| WELCOME TO SILENT BOSTON |
[Jun. 9th, 2007|04:45 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Boston | ] |
| [ | Listening To |
| | The White Stripes ~ The Union Forever | ] |
FROM THIS FOG CAME ALONG // DARK CREATURES SINGING A TERRIBLE SONG
Oh wait, this is just Boston. Though it's foggy as hell, and we can't see shit. So I got here today, and I'm staying the New England area until the 23rd. That's 2 weeks, so yeah. I'm here till Tuesday at which point I go to New Hampshire. Haven't seen much yet of course, because I woke up at 3 AM and I was flying until now. Which reminds me, I hate annoying children.
Behind us on our first flight, which was Seattle to Chicago, sat the most annoying little girl I have ever heard in my goddamn life. Throughout the entire flight it was MY EARS HURT and the mom gave her some candy to suck on and that usually helps with the whole pressure thing and the whole time it was ITS NOT WORKING WAAAH MOM IT HURTS WAAAAH MOM WHEN IS THE BEVERAGE CART COMING WHY HASNT THE PLANE TAKEN OFF YET WHEN DO WE LAND ohmy god I could not stand it. What made it even worse is that after we actually LANDED, then the mom decided to say "uh gracie stop being annoying". WHAT.
We arrived here at 4:30 EST and it's all foggy like I said. Uh, we're gonna go on some trolley tomorrow, it looks fun. I'll tell you (who ARE you?) about it tomorrow. |
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| Hrrrgggghhhh. |
[Jun. 1st, 2007|11:32 pm] |
| [ | Listening To |
| | Galactic ~ Hamp's Hump | ] |
So, I leave for Wyoming in 4 hours. I'm nervous. I'm gonna miss a few people. My cousins and aunts and uncles suck, and I worry it will in turn suck even if we're doing fun things. I usually like planes but in this case I hate planes, dammit. I'll have my cell phone (AIM and MSN on mobile of course), gameboy, and mp3 player but I still feel like I'll be bored.
I leave at 3:30 AM for the airport... My flight leaves at 6 AM. I have a 1 hour layover in Utah. Then I fly to Wyoming. Then I wait 4 damn hours for my aunts, uncles, and cousins. I'll have Animal Crossing, at least. Turns out it takes that lazy bastard Nook a full day to upgrade his little shop. Tomorrow it'll be open and I can do cool things again, like on the plane.
I lost my original mp3 player, which was a Dell Digital Jukebox, I loved it but eh. I have a Zune now (oh god, what has science done) and it's pretty crappy but it'll at least hold my songs and let me listen to them. I'm not sure on the battery life, though. It seems kinda... incredibly short. D:
Oh wells, I'll give a full report upon return.
Bye now. |
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| HEY ANDY SWEETIE |
[Jun. 1st, 2007|12:04 am] |
| [ | I'm feeling.. |
| |  GOD DAMMIT | ] |
| [ | Listening To |
| | Optimus Rhyme ~ I Heart PuBotCs | ] |
WHAT'S THAT YOU'RE DRAWING?
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It's hot again tonight, like really hot. God dammit. Uh, anyways, I watched TV for the first time in forever. I watched some pirate shit that was terrible from the maker of Survivor, Survivor is cool and all but this shit just sucks. Then I watched So You Think You Can Dance which is a great show and screw you if it makes me sound like a pussy. They had this short dude with scoliosis who popped and locked better than anyone I've ever seen and it was hilarious and entertaining and yeah.
So I picked up Animal Crossing: Wild World and even though I've only been playing it for one day (one evening, even) I've paid off my first loan and stuff and Nook's already upgrading his shop thing... I only have 3 townsfolk which kinda sucks but I guess I'll get more as time passes. It's not much different than the Animal Crossing for GameCube, but if it ain't broke don't fix it. It's still fun, even if it's relatively the same game with a few new features. There are head/face items now so you aren't stuck with that fugly viking helmet, which is neat. I'd be playing now but that bastard raccoon closed his shop and I can't make any more moolah. Oh well, I'll pick it back up tomorrow.
