The Perils of a Dusty Cartridge

March 15th, 2004

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09:00 pm - Why is Oswald from The Drew Carey Show in a JCPenny commercial?
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Oh yeah...I'm sure syndication isn't giving him that much in royalties.

On a completely different point: I'm feeling a lot better now. My voice is almost completely back, but it gets really squeaky when I hit high points...maybe I need to be more monotone.

Watched part of the Green Mile on ABC tonight. I've never seen the movie, but I can see why everyone says its good. I watched Shaolin Soccer all the way through without subtitles... Not that great without the humor...though some scenes got laughs for sight gags...actually many of them, heh. And I remembered some of the jokes from when I saw it the first time. I need to just borrow it from Zach and rip it to my hard drive.

Arrgh, I'm a pirate!

Blimey, I'm off to bury me treasure!
Current Mood:

devious
Current Music: That 70's Show theme

March 13th, 2004

10:25 pm - Heh, Heh. Allllrrrriiight!
Saw Secret Window last night with Jamie and Rebekah. It was great. Twist ending and all. Thats all I'll say. Depp's great tho.

I've just about got my voice back, but it's still a little squeaky. I hate being sick.

Watching MadTV while I'm making this post. They've finally got a good cast again. Everyone's funny. If you get a chance you should watch a new episode some time. Frank Caliendo man, Frank Caliendo.

Ok thats all I've got to say tonite.
Current Mood: rhaspy

March 11th, 2004

05:35 pm - ::rhaspy mumbling::
...and after about three hours of coughing, the little punk jumped out of my throat and sped out the front door. I tried to catch him, but that voice of mine is just too quick. And so I lost my voice...

Laryngitis? Larynxitis? What's the difference? Does one exist and not the other? Wow I talk a lot.

You never really notice how much you need your voice until its gone. I didn't appreciate my voice enough I suppose. I never said "Thank you larynx for all that great air-flow manipulation"....not even a "Thanks Larry" or whatever his nickname is...I never really paid attention. I bet he hates me.

Work was a bit difficult today...I just about snapped on register because everybody kept making me repeat myself. I just wanted to choke everyone so they couldn't talk right.

Otherwise i'm ok tho...kinda sleepy. Just been reading thru everyone's LJ's. Jamie's keep getting vaguer and vaguer. Ian, you seem to be in better spirits lately. Sorry bout your parents Michelle, wish they'd just get off your back. Rebekah, your posts are pretty dern vague too. Maybe I'm just think-headed tho.

Well, I'm uber-sleepy for some reason, and I have loads of homework...maybe I'll wake up later tonight to do it...yea right like that will happen.

::squeak::
Current Mood:

calm
Current Music: The Simpsons Theme

March 10th, 2004

12:45 am - How's it goin' Paranoia?
Hello everyone. I'm ok.

I'm so tired. I worked all day today....and I got home so late that I don't even want to do any homework. I have homework in 2 out of my 4 classes, and in another one I have a test. I kinda hate living alone now. No one to talk to. I wish there were someone to call at 12:41 in the morning. Maybe I should get a pet. You can talk to a pet....of course it can't talk back...unless it's a parrot.

I think I'm reading into everything everyone posts. I think it's always directed at me. How paranoid I am. How truly truly vain of me.

Oh well. ::sigh::
Current Mood: ::double sigh::
Current Music: Some freaky ambient sounds coming from deep within my house

March 5th, 2004

09:31 am - Mmmm, soup
Everybody likes soup. Well, most people do. Of course, there's those few who can't stand soup for its minor shortcomings. Some people think soup is too slow. "Aww man, I have to wait for it to cool?" Of course you do! You don't want to burn your tongue, you impatient fool! Some people only like soup sometimes. "Soup again?" And some people like soup, but they don't like some of the stuff in it. "What is this chewy stuff? Rice?" No, it's barley. "Barley?! BARLEY?!?!?!"

I like soup. Life is a lot like soup. Sometimes you just have to wait, or you'll get burned. Sometimes, you have to put up with a lot of crap you don't want to, but it eventually pays off, like a piping hot bowl of soup.

Have patience. Don't get burned. Don't give up.
Current Mood: yawning
Current Music: annoying chatter in learning lab

March 3rd, 2004

12:48 am - Duh, silly.
Hmm.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........

I don't even know what to say. Hmmm.....

Hmm.

Ok. Let's see here.

Ok. I...

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.........
Current Mood:

drained
Current Music: Filter - It's gonna kill me

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February 26th, 2004

05:11 pm - I went to africa, I went to india
I was a miner for a:

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I don't think my heart is gold though...maybe silver, or bronze.
Current Mood:

okay
Current Music: Filter - I like the world today

February 20th, 2004

12:29 pm - Herm.

what's your cowboy bebop theme song?

February 16th, 2004

01:34 am - And then five days later.....
...I emerge from the fog and define my own presence in a puff of explicit existence.

I am more tired now than I've been in quite a long time. My weekend was long and exhausting, and it all started on Friday.

Woke up early Friday morning, probably around 5:45. I had decided the night before that I would do some homework before school, because I've totally been slacking off and doing no homework and bombing a cal 2 test.

So I did the homework and went to school and ate some cake and drove to McAlister's to pick up my check. My fuel gauge was lower than I've ever tried to drive it on, kinda freaked me out.

I made it and then stood in line for what seemed like dozens of minutes to get it cashed. I went to the gas station on the corner of Pass road and Popp's Ferry road and filled up my tank. I then went to game stop and bought Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles--soon to be the stealer of all my time.

I proceeded to work 5-1030 at McAlister's and then went home and played FFCC until 6:30am.

