True Tales of False Lies

PERHAPS

2012-01-18T16:58:00.002-06:00

Okay, so it's been a while since I last wrote here. Isn't that how most of my posts on this blog start out? I've decided that if I plan on getting some sort of job in some sort of writing field, that I should write more. That means more blog posts like this one here!

Part of the reason I'm actually sitting down and doing this, though, is because most of my favorite websites have shut themselves down today in protest of SOPA and PIPA, two awful bills going through Congress right now. In fact, I've even made a protest post on Celebs Without Eyebrows. You should go check it out, whoever reads this!

I've been feeling very hypocritical lately because I like to talk about writing and act like I'm some sort of writer, but I never actually write anything. It's like I just imagine that a great novel or poetry collection will just fall out of my mouth one day and I'll get published or something. Ridiculous. Hopefully, you will start to see more posts here, though. And maybe, just maybe, I'll become that much of a better writer.

Maybe.

Post Superbowl EXTRAVAGANZA

2011-02-07T08:47:00.000-06:00

I'm not really planning on talking about the superbowl here. What I am planning on talking about is how I wrote this huge long post the other day, but due to my iBook's sad problems with its battery, I never got to post it. Also, I'm going to talk about how awesome today has been so far.

First thing: I wrote this really long post earlier that didn't get saved. It was sad, I'm sad about it, but I'm not so sad that it's going to end my life. Most of this is because I still have the info on hard copy (Do you guys remember that show? I loved the opening titles, but that was about it: "HARD COPY. CLANG," or something). I will just have to retype it later. It was just mostly annoying that my computer is on the fritz. It makes me think that it's time to start saving to get a new one!

Second thing: Today has been pretty nice so far, excluding the whole waking up at 6 AM to get to class on time to find out that the teacher doesn't show up and it's a complete waste of me getting up that early. That's actually why I'm sitting here writing right now. I've got some spare time, you know? Why not use it? But before class, I have to say, I took this amazing poop in the 3rd floor Language building restroom. Very satisfying. I think the whole reason why I felt so terribly was that I needed that poop out of my belly. Thanks a lot, party food at the superbowl party!

And I thought I wasn't going to talk about the superbowl! Guess I was wrong.

Just Anything

2011-02-05T16:21:00.000-06:00

I'm sitting on my purple leather couch, which was given to me by my parents, and was part of the cause of my first car wreck. My lady, Michelle, is standing outside in the snow and ice, wearing my teal flip-flops and feeding birds on the patio. She only started feeding the birds this week. I believe it's out of boredom, but she says that it's because she wants to help the poor little critters. The recent icy, then snowy, then snowy icy weather made driving impractical and dangerous. Everywhere I go, I overhear people talking to each other about their experiences with the icy roads, as if they were hardened drivers, crystalized by the terror of the North Texas snow.

Right now, one of Michelle's cats is staring at a mockingbird through a plate glass door. The bird's chest is puffed out, defiant, cautious. The bird hops down to where Michelle had placed the stale crushed snickerdoodles five minutes ago. I'm trying to write something, just anything to create journal entries for my fiction class. I pretty much hate most of what I'm writing these days. I feel like I have no purpose or direction as a writer. I've been abandoned by words.

Fingernails

2011-02-01T20:12:00.000-06:00

I understand the need to protect the tops of our fingers, and to pry little things apart, but I don't feel that fingernails are really that necessary. Especially when they bend backwards and gross me out. Also, I keep them cut short usually, so as they grow longer, it's just another chore that I have to take care of and remember to do. I hate cleaning fingernails as well. Since my job involves dirty stuff, my fingernails are almost always dirty now, even if they're short. My job also requires that I deal with cardboard boxes all day, so my cuticles get cut up a lot.

In other words, I need a manicure.

I really want a cheeseburger right now. Or pizza. However, the roads are all frozen over so it would probably be irresponsible for me to go out there to get food. Even though it was okay for me to go out there and go to work somehow.

I'm having a hard time concentrating on writing right now.

I'm probably going to post a lot now.

