Jon Furniss, etc.

There’s my tattoo:

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It means love in Tagalog.

Also, it’s seven days into NaNoWriMo and I haven’t even considered doing that, so I don’t think that’s going to happen.

The new World of Warcraft expansion is coming out in 6 days, so while it will be hard, I’ll be updating, and even think about updating even less.

The end.

But I started wearing blazers.

And I got a tattoo.

So that’s a move in the right direction right?

I’ll post a picture of the tattoo sometime in the future, I promise.

I started working at GameStop in East Meadow last week.

Hopefully I’ll be able to tolerate that for the next couple of years before I graduate and get a “real job.” (Meaning continue to live at home as I go to grad school for another degree I won’t use. just kidding. or am i?)

Nine out of ten porcupines agree that people who perform polls don’t know what a porcupines response means.

In other news… um, nope, never mind, that’s it.

School started yesterday.

I was kind of excited for it, to start getting back into the swing of things, and I figured the sooner that it started the sooner I’d get it done with.

School sucks. I’m taking 18 credits, and on Mondays and Wednesdays I have five classes, so if yesterday was how things are going to be all semester on Mondays and Wednesdays I’ll be gone from my house from 8:15am until 9:15pm. Whoo.

I have four chapters in four different boring text books to read by tomorrw… so far I’ve read three pages into my marketing textbook, and right now I don’t feel like doing any more.

I should also probably go to bed soon.

Bah humbug, I say, bah humbug.

The crickets are chirping like crazy tonight, I can even hear them over my ever-loud, possibly broken air conditioner which could cover the sound of a gunfight (I know this because those happen in Levittown all the time…).

I haven’t written anything worthwhile in months.

I don’t even know if those things that I wrote months ago were even worthwhile.

I used to write a lot of poetry, but I don’t do that any more.

I used to write a lot, but I don’t do that any more either.

I miss coming up with poems and having ideas and thinking they were beautiful even if they really weren’t. I miss being inspired and not feeling constantly blocked by writers (that’s what writer’s block means… right?). I miss having something to say even if it was really nothing.

And goddamnit, I used to be pretty gosh darn good at saying something about nothing and going on for quite some time about it.

See?

Eh, whatever, maybe it’s just a fluke. “It” in this scenario could mean anything from the writing to the block, who knows? We’ll find out? I keep typing the homonyms for the words I’m thinking of, my fingers must be sleepy…

That means that it’s time to put on my pajamas and brush my teeth and then probably play Warcraft until five in the morning. Just kidding, I’m trying to cut back.

But seriously if AIM doesn’t say I’m idle by like midnight, start yelling at me and/or having philosophical conversations with me.

Sorry.

I’d like to say that I’ll start updating regularly again, but I can’t promise that (and half the time I do promise that I don’t follow through anyway).

So what’s been going on?

Well, I didn’t write a novel in July, and for whatever reason TH CHALLENGE: Awesome violently spiraled and crashed to the ground moments after lifting off.

I go back to school in two weeks, so we’ll see how that goes.

Six months from yesterday I turn 21, so that’s pretty exciting.

I got a vanity plate that reads “L2P NUB.”

I started playing massive amounts of World of Warcraft again, and while I know that it’s definitely not healthy, I can’t seem to help myself.

I started watching How I Met  Your Mother with Joyce, it’s a pretty fantastic show. We managed to watch the entire first season in four days.

That’s about it for now.

That took my less than five minutes, but even knowing that I probably still won’t be able to convince myself to be able to give up five minutes every other day or so to update.

Not that I have anything interesting to say anyway…

see title.

sorry for not updating at all

THE CHALLENGE: AWESOME has begun, check it out.

I also started my 50,000 word novel today, so we’ll see how that goes.

I’m sitting in my backyard on our picnic table enjoying an excellent breeze, wondering if the clouds overhead are holding any raindrops for the thirsty earth.

I’m sorry for not writing anything at all in the past twelve or so days. I don’t really have any good excuse. I mean, I have been busy, but I’ve also had a tremendous amount of spare time in which I could have been writing.

I got tired of waiting for myself to have enough motivation to design my own WordPress theme so I went to Free WordPress Themes and chose this one. Marisa, I know you wanted flamingos, but none of them had flamingos, sorry…

So… what is new and exciting?

Joyce and I started taking Iaidō last Sunday, and we’ve got our second class coming up tomorrow morning. I’m pretty excited about it and I hope that it will help me in my goal to get into/stay in some form of not amorphous bloblike shape. I also plan on starting to go kayaking with my dad next week and hopefully get out with him a couple of times a week. Joyce and I are going to be taking swing dancing classes this summer, too, so that should be a lot of fun and even more of me not sitting on my ever fattening-ass. If I can find someone to do it with, I might also bike down to Jones Beach a couple (or more, if possible) times. And lastly, I plan on going out surfing with my friend and maybe learning how to balance myself up on a piece of wood in front of waves. (Although, with my foray into snowboarding in January, we’ll see how that goes…) So hooray for not being a couch potato!