Saturday I worked a double shift (11am-2pm and 4-8) but I brought my gamecube to work and played it in the conference room during my break. I went home and played it until about 4:30am.

Sunday I worked another double shift (11am-2pm but 4-close this time). I slept in my truck during my break.

Now I'm at home and I'm staring at the case for the game with contempt. My body is so tired that I keep having to wake myself up to finish this LJ post.

Valentine's Day has come and gone. I worked. I played video games. I felt some sort of fake-non-depression. Like I was faking not being depressed. Seems like Valentine's Day never is a good day for me.

I miss my girlfriend. I haven't seen her in such a long time.

...

I'm lonely now. guess I'm going to bed
Current Mood:

sleepy

February 11th, 2004

09:04 pm - And just like that time subtracted itself and everything went back to normal.
Well not everything.

A few days back I thought my laptop had died. It simply wouldn't turn on.

I decided out of curiosity tonight to see if it worked, and lo and behold, the dern thing fired right up.

Hooray. No more stankonia pre-millenium P.O.S.

Can't wait for Crystal Chronicles. Friday will come soon enough.
Current Mood: mild
Current Music: That 70's Show Theme

12:08 pm - This feeling is familiar
Oh no.

Is it happening again? The same ol' thing?

I was okay this morning (I think. Maybe I wasn't.). Okay until I saw Rebekah. All it took was a simple "I'm sorry about you and Jamie" and I'm depressed for the rest of the day.

Tears stagnate on top of my eyeballs because I'm too proud to cry anymore. Yeah right--too proud to cry but not too proud to sulk all day or to complain on LJ to everyone about how miserable I feel, sure. And my misery is only matched by my confusion.

I don't know what's going on. I'm afraid to know what's going on.

All I do know is that this feeling is too familiar.

February 10th, 2004

10:46 pm - It'd be better if I had food though
My day started off well enough....slept late but still managed to get to Zach's relatively early. We went to GameStop so he could pick up his Metroid: Zero Mission. Saw him playing it on the way back. It looks good.

Got to work and just felt horrible for some reason. I couldn't be happy. Everyone kept asking me "what's wrong?".

Buh.

Got home and I had a headache....somewhere along the line I fell asleep.

I missed Jamie's phone call. I had the phone in my hand when I woke up, but it wasn't until about two hours after her call. I tried to call back, but Sam said she was already asleep...
I'll see her tomorrow.

I guess I'm gonna go to bed now.

::dreams of meat waffles::

February 7th, 2004

03:22 pm - ::sigh::
The Live Journal is a very strange and enigmatic presence. But, because all of your friends read it, anything negative can tend to bring about unnecessary guilt trips.

If I were to comment on how crappy I'm feeling today, everyone I've interacted with who gives half a damn about me is gonna rethink everything they said to me.

That being said, I'd like to say I feel crappier today than I've felt in quite a long time. That is saying a lot considering the past week or so hasn't been easy.

I don't really know how to get out of this horrible mood.

Bleh
Current Mood:

crappy

February 5th, 2004

03:56 am - There's nothing worse than a really bad thing
Y'know, I'm really really tired.

It's 4 am and I'm about to go to bed, but I thought I'd post.

For some reason, my sleep schedule has shifted so severely that now I'm sleeping during the day and staying up at night.

I feel like I'm neglecting people because I'm either always sleeping or working or schooling.

Sorry everyone.

I'm not trying to bring everyone down...and i'm not depressed or anything...a bit groggy perhaps...

Erm anyway.

Zach, word around work is that Thanh has a bootleg of Return of the King. Could this be true? If you can get in touch with him, my manager said he would give him money or a blank DVD, or something....or whatever.

umm yea, I'm sleepy, I'm going to bed now
Current Mood:

sleepy
Current Music: the mellow lullaby in my head

February 1st, 2004

12:07 am - Whoa, Mine's totally the best!

January 31st, 2004

11:58 pm - Hey, I'm OK
How come you always forget when people care about you?

It's not like I forgot...I feel so selfish now. I know you guys worry, and I'm sorry I didn't let you know. I'm OK.

-----

My heart feels like it's doubled its weight since last night. I haven't felt so many feelings in such a short time span. I love you and I'm willing to do whatever it takes to make things right.

I'm going to bed now, cause I'm really really sleepy...and not sad.

Seriously
Current Mood:

calm

January 27th, 2004

10:35 pm - His corpse lay lifeless, motionless and all the time mocking me from beyond the grave
Wondering who he is?

He's my Compaq. Poor little non-working notebook, your plight was almost certain from the beginning.

To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure that it is completely dead. I'm too afraid to check. My poor Compaq could be trapped between here and the silicon afterlife. I'm too afraid that my assumptions are true, and my only hope to stay connected is my 1/20th century old Frankenstein PC.

It's warm glow is familiar and feels safe. It reminds me of ages ago when life wasn't so fast and the days didn't fly by like flocks of ducks hurriedly scurrying southward.

I think my computer's death has me depressed.

I have a headache.
Current Mood:

pessimistic

January 18th, 2004

10:05 pm - Bad days? I have no bad days! Ever!... No, honestly!
Okay, so sometimes I do. But today was the kind of nothing day in which nothing could have suddenly made it all seem worthwhile. Not even a young Mary Tyler Moore standing motionless under an eerily-hovering winter hat.

But that makes it seem bad. It wasn't bad. It wasn't anything. It was just another day.

No school tomorrow, that's great.

Ho hum.

I want some pizza.
Current Mood:

apathetic
Current Music: Grand Funk Railroad - Free Ride (inside my head)