2011-01-25T22:09:00.000-06:00

So I'm writing for my fiction class right now, and I'm a bit stumped. I feel like what I'm writing is kind of good, but I have no direction for it, so it makes it seem like each step forward is really a step sideways. The document I'm writing only has to be 3 pages, but I'm having so much trouble coming up with even a single sentence.

I've been writing all night (since I got home today, anyway), and it's all been a struggle. Writing creatively is difficult when you want it to be good.

I don't really know how to end this post.

Journal Post

2011-01-25T20:19:00.000-06:00

I'm going to use this thing like a journal now, so suck it up, dear reader(s). Feel free not to read this thing, but I have to write. It's good practice.

This is the second week of school and I kind of feel a little overwhelmed. I'm taking 16 hours this semester, and on top of that, my managers at work are wanting to increase my hours up to almost 40 a week. You know, just enough to where I'm not full-time, just enough so they don't have to give me benefits or vacation time. Yeah. So anyway, my classes are really piling on the homework. Especially my intro to fiction class. I'm supposed to write something down in a journal daily, for at least an hour, but I honestly don't have that kind of time. Between the other five classes I'm taking, it's hard enough to even finish the homework I have to get done.

Also, I want to tell you about my least favorite class and my favorite class. Because being in the middle is boring unless you're part of a sandwich. My least favorite class this semester is my Popular Music in American Culture class. It's one of those giant lecture hall classes where you never meet the teacher except through his ranting, and he certainly never meets you unless there's a problem. This is great in the sense that I don't like the class and that will go unnoticed because the teacher will not notice me.

This is not so great because the teacher thinks he's got the big balls or something, I don't know. This guy is really into his power trip. On the first day, he kept us late after class to ramble on about whatever inane thing he was rambling about, and some student decided to leave because it was after class time. The "teacher" called him out, yelling at him to sit back down, and the guy said "no thanks," walking out the door.

I have to admire that guy's balls.

Anyway, so the professor yells to his TAs (he has 3 of them for some reason. 3!) to count the guy absent. Better yet, drop him from the class because of his "bad manners." How does the teacher even know the guy's name? He doesn't. How does he expect to drop the kid from the class? Who knows? Why even have schedules if you're not going to abide by them?

I was late to my next class. Thanks, Prof. Dick.

Anyway, my favorite class is Technical Editing (so far). I really enjoy copy editing and proofreading, so this class is going to go very well for me, I think. I also think it's going to be a lot of hard work. On our first quiz, I totally found a typo and called the teacher out on it. Felt good.

Okay, bye!

I don't know what to write.

2011-01-25T20:06:00.000-06:00

I'm supposed to write a lot of journal entries for my Fiction class, but I honestly don't know what to write about. I have a list of "firsts," as you may see by my two previous posts, but none of them seem any good to me right now. I think I'll check on this site I found to help with writer's block. This is the prompt it gave me.

A quiet suburban cul-de-sac. A child's bicycle lies on its side, one wheel slowly turning.

Here we go.

A quiet suburban cul-de-sac. A child's bicycle lies on its side, one wheel slowly turning, the front wheel bent. A car pulled up to the downed metal heap in query of its status. The headlights peered over the spokes and chains, dirtied with bicycle grease. The car crept closer to the bike, crunching tiny pebbles between tires and concrete, making them even tinier. Shadows of the bicycle's body swung from the frame, connecting only at the parts where it touched the concrete. The shadows were like the tiny pebbles.

The driver exited the car, every breath turned to clouds in the chilled night. The car engine continued to run, the headlights stilled and illuminated the broken bicycle. The man, a lanky figure with gangly legs and even ganglier arms, reached to the bike and touched its handlebar. His finger stung from the miniature lightning bolt that flashed between him and the bar.

Fiction Journal

2011-01-25T19:38:00.001-06:00

I know I'm making several posts in one day. Just bear with me, dear reader(s). This entry is probably going to be really short, as I only wrote it within a few minutes. It's another "First."

First Sip of Coffee (Sorry for Telling this One Again, Dad).

