Well, yes, it would be accurate to say that I've been neglecting my journal. But it won't seem like I have been to any of you, since by the time any of you actually get to read this, you'll be reading this and my previous one at the same time, which will, in your subjective consciousness, make it seem to you that there wasn't a big delay between this and the last one and rather that a big delay was between the previous one and the one before that. That's one of the reasons I haven't felt even slightly guilty about neglecting my journal.
When it all gets put back up, I'm sure Hans will have put stuff on the main page disclosing what happened, but I'll give you my own version of events anyway. What happened: Server admin ran out of ca$h and neglected to tell us this in time for us to do anything about it. Our stuff went away. He told us he would put up the files one day for us to get our things "later this week" (this was two weeks ago) and he hasn't been online since, as far as we can tell. I have most of my files backed up on my hard drive, but that STUPID HANS doesn't have most of his artwork backed up so if that guy doesn't put our files back up for serious before we get a new server I am SO going to lynch him and also rip the head back off his voodoo doll too! T_T!!!
My pants unexpectedly split. I don't know how it happened. I came home from eating at Wendy's and then went to the euphemism, and while I was making myself newly clad, I noticed they were split. They weren't split when I was at Wendy's or when I came home from Wendy's. I don't know how they split. I haven't gained weight or anything... in fact, if anything I've probably lost some since I've been playing a LOT of DDR lately. It is soo strange! But these jeans were kind of weird anyway. They're size 9, but they fit all tight... which WOULD be a me issue and not a them issue if not for the fact that some khakis I have (from the same brand) are size 5 and fit exactly the same O_O
Uh-oh. My friend lent me Secret of Mana (or Legend of Mana... I don't remember which, it's the PS one) and I can't find it. I've looked a bunch of places too. ¬_¬()
You know those ugly stupid moths that I hate so much? They RETURNED TO HAUNT ME FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE I picked up some of my cute stuffed animals from my inflatable penguin chair and two moth corpses were behind them and I was all like "XO!!" because even if they're all dead they still torment me!!! I hate them! Hate hate hate!
I had some other stuff to say. I mean, something specific I was going to say, not as in I'm ending the journal entry. I'm sure it was terribly significant, but..... nope! It's gone.
I have this really intelligent friend. However, he gets really, REALLY stupid when he's tired. I didn't know this, and now I do. It's kind of amusing. I mean, he's REALLY intelligent, but right now he's REALLY stupid. So strange.
Ooh ooh! So like, I auditioned for Pop Show (a choir concert featuring modern/popular music with dancing and solo acts and stuff) with Freckles (Kenshin theme) and Melodies of Life (from FFIX). I didn't sing very well at my auditions because I was very tired and my voice has been having a tendency to malfunction lately O_O()()()() but I figured I would still probably get in because I made All-State and Scurlock has the final decision-- and she PUTS All-Staters in Pop Show. O_O Anyway, I thought I would get in with Freckles because it's upbeat and energetic and stuff, and that's the kind of stuff she wants for Pop Show... I auditioned also with Melodies of Life because I really like the song, but I didn't think it would make it in because it's so slow. However, that's the one that made it, and now I'm like "oh no!" because Greg and Jamie were gonna be my background dancers for Freckles and do a bunch of retarded stuff, but they can't do that kind of stuff in Melodies of Life O_O And there's a really long instrumental break and I don't know what I'll do during it XO I hadn't thought about this stuff before because I really didn't think Melodies of Life would make it in, that's why. *shrug* So I'm going to ask Melissa, our resident choreographer and the choir president, to help me come up with some stage movement XD() and hopefully Jamie and Greg could still do something. It just wouldn't be retarded. However, from the nature of the song, I think more than likely either Jamie and Greg or Greg and I are going to have to act like we're in love =D() ::pictures Jamie and Greg waltzing or something:: WA HA HA HA.
I was compelled by the small yet intensely satisfying delicacy known as 8-Bit Theater to play Final Fantasy (1). At first, further inspired by the previously alluded, my party consisted of a Fighter, a Black Mage, a Red Mage, and a Thief, whom I named, respectively, "d00d", "Eep!", "Ivan", and "Eddy". Then, out of my own stupidity, while operating my NES emulator (which I hate because of its name but like because it works nicely as what it is, which is an NES emulator, and if you ever go look at a list of NES emulators you'll be able to guess which one I've got), I clicked Save State instead of Restore State and my level 11, ready to go tear it up in the Dwarves' Cavern with some TNT, product of hours and hours of hard work, party left me behind forever. I was very devastated. And felt very stupid. As stupid as THAT HANS WHO DOESN'T BACK UP HIS BLOG, JOURNAL, OR ARTWORK =O. But I restarted and rethought my party decisions; also I gave them all actual names. My current party-- having finally reached level 10, and I'm saving up for everyone's L4 magic before I go to the cave with the crown-- is Fighter (Jess), Red Mage (Ivan [Ivan seems like a good name for a Red Mage]), Black Mage (Saul), and White Mage (Eva). And I really, really hate Sahag because I always miss when I attack them. However, I really like Bikke ("You got me. Take my ship!") and many of the dwarves ("Hurray!" "Dwarves can see in the dark!" "That is just an unusable sample!") as well as no small number of inanimate objects ("How dirty! Come! Wash your face!" "This is a tomb.").