That's really it for now. My first vacation in which I will have no internets starts this Saturday and ends next Tuesday. That's like... four days, I think? Yeah. In reality it's technically two days, because I arrive late Saturday and leave early Tuesday. I'll be with my cousins and stuff, it should be fun I guess... Maybe. I haven't seen them in a while, and they're all GRADE A STUDENTS while I'm like "uhh G.E.D." so I hope they're not all preppy or something. That'd really suck. Oh well, we'll see.
... Right, bye. |
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| 300 people living out in West Virginia... |
[May. 31st, 2007|03:27 am] |
| [ | I'm feeling.. |
| | OH MY GOD | ] |
| [ | Listening To |
| | The White Stripes ~ This Protector | ] |
Wow, it's been a while. I'm really only updating now because I will be over a two week vacation starting June 8th (I think, or 9th) and spanning until June 22nd. That's two weeks, yeah, and I'll be going all around New England.
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What's new in my life, you ask? ... Oh, you didn't ask that? Well, go ahead and listen anyways.
So I've kinda sorta quit World of Warcraft, not actually because I plan to pick it back up after my vacation, but we'll say I'm taking an extended break from it. It just got kinda boring I suppose, and though the new 2.1 patch has arrived and has some nice features, the server I was on also kinda sucks and that's why after vacation I am starting with a friend on a PvP server instead of straight PvE. As much as I love beating monsters senseless for hours, it's just more fun to slaughter a player. Enough of that, though.
Life, life, how is life... Life is fine. I've been lazy-ing out, I lost my job at Safeway (did I already mention that earlier?) and I am gonna look for a new one this summer. Probably at GameCrazy if they're hiring, cause... C'mon, I wanna work at GameCrazy. What gamer doesn't? As for my gaming life, I picked up a DS Lite and I did it just for Pokemon Pearl because I'm a stupid nerd. So yeah, I've finished that game... That is to say beaten the Elite Four, I still need to collect all the ridiculous ammount of Pokemon or whatever. I'm thinking about picking up Animal Crossing: Wild World for the vacation because it seems like it'll keep me entertained for a long while.
Uh, let's see, shameless plugging... I got a Last.FM account? If you have one, feel free to add me or something.
http://www.last.fm/user/Karnikins/
End, for now. God it's late. WHY IS IT SO HOT HERE AT 3:30 AM? |
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| I just wish that I had... MY SCISSORS! |
[Jan. 31st, 2007|06:31 am] |
| [ | I'm feeling.. |
| |  Clapping or something. | ] |
| [ | Listening To |
| | Chapelle's Show ~ MTV Cribs | ] |
Yeah, my "music" is actually a "movie", but what the hell are you going to do about it? Kids these days... So! About my rant yesterday, I really don't know. Things have calmed down since then and I guess things are cooling off. There are still some grudges and hatred abound, but no one's acting on them so it's all cool. Drama over, right? Right? I hope so. Really don't know what to say, not much has happened besides that. Well, I am moving from RO to WoW: Burning Crusade. Draenei looks pretty nice, so I'm going that route, and I guess I'm still going to roleplay on WoW. Should be fun, I hope.
Aside from internet life, I need something new to do. I don't really leave the house and I know that's bad, but I don't really have anything to do outside the house either. If anyone has any suggestions or something go ahead and comment. Or just AIM me. Or something. I love staying inside all day playing video games but I know it's unhealthy and bad for my depression and such. I need to really start making an effort to improve, here, or it's not going to go away. So... That's about it, really. |
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| THIS THE MOST BALLIN'. SHIT. EVAH! |
[Jan. 30th, 2007|02:39 pm] |
I've felt like doing the robot all day, for whatever reason. So I am! ... You know, right now. Doing the robot. I haven't updated in forever, and I'm about to tell you (that's... you, whoever's reading. Who are you?) just where the hell I've been! I know I've abandoned most of my friends on MSN and AIM, and you're all going to laugh at my sorry ass. I've been roleplaying, that's about it. Well, up until lately when real life was filled with too much drama to create more in roleplay. I'm talking draaamaaa, not the kind where you laugh it off and look at how stupid you were doing it. The kind where you're so enveloped in it you feel the need to fight back and create even more drama. I wasn't even supposed to be part of this, but I got dragged into it. Not that I mind, now!