I was out with my family, June of the year I beat Zelda: Link to the Past. We were at a plant nursery; it was 100 degrees. My throat was dry. It was a desert cave at noon. I was sweating all of the water from my body, but it wanted more to sweat. I believed in death by thirst in these moments. There were fountains with babies, chubby and winged, pissing clear water into troughs where it recirculated to become more piss. Like my sweat.

I pleaded with Dad to let me drink from the fountain. He suggested his coffee. My dad liked his coffee black, and somehow, despite the swelter of June, the thermos let it get cold. I sipped it as my mom warned me against it. Disgust. Spit take.
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Not very good.

Journal for Fiction Class

2011-01-25T19:08:00.000-06:00

Well, my Intro to Fiction Writing teacher said that I could use the computer to do my daily journals, so I think that's what I'll do. Today, I'm going to do one of the "First" exercises. If you're not familiar with it, they're exercises where I just write and write and write about the "first" something; it can be anything, like the first time I drank coffee, or my first kiss, or the first time I ate cheese. Whatever I want. This one is the first time I climbed a tree (even though really, it's not completely true).

The Left Mimosa

It was a mimosa tree in my grandparents' back yard, well, there were two really, but the left one sucked. I would climb into the branches of the tree, thinking about lazing like a gibbon in the jungle. My sister would come outside mere seconds after me, demanding the use of the right mimosa, but I had already settled into it and I was the gibbon. More accurately, I was a sloth, full to the brim with berries and fruit flies, them buzzing in my belly, eating the fruit as I was digesting it. Their tiny lives would be over soon, but for that moment, they had a feast in front of them.

I sat in the tree, my sister stood below awaiting my departure, the fruit flies gorged. I told her to climb the left tree, but she wouldn't have it. My older sister believed in the authority given by God's egg timer.

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Well, that's it for that one. I just wanted to get that one down in some more permanent form than my notebook. I actually wrote that one during class on the first day. Yay school!

A Scent Ascends an Ascent.

2010-08-30T09:23:00.000-05:00

Okay, so I feel badly about the fact that I haven't blogged here in over a month. I don't feel bad because I've let someone else down or something, more that I've let myself be complacent. However, I have some free time between classes, so I guess I'll write something here.

So I'm listening to Justin Bieber's "U Smile" slowed down 800% (and trying to find the "%" on my keyboard). I somehow doubt that this is actually Bieber's song, but it is pretty and beautifully ambient. Maybe I'll start listening to more ambient music more often. I forgot how much I enjoy the form of the lack of form.

Having 3 hours between classes is not cool. I think I'm going to have to bring movies to watch on my laptop or something. Okay, I'm done.

Inception

2010-07-17T21:00:00.000-05:00

Michelle and I saw the new movie, Inception, last night. I have to say that this was probably my favorite movie of the year (Toy Story 3 might be tied with it, though.). The plot is basically The Matrix meets Mission: Impossible meets Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but ends up as more than the sum of its respective parts. It's definitely the best editing I've probably ever seen in a movie. During the climax of the movie, they have five different levels plot going concurrently, and I was never confused by it. The best part to me, though, is definitely the ending. I don't want to give anything away, so I'll just say that Michelle and I were blown away at the end of the movie, and had discussions about our theories for a couple of hours.

Anyway, I said all that to say this: Go see this movie.

The theatre where we went to see this movie was pretty interesting too. It was the Walnut $5/$3 theatre in Garland. I've never been there before, so I was interested in seeing a cheap movie even if we had to drive a little further than normal. However, when we saw this sad tiny building with purple neon border lights and "$5 Adult $3 Child" written on it in a dark parking lot surrounded by abandoned buildings, I was a little creeped out. So we walked up to the box office, and the guy points for us to come inside to pay. He opens the door to the thing and just stands there, saying "$10." Cash only. I saw a "Creature from the Black Lagoon" pinball machine and 2 others as well. The guy goes to flip a switch and they come on.

Only $2.50 for a large coke? This theatre is awesome.

Then the bombshell: They're closing in August. Lame! Just when we find a diamond in the rough.

Wiierdo!

