Just thought I'd share.
All my pokemon are going quite well, thanks for asking, and are now all between levels 50 and 60, which is a good range. I'll try to get them all to level 60, then see how they fare at a run through the Elite Four.
I had a busy day yesterday. Saw a couple of random movies: The Black Dahlia and Man of the Year. Neither was what I'd classify as "OMG THAT WAS SO COOL", but the Black Dahlia is definitely a good movie, if you're into the whole psychological mystery noir thing. Man of the Year was another in a long line of "Robin Willaims stars in a comedy movie that turns really dark and sad half way through." I've sorta gotten fed up with them.
One thing that REALLY pissed me off, though was this one woman laughing randomly in the movie. She had a really annoying laugh, too, so that you couldn't even ignore her. And she was laughing at random times. Inappropriate times, really. Like I said, the movie was one of those "Robin Williams is funny but the rest of the movie is utterly serious" things. Kinda hard to explain without spoilers, but basically, the movie was two-sided. There's the funny ha-ha comedian runs for and gets elected president plot, and then the serious corperate cover-up and scandal plot line running simultaneously. The two are interlinked, but there was literally NOTHING funny about the scenes meant for the serious plot line. There were serious aspects to the funny plot, but the serious plot was dead serious. If the serious plot wasn't so laughable (there was a glitch where the program alphabetized candidates and they couldn't fix it in time for the election - not gonna happen IRL), I could almost see that it woulda been a straight thriller without the comedian president angle at all. I actually think that's how it started, and they realized that it sucked, so they threw in Robin Williams to make up for it.
Okay, now that I've dished on the movie, lemme get back to the problem of that lady. The only thing I can think is either that she was retarded / crazy, and just didn't know what she was looking at, or she was sane, and thought she was seeing a straight comedy, and tried to see the serious plot line as humorous. In either case, it was stupid, and, more-over, distracting me from the movie. That said, what can I do about it? I couldn't really go over to her in the movie theater after she laughed wrongly and told her "NO! That's NOT funny, you shouldn't laugh at that!" Can you blame a person for their sense of humor? I mean, yeah, if she was innapropriately laughing at something in real life, something tragic, say, that's not good, but in a comedy movie, you really can't complain about an audience member laughing at the comedy. Maybe if someone was laughing annoyingly in The Black Dahlia, I could have called an usher or something and gotten her removed, or at least silenced, but not in the Robin Williams movie.
I dunno what my point was there. Just frustration, I guess.
After the movies, we went to Wal-Mart. No real reason, but while we were there I saw they had Time Spiral cards. I tried out my trick of bringing up a sealed box and getting it all for the price of one pack, but sadly, the guy wasn't falling for it. I felt guilty, actually. My Optimus Prime shirt caught the guys attention when I was looking at the cards, and we struck up a conversation about the new movie, so that, when it came time to check out, and he said "Oh, wow, $13 for a sealed box of tournament packs? That's a good price." I just sorta chuckled. "Yeah, I thought so." Luckily, I guess, the computer new better than the one at Borders. I still contend that I had to try, because a $100+ profit on Magic Cards was too good to pass up. Either way, I was punished for my greed. The one tournament pack I opened was full of junk, in all 6 rares. Somehow I even ended up with just one black uncommon. Weird.
Sigh.... I've been facing a huge sense of inertia, lately. I have had literally no will to do anything. It sucks to look back on a whole day and see that you haven't gotten ANYTHING done. You haven't even done anything to make it worth not doing the things you were supposed to do. I just sit here and veggitate. What's up with that? I need to get some order into my life. So, here's how it's gonna be from now on. No more getting online at the drop of a hat. I'm gonna put AIM and all my other messenger programs up on my laptop, so that I CAN still get to them, but it's easier to ignore them when I've got stuff to do. And I'm going to start getting to sleep at 12 at the lastest, every night except weekends. First thing after getting home from school, and when I'm between classes, I'm gonna work on papers or whatever else I need to work on. Once I get everything I know about done, or if I'm done with everything due for tomorrow (or Monday, if it's a Friday) and I've worked 2 hours (cuz seriously guys, that's long enough), I'll do my 30 minutes or so of exersize, then I can chill out or do whatever.