Story time, children. So get this, I've been playing on FortunaRO. It's a roleplay Ragnarok Online server, but I find there's more Out of Character than In Character there. So here's where it began. My character, Karn, was with a good friend named Fabi's character, Rolante. Rolante and Karn were a happy couple in character, but we weren't together out of character. Everyone thought we were, and Fabi even has a crush on me, but I'm not really looking for a relationship so I never acted on it. I consider in character separate from out of character because it's a virtual world, whatever happens there doesn't matter, honestly. Sure, if my character dies or gets into a huge load of trouble I'll feel sad for him, but I'm not going beyond that. It's another person, someone I made up, and thus NOT ME.
That having been said, my character was with Fabi's. Karn and Rolante, the characters, were quite happy together. Or so everyone thought. Someone named Aestia joined the server and made the character Aestia Firestorm. Karn and Aestia Firestorm started hanging out, and eventually found there was more to the relationship than just friendship. They were in love, despite Karn being married, and obviously that marriage posed a problem. All in character, right? Apparently not. Now Fabi is 15 years old, but she's not immature. She felt as though I would abandon her out of character if our characters broke up at first, but after I explained to her that IC (in character) does not correspond with OOC (out of character), she understood that we would still be friends OOC and IC doesn't matter.
The senior members and GMs of this server, however, apparently wouldn't stand for this. Now, in the background here, the server owner was trying to start a relationship with Aestia. Not the character, but her OOC self. Aestia Firestorm was always in game with my character, Karn, roleplaying. 'Cause, you know, it's a roleplay server. That's what we DO on a roleplay server. Roleplay. Anyways! Since Aestia Firestorm was usually with Karn in game roleplaying, her player had little time to pay attention to other things like AIM where the server owner was trying to talk to her and get into a relationship. She made it clear that she didn't want a relationship, but apparently the server owner's a little too persistent.
The server owner (a man masquerading as a woman, mind you) came to me to tell me to stop roleplaying with Aestia Firestorm on this... Roleplay Server. You know, where what you DO is roleplay. Because it's a roleplay. Server. The server owner asked me this so he could get closer to Aestia Firestorm's player who wasn't even looking for a relationship and we later learned was just out of a marriage to begin with. This persisted and Aestia and I got very annoyed so we just said, "Fuck it, let's leave." And we did.
So we ran. We were gone, like, a day. Why were we only gone a day? Oho, you will learn. You will learn. Apparently the server owner, I'm tired of calling him that so I'll use the name he used, Morgan. Apparently he got "worried" or as some would call it "very stalker-like" and decided he'd check up on Aestia's livejournal and myspace! Perfectly logical, right? Wait, what the fuck? Since when is invasion of personal privacy logical? Oh, right, never. Ever ever. EVER. Anyways, using this method, Morgan figured out Aestia was... Wait, she's married? Eh? PLOT TWIST!
Turns out she's NOT married, only was married. It recently broke off, but I won't go into that because it's, you know... her personal privacy. Which should be protected! Yes. In any case, that really made things start to explode. Like, if life was the movie Speed, this would be when the bus started to explode and now we're into the slow motion scene where everyone's jumping away from it. So now we get to watch this explosion grow, and grow, and grow! So, we came back and things were cleared up. Or so we thought. But they weren't done exploding yet, oh no.
So we turned our heads away from the giant bus exploding behind us and continued along merrily for a day, thinking the exploding bus was now a thing of the past and we were at the part in Speed where we are hugging our families and telling them how glad we are that we made it out okay. Everything is cool, until... This morning. I logged on, and Aestia didn't seem pleased. Wonder what's up, eh? Oh, she's been banned. Wait, WHAT?
Yes, the banhammer came down upon an innocent. In an apparently unanimous decision from the GM team, they decided that Aestia was "only causing stress on the server" and "blackmailing and manipulating people". In other words, she wouldn't start a relationship with Morgan. You know, after she'd just got out of a marriage and was probably still in that mourning period between relationships. How selfish of her! Christ. I was confused as to why she was banned, so I hop on IRC and ask the GM who banned her what the hell is up. Oh, apparently she's been manipulating me and Fabi. Er, wait, how?