2010-07-16T09:43:00.002-05:00

I probably didn't mention this on my blog here before, but if you're a friend on Facebook, you might know that for the past few months, my Wii hasn't been working properly. Basically, it will do everything but play games...Which is the whole reason I bought it...so yeah. I sent it in to Nintendo to have it fixed, and they just sent me an email saying that it's coming back to me within 3-4 business days! Yay!

Yesterday was pretty cool because I met Olivia Munn! She was even skinnier than I thought she would be in person. It was kind of surreal because I felt like I was watching an episode of Attack of the Show but just really close up. She signed her book that I bought (and read that day), as well as my iPhone case. This is a photo of her thumbs-upping with me!

Pretty neat, eh?! Also note how I'm wearing my SNES belt buckle which I made myself! All the buttons still work and everything. While I was in the line to get her to sign my stuff, I chit-chatted with a bunch of other nerds. It was fun. They told me about what games they were playing, I told them about the games I was playing, etc. They thought I was in some sort of time warp, though because I happen to still play NES and SNES titles. I thought most people who still had working systems did.

Oh well!

I have changed the layout of my blog here just a smidgen, as well as my CWE layout. I have also monetized CWE so if you click a link to an ad, I will get paid money! So do it!

Bye now.

Nihilism

2010-06-29T17:23:00.000-05:00

I've been thinking today about death and life. Pretty much nothing that we do in life matters. Out of 6 billion people in the world, who is going to be remembered 100 years from now? Why do years even matter? Nothing we do affects anything.

I guess I just wish that there was some way I could know what I could do to make something big happen. Or even just to have a happy and good life. I think things would be better if I could see the future, even if I could do nothing to change it. At least it would make decisions easier.

Birthday

2010-06-24T09:56:00.000-05:00

Yesterday I started saying "I am 25" instead of "I will be 25." It feels like I'm going to fit pretty snugly in this age. It's a nice round number, and my car insurance premium goes down because of it. Although, since I'm turning 1/4 of a century old, it makes me think about aging and death. I guess my main thought is that I would really like New Game + as an option in life. You get through the whole story arc, then once the ending comes, you have the option to start over again with all the resources and knowledge that you had at the end of the last time. I would be a baby genius prodigy! Also, I wouldn't have to worry so much about trivial things.

I went to Nickelrama with friends and ate deliciously unhealthy food yesterday to celebrate. Glorious.

Man, nobody reads this blog. Haha!

2010-06-11T11:30:00.000-05:00

Well, I finished "Assassin's Creed 2" the other day, and realized that I missed one of the achievements in the game, and you can't go back to retry that stage to get the achievement. Ridiculous! So I played through the game again until I got to that point and got the achievement. 5 gamer points later, I've got the game packed up for return mailing to Gamefly.

I've burned 5 lbs. so far. Not bad for only having been on this diet for 8 days or so. Also, I found that my endurance is getting just a little bit better. I'll be updating here whenever interesting things happen as far as weight burning goes.

I updated the look of my other (more awesome) blog, Celebrities Without Eyebrows. Tell me if you like it or don't!

Anyway, time to vacuum! Bye.

Switcharoo!!

2010-06-06T16:37:00.000-05:00

Okay so I decided a few days ago that I'm too fat! Turns out, I was right! I've decided to start getting in shape. Here is my plan:

1. Cut intake
2. Exercise

Pretty awesome planning, right?! I think so! So far, this plan has worked out, and I've already burned 4 pounds. Not bad, John! I've also cut out greasy foods and soda. That doesn't mean I've sworn them off completely, but just using AMAZING WILLPOWER to not eat those things like I have been. Also, I've been using the Lose It! app on my iPhone to keep track of how much I eat and exercise, as well as how much weight I lose and how close I am to my goal.

I've also decided that I really don't like it when people say that they "lost" X pounds. Nobody just loses weight, people work at it. If you woke up one day suddenly 5 pounds lighter and you did nothing to make it happen, I can understand that term. Otherwise, no.

Have you ever seen that show on TLC called Hoarding: Buried Alive? This show makes me feel like I NEED to clean. EVERYTHING. I can't stop watching it, though!

