Saturday, December 4, 2004

Not long until I can finally take a mallet to this computer..

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Shin- There's supposedly a Shin Megami Tensei DS game coming out.. I really hope Atlus continues bringing SMT games over here.

Syk- Nah, I'm not. My friend just pressed the face buttons to see what they did and found they worked as movement.

Alea- Non-gamers should be ashamed of being non-gamers. Duh.

Karmi- I read in a magazine that left-handed people are more creative and unique because they use the right side of their brain more.

But it's not like we right-handers can't fend for ourselves, right? Viva la revolution.

Mal- Weather and Christmas decorations in the mall.

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Today was the last day of the trimester, and so it was a half day. To keep us from having lunch at freaking 10:30, we go to seventh period first, which meant Journalism for me.

I installed Photoshop and Pagemaker into this computer in another room.. The teacher thinks that I just want silence while I work. I humored her and went along with it, smirking as I went to first period.

Which was some sort of spelling competition. The way it's run is sort of stupid. It's like baseball, and you can go for a single, double or triple. The hole is that one team could consistently do easy singles and keep going forever, and the other team couldn't do anything about it.

We were allowed to have blank papers in front of us, which was a big help for me. I tend to be a visual speller, and the inability to visualize words has been my bane in previous spelling bees.

Nothing interesting ever happens in Science. That's why I never talk about it. Moving on.

I don't even remember what we did in History. We begin Schindler's List next week, and for me that's what matters.

My Accelerated Reader class was number one in our division this trimester, so we got to parttake in the elusive double lunch (There are two lunch periods, and we got to go to both of them today). This got us out of math (glee!), but overall it was pretty boring. I went up to the library to return a book, and I checked out Catch 22. I had originally gone up there to get Catcher in the Rye, but that didn't happen because I discovered it's two levels below my AR range. I'll read it over the summer for fun.

I don't even know what Catch 22 is about. I've just heard the name, and it's worth 30 points.

Near the end of fifth a big racial orgy of violence (i.e. black-versus-mexican fight) went down on the field. For the rest of the day we weren't allowed to walk around in groups more than three, because there was supposedly a second one happening. I actually heard a lot about it in Phys Ed afterwards, though the people I heard it from weren't really planning on joining in.

And then the day ended. I went over to a friend's house, played Melee for a while, ate Pizza Hut, and sat around watching TV bored out of our skulls until five or so. We watched Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh, criticizing the corners they cut in animation (Yu-Gi-Oh isn't as bad with reusing frames, but the character models are always atrocious), Elimidate and some lame hip-hop show with 360 in the title. It had half of the Kenan and Kel duo on the show, hosting alongside some other guy. The formula was basic, and went as follows:

Kel: YO, THAT DANCE WAS SWEET! WHERE YOU AT, JERMAINE?

Jermaine: OVER HERE, YO. WHAT'S YOUR NAME, GIRL (or man)?

Audience girl: [whatever]

Jermaine: WHAT'S YOUR MOVE CALLED?

Then they do it, and the contestants try to replicate it. It had a very softcore air around it, as if a fifty-year-old white dude produced it.

The dances were odd. All of the contestants were male, and they seemed to always end up dry-humping each other. There were two white guys (twins), who seemed to have taken urban dance courses at an all-girls college or something. It was.. Quite unnerving.

Then I left.

Turns out the second GuildWars beta began today, and thanks to Alex I was able to try it out. As expected, the computer could not run the thing at all. Well, I shouldn't say that- technically it ran- but it was total shit. The graphics, the framerate, lagged controls.. Thankfully, the computer should be done by tomorrow, and I shall be able to join in the recommended setting bliss.

I just wanted to start playing, so I used the name "Samsa Nacht." Spot the reference and you win a pat on the back and an all-expenses-paid trip for four to Jamaica.

But not really.

I'll probably be at the mall tomorrow, assuming I can get a ride. My friends want to see Finding Neverland, but as usual I would prefer not seeing a movie at all.

Woot for running around haphazardly with no particular plan in mind.

EDIT: Oh God, The One Ring to Rule Them All 3 is hilarious. It runs circles around The Matrix Still Has You, which was a major disappointment in my opinion. Note the Silmarillion references!
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