Oh yes, my friends, apparently I was manipulated into this relationship. Aestia's been talking to Fabi and me about it all the time, making us do it! Haha, wait, no... She hasn't talked to me or Fabi at all about it. Because, you know, it was our CHARACTERS doing this. This was entirely free of OOC, which is probably why everyone got so worked up. Everything big on FortunaRO is OOC, from what I've seen. Every relationship, every breakup, everything. If you're together IC, you must be OOC. That is the mindset. Apparently I'm with Aestia, now, even though she's in her mid-twenties and I'm 18. But you know, I love me them older womens.
I talked to Fabi about this asking her what the hell was going on, she said she didn't know. The GM who banned her got it into her head that Fabi was so incredibly torn up and depressed, and she was... Because of that GM. I had to calm Fabi down last night because of what that GM and Morgan said to her. According to Fabi, I'm practically quoting here, she "got on and they spammed her with all these things, she couldn't make sense of it." In the end she ended up thinking Aestia was this manipulative seductress that had been plotting to take me from her since she joined. Was Fabi mad? Yes. Was Fabi upset? Yes. Why wouldn't she be?! Someone's been plotting to take the person she likes away for ages! Er, wait, no she hasn't.
Aestia and I never talked about the in character relationship before, during or after it happened. It was entirely in character, and that is probably where it went wrong. When everyone roleplays with out of character influence, when something truly in character happens it scares them and they do things like throwing blame around and banning people. Fabi was sad about Aestia and Karn being together IC, yes. After I explained to her that IC =/= OOC, however, she calmed down and accepted it. They kept bringing it up, however, and even went so far as to say Aestia had seduced me away from her. How fucked up is that? They made Fabi think she would NEVER see me again just so they could make Aestia look worse.
So here I am, friends, I've quit the server and I'm moving to World of Warcraft where I can roleplay purely in character and not worry about my character having to be with another to satisfy someone else's out of character wishes. It was a fun ride, but with all this shit happening I've really lost the will to roleplay at Fortuna at all, anymore. I'll be on MSN and AIM more, because my life doesn't revolve and Fortuna anymore. Hope to see you there?
Oh, right, by now we're like... We just got past the bus explosion and we're sort of in between scrambling to our feet and running to our families and telling them we love them. Like, the explosion's still happening, but now we're no longer flying through the air and we're sort of landing. Why did I even include this paragraph? Christ. |
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| Goddamn it is cold here. |
[Nov. 25th, 2006|12:36 pm] |
| [ | I'm feeling.. |
| |  cold | ] |
| [ | Listening To |
| | Capt. Beefheart ~ Her Eyes are a Blue Million Miles | ] |
Today's my Mom's birthday, so I'm doing stuff with her all day. We're going to see the new James Bond movie, Casino Royale, in about an hour and it looks pretty good so I've got no complaints. For her birthday, I got her a nice pair of earrings and I guess they're pretty neat. She likes them, at least. Not going to bore you further with that, though.
Yesterday I tried to go the DMV and they were closed because it's run by the government and that should be all I have to say. After that we went to Target for something my mom needed, and I randomly got the urge to get a Lego set, so I did and when we got home I made it. It's a nice helicopter, they've got so many new pieces and parts since I last made one years ago it's not even funny. They have bendy things now and just wow, lots of crazy pieces. After that I pretty much chilled for the rest of the day, then went to sleep and here I am today.
This morning, we went to the DMV for real this time. We got there at 8:15 AM (15 minutes before opening) and there was already a line there of like ten people. It only took 15 minutes because we got in the line early and they had four people at the counters working through people pretty quick. Now that I have my new ID I don't have to worry about going to the DMV for a while. It was great, though, I accidentally forgot my glasses but it says I need glasses on my ID. I only need them to read very far away things, so I figured I'd be fine but the old guy doing the process said he'd have to test me without my glasses and gave me the "I'm so going to make you fail this" look. So I shot back the "bring it on, old man" look and we proceeded. Long story short, I passed without my glasses and he scowled at me but was forced to approve my new ID. Then I got my picture taken... It always looks bad, but not so much this time. I smiled nicely for once, but my eyes are kinda half closed so I look weird. I swear, there's no way to make an ID or Driver's License photo look good.
