"Okay, I'm going to throw this cockroach off the roof and I want you to stand down there and tell me if you can hear it land."

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In other news: Transformers opens in less than a month. Who wants to go see it with me on opening night? (or some other night, if that doesn't work out)
7.4.07, mark your calendars.

I have a new phone.
It's the same number.
And my old one was returned, so I can get phone numbers off it. >_O

Pop Quiz:

Here's two trivia questions which have randomly occurred to me:

Used in both hospitals and EVA suits, what is a WCU and what does it do?
What is the etymology of the word "bible?"

Answers when I feel like posting them! :[]
Not that I've any doubt that my clever readers (fans, groupies, people who feel sorry for me (probably the latter....), or whatever) will have any difficulty uncovering the answers.
But you only get points if you don't use the internet to so. :P

Iron Man Vs. Doctor Doom:

In the words of Anonymous: "Because one is an evil Tyrannical despot in metal armour, and the other is Dr. Doom"

Wait....where's my phone?

My cell phone got stolen.
I lent it to a guy at the bar, got distracted talking to someone else, and next thing I know he's gone, and so's my phone. D:
With, of course, nearly all of my contact information.
>_<
This is like, the fourth time this year I've gotten screwed while trying to help strangers.
Each time I get more wary, but...apparently not enough.
Whatever happened to altruism being a good thing?
I hate this neighborhood sometimes.
And sometimes, I love it. *shrug*
I may have found a DnD group.
Maybe.
Probably won't work out on account of my general reclusiveness.
*sigh*

Check out our eb site!

Don't remember which store had that sign, but they lost their w.
Anyway.
Circuit city was out of what I wanted.
Best Buy had the same computer for significantly more...
*sigh*
Guess I'll have to wait.
Dissapointment Coping Mechanism #1: Go spend money somewhere else!
I went to see Shreck 3.
It wasn't bad.



"If you stranded Wolverine on an island with no food, he'd starve to death, but only after caloric energy lost to entropy made it impossible for him to regenerate his limbs after eating them"
This is what I get for complaining about Wolverine on /co/

Upgrade.

Got my federal tax return check.
I'm buying a new computer.
Maybe next year's return'll get me a Wii... >_<
Meh
I'm sure my financial situation will improve before that.
I hope.
I still don't know what level of subsidation I can expect from my parents if (when) I go back to school.
When will that be?
I really want to, but I don't think I want to just go part time and keep working full time as I'd originally planned, and my father suggested, even if it's just for the first semester or two.
I'd kind of like to jump right back in where I left off, only take it slower. My most successful semesters in the past were the ones where I took only 12 credit hours (not including band) instead of 16 (not including band)
I will be doing band again...I hope.
And archery club, assuming I end up at UD like I intend to.
I hear Wright state has a fencing team/club, but...
Well, rather be doing something I already know I'm good (competent) at, even if I'm not competitive (I might even have a chance to play soccer again...although intramurals are a level of commitment I won't want, busy as I'll be) than something I've never tried, interested though I may have been.
So band and archery.
And writing lesson plans...
And lab reports.
I think I'll get my education and G.E. requirements out of the way first, and then get my bio stuff done.
I think I will hold out for a B.S. in biology even though most edu/subject area double majors get B.A.s in both.
But when (if) I decide to keep working on my degree after I'm in the field, I'll want to pursue my masters (PhD? wouldn't that be something) in biology.
Probably with a primary focus in zoology; as interesting as genetics are, soo was and is my greatest love since I first picked up that illustrated book on animals when I was a child.
It had a red squirrel on the cover.
Yeah.
I'm gonna go buy my computer.
Here's to hoping I can afford internet some day.


Wow...I didn't mean to write that much.
I just started and...stream of conciousness.
See? I haven't even stopped yet.
How'm I gonna install iTunes on my new computer without internet?
Not to mention other programs.
Jeez.
This internet thing is such a pain.
Ugh.
Still.
New computer.
Happy thoughts.
Gotta go.
Bai. :D

Hare today, Goon tomorrow.

