Yeah... not sure what the heck is going on, but I haven't been consistently able to post stuff on here from my laptop since the twenty-somethingth of March. Because of that, there were two posts I was going to put up here that refused to go... I saved them in a text file, though, and since posting seems to work fine on the school's computers (just not my laptop...), I can still post them now.
=====
Last Wednesday's post (can't remember what the title was.)
...and it feels like I've accomplished basically nothing this whole
semester. Well, except for making a Muppet version of my dad for
Sculpture class, that turned out pretty well. Other than that this has
pretty much been a "dead" semester, living down at Carriage (aka Boredom
Hell) and being so far removed from all of my friends most of the time,
very rarely having anything non-school-related to do (and being invited
to non-school events almost never, with only a few exceptions so far...
even less than last semester though), having less time to actually talk
to my friends than ever before (mostly due to not eating in the
cafeteria as much plus different schedules... thankfully there's at
least one pretty much guaranteed time when I bump into a few of them
every week, but still!), and of course failing to even make any real
attempts to ask girls on dates or anything. Every time I've even
considered that as a possibility something comes up to throw it all
off... either everyone I try to ask is too busy on the day I ask about
(this has happened to me two or three times this semester), or stuff
comes up that keeps me from asking, or I just don't ever see the girl
I'm trying to ask on dates, or there's some issue (like "she's
disappearing in a month or so") that keeps me from even considering it
as a possibility for fear of it actually going really well and then...
we never see each other again, as will probably happen with most (if not
all) of the people I've met here when I'm finished and move back to
Middle of Nowhere, VA. Sometimes it's not even a specific problem at
all, it's just that I just can't manage to actually ask in the first
place, as always. I just feel like if I don't even up having a
girlfriend by the time I graduate here, I probably never will, because I
have no idea how to go about meeting people back home or finding the
time to actually talk to someone on a regular basis without the
convenience of everyone being within a mile of each other due to school.
But anyway... I've finally went to the school nurse about
the mysterious stomach pains (which twice led to barfing, but thankfully
that hasn't happened again since), and she thinks it sounds like either
something acid reflux related or gallbladder problems. Which is kinda
scary. I really don't want to have to go into a hospital somewhere and
get part of my body cut open and removed. I'm already going to have to
get those annoying wisdom teeth out before too long, the last thing I
need is more surgery on top of that. BUT... it seems like it might not
be the gallbladder after all, since she mentioned that fried food,
acidic food, and spicy food are all on the list of things that aggravate
it sometimes and even now, six or seven hours after those yummy shrimp
chimichangas I had at Don Tequila for supper, I haven't felt even the
slightest hint of those stomach pains coming back. This is actually the
third day in a row that I haven't had them, so hopefully that's a step
in the "not having this happen anymore" direction.
I did buy some random acid-reducer pills at Wal-Mart in case it
really is acid reflux; if this happens again anytime soon, I will start
taking the pills and see if they make any difference. I'm not sure if I
even got the right sort of thing (there were probably dozens of
different antacids/acid-reducers/etc. in Wal-Mart... they pretty much
had their own half of an aisle), but they were fairly cheap and there's
supposedly only 8 pills in the box, so if they're the wrong kind or I
don't need them it won't be that much of a problem.
I randomly bought the Adventure Time video game today.
Somehow the price was down to $19.99 already (from usual 3DS price of
$39 or at least $29, I'm assuming) even though I'm pretty sure it just
came out very recently... I guess maybe they just didn't mark the price
up super high like most games do to begin with? But anyway... it is
indeed somewhat similar to Zelda 2, which one of the creators said was a
major inspiration on the game's design in an interview (it has the
overworld map with "floating shadow" random encounters, side-scrolling
fight/dungeon areas, and ability to do a downward attack from midair and
bounce off of enemies that way, plus a simple level-up system.) Kind
of easy so far, but most games these days are, so that's not too
surprising (and being as hard as Zelda 2 would just be kind of
ridiculous.) And of course, it's pretty goofy so far. The Ice King has
strapped weapons onto random forest animals (including a chainsaw
bear), the Hot-Dog Princess has revealed that she has creepy semi-sexual
fantasies about walking on Jake who has turned into a bridge, and
somebody stole Princess Bubblegum's pantyhose (...she has legs? oh wait,
they show her in pants occasionally... but with the dress you really
can't tell!)
Oh, and I ended up randomly seeing part of the Hobbit movie several
days ago when some people here at my house were watching it. Haven't
seen the first parts of it (and I'm not sure exactly how much I missed),
but I did see everything from the last bits of the troll scene to the
end of the movie. It still seems weird to me that The Hobbit is getting
split into three movies... I'm guessing the other two are going to
focus more on the Mirkwood part (second) and the Smaug/Lonely
Mountain/big final battle (third), with extra scenes added in so that
both of those can be a full movie on their own... but it still seems
weird.
I can't remember if Radagast and his bunny-sled showed up in the
book or not. I'd think I would remember that if it did (I mean, he
drives a freakin' bunny-sled!), but it's been so long since I've
actually read The Hobbit that I don't remember 100% for sure. I should
probably read through it again at some point.
=========
Yesterday's post (title was "I hate compliments.")
Yep. I hate compliments. I hate giving them, I hate getting them,
sometimes I just wish the entire concept of randomly saying something
nice about someone else (usually their appearance) would just crawl in a
hole somewhere and die. Half the time they're fake anyway.
But yeah... when I try to say something nice to someone it usually
comes out wrong, if I'm able to say it at all. When somebody else
compliments me on something, it's usually something I don't care about
(like a new haircut or some pointless thing like that) or something I
don't think is very good (like some of my projects for art classes...),
so my response isn't what they're expecting (if I don't care about the
thing they're complimenting, why would I have a positive response to
that rather than a "don't care" response?) and sometimes people get
really weird about that. So either way, whether I'm on the giving or
receiving end of a compliment, it turns things weird and uncomfortable,
way more so than they should be.
Bleh...
No comments:
Post a Comment