I think I was happier a year ago
I'm quickly finding myself addicted to Bejeweled 2... puzzle games are fun to get good at. Just hit 487,000 points in the timed mode--200,000 points higher than my last high score. So I'm probably getting better.
Puzzle games are good. Maybe not as good as super-challenging action games, but Devil May Cry 3 was rented out at the Blockbuster in town this afternoon so I can't be certain (especially since I don't want to spend $50 on something that /will/ come down to $30 within the next twelve months--if not $20... it's already popular enough that it won't be a rare game).
Explored most of floor 5 in Demise--I'm making progress again. If I remember correctly, I was around level 30 artisan/level 60 warrior/level 40 ninja when my data got corrupted somewhere between 8 and 20 months ago--and I think I had just hit floor 8. Scary monsters down there--and the dungeon goes down to floor 50 if I'm not mistaken. Levels go up to 999, and it's possible to get 999 in every class available to a character--the most balanced race/alignment I think is open to 8 classes, so that's level 8x999. And some people have done it... O_o I'm not that crazy depraved, though I'd like to hit floor 15 before the end of the semester.
Yes, going back to classes probably a week from tomorrow... 8 more weeks, I think. Dropped COMS100, might yet drop STAT208 since the professor hasn't gotten back to me just yet. I have to write a number of papers for English, one paper and a number of short summaries for Philosophy, and should work on some reading for Auditory Physics over the next 9 days. And I still haven't written that email to Hurtig yet--that visit is looking hazier and hazier as spring break officially sets in.
Optimism is thusly diminishing--I have more work ahead of me preferably due (if I want to look good) a week from monday than I've had in college yet. This is my ENGL103 final all over again, especially if my harddrive decides to crash (which would be one of the Worst Things Ever since Dreamicide footage is still stuck in files far, far too large to burn to DVD without wasting a few hours chopping said files up, archiving with instruction the Premiere files that announce what file belongs where, and organizing the discs physically so they never get lost. If someone were paying me for editing the movie, I'd do it, but not for free).
So I'm hating again--much like my demeanor changed about this time back during Sophomore year after I met Mickey. This world, mostly thanks to American society and the almighty dollar, has so many glaring flaws and injustices that remaining enlightened, which by definition is accompanied by some sense of loneliness, appears impossible to achieve without spite and cynicism taking precident at least a few times a year. That said in fewer words: if you're not my friend, I probably hate you. This includes inanimate objects and ideas, such as television programs and movies.
Still not writing creatively, and still rarely working on film editing... still not drawing, and still not doing homework. At the moment, I am a jobless drain on society, but in my spite and cynicism I have little reason to see this in any unfavorable light. It'll probably change, especially when Good Things start happening again (things not precursed by a Bad Thing--like, surviving my hospitalization is good, but being hospitalized in the first place cancels it out).
My minor insomnia clearing up would be a pretty Good Thing--hint to the divine and fates, there.
Puzzle games are good. Maybe not as good as super-challenging action games, but Devil May Cry 3 was rented out at the Blockbuster in town this afternoon so I can't be certain (especially since I don't want to spend $50 on something that /will/ come down to $30 within the next twelve months--if not $20... it's already popular enough that it won't be a rare game).
Explored most of floor 5 in Demise--I'm making progress again. If I remember correctly, I was around level 30 artisan/level 60 warrior/level 40 ninja when my data got corrupted somewhere between 8 and 20 months ago--and I think I had just hit floor 8. Scary monsters down there--and the dungeon goes down to floor 50 if I'm not mistaken. Levels go up to 999, and it's possible to get 999 in every class available to a character--the most balanced race/alignment I think is open to 8 classes, so that's level 8x999. And some people have done it... O_o I'm not that crazy depraved, though I'd like to hit floor 15 before the end of the semester.
Yes, going back to classes probably a week from tomorrow... 8 more weeks, I think. Dropped COMS100, might yet drop STAT208 since the professor hasn't gotten back to me just yet. I have to write a number of papers for English, one paper and a number of short summaries for Philosophy, and should work on some reading for Auditory Physics over the next 9 days. And I still haven't written that email to Hurtig yet--that visit is looking hazier and hazier as spring break officially sets in.
Optimism is thusly diminishing--I have more work ahead of me preferably due (if I want to look good) a week from monday than I've had in college yet. This is my ENGL103 final all over again, especially if my harddrive decides to crash (which would be one of the Worst Things Ever since Dreamicide footage is still stuck in files far, far too large to burn to DVD without wasting a few hours chopping said files up, archiving with instruction the Premiere files that announce what file belongs where, and organizing the discs physically so they never get lost. If someone were paying me for editing the movie, I'd do it, but not for free).
So I'm hating again--much like my demeanor changed about this time back during Sophomore year after I met Mickey. This world, mostly thanks to American society and the almighty dollar, has so many glaring flaws and injustices that remaining enlightened, which by definition is accompanied by some sense of loneliness, appears impossible to achieve without spite and cynicism taking precident at least a few times a year. That said in fewer words: if you're not my friend, I probably hate you. This includes inanimate objects and ideas, such as television programs and movies.
Still not writing creatively, and still rarely working on film editing... still not drawing, and still not doing homework. At the moment, I am a jobless drain on society, but in my spite and cynicism I have little reason to see this in any unfavorable light. It'll probably change, especially when Good Things start happening again (things not precursed by a Bad Thing--like, surviving my hospitalization is good, but being hospitalized in the first place cancels it out).
My minor insomnia clearing up would be a pretty Good Thing--hint to the divine and fates, there.
posted by SJ at 3/12/2005 08:46:00 PM
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