Speaking of being a couch potato, all that I’ve been doing for the past couple of weeks is playing Halo 3 and World of Warcraft. Yes, I did start playing WoW again, I apologize to all of you who are disappointed in me. Along those lines I started doing really well in Halo and kept ranking up and stuff. And then a couple of days ago I hit a wall. Really hard. And bounced off, and down like four ranks. I’m not exactly sure what happened but I’ve been incredibly sucktastic the past few days, and for whatever reason I’ve been playing more because of it. In other video game news, Diablo III was announced today. I never played the original Diablo games too much, but I always enjoyed them, so I’ll probably pick this up when it comes out. The other reason I’ll pick it up is because Blizzard Entertainment is the only video game company that I trust in completely and has my heart. Sighhh, oh Blizzard… Although I do have the theory that Blizzard will simultaneously release Starcraft II, Diablo III, and the World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King and take over the world in the resulting chaos. But we’ll see.

I think the main reason that I haven’t been writing lately is that all I’ve been thinking about is writing and why I haven’t been doing it. I keep telling myself to write, so in being true to myself I’ve been completely ignoring any ambitions or sparks of creativity and not writing anything. But… starting July 2nd I will be participating in THE CHALLENGE: AWESOME with eD! Thomas and his friend Brandon Mendelson. You can head on over to the website there to find out more about what to expect and how awesome it truly is.
And to make the month even more insane and out of my league I’ve decided to write a novel. Even though it is not November I will be following the rules of NaNoWriMo with the goal of having 50,000 words of novelesque fiction story by July 31st. We’ll see how that turns out. I have no obligation to tell anyone what the novel is about or show it to anyone, ever. But if it has any form of potential goodness I’ll see about editing it and making it available to the world. Also, for those of you who talk to me on a regular basis, keep pushing me to give you updates on how well I’m doing with the word counts and such and don’t let me slide if I decide that it’s too much and I give up.

The last big news is that I quit Best Buy. I had my last day on Wednesday (the 25th). I’ve been pretty unstressed out about life since then. I’m going to be working at Walbaums with a friend of mine in the deli starting on Monday, so we’ll see how that goes. I will be making substantially less money and be working less hours and I am completely broke. You might wonder why I would do something like this, and I wonder a bit too. But I really did hate being there. It seems less bad now that I’m gone, but I would get extremely depressed as soon as I walked through those sliding doors.

So yeah, that’s life. I’ll try to be on here more often letting you know what’s up, really I will.
I would also like to thank those loyal 4-8 people who were checking up every day to see if I had updated, I hope this made it worth it!

I was away this weekend with Joyce. We went to Pennsylvania to visit my family, wish my Grandmother a happy birthday, and just relax and have a good time.

Which we did. We stayed with my sister, who I hadn’t seen in a few months, and who is much, much less insane and much more laid-back than the rest of my extended family who lives in the area. We played a couple games of Scrabble, which my sister won, as always (well almost, I think I’ve beaten her twice. ever.). We also went strawberry picking which I felt was much more like work than anything else, but Joyce and Jules (my sister) both seemed  to enjoy themselves so it wasn’t too terrible, I guess.

Saturday was my mom’s mom’s birthday, so we went there to have dinner. Her new catch phrase is “I’m 85, I can do whatever I want.” I kept responding with “Yes you can Grandma, yes you can.” That was a fairly enjoyable evening. My family wasn’t as crazy as they normally are, and they didn’t scare Joyce (or at least, she won’t admit it).

On Sunday Joyce and I went to Longwood Gardens which was beautiful, as always. It’s a pretty fantastical place, so I recommend that everyone go there. It’s pretty cheap to get in, and if you have student IDs (or say you’re students, they didn’t even check us) then you get in for half off. It’s full of flowers and trees and grass and cacti and all sorts of fauna. It’s beautiful. I might post some pictures if I ever get around to stealing them from Joyce.

Then Sunday night we came home. I come home to find my father and mother on the porch talking to some people from down the street that I’ve never met before. Apparently, on Friday night, a drunk kid hopped the fence behind our house and my dad went out to tell him to get off of our property. This kid then tackled my father in the middle of the street and proceeded to start hitting him, as like twenty other kids were gathered around. My dad didn’t hit him back, because… I’m not really sure why, but he didn’t. Now my dad is in pretty good shape, I know that he could toss me if he wanted to, so this kid wasn’t really hurting him this much. My dad actually said he was laughing when the kid started hitting him in the abdomen because he couldn’t even feel it.

Then one of the kids who lives across the street from us and his friends pulled this guy off of my dad. They then proceded to form a wall between my father and him and tell the kid to leave. They wouldn’t tell me dad who he was or let him see him. So I’m kind of upset that I wasn’t there Friday night to go out and kick this kid in the face a few times because my dad wasn’t willing to.

Then I wake up this morning and my mom tells me that our diagonal neighbor across the street said that there were kids at the bottom of our driveway last night drinking and yelling “Come out Mother Fucker!” I wish I had heard that, because I would’ve called the cops. Then gone out with a baseball bat and incited them to come at me.

Oh well.

So I go away for the weekend and Levittown turns into Hempstead… What is the world coming to?

Joyce and I went to see Kung Fu Panda last night.

I was thoroughly impressed.

It was a very fun movie, and even mixed in some neat self-affirmation and Eastern philosohies.

My absolute favorite part though is that in the first two minutes of the movie the word “bodacity” was used. How can things get much better than that?

But in all seriousness, if you like Kung Fu, pandas, CGI, or good movies, go see this. It’s good for the whole family. And from my experience last night, it only made the kids in the theatre squeak with joy and/or fear about four or five times. And those were over pretty quickly.

So go check it out.