Unfortunately, I didn't make it to church yesterday, so last week's happy event of being the first time in almost three (two and ahalf?) years that I've gone is, as yet, an isolated event. (Though I still intend to make it a habit.) Unfortunately, yesterday I was just too tired. This is, for once not do to a failure on my part, as I skipped my (usually) daily trip to the library in order to go to bed early. However, although I can control when I go to sleep, I can't control when I'll be awakened prematurely by exuberant children who are enojoying the spring weather. Groggy and tired though I may be, I can't suffer myself to curtail their jubilation (should such an act even be achievable) simply for some few more (selfish?) hours of somnolence.
And I really just wrote this for the sake of the last sentence...
Anyway, I'll make sure to go next week.

LINK!

It took me a full minute to get this, but when I did, I startled several people.
One of the problems of using a library computer, I suppose.

Saturday mornings...

There are a few things I like about them.
Like, that the freeway is so uncrowded on my morning drive home.
And...NO TALK RADIO!
Just music.
And now that it's spring, that means that I can roll down my windows, turn the radio up till I can hear it over the sounds of the freeway, and the wind generated by going 65 miles per hour with the windows down, and just sit back and let the sound wash over me and watch the sun come up.
Anyone else ever notice how beautiful the sunrise is when you're driving north on I-75?
I see it every day as I work my way home through all the anxious commuters who are just starting their days and I wonder, if any of them ever manages to appreciate it.
The way some of them hurry along, I doubt it.
Don't these people know what kind of an effect speeding has on your gas mileage?
It comes to about 20 cents per gallon for every five mph over you go...
Ah well.
You can tell a man where to look, but you cannot open his eyes.
I'm just glad I've finally gotten around to opening mine.

Gaaaah!
I started a poem sometime last year, and I want to finish it now that I have ideas again but I can't find the notebook it's written in! D:

Oh, and Tom, you're right, Kevin Costner would make a good Aquaman.

Intellect Vs. Faith

Hmm.
Just wanna say somethin'.
I've struggle for years trying to reconcile my faith with a rational world.
And then I realized, I don't have to.
That's why it's faith.
It's a liberating revelation.
I like it.
:D

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day...
- MacBeth

That's what work feels like anymore, a petty pace.
Just one day after another, the same meaningless chores.
I need to get into another department. >_<
And I'm sure I had lots of other, brilliant things to say, but I can't remember them.

Karaoke

Yeah, I got drunk and sang "Desperado" in front of a bar full of (mostly) old people.
Like, the average age was probably 40-50.
A few people closer to my age, but I still felt like a kid.
But then, after a double shot of Jack and a couple of beers, I was to drunk to mind.
Then I went home and read comic books till I got bored, watched Groundhog Day, remembered why I shouldn't watch romantic comedies by my self (they remind me how depressingly single I am), by then I was sober so I started some spring cleaning.
And then came to the library, but I should get back to cleaning....

Y'know, I've come to realize something recently.
My faith, both the traditional Protestant Christianity I was raised with and my own more philosphical and liberal and (for some, uncumfortably) non-biblical spin on it, is important to me.
I love humanity, for that I despise the evil inherent in it and in my self.
And I've realized that my love for humanity is a facet of something greater.
I love Jesus.
I may not trust the Bible (especially the parts by Paul, conservatism often looks far to much like bigotry to me. And though I possibly shouldn't bring up the 'gay' issue, I am very much aware that this is the biggest bone of contention between mainstream christianity and my own beliefs. I simply cannot accept that love is wrong.), and I may not trust the church (fellowship is about people, not organizations) I still believe in Jesus and salvation.
But I don't really live like it.

...I've forgotten where I was going with this.

This'll have to do.
I guess it's time I started to turn my life around, and get back on the right track.
But I could use a kick in the ass or two.
And I don't intend to stop being controversial, shocking, or to stop playing devils advocate in religious discussions.
Heh.
And since I've been reading Nietzsche lately, I'll quote him:
"I love him who chastizes his god because he loves his god, because he must perish of the wrath of his god." - from Also Sprach Zarathustra, from the Prologue, Part 4, Kaufman translation.

