That's a fun thing to do.

Though the ending was kind of cheap.

And Marvin is now my number one role model, hands down, no questions asked. He is the greatest robot ever, and nobody shall dispute that around me, or else I will have to use my laser eyes.

And they're radioactive laser eyes, too.
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Friday, May 6, 2005

Punch him out and give him a gold record.

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Tony- I see.

Mimmi- Yes, but I'm sure that somewhere along the course of my life, the religious motifs portrayed in ancient Egyptian architecture will be used.

Alex- I haven't bothered getting many skills yet. I pretty much stick to what I had from the beginning, but I've found Point Blank Shot to be pretty useful.

Solo- Live shrimp look creepy. With all of the legs and everything.. *shudders*

Shin- I could go for some pasta, too. What a coincidence!

satan665- Spaghetti's awesome, too. God, now I'm all hungry.

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I just went on one of my Barnes & Noble music section scavenger hunts. After everyone being gone all day (they went somewhere far away to look at model houses), they decided to go eat at a Mexican fast food restaurant in honor of.. The fifth of May. I really don't know how to spell it in Espanola.

Anyway, after a crappy burrito, we went over to Barnes, which I did not expect. That's always a nice surprise.

Anyway, they're cutting librarians out of our school district, which majorly sucks, but at my brother's elementary school they're naming the library after the librarian, who has been there for a very long time.

She's a very cool librarian, and even though I haven't even used that library in over two years, it still sucks to know that she won't be there. She's like a staple.

But part of the dedication is that you can go to our Barnes & Noble and donate an AR book. My parents did two, so I didn't bother.

Anyway, a list of music I listened to:

Alkaline Trio- Good Mourning I downloaded a free Alkaline Trio song off of some random website (For the record, it was "Trouble Breathing"), and was mildly pleased, so I checked out this album. It sounded okay, but I'm not sure if it warrants a purchase.

Jesus and Mary Chain- 21 Singles I've had this one under my ever-watchful eye for quite some time.. The only downside is its price. It's $19 in the store, and $20.79 on iTunes.

"Where Is My Mind"- a Pixies Tribute Teh suck. The end.

Nine Inch Nails- With Teeth I haven't heard much of this band's music, so I checked it out. It was good.

Blue Oyster Cult- Then and Now A few live recordings of some of their most popular songs. The shiznite.

Some new Ceasars CD I just checked it out to see if the Jerk It Out recording was any different from the original. It's not.

Older Von Bondies records- They're a good band. I like Pawn Shoppe Heart a lot, but I can never seem to find their older stuff. Lame.

That Etro Anime CD I spent 16 bucks on, including shipping and handling They had it in the store. I came across it for $12 and was angered.

Beck- Guero I didn't really listen to it- I've done enough of that on iTunes. I just looked more closely at the cover art.

I was mostly on a long and epic search for an Arcade Fire CD, but there were none to be found. Boo.

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The History test was easier than I had expected today. It was still harder than the math test- I guessed on several problems- but it was still easier than I had expected.

The funny thing is that I got it done really quickly. As I was sitting there, waiting for 45 minutes to pass, I glanced over at my friend's paper and noticed he had bubbled in a different section.

So I glanced at my answer sheet. And then back at his. And back at mine again.

"..God damn it, I bubbled in the wrong section."

So I transferred my answers and erased the incorrect section to the best of my ability, but knowing how retarded the bubble-scanning machines are, I'm probably going to still get them all wrong somehow.

The second half of the test is tomorrow, along with some science thing. I'm assuming that it will focus more on American history than ancient history (that was today's thing), which isn't good. Lately, all we've been doing is taking notes, with absolutely nothing done to sink the information in, I just kind of mindlessly copy the words down. Not good.

*worries*

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The concert tickets came in today. Thus I started my "harass my friends into paying me back for the tickets" campaign.

Suffice to say, I haven't made much progress. I'm not assertive enough.
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Thursday, May 5, 2005

The stench of success.

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Tony- I really hate how they gave it a number, implying that it was a real Final Fantasy. Did it even have a story?

Azure- I don't know where Baron's name came from.. I figured it was some sort of weird thing he made up, and that nobody else would ever bother using that name. Oh well.

Shin- I bet it really was him, but he didn't want to talk to me. XD

And our teacher hands out Bubble Yum, which is the kind that loses flavor after five minutes.

Alex- I like how you pwned the enemies. :D

Mimmi- But it's hotter at the end of the day, thus making things sweatier and more unpleasant.

satan665- tahnk yew.

