01/15/01 - 01/22/01
2001-01-15

2:55AM
I am really, really drunk. I don't want to talk about it right now. According to overwhelming public opinion, I'm going back to daily entries tomorrow.

YAY!

2:17AM

"She was underwhelmed, if that's a word. No it's not 'cause I looked it up. It's one of those skills I learned in my school. I was overwhelmed, I'm sure of that one, 'cause I learned it back in gradeschool when I was young."

- Sloan, "Underwhelmed"

10:14PM
An update has been made to the bio page. Check it out, yo.

I have to go get some reading done for my Pre-Civil War American Literature class.

5:41PM
I was an hour late to my sculpture class today because... well, I like sleep. Sleep is one of the best things ever, and I rarely get as much of it as I'd like... I don't like the actual *act* of sleeping, since if I didn't sleep I'd have more time to do things, but being able to sleep in is a luxury I miss since I'm up until about 5AM most nights.

While running around the sculpture room working on my project, the teacher aksed what I was doing. I showed her my sketches and she said "Wow. Well, I guess I don't have to worry about you!You're an art major, right?" To which I had to reply that no, it's english, but I'm planning on starting design next year... But then Davis has a bite-ass design department... So maybe I ought to go studio art after all... I don't know. I'm just bothered that the UCD design department isn't as flexible as I'd like... And I'm happy that the teacher paid me as big of a compliment as she did by saying that.

Mackenzie and I are arguing politics. He takes offense that I think politics are stupid, and refuse to vote. Politics, and politicians, aren't worth my time. He argues that it's not so bad for politicians to not know certain things, because *I* don't know a lot of things either, but that's entirely my point. I don't want a President who's like *me*, I want someone who's a heck of a lot smarter. If they don't even know how to pronounce "subliminally" correctly then they're at *least* as stupid as I am, and I don't think someone of my smarts should be running a bagel bakery, let alone a whole freaking country.

I am pretty sleepy. I don't know why. Maybe I'm addicted to sleep...

Oh, before I forget:
Dawson's Creek - smarmy crap. I watched it last night, and it was awful. Real life is NOTHING like how they portray it in that show.
Temptation Island - eeeevil crap. It's such a stupid and worthless show. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. I still watched the whole hour, but I hate it. The people are such complete idiots that it almost makes me want to never, ever be in a relationship again.

Webcam still does not work. Where are all my compu-geek friends when I need them?

4:49AM
Rice is good.

4:39AM
The Reverend Jessie Jackson has recently admitted to fathering a 20 month-old baby out of wedlock.
There are very few things in life I hate more than hypocracy and people who are two-faced. I didn't like Rev. Jackson when I first got to know about him, and now I know why. He claims to be Christian, but look at his actions. He's not a real Christian, he's a real asshole. And where the hell does he get off advising Pres. Clinton on how to be faithful to his wife when he's out sleeping around and getting people pregnant?
GOD how I hate politics. There's really no point in voting or taking a part in the system at all. The only thing that's guaranteed is that the politicians will lie. That's it. You can't count on anything they say they'll do, but upi can be sure as hell that they'll lie to you about it afterwards.

1:01AM
This girl is painfully hot.
And she's an artist.
::sigh::
Too bad she lives in Florida and has a boyfriend.

12:19AM
Just got back from a rather successful dumpster diving session. Scored several rather nice cardboard boxes. In the words of my little brother Max, "Boo-yah!"

My head hurts. I have a horrible, horrible headache. And Excedrin is going nothing for me. Damn the Excedrin corporation and their not-working migrane medication.

Why does my webcam not work? Why does Make Out Club have to be down? I am a very sad boy.

Rachel From Florida finally caved today on AIM and said she'd meet me sometime. YAY! This is a good thing because she's cute and she has tattoos. And for all you anti-tattoo elements out there (you know who you are.), I say a resounding HUSH!

I am going to go in the livingroom and slice boxes into manageable chunks to carry to class tomorrow.
Caio, baby!

10:08PM
Ok, two more votes... One (1) saying that they like the new format the way it is. And then one more (1) saying that they want me to go back to daily. Which brings the count to 1 for, and 3 against. Gimmie a couple more votes one way or the other, and I might seriously go back to how it used to be.

"Temtation Island" is a really terrible show. But it's hard not to watch it when it's on. SOOOO bad, it is! And so easy to make fun of, especially since everyone is either not that cute, or really stupid.

Alcohol is good. Doc Otis' Hard Lemon drink isn't all that good, but it's not all that bad either. Tomorrow's comic ends with the statement "Hardcore nudity: a simple solution to all life's problems."

I am really tired tonight, and think I may go to bed fairly soon.

5:21PM
Well, I discovered two momentous things today.
ONE: i recieved my webcam in the mail. Yesterday. It turns out someone in one of the other apartments had gotten it by mistake, so I had to battle them to the death to get it back. Whew! ...but of course it doesn't work. I need to try and get Renn to come over and troubleshoot it for me.
TWO: the venerable and majestic makeoutclub.com has died. This is a sad, sad day in indie/hardcore/emo/straightedge history. Its passing shall be remembered with much emotion. Wah.

I am going to run away and try to troubleshoot my webcam. Au revoir!

4:46AM
It is my belief that depression, like yawning, is contagious. The best way to avoid depression, therefore, is to stay away from depressed people. And depressing people. And all situations, weather, areas, and/or times that might cause d or be in some way connected to depression.

Since this is impossible, everybody's going to be depressed a damn sight more than they should be.
What fun, eh?

Luckily Mackenzie had a date recently. It may or may not have gone very well, but at least he had a date. It gives me hope.