God Bless America! Fuck Yeah!

Pardon our American.

Anyway, if they made a Justice League of America movie, and you could pick any actor (from any era) to play any JLA'er (former or present) who would you pick?
So far I've come up with:
Wonder Woman: Demi Moore, I really can't think of anyone better suited to the role.
Batman: Clint Eastwood (assuming he only appears in costume, no Bruce Wayne)
Superman: Christopher Reeve, a Superman on and off the screen.

Okay, I've got the easy ones, now it's your turn:
There's Black Canary, The Flash, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan or Kyle Rainer, the rest were never JLA (I think)), Aquaman, The Martian Manhunter, Green Arrow (I'm thinking Johnny Depp, but blonde) and Plastic Man (Only Jim Carrey could pull that off).

And anyone else I've forgotten.
And yes, I do seem to be on a real comic book spree lately.

Check my dA page for poetic developments.

Change, Change O form of man; And rise the demon Etrigan!

Etrigan, for those of you who may not know, is a DC Comics character who has appeared in several Batman storylines as well as having his own title (The Demon.)
Wiki HERE.
Despite the fact that his actions tend to be beneficial to humanity in general, his disregard for individual human life has put him at odds with our regular heroes on a few occaisons.
One of my favorite scenes in DC history is when Green Arrow puts the flame spewing Etrigan down with, yes, a fire-extinguisher arrow. This prompts Batman to comment: "I will never, ever mock your trick arrows again."

In other news, something happened today which I have been waiting for ever since I became a cashier.
$19.84 as the total on an order.
I got out my wallet, told the man he'd just won five dollars, and handed him a pair of two dollar bills....or at least, I would've but, I only had one, and anyhow, I'm poor and he probably wouldn't have gotten the joke.

Omnium

Now consider the rain. Each drop is an idividual entity, plummeting from it's birth in the clouds to it's inevitable death.
So do we also plummet from birth. A single drop represents a life, its awareness, its works, its ideals.
Consider a lake. As a drop of rain falls upon the lake it is no more, and yet it is. All that the drop was made of still exists, but it is no longer an individual, Instead it has become but a part of something greater. On the moment of impact, it becomes indistinguishable from the whole, and thus becomes the whole.
So for us is the moment of death. What most men fear in death is that lack of concious awareness which we name oblivion. We fear to become nothing. Instead we should have hope to become everything.

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1. Where is your cell phone? - Pocket
2. Describe your boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife/lover? - missing
3. Your hair? - short
4. Your mother? - loving
5. Your father? - brilliant
6. Your favorite item? -soft
7. Your dream last night? - unrememberd
8. Your favorite drink? - Ski
9. Your dream car? - Jeep
10. The room you are in? - Library
11. Your ex? - over
12. Your fear? - isolation
13. What do you want to be in 10 years? - teaching
14. Who did you hang out with last night? - media/literature
15. What you're not? - unhappy
19. The last thing you did? - thought
20. What are you wearing? - turtleneck
21. Your favorite book? - rabbits
22. The last thing you ate? - chicken
24. Your mood? - grey
25. Your friends? - absent
26. What are you thinking about right now? - words
27. Your car? - old
28. What are you doing at the moment? - typing
29. Your summer? - JTB
30. Your relationship status? - lonely
31. What is on your tv? - stereo
32. When is the last time you laughed? - work
33. Last time you cried? - drunk
34. School? - returning
Copy.
Paste.
Answer.
One.
Word.

Pandora Radio: Too good for Christian Music.

WTF.
Pandora doesn't have Casting Crowns or Twila Paris?
Indie Music? Sure, they have it.
Mainstream Christian? Yep.
I mean, I can understand missing a few here and there, but Twila Paris?
Honestly.
I'm upset.