Mimmi- That reminds me.. There's this creepy old Hispanic lady who seems to work at my school. Every time she sees me she pulls me aside, asks me how I'm doing, and how my parents are, and to tell them hi.

I have absolutely no idea who that woman is, and neither do my parents.

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My day was simple. I woke up, I went to school, I went through my classes one by one, stressed out about the test we took today (Part 2 was much harder than Part 1), came home, slept, freaked out when I thought I had slept through the entire school day, realized I had only been asleep for three hours, talked on the phone, and reviewed sample questions for the Social Studies test tomorrow.

It's madness. They're testing us on everything from the past three years, most of which I hardly remember. Most of the ancient Greek and Egyptian stuff I got right, along with most of the stuff from this year, but for whatever reason seventh grade is a big, smudgy blur of failure.

I'm worried.

On a lighter note, I had my favorite food today: shrimp creole, aka shrimp, ham and tomato sauce over rice. It's a recipe of my grandmother's, and I've always loved it. Not because it's hers, and there is sentimental value or anything- it's just because it's so damn good.

And so, because there's really nothing to comment on in this update, I pose this question to the readers: What's your favorite kind of food, and why?

..Wow, that's lame.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2005

about:pwnage

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Tony- I wasn't aware that flowery pre-Searing Ascalon was the newb land at first. I remembered the beta being all dead and brown, and when I started playing the final build, I was like "What the hell?"

Alex- *nods* I'm glad I picked Ranger/Mesmer. It's a pleasant combination.

Karmi- Hey, I resent that. Here I am, trying to be hospitable, and you go and insult me. ;_;

Shin- I considered keeping my babies hidden on the inside of a trenchcoat, ala The Matrix. Problem is, with three of them, they wouldn't be symmetrical.

So I'd have to balance it out with my sidearm. No biggie.

satan665- I didn't hear much positive feedback about FFXI.. I mean, people played it, but it wasn't heralded worldwide as "teh awesom3."

Godel- I dunno, Jumpman had street cred.

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Summarizing the events of my standardized testing today:

Total pwnage.

Thanks to the 148 problems of cumulative review last night, combined with several other packets of previous test questions, I had an easy time. The only ones I had difficult with were the ones where it's like "There are 105 coins, dimes and nickels, and they equal this amount of money" and "Tina's three years older than OJ, and OJ is twice the age of Lindsay." Fortunately, logical thinking saved the day.

But because of testing, our schedule's all jacked up. One would think they randomly picked a period order out of a hat.

Though the numbers are funky, the new order is kind of refreshing. We start out with Art, and end the day with Social Studies. It's nice not having to end the day all sweaty and tired from Phys Ed.

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Played a bit of Guild Wars with Alex today. It's nice to play with somebody who actually has half a brain.

Actually, I ran into someone named Baron Samedi the other day. I whispered him explaining that it was Sen from OB, and twenty minutes later I got "no styupid wrong person" as a response.

And I sure felt styupid. Styupid to the third power. Oh well, now I know.
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Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Three's a crowd.

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Lea- Eew, unclean.

Mimmi- No, Mimmi. You're just going crazy.

..

<_<'

Shin- My brother didn't get the reference (and I barely did). He thought Peter and Lois's conversation about his experience with driving through malls was referencing a different episode where he did it, but I think he was mistaking that past sequence for The Simpsons.

Tony- I got tired of Tom and Diane pretty quickly, though. Their constant debauchery and insults.. *shrugs*

Solo- Yeah, it's good to see you back. *squints* Your purple isn't any lighter than usual now, by any chance, is it?

satan665- They're showing the new episodes of Family Guy and American Dad on Adult Swim a week after their Fox debut, I think.

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You know how in school they make you carry around an egg or flour sack or doll and make you care for it as if it's a real baby?

Yeah. Well, we're doing that next week. We're taking the doll route, as opposed to egg or flour.. We picked what kind of kid we would have out of a bunch of scraps of folded up paper.

Out of every person in the class, all 34 of us, with each person getting their own happy, normal baby, I have to impregnate the fictional baby machine and get triplets.

Triplets. Three girls.

I swear to God that this must be some sort of ironic karmic retribution for all of the making fun of babies that I do.

It transitioned to a huge amount of jokes from everyone. Coming up with triplet name jokes (Cup, O, and Noodles, for example), thinking of their future careers (Lawyer, Broadway Stage Dancer and the new Wizard of Oz), and so on.

Then I have the problem of coming up with three humanoid dolls. Don't quite know how to deal with that one.