3:12AM
So far two (2) people have written me expressing annoyance at the new format. Whic isn't many, considering the number of hits this thing generates... I don't understand WHY it's annoying, though... I mean... zee new shite is at the top. Easy access! And if you haven't checked in a couple days, the entire week is in one nice big list there for you... Uber simple... I need real REASONS why this is bad...

12:31AM
Well, not much went on today. I had a good time in sculpture today, and the first project is actually going to come out better than I had thought it would, so long as I can get the cardboard mache figures to come out right.

Film class was about WWII-era Japanese cinema... We watched some really weird stuff dealing with everything from cannibalism to how gosh-darned uppity modern women are. Most of it was ho-hum, but I thought the bit from "Seven Samurai" that we watched was particularly well filmed.

I did more actual cooking tonight... Ok, fine, so I just boiled zucchini, but come on! How many college guys do even that? I'm boiling some potatos right now to fry up with some paprika and garlic and... I don't know. Other stuff. Possibly mushrooms. I still have a few mushrooms left... And some green onions... maybe saute all that crap and throw it over rice, I don't know... I eat weird food. James is always getting mad at me for that. The punk.

I need to get back to shredding cardboard to soak in glue to sculpt with. I pwomise to update more tomorrow, but that probably won't be until the late afternoon or early evening as tomorrow is another OH-GOD-MY-COMIC-IS-DUE-NOW day.

LAST NOTE: the song that was running through my head today was "Rilkean Heart", by the Cocteau Twins. Download it. You'll like it.

6:47PM
Still no webcam. I'm beginning to get upset. ::grump::

Class went fine today, my sculpture is going as planned, and will, more likely than not, kick mondo ass.

I'd stay and chat, but I'm late to my Film History class. Woop woop woop woop!

5:15AM
Hey. If you people REALLY want me to go back to daily entries instead of blocking an entire week into one entry, let me know right away, via e-mail. The more mail I get, the more likely I'll be to change it. And if I get enough mail, be assured that I will.

Let your voices be heard, mi amigos!

5:02AM
Ooooh... James and I installed Halflife on my computer today, and I forgot hot addictive it is... Computer games baaaaad... Male competitive gene too strooooong... Must kill eeeeeeverything...

James and Alyssa and I went to see "Traffic" today. It kind of blew. Since it's about the drug war, it was of course horribly peachy. But the biggest problem is that it didn't even seem to know what it was trying to preach... Viewers don't come away from it with a concrete idea of what the movie's trying to show them, all the come away with is a sense that all drug dealers are black, Mexico has lots of drugs and is shot in grainy 16mm film with yellowish filters, and Michael Douglas is really getting rather old.
And though I'm sure lots of guys will beat me over the head for saying this, Catherine Zeeta-Jones isn't hot. SORRY! It's true, though. She's not hot, she never really has been, and since she played the part of a woman who snubbed John Cusack in "High Fidelity", I'll hate her forever.

I really need to get to bed so I'll have time to get to the hardware store before my 1PM sculpture class. My webcam should come in the mail today... Look for live streaming fun sometime soon.

Final Note: if you're playing Halflife sometime soon, and a trash-talking sucka named "Poopy Pants" who's playing like he doesn't know which side of his mouse is up comes on, it's probably me. I find that half of the fun in the game lies in messing around with the other players, and then getting them to frantically chase me around. Getting them mad makes them stupid, and if they're being stupid they're easier to kill.

You know what... I just gave video game advice. I swear I'm never, ever, EVER going to do that again.

4:19PM
Just took this picture. It'll give you a better idea of what my hair looks like now than the spooky blueish thing down below.

Do I not look angry? Grrrr!
I am fixing to bite your toes!

3:27PM
Got back from scanning on my comic for tomorrow a few minutes ago. Alyssa and James and I are thinking about going to see "Traffic" tonight. Or preferrably "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou", if we can find it playing anyplace close.

Kymm is hella butch. She peed behind a dumpster. I'd be in wuv, but I already dated her, so... yeah! Apparently she has a date with a shy guy she knows tonight because she asked him out. YAY for girls asking guys out!

Mooo... I have nothing new to say.

4:16AM
Just finished watching "The Lost Boys" with my flatmate. Watching it was a lot of fun since it was filmed in Santa Cruz, about an hour from where I live. Neat.

A lot of people in the poll have suggested that I go back to daily entries, but... I don't think I want to do that. I realize that as an author of something you read, to some extent it's my job to give you what you want. You're my public and it's my job to pander to you. However, I have some serious problems with doing daily entries... I mean, where does the day start? At 12AM? Or when I wake up? It's such a fuzzy concept, especially when you take into consideration that time is completely arbitrary. Also, it's annoying for days in which I have little to say. I'd rather just have nothing to say as part of a lager entry than have nothing to say and have to make it be its own seperate entity that you have to click on to find out as worthless. I'd do these in chronological order, with oldest at the top and newest at the bottom, but then scrolling would get to be a pain after a day or so. No... Putting the newest stuff at the top makes the most sense. If you want an example of how this works just fine, check out that joopy site I linked to earlier.

Did I mention yet? My hair is black now. It looks blueish in this picture, but it's really black. I'm sooo indie now. Whee.

I had a good time at the thrift store with Rachel and Jeff today. Mucho fun. I got a sweater and some other crap.

Peregryn is finally back online... And her entry is long, and kind of scary... I hope she's doing ok... I think she is, though. And her getting back online is a good sign of that. She just needs to stop thinking so much about everything. Thinking never leads you to anyplace you really want to be in.

I need to go get to bed, so I can get up tomorrow and pump out some sort of comic for Tuesday's paper. Au revoir!