Not much else to say, really. |
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| Thanksgiving. |
[Nov. 23rd, 2006|11:54 pm] |
| [ | I'm feeling.. |
| |  amused | ] |
| [ | Listening To |
| | Adam Sandler ~ Thanksgiving Song | ] |
So yeah, it was Thanksgiving. Pretty ordinary. Turkey is delicious. |
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| I send this song to people whenever they go emo on me. |
[Nov. 22nd, 2006|07:45 am] |
| [ | I'm feeling.. |
| |  awake | ] |
| [ | Listening To |
| | Three Days Grace ~ Pain | ] |
Yes, yes I do.
Yesterday at work was boringish. The first half was fast, everything was busy so I was just bagging and that goes by fast. I think it'll be fast today, too. Considering tomorrow is Thanksgiving. However, halfway through my shift yesterday the power went out. It was really windy and hail was coming down hard. We had generators and all that, so at least the checkstands could still operate, but the actual store had no light. It was still brightish outside, so we had no problems with light, but the manager said that if it stayed out until the light became so dim that it posed a threat to safety we'd be sent home. It came back on about a half hour after going out, though. It was slow after that for a while because no one comes to a store with no power, durr. So it was slow and thus time seemed slower.
I have a shift from 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM, but I'll be taking the bus into town after it to get my mom a birthday present. Her birthday is Friday, and today's the last day I can really go out and get anything. I'm not sure what I'm going to get, but we have a lot of stores downtown so it's not like I won't be able to find anything nice. I have like $80 in my wallet from my paychecks, which isn't enough to get some huge fantastic diamond encrusted necklace or what have you, but I really don't think my mom expects one of those either.
Tomorrow's Thanksgiving, and I'm going to a friend's house with my mom so I won't be on much that day. Not that any of you will, probably. Everyone knows I love to eat, and the people we're going to always overcompensate and get a ton of food. So I get a lot of food. Which is awesome. I'll post again when I get back from their place tomorrow. |
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| Hotel California + Spanish = ??? |
[Nov. 21st, 2006|08:18 am] |
| [ | I'm feeling.. |
| |  calm | ] |
| [ | Listening To |
| | Gypsy Kings ~ Hotel California | ] |
Haven't updated this in forever, and I have a lot to say. School in roughly an hour and a half, followed closely by a four hour work shift. Shouldn't be too bad, surprisingly. Anyways! On to issues.
First of all, almost got fired from work. I get sick a lot because my immune system is whacked, but people often fail to understand that. My manager is mad because I've been absent five times over two months, even though I have been literally sick -- as in, I was throwing up and if I came in I'd throw up all over the food -- but whatever. He gave me "the talk", in other words if I miss another day for a few months I'm canned. I've also missed a few things on a SHOP report, but whatever, that's no big deal unless I do it consistently.
I met this awesome black guy named Terry at work, and he's just... awesome, that's all I can say. He works in the back, which is where I spend most of my time, because they make me unload the trucks and stuff even though it's not in my job description. We make fun of customers together a lot, and he's one of the funniest people I've ever met. He makes work almost bearable, dare I say. I was throwing things in the dumpster and he came by and asked how old I was, and I said 17 because that's what I am, and he was like, "OH SNAP, YOU CAN'T BE LOADING SHIT IN THE DUMPSTER, YOUR IMMATURE YOUNG MIND MIGHT MAKE YOU WANNA JUMP IN!!" Turns out that's actually in the rules which made us laugh even harder, I can't put things down a goddamn trash chute until I'm 18 for that exact reason. How stupid is that?
It amazes me the lack of hand-eye coordination people have, people miss their change when cashiers drop it into their hands so often it's not even funny. People are so damn uncoordinated. I don't see any excuse for dropping anything and breaking it, either. There's no way for something to just magically slip out of your hand and fall, you have to be so much of a dumbass you let go of it and it fell. Don't give me that, "Oh no, it just slipped!" shit, I know you dropped it because you're a bumbling fool. Unless it's wet, there's no way it'll slip. Even if it is wet, with a magical thing called common sense you can hold it a different way so it won't fall. Half the time people spill things they're talking on their cell phones too, idiots.
I guess that's all for now, school's gonna suck cause I don't have half the stuff I need to have done. Oh well, I'll catch up over the next week. Bye.
Oh yeah, I updated my DeviantART with Chapter 1 of a new story. Read if you want. |
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