So a couple nights ago I had this really vivid dream. I was visiting Chrissy in Austin with mum and we were at the elementary school Grace and Mallory go to (I've never actually been there, but in the dream, it was the school). And this teacher was walking out with a stack of papers and a little boy was following her and asked like "How many kids drank all 12 oz. today?" and she was like "There were eleven of them today" and he was like "Make sure you remember that Elliot drank all of his too." and she was like "No he didn't." And left. And it seems that in this class you either got a prize or avoided punishment (either I wasn't clear on which or it kept switching since it was a dream) if you drank an entire can of soda throughout the course of the day. And there was this kid Elliot who had never drunk a whole soda before, but that day he had. The kids kept track of how many ounces they'd had on these tally sheet things, and the teacher had dropped his, which is why she thought he hadn't drunk his whole soda. But I found it, and I went and tried to show her and talk to her about it in the parking lot, and it turns out she had actually slapped Elliot too for not having drunk all his soda and I was like "he DID drink all his soda!" and then I also tried to make a point that it was a dumb rule because soda's not even good for you and some other stuff, and then she was like "Well, it won't hurt him" (referring to his not getting rewarded for drinking a whole soda) "and it might even be good for him this way." And then I was like, "Well, you think that, but you're wrong! What you're telling him by this is that it doesn't matter how hard he tries or how many good things he does, because it won't make any difference, he won't get rewarded/not punished (I said whichever it actually was at this point in the dream --ed.)." Then I went into a discourse about punishing the whole class when only a few students misbehave and stuff, which DOES apply to the point I was trying to make, but didn't actually apply to the situation (although I think somehow it did in the dream). And Chrissy (who was standing in the parking lot) started applauding me and so did like three other people O_O But the teacher lady was a big jerk about it and went home. And then later that night I broke into her house (!!!) but for some reason it was kind of provoked and it really wasn't that bad a thing to do O_O I think I was going to steal the paper that proved Elliot had drunk his whole soda? I can't remember. But I got caught and she locked me in this dungeon thing with two ogres (same kind as in FF1) to guard me. Then mum came to rescue me, and she was like "There are ogres!" and I asked, "How much do they weigh?" so she cast "Scan" (*sweatdrop*) and they weighed only four pounds, and a battle screen like in FF1 was there and I was like "We can take these guys!" and my default attack was a headbutt or something and it took one hit from each of us to finish off the ogres. *blink blink*. Then I was at an electronics store in the mall with mum, dad, and AnJa, and dad had specifically gone there to buy Super Mario Bros. for NES. And I had also picked up an N64 game called "Ultima" and an NES game "The Last Unicorn" (which I've heard is a good movie, but I'm pretty sure isn't an NES game). And I asked Dad if I could get them, and then I noticed the Ultima one was actually Tony Hawk Ultima or something O_O and I was like "oh.." and Dad was like "Well, we can't get that one because it's a 64 game anyway" and he also said I couldn't get The Last Unicorn and I was like "But it's supposed to be really good..." and mum said "Yeah, I heard that one was really good too." But he still said I couldn't. So I went to put back the Ultima one (because I think I just set the NES one down on a display case or something O_O) and then mum dad and AnJa ran away so I ran after them and they ran around a round place and I went around the other way and we all had a good laugh. O_O()()()()() Then Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Bowser were talking to the teacher lady about how she did a bad thing and she should be nicer, and they asked her if she hated her job. And they were talking in sort of an online chat looking thing, but they were also in the electronics store. And she said stuff about how she liked her job, but she hated her "barf Elliot job". And nobody was quite sure what she meant by that but knew it wasn't good and figured probably what she meant was that she just really disliked Elliot for some reason. And she also kept insulting Toad because of his mushroom hat and she kept ordering him around too. It was strange. Then Mario had to answer some questions in a quiz to "defeat" her somehow, but he failed and then he was gone, I guess captured or something. So Bowser was like "Let me handle this!" and all of his quiz questions (there were 10 questions worth 10 points each, I think) had to do with Luigi. And I was kind of Luigi and Bowser both at this point. Luigi's face was floating in the area above the chat place in the online chat type thing, and Bowser was like colouring it while he answered questions. And one question was "Why do you [meaning Luigi] have the same facial hair as your brother?" (even though Bowser had to answer the questions, they were directed at Luigi). And of course Bowser's mainly just an antagonist, he isn't greatly acquainted with the roots and habits of Mario and Luigi, at least not in my dream, and he thought about and then said like "The reason is because they're Southern". And then the rest of the quiz happened, but I forget all the other questions. And at the end he'd gotten only 40% correct, and Luigi said "LOSER!" He didn't do the L thing with his hand, but it was kind of implied. Anyway, I think that was the end of the dream. *blink* I'm sure it had some sort of deep meaning.
O_O()()() I TOTALLY FORGOT THAT MY LAST JOURNAL ENTRY WAS BEFORE ALL-STATE AUDITIONS, and then I went and just casually mentioned that I made it because I somehow thought I had already written about that in an entry o_o But I didn't! Anyway, I MADE IT!! I AM SO HAPPY! =D =D =D =D I got 6th chair. w00t!
I did have a dream either last night or the night before that Fighter in FF1 was actually a woman. ....