Also, now that I've moved all my communications to the other computer, I am free-er to play full screen games on my computer. See, I'm not just pissed about putting off about not doing school work. I'm pissed because I'm not doing ANYTHING. I'm just vegitating. My family thinks that I flunked out of college because I spent all my free time gaming when I should have been doing homework or some nonsense. And I wasn't. How fucked up do I have to be when I'm too lazy to GAME? AGH!!!! Okay, no more. I'm gonna start scheduling game time. I mean, there are gonna be some days when I'll just wanna cut loose and kick ass on Azeroth or in DoD, or whatever else comes out. But I'd also like to schedule at least one day a week that is my Warcraft afternoon / evening (right now I'm thinking Saturday), and an evening I go out to Magic draft. Some guys have poker night with the guys, some go out bowling, I'll have these nights. Maybe a night when I go lazer tagging
I'm also planning on going back to church, just to give me something to do on Sundays. I may drop that when I'm working again, but we'll see. (I'm too tired to get into a discussion of my beliefs on this right now.) And of course, I'm planning on getting a job, too, which'll put a cramp in my schedule, but nothing I can't work around. Okay, so here's hoping I can get my life back on track, or at least on some track.
Speaking of tracks, I've decided on my new long term goal. I want to run a moderately successful WoW guild. I stumbled upon AFK Gamer's blog a while ago, and pretty much got addicted to the guild politics and stuff. He treats it like an annoyance, but I think it sounds like fun. Earlier today I read a guide about running your own guild. Here's the line I found interesting:
If you really enjoy PLAYING the game that your guild is involved with, you may want to reconsider being the guild leader. You will find that as your guild grows and grows, you are the 'heavy' or the person that everyone comes to. You will be bombarded with email, ICQs, private messages in IRC, phone calls, etc. - and you CANNOT blow them off. You must answer and respond to everything sent to you, or be labelled a failure by your peers.See, maybe it's just me, but I see all that "work" as part of the game, at a new level. Of course, I've never actually DONE it, so I don't know, but it's a bit like playing a really sophisticated version of Warcraft (without the World) or Starcraft or something. You are the general, in charge of a vast army of troops, except here, they aren't as obedient as the SCV you send to the top of the ramp as a speed bump. Basically, though, I consider managing a social network of people as a fun challenge. I'm looking forward to playing as the leader.
A few weeks ago, I was talking to a girl who's SN I'd found on /b/. Put there by an enemy and meant for raiding, but that's not how I operate. I quickly made friends with her, as I do with most people I meet online. I'm really friendly and easy to get along with online, as I'm sure you all know. Not so much in real life. I'm shy. But moving on. While she was trying to figure out who I was and why I'd contacted her, she read in my info that I game. (The line in my info was something like "If I'm gaming, try contacting me on LappyServ.) So she started calling me a gamer. I didn't really deny it, but (other than the info line I'd forgotten about) I couldn't figure out how she'd placed me as a gamer, so I quasi-denied it, if you get my meaning. Anyway, in the conversation she asked me if I was playing a game at that moment. despite having nothing running but the Firefox and messaging services, I told her yes, and left it at that. What remained unsaid was that I considered the conversation we'd been having a game. Not neccessarily one you can win or lose, but a game none-the-less.
I enjoy the dynamics of social networking and such. I'm shy in real life, but online, when I can be semi-anonymous and let my inhibitions free, I really like to get to know people and talk to them, etc. Also, I've found politics FACINATING from a player's point of view. From the outsiders viewpoint, there's tons of stuff wrong wtih it, but I want to be able to play politics. In short, I want to run a guild.
Maybe I'm not approaching it with the right level of seriousness, but really, Warcraft is only a game. And when I'm being a guild-leader, I'll treat it with the same seriousness I'd treat any other game. I think I've got what it takes. And what I don't have... Well, I've got 23-33 more levels till I hit the level cap (Burning Crusade will probably come out before I reach 60, but not by much if I keep my self to my schedule) and then I'll have to spend a while getting used to the endgame the way most people do. But eventually, once I've learned enough and gotten myself fully entrenched in the community, I'll start my own guild, probably for raiding, but I haven't left out the idea of starting a PVP guild on for fun on another server. That'd require starting a new character though, so.... I dunno.
ANYWAY! I've rambled long enough. Here's the bottom line.
Short Term GoalsAND NO MORE LOAFING!!!
Stick to my new schedule.
Finish school work early whenever possible.
Get a part time job.
Long Term Goals
Run a Warcraft Guild.
Graduate from college and get a fufilling job.
Have a happy life overall.
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