Summer!!

2010-05-21T15:22:00.000-05:00

Okay, so it's been a long time since I wrote anything in here. I haven't had anything to write about! However, today brought something worth mentioning!

I went swimming for the first time this year! Yay! I LOVE swimming so much. The beauty of it lies within the illusion of weightlessness. It makes me believe that if I went to space, I would be very happy. Speaking of weightlessness, I read Superman/Batman: Absolute Power last night. It was really interesting to see Superman and Batman being completely different from their regular natures.

Just until Monday

2010-04-29T21:00:00.000-05:00

I just got an email from one of my Technical Writing professors in which she basically tells me to rewrite the whole thing. This is part of a huge project that's been going on for the entire semester, and I'm completely over it. I just don't want to do this anymore.

The company we've been working with didn't even give us proper perimeters for this project. When they initially discussed the potential topics, they weren't going to give us copies of the information. It's like pulling teeth to get answers from them about how they run the company (how can we propose a new way to do something at a company when we don't know how you do it currently?). Instead of putting people that have no knowledge of the subject in charge of directing the flow of information to the students, maybe they should have had subject matter experts there to answer questions.

I don't care if we win the "grand prize" of maybe $100 or so at the end. I just want to be through and make an A. Seriously.

Our presentation is Monday and we still have loads of work to do, but my team has been almost no help. I don't care if they read this. They know it's true. I'm the one who made the powerpoint, wrote the proposal re-wrote the proposal when they told us they didn't like our idea, designed every single document, created the solutions to the problems, did about half of the research, created the logo, tag line, and visual style of the whole project, created several versions of everything so they could have choices, printed everything, edited, re-edited, re-re-re-re-edited.

I kind of wish I hadn't had a group so I could have just done it all myself how I wanted, and would have gotten all of the justly deserved credit. If I don't make an A on this, I will probably go nuts.

Thank you and goodnight.

My head is throbbing!

2010-04-27T17:06:00.000-05:00

I have a headache. I've been getting headaches a lot recently. I don't really understand why.

Recently, I started playing Words With Friends (Scrabble for the iPhone) against my high school Creative Writing teacher, and I have to say it's completely cathartic to play excellent words with high scores against him. It's like a rite of passage for English nerds.

I kind of fixed my Wii recently. It's still inconsistent, though. Sad.

Hello! I am Princee of niGeria.?

2010-04-23T18:42:00.000-05:00

Okay, so I normally don't read junk email, but I think I may have just stumbled on my favorite one ever.

Hello, Steve,
I've heard that your wife is about to give birth to your firstling and you're going to be present at the childbirth.
You know, two years ago I became a father too, but after I had seen my young wife in labor I couldn't bring myself to make love to her for several months.
So there are a few tips on how to avoid my sad experience.

Then it has a link to what I'm sure is some scam of a website. The best part about this email (other than the awesome term "firstling" which I am SO using if I ever have a kid) is that the email was from "Martha Jacobson." Now, I don't know if Martha is a guy's name in some other country, but here I have found it's mostly for the ladies. So does that mean that this person's a lesbian who is also somehow a father? Or maybe they were just really unfortunate when it comes to being named.

Also, what a douche. You watch your wife give birth to your firstling and you don't even have the decency to impregnate her again immediately afterward? What a terrible person.

Crybaby

2010-04-23T12:43:00.000-05:00

Guys, guys....this is crazy, guys...

Guys...

Can you believe this stuff? First off, this coach has the balls and the follow-through to get a baby trophy engraved and name it "the crybaby award," then he actually gives it to the kid in front of all of his teammates. I bet the kid whined about it on stage. I think that it's probably a good thing to try to learn a kid to stop being such a crybaby, but that probably isn't the best way to do it.

But it's still really funny.

I doubt that the crybaby award caused him to delve into a life of crime. It probably stems from him being a crybaby to begin with.

We've been holding this moment for you.

