posted 2004/05/30 at 21:00
Have you ever had one of those moments where you just felt so incredibly lonely that you didn't know what to do? Like you just know that no matter how hard you try, you just can't fit yourself in to any kind of community, any kind of group, and that no one will be able to understand how you feel?
I think I'm having one of those lives.
posted 2004/05/28 at 23:48
So yesterday my father came down as I was in the middle of cooking lunch, and he wanted to take my car to the shop right away. I said I couldn't leave my lunch like that, and he and I got into a big argument over how I'm spending my summer. So what do I do today? I go out and buy stuff to fix one of his computers with my own money. What's wrong with me? (And while I'm at it, what's wrong with him?)
posted 2004/05/27 at 23:53
Another DDR AAA: TWILIGHT ZONE (R-C Extended Club MIX) (Light)
Gee, I thought that once the semester was over I'd be back writing up a storm here, at Backwash, etc. I guess maybe I'm just a lazy turd. :P
posted 2004/05/25 at 22:27
For those of you who haven't been following the new Diet Log, I finally passed a "cata" (second highest difficulty level song) on DDR at the arcade today. Unfortunately, ten straight days of intense DDR have left my legs feeling, well, like they're ready to splinter into teeny tiny bits. So as much as I hate to do it, I'm going to take a day off of DDR tomorrow and see if that helps me; I've been having timing issues these past few days anyway, and the time off could do me some good.
Oh, and I broke the news on my Diet Log too that my car apparently has a coolant leak; you can imagine how fun it was to come home and have the hood of my car smoking like crazy. It'll go to the shop tomorrow, and I just hope it's nothing too serious. Actually, I'm insured for the folks' old van, so I've still got that if I need to go someplace, but for the next few days I'm going to try to limit myself to only essential travel.
posted 2004/05/21 at 16:42
The Cobalt Flux just arrived. Talk to you all in a couple of weeks. :D
posted 2004/05/20 at 18:57
I forgot to mention this when it happened, but I did buy a hard pad from Cobalt Flux late on Friday. It's going to set me back about $350 if you count shipping, but it comes with a six month warranty, and considering I've gone through two $100 pads in the past four months, at the very least I should break even on the deal.
And in all seriousness, I have nothing bad to say about the RedOctane Ignition pads; I just think there's something in the way I play that makes the pads not work so well for me. (And I don't just mean that it's because my ass is so fat.)
posted 2004/05/19 at 00:02
You know what the worst part about living in a "battleground" state is? I swear I have seen more election commercials over the past three months than I'd seen the whole rest of my life. And given how many jobs Ohio has lost over the past three years, if we're still a "battleground" state then the people in this Goddess-forsaken dump are even dumber than I thought. And that's saying something.
posted 2004/05/16 at 23:54
Well, I promised something new, and here you go: my diet journal. Yeah, let's just say I'm not happy with my size anymore, and so I'm going to document everything I do to force me to be more accountable for my food and exercise choices. I realize this will be pretty boring stuff to most of you, but hey, I'm doing this for me, if you know what I mean.
Oh, and if you look at the sidebar I'm also adding links to my DDR scores tracked on a couple of Websites. Those are my arcade scores; I'll probably do a page up on my own site for my home scores soon.
posted 2004/05/15 at 04:30
New on Backwash (remember that?): "Why Iron Chef America Sucked". Pretty much what the title says, but be warned: I think I made up for two months of no Backwash columns by making this sucker mega-long. Brew some coffee before you get started reading, you'll likely need it by the end.
posted 2004/05/14 at 23:16
I'm probably going to buy a metal DDR pad in the next day or so here; I'm just doing a little comparison shopping now to make sure I get the right one. This is a pretty big investment on my part, but given how quickly I've been going through the soft Ignition pads, I really don't have a choice in the matter. In the meantime, I had to go to the arcade to DDR tonight, and that's never a good thing because all the real good players always seem to be there when I go and it always triggers my inferiority complex.
By the way, yesterday I paid over two dollars a gallon for gas for the first time. I'm feeling a bit lazy right now, so insert your own anti-Dubya rhetoric here.
Something's in the pipeline in the next couple of days. Stay tuned for that.
posted 2004/05/13 at 16:18
Latest DDR AAAs:
more deep (ver 2.1) (Light)
Tomorrow Perfume (Light)
But of course then I had to go and bust my pad again, so it looks like my a huge hunk of my graduation money may be spent getting myself a nice metal pad so I don't have to put up with my fat ass breaking the soft pads. Ugh.
posted 2004/05/12 at 23:37
Blogger just changed its interface, and according to the new nifty stuff on there, this is post #921 here. Gee, at this rate I've been going that means I should hit #1000 ... oh ... in 2007 or so?
I'll write more soon, I swear, I've just still got a lot of stuff going on.
posted 2004/05/08 at 16:49
And now, I is graduated. And good grief, what a difference going from a graduating class of 40 in high school to a class of 1500 here. I realized it'd be big, but not so big that we'd have huge video screens at the corners of the arena broadcasting everything as it happened. Considering how I hate to be on camera to start with, that made the whole ceremony just ... eesh.
More to come on that, but for now it's time to face my Spectrum pals without me being the one in charge. (Sadly, the new President of the group's up in Toronto right now, so unless our new VP shows up, I may be the boss de facto. Heh. But I'm late to the party as it is, so I'm signing off for now.
posted at 00:12
It is finished. Jon and Megan, she's in your hands now. Treat her well, and she'll do the same for you.
posted 2004/05/07 at 16:55
I just came to campus to get my cap and gown, as well as my summa cum laude cord. (Unfortunately they ran out of Golden Key cords before I could get one so I'll be short one cord -- how sucky is that for me, of all people, to be short a rope?) I'm actually wearing them now as I type this, and it definitely feels odd. At my private school there were no caps and gowns, so I was forced (keeping in mind when this was) to wear a suit and tie. Last time I ever wore that particular combination of clothes, in fact.
Actually, right now I'm up in the Spectrum office, for my last time as President of the group. I'm definitely feeling very strange about this; even though I'll just turn around and be another officer come midnight, it does feel like the end of an era, for me and for Spectrum. There was supposed to be a big Spectrum party tonight, but it got canceled, so I think I'll call around and see if anyone is up to doing something else. It won't feel right if I spend my last moments as President of the group by myself.
posted 2004/05/06 at 19:01
Okay, Tuesday evening was my only sit-down final, and yesterday I turned in one final paper. All that is left now is my Honours Thesis, and since my advisor hasn't gotten back to me yet on my extension, I'm not sure how to proceed. So for now, anyway, I'm going to try to unwind here and take some time for myself. Nearly eighteen months of me being President of Spectrum comes to an end in less than thirty hours anyway, so that's pretty heavy on my mind. I'll be going to the next President's apartment to watch some movies tonight, then tomorrow night I'll be over at the next Vice President's house for a party. Then at the stroke of midnight, it's all over. Even if I'll be back as Webmistress again, it won't be the same anymore.
Oh well. Let's just get through tonight and see how everything else plays out later.
posted 2004/05/04 at 01:27
Let's see, Red Wings out of the playoffs ... check. (And what a shitty way for Yzerman to end his career.) Tigers back down to .500 ... check. Pistons ... well, one out of three ain't bad, I guess. And oh joy, now I get to go into a final exam tomorrow. Sigh.
posted 2004/05/02 at 21:50
As promised earlier: my first AAA in DDR ("Jam and Marmalade" on Light mode). Hopefully not the last.
I swear, let me get through my finals and final papers this week, and then I can get back to writing in here as often as I should. Really. I'll even go back to Backwash and everything, just ... not now!
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