Other interesting babies:

- An Asian girl and white boy that were switched at birth because the parents wanted the other's gender. Now that's unconditional love.

- A ghetto-fabulous pimp baby that's going to end up decked out in G Unit and other such bitchin' clothes. With the tags all still attached, of course.

- The antichrist.

- Raleigh Testicles (There should be a little bar above the e, making it sound like "Tes-ta-CLEEZ") Phelps

- Some sort of Star Jones namesake, I think.

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I've been playing Guild Wars a lot.. But not as much as my brother. This is one of those very rare games where he becomes haphazardly obsessive. Such other games include The Sims and Animal Crossing. I don't know how many times he's started gnawing at my leg like a pissed off chihuahua in heat because I went over my alloted time limit between these three games..

It's funny, though. As I've mentioned before, he sucks at typing, and gets frustrated when people leave before he can type up a question or trade deal. So he just kind of plays with the NPC mercenaries, which makes me feel bad for him, because the Henchmen are WEAK.

As for me.. I'm on an epic quest for cooler looking armor. At the moment, that is my one and only goal.

And just so you non-GW playing people don't feel left out: Mario! :D
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Monday, May 2, 2005

And knowing is half the battle!

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Karmi- I've always wondered what would happen if someone set fire to them.

Azure- What, is all that purple clogging your mind? >:O

Lea- You'd think so, but for some reason I'm still left in the dark.

Shin- Hey, it doesn't make any more sense than our state motto being "Eureka!"

..Oh, wait.

DDG- Hehe. Poopy.

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I watched Family Guy and American Dad just now, though my response was somewhat mixed. You see, like many people, I was more excited about Family Guy than American Dad. It's Family Guy, after all. But what I saw wasn't so freaking sweet as it was kind of dull.

Don't get me wrong, it had a lot of great moments (See: Post title), but it wasn't the amazing episode that I was expecting. I'll still watch religiously, but.. Meh.

My mom was in the room as we were watching it, and she now thinks that Family Guy is the devil. This episode was pretty racy, I'll admit, but it's nothing new by Family Guy standards.

And oddly enough, I was very, very impressed by American Dad. As I had predicted, it had greatly improved since the pilot, finding a suitable balance between political jokes and Family Guy-ish ones.

Closing Statement: The dual gay news anchors on American Dad are ten times better than Diane and the mustachioed guy whose eludes me on Family Guy.
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Friday, April 29, 2005

..Yeah, I'm out.

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Tony- And where did you get a hold of one of those?

Shin- Yeah, but the erotic ones.. Those were hoes.

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Ah, Soul Calibur, how I have missed you.

I mean, just look at the textures! And the, uh.. Bump.. Mapping.

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Man, people just seem to be dropping like flies around these parts lately. Today after lunch, when we were walking to math class, one of the campus supervising ladies (you know, the ones with whistles that yell at you a lot) was lying on the ground with a bunch of faculty around her, who rushed us around the site of the incident. I still have no idea what the hell happened, but the school was put on lockdown soon after, and we were locked in our classes (Lucky me, I got locked in a room with my math teacher), so I guess something odd happened.

It kind of made me think about what these ladies go through. They make hardly any cash trying to keep these kids in line, and they take a lot of shit without getting a lot of credit for it.

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Other things that happened in school: Contraceptive statistic comparison in health. I made a Contraceptive Spongebob joke, and killed about half the class's afternoon television viewing schedule. Then we did what is quite possibly the easiest math we've done all year. Additionally, yesterday we received released test questions from standardized tests of yore, and there were only a couple that I had questions about. That was reassuring.

Then I drew some weird surreal thing in art. It's an interesting concept, but my stupid little pencil sketches don't do the idea justice. If I'm really bored someday, I'll do something in Photoshop with it.

And it shall be freaking sweet.

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We went up to the poppy fields yesterday when some family came up. The poppy fields are really well-known around these parts. They're the state flower, and about fifteen minutes from here there is a humongous field of them. Unfortunately, when we got there, everything was closed up, and it was nowhere near as amazing as it normally is.

However, there was a Mojave Green snake in the middle of the pathway, and my dad, being the snake-hunter-for-hire that he was (back in the day) decided to agitate it for the sake of photo oppurtunities.

And so he kicked dirt, and threw rocks, and eventually it slithered away. And we got no decent pictures. Teh lame.

Of course, the entire thought of agitating a snake for the sake of cool pictures to put on Yahoo! Photos is teh lame. So I don't think I should be overemphasizing the photo oppurtunity thing.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Happy New Music Tuesday, everybody.

I love this.