2010-04-16T17:00:00.000-05:00

Last night, Michelle, Natalia and I went to see Clash of the Titans, which wasn't all that great. I definitely like the original more. What does bother me about both movies, though, is that the Kraken wasn't even in Greek mythology. Also, there isn't even one appearance by one Titan in either movie. So it goes.

I've been doing laundry all day, watching Law & Order. I think I may have seen every single episode (excluding episodes released within the past 2 or 3 years). Also, I started playing "Ico" again. By "again," I mean that I finally decided to play through for more than an hour. It's kind of a hard game to get into, even if you like the prequel, "Shadow of the Colossus."

Time to go outside and do something fun! Bye.

He Should Work on Space Invaders Next!

2010-04-12T00:59:00.000-05:00

I've changed my layout on here, and I think it looks lovely! Thanks Natalia for helping me figure out the html! I spent way too long on fine-tuning the colors on this blog. Let me know what you think about it.

Someone blasted away the world record high score for Asteroids recently. What's crazy is that he played for 58 straight hours, and beat the score that was set in 1982. That's before I was born. Congratulations, man. You have achieved a dream!

Bye!

Customization

2010-04-10T10:14:00.000-05:00

Okay, very few people who might ever read this, I have a question for you. How do I change my background color on this blog?! I'm not talking about the background for the text, but that greyish color behind all of the other stuff on the page. It's totally not a color I would have chosen, and I would really like to change it.

Yes, I've gone through the color editor thing AND looked through all of the html for my customization. For some reason, I can't seem to find the stupid line of code that lets me change the color.

Anyway, I went to see Date Night last night, and it was pretty good! It made me laugh out loud a lot of times, and it was put together well.

Okay, funny picture time.

Another Semester Older and Deeper in Debt

2010-04-06T22:41:00.000-05:00

I don't know if anyone knows about this (or anyone reads this blog and knows about this), but The Angelika theatre here in Dallas plays the TV show Lost every week. Unfortunately, since it's the last season of the show, people come earlier and earlier, so you have to get there almost an hour before if you want to get some good seats. Even more unfortunate: they show Dancing with the Stars before the feature presentation.

What a lame show.

Also, why did they kick Buzz Aldrin off?! He is definitely the coolest guy. He's the only person that I recognized, plus he's the only one that has BEEN IN SPACE. Come on, people. He moonwalked for REAL!

So I took this impromptu, unexpected Law and Order nap today and woke up COMPLETELY disoriented. I thought I had to jump up and go to school or something, even though I have no classes today. Which, by the way, I signed up for classes for the coming semesters. In the Summer, I'll take 2nd level Spanish, and then in Fall I'm taking Advanced Poetry Writing, Analysis and Interpretation, Linguistics, and 3rd level Spanish. I'm excited that I have my courses lined up! Now I just have to pay for them. Student loans, here I come!

As opposed to growing shorter?

2010-04-04T23:10:00.000-05:00

My hair is growing longer.

I think we should add (and wet) to every holiday name somehow.

2010-04-02T10:45:00.000-05:00

Well it's been a little while since I made a blog post. I guess I've just not had anything to write about the past couple of days. Anyway, for the past few days, Michelle and I have attempted to go play tennis on one of the courts they have at my apartments, but the courts are always booked. So she has today off; we figure that we'll find SOME time to go play today.

And it's raining. Awesome. "Good (and wet) Friday." Maybe we'll go to a mall and play some mini golf instead.

By the way, have you seen the latest Celebrities Without Eyebrows? A couple of my favorite TV show hosts are on there!

I bought a new 8 GB flash drive the other day, and it absolutely blows my mind that we can store SO much information in such a small place. Every time I think of it, I'm reminded of my mom talking about this quote from Star Trek in which Spock holds up something of similar size and states "This has all the earth's information in it" or something to that effect. THE FUTURE is here! Now we just need some jetpacks and transporters! Come on, science!

This is totally cool. My favorite has to be Ferris Bueller.

Six Foot Hole in One

2010-03-28T12:21:00.000-05:00

Well this is totally awesome. I don't know why this hasn't been done before! I guess there weren't enough people dying, so the funeral home opened the mini golf course to rake in some extra bucks? Yes, you read that question right. Click the link.

Last night, Michelle, the Lees, Maeve, Jesse and I went out to Nickelrama, which was GREAT! I love arcades, especially one that uses nickels instead of quarters. If anyone ever wanted to get me something really over the top for a birthday or Christmas, you could get me a Legend of Zelda pinball machine. I know they don't have them, that's why it would be totally over the top (and I would probably love you forever just for that).

Weekends are nice, everyone. I'm hungry, time to get some food.

Stalling

2010-03-26T15:51:00.000-05:00

Well I'm stalling from doing my proposal for Tech Writing. I'm so bad about procrastinating. I think I'm in a very "blah" type of mood, despite having laid out in the sun for an hour earlier (working on my tan, haha).

Do you ever feel like you missed out on something great?

Brighter, Happier, Distorted.

2010-03-25T17:06:00.000-05:00

So I posted in my old blog to state that I'm no longer posting in it, and I have moved here. Before I did, though, I read through a couple of years' worth of entries. I realized that I miss the simplicity of those times, but I wonder if one day I will miss the simplicity of these times. As we age, the past becomes brighter and blurs until it reaches a level of false nirvana.

I wonder if when I'm 80, if I can still read this, what feelings I will have. I wonder if I will make it to 80.

I'm supposed to be working on a paper for school, but I have decided to put it off because I am lazy. Or maybe it's that I am not motivated to write an Executive Summary for a proposal document.

I read in my old livejournal about my feelings toward people with whom I no longer have contact. I guess I miss some of them.

You're in hot water now!!

2010-03-24T16:37:00.001-05:00

So apparently sometimes hot water can freeze faster than cold water. Think it doesn't make sense? Read about it. Puts a whole new meaning on icy-hot! They say that the reason is because the cold water is distilled and the hot water is from the tap (which has additional chemicals like flouride and who knows what random sewage). Of course, this makes sense because you can heat distilled water up beyond its regular boiling point and it doesn't boil.

(I LOVE Mythbusters)

Anyway, science is weird, guys. All kinds of new and odd things coming up every day. You know, except jetpacks on a consumer level. Come on, science! Get with it, we're already a decade into THE FUTURE.

Here's a funny picture for you guys!

Okay, maybe it's a little wrong. But I still get a laugh out of it!

Celebrities Without Eyebrows!

2010-03-23T10:10:00.000-05:00

So I have decided to make another blog! It's called Celebrities Without Eyebrows. Basically, I Photoshop out the eyebrows from your favorite celebrities and make them look WEIRD! You should all check it out.

Death is the Road to Awe

2010-03-20T09:55:00.000-05:00

"Death is a disease, it's like any other. And there's a cure. A cure - and I will find it." is a quote from Darren Aronofsky's movie The Fountain, which is probably one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. Also, this little critter achieved that goal.

I am so excited about this little guy, it's crazy! You should read the full article about him (it's short). It just blows my mind that there are creatures that can do this and that we haven't done something with it. If people were able to recycle their cells like this jellyfish, it would be amazing.

Too bad it wasn't that one from Robin Hood.

2010-03-19T21:50:00.000-05:00

So I was goofing around this big old "internet" thing, and I saw a site that will tell you what song was #1 on the Billboard charts on your birthdate. So I looked mine up.

This is it.

Not bad, people from 1985. Not bad.

I've decided I'm going to upload at least one funny picture at intervals when I feel like it.
Here you go!

Eating Animals

2010-03-18T14:17:00.000-05:00

I'm watching "Man Vs. Wild" right now on Discovery Channel. I totally love this show. He's currently eating this lizard and during the process, he tells us that the lizard meat is tough, but it was a tough lizard too, so it makes sense. So of course, I start thinking about how we eat animals I don't know if you guys know about this, but my favorite author, Jonathan Safran Foer, has a new book about this. I haven't read it. If anyone would like to buy it for me, I'd welcome it!

But doesn't it seem odd that we eat the flesh of other living beings? Makes me think about how we're all just meat.

I think I'm going to go outside.