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Shin- Yeah, apparently, a lot of the guys that played females in certain kabuki plays were also man-whores. Who'd have guessed that?

Tony- I really don't care about the Xbox 360.. Alternate Reality Games are just a hoot.

Lea- Which of the three doesn't belong? :D

Godel- Maybe because my blog's better than chocolate and sex COMBINED? >:O

Tony- DVD screener?

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So, GuildWars is coming out this week. Oh, yes, I will be buying it, but I don't think I have the moeny for it right now. I'll probably ask my brother for some money (If I tell him it's like .hack's 'The World,' he'll eat it up)..

Now to come up with a name.

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They made us do a ton of tiring cross-training crap today. After it was all over, I was tired, perspiring, and generally pissed off, so I went home and took a nap. I woke up and went to an "ice cream social" at the school, where we discussed standardized testing over melted sherbert.

Then my friends made the rest of us drink some 'rose tea' they made, which was basically tea with a bunch of nasty shit in it, including flowers they thought were pretty, so I'm a little concerned about food poisoning.

But it was good.

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I'm downloading the new Half-Life 2: Lost Coast video, with its AMAZERING dramatic lighting, blah blah blah.. The odds of me being able to run it nicely is kind of slim. I've considered upgrading my video card to the next-generation level, but I don't know any games that I've thought about getting for PC that I can't really run.

Yet.

There will surely be many, come E3-time.

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I tried out one of the new Halo 2 maps yesterday.. It was the snowey one, starts with a C, blah blah blah. It was cool-looking, but due to some really annoying spawn-camping sniper people I didn't get a really good look at it.

Then we got tired of that and played offline deathmatch on an old map. This map, basically, is a big circular arena with four little rooms (spawn points) and some little pit below. It's maps like these that help me appreciate the level of strategery that is built in to the Counter-Strike maps. Now, when done right, Halo definitely has its own kind of strategy, but CS is kind of set up so that you can't just run out guns-a-blazin and kill everyone.

That's how you die.

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We finally found my dad's amplifier. It was in the garage somewhere.. Hidden under blankets we bought from illegal immigrants, probably. It's really dusty, so I'm probably going to clean it out tomorrow, and then I have to put a new string on the actual guitar. The high E has been broken for quite some time, and the rest of them are probably out of tune.

But after that hassle it should be fun.
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Monday, April 25, 2005

..Way too much free time.

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DDG- Yeah, well I probably go back to school later than you, too. BURN.

DarkMagician316- Sucks, doesn't it?

Mimmi- It's okay, we still love you.

James- Wonderful. Thanks you, sir.

Shin- Yeah, well this is a sixth grade question, so you should be able to answer it without multiple choices by now, fool.

Godel- Yeah, that must suck even worse. I'm glad I'm not in band.

lunox- Cellos have to be the coolest instruments of all time. They're splendiforous.

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Some of you may recall Shin recently going on a magical Wikipedia adventure that took him all over the globe. I figured that must be at least remotely interesting to do, so I set out on my own journey of self-discovery and merrymaking.

List of entries:

Doom, Baron of Hell, minotaur, brass, Bible, supernatural, Albert Einstein, Hitler, France, Cinema of France, French New Wave, Jean Renoir, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Terrazzo, neolithic, goats, wine bottles, Nebuchadnezzar, The Matrix, Bullet-time, Max Payne, pulp fiction, Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, 1982, computer virus, X-Men, gay rights, Tony Blair, Fathers 4 Justice, anthrax, penicillin, syphilis, brain, algorithm, evolutionary, natural selection, fitness, 1964, 1963, Alcatraz, Spanish language, Romance language, gender, Bantu, Africa, World War II, Asia, Japan, Ganguro, Ikebukuro, Sunshine 60, Sugamo Prison, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Shueisha, United States, Dick Cheney, same-sex marriage, Gay Japan, Shunga.

So there you have it. Somehow, in this crazy old mixed-up world of ours, id's Doom series is somehow related to syphilis, Dick Cheney, and this chick.

But would I let this be the end of my odyssey? Nay, good sir! I carried on, through the back alleys of the internet, until I found my way to ourcolony.net, and mused over the significance of this crap.

And that's how my day went.

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I went through the entire day thinking that the new episodes of Family Guy started today. I knew that they started on the first day of May, but I didn't happen to look at any sort of calendar today.

So then I turn on the television, right? After getting all of my homework done early, and getting everything else out of the way, so that I will have nothing to focus on except for Family Guy..

And it's America's Top 40 or some shit like that, hosted by Ryan Seacrest.

How stupid am I?
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