Beethoven/West?

2010-03-10T23:36:00.000-06:00

Kanye West stands alongside true genius, but does he measure up?

Judge for yourself.

Do you guys know of any good mashups otherwise?

You Hillbilly!

2010-03-09T17:16:00.000-06:00

Well, I spent most of today enjoying springtime weather. Does "Springtime Weather" sound like a song from the 60s? I think so.

I know hardly anyone reads this blog, but I thought I'd give my mom a bit of free advertising. Her musical talent is solid and classic. She's a singer/songwriter whose voice is ethereal and breathy at times, but full at others. Though she's only accompanied by her guitar, it's not a lonesome sound. Anyway, you should give her a listen.

Right now, the sun shines in my eyes. Bells of train track crossings ring and my patio door is open. Trash bags sit on my porch, waiting for me to transfer them into the dumpster several yards away. After that, someone will dump them into a truck, then onto a landfill. Then they will decompose.

But isn't that the fate of us all?

I beat the original Bioshock game again. It's awesome still, even after the second one changed the play mechanics. Apparently, Valve is making another Portal game, and I am really excited.

What do you think of this?

March

2010-03-01T15:34:00.000-06:00

So today is my second anniversary of dating Michelle, but I'm at school all day today, and she's working. We celebrated yesterday at Fogo De Chao, which was AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS. If you are a vegetarian, you would not want to go there, because pretty much the only thing they have is delicious meat! It's totally awesome because they just come around and give you meat whenever you want.

See that? It's wonderful.

Anyway, I'm starting the fifth Harry Potter audiobook today. I love audiobooks! I like all the funny voices.

Cool Shades, Bro!

2010-02-25T11:35:00.000-06:00

You guys. This is probably the coolest thing you will ever see. If you thought regular sunglasses were cool, you were MISTAKEN.

I can only imagine how cool you would look if you had those sunglasses and this going on.

Didn't Get Caught With Pants Down

2010-02-22T18:48:00.000-06:00

Okay, so this is probably the silliest reason to go to jail ever. I wonder if his belt buckle looked anything like this?

Tech Writing

2010-02-22T14:16:00.000-06:00

Well, I'm doing some blogging during Tech Writing. I should probably be working on my paper, which I turned in a half-finished rough draft today. Then again, I worked on it all weekend, so bump that mug!

I went to see "The World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions" last night with my sister, her husband and my lady. They did some trotting and prancing. Also, they pooped around the place. I think this is probably the only venue where people ever pay real people money to go see animals take dumps while prancing around.I guess if people paid money to see me poop, I'd be prancing too. Overall, it was a good show, and the popcorn was delicious!

I've been listening to the Harry Potter audio books recently (just started #4 today), and I've been thinking that it would be totally awesome to have an owl that could deliver letters and actually accept commands. And not bite me. And also that I could do magic.

Olympian Doppelganger

2010-02-20T22:15:00.000-06:00

I'm watching the Olympics despite my NBC boycott (I'm with Coco), and I'm seeing that Apolo Ohno guy skating. Then it hit me that I recognize him not from Olympic related events or commercials or anything, but because he looks just like Jonathan Brandis!

Apolo, Jonathan, you guys need to Facebook doppelganger each other!

Entry 1

2010-02-20T11:09:00.000-06:00

This is my first entry on Blogger.com. I have decided that I will no longer use Livejournal.com for my blogging, but I will leave those accounts open so that if you want to look at my old ramblings, you can.

Here is the link.

johnmorgan

Also, I have a webcomic of sorts that I used to make and will probably start drawing again soon.

phantasmatadefacto

Anyway, I don't think anyone will read this, but I will act like you will!

If you were the last man alive on Earth, what would be the point of your existence? You know, I was going to write this long, introspective thought about the meaning of existence, but I think it would be trite.

So I'm writing in this blog here, and I feel good about it. Except that I have two projects I need to finish for Monday. But isn't that always how I end up writing these journals? When I should be doing other things? Anyway, there will be more to come from me now! I feel invigorated to write! I just hope that someone reads it!