5 February 2001 CE 10:54 PST
The Unholy Hand Grenade of Millenia!
Before I archive this tommorrow, for those of you who care, I shall summarize the events of my life this week that may or may not be important. And I may rant. Or maybe just go "whoa, duuuude". (For some reason a lot of you seem to have read my ranting about relationships. Odd.) (Take this if you haven't already! According to it I'm definitely male - 2/3 of the way down the bar from the female end.)
It must have been Thursday night that I finally surrendered to my need for ice cream. I know this because otherwise I would have mentioned it earlier, and I know I had work the next day. Anyways, I was lured up to Berkeley by Dom and the promise of a Ben and Jerry's trip and Grandia 2. I managed not to get lost. And I found Dom, and found parking somehow, and we got ice cream! Then I started craving fried cheese. So we went to Mel's diner and I ate fried cheese and Dom had breakfast. The thing that really really amazed me that night was the fact that Berkeley has a night life. As in places are open after 8pm! O_O Daishokku.
I ignored Grandia for the next few days. (I'm good at ignoring a game, until I start playing it at least)
Friday uhhh, I don't remember Friday.
Saturday. I woke up at 11:55 looked at my clock, said "Oh Shit" and proved that I could get ready and get out of the house in 5 minutes. I was only a little late picking up Dom at Hayward Bart (I was supposed to pick him up at noon, I left the house at noon). Went to San Jose, picked up Ed-sama, went to Nikaku, nobody bought anything, went to Minato (the Japanese restaurant under Nikaku), ate lunch, went to Kinokuniya, I bought Saiyuki #2, CCS artbook 3, and Newtype 2, Ed bought what Love Hina they had and next door he bought a Heavy Arms model. Then we had ice cream. YAY ICE CREAM! For some reason or another we went to FuncoLand, then back to Ed's house for him to pick up some stuff, then up to Berkeley to crush souls (Ed and I both said our parents would freak out having people over so we went to Dom's), souls were crushed, then they played SNK vs Capcom (or whatever, I quit after getting my ass kicked), went to Mel's for dinner after a HUGE hunt for parking (ended up paying to park in a garage), took Dom home, took Ed home, then I managed to get home, and after much prodding from Dom started playing Grandia 2. (Haha, don't you love my really really long ass run-on sentance?) Saturday was cool.
Sunday I played Grandia. All day pretty much. Until the giant eyeball/tentacle monster kept kicking my ass (mini rant: 5 times I died! I hate turn-based fighting, I feel so powerless when I can't kill something because it's not because of me lacking skill or anything). Then I went online (this was around 20:00 or so). Threatened humanity, whined to Dom, he tried to help, went back to getting my ass kicked (2 more times I died), then I figured out what he'd been trying to tell me. I'd been using the magic learning system wrong. Killed the damn monster with the Unholy Hand Grenade of Millenia (she threw a hand grenade at it, it died, happy Katie). Then I went online again, told Dom, then played until 3:00. So here I am at work with only 4 hours sleep and 1 meal since 20:00 3 Feb. I'm hungry.
1 February 2001 CE 10:01 PST
Relationships and Junk.
You know, it really amazes me sometimes that anyone actually manages to get married. If you look at our society males and females have been conditioned to be nigh incompatable. You're probably wondering where the hell this is coming from. Let's just say I've spent too much time playing relationship counselor (Vu is probably laughing or wondering how the hell I could do that when our relationship fell apart - probably the latter, he's not the laughing type).
Okay, back to our established topic. For whatever reason society has decided that it is up to the guy to ask the girl out. Before you ask someone to commit to a (hopefully) long term relationship you want some insurance that they at least like you. So guys invest a lot of time/money/effort into getting the girl to pay attention to him and come to like him. And guys have no guarantee that this will pay off and the girl will go out with him. Often the girl will accept his advances but when our hero actually asks her to go out with him, *bam* shot down, his heart of glass is shattered. No big surprise that guys always accuse girls of wrapping them around their finger and toying with them and such.
That's one side of the coin. The other side would be the female perspective. Girls in our society are raised on the fairytale that one day Prince Charming will ride up on his white horse and sweep them off their feet (if you've seen all of Utena the fairytale should be familiar). Life doesn't work like that. I'm sure most of you have figured that out by now. So girls are conditioned to wait for their dream guy to ask them out, rather than asking him themselves (I'm guilty of this too). So to get the attention of the guy they want to ask them out they flirt and hint and hope that he notices them. And once again, no guarantee that he'll even ask. Ever wonder why girls think guys are dumb? You can spend years hitting them with clues and they never catch on to the fact that you like them.
Now given that some people do get past the asking out point and are going out there's all sorts of other stuff that goes wrong. Everything from finding out that they're a slob, to moving away, to someone more interesting coming along. Most relationships don't last very long. How people ever get to the point that they get married and stay together for the rest of their lives is beyond me. And yet millions of people do exactly that. Go figure.
30 January 2001 CE 19:57 PST
I'm so cool.
Another update. Yay. (it's kinda later than usual, I was busy at work today)
Um...I supposed to talk about stuff now. Okaaaay... *thinks* Someone stepped on my BAD FOOT on monday, so I'm in a lot of pain again. I like my new car. Going to SJ with Dom to meet Ed on Sunday. Work is going okay. That's my life.
FYI, that picture of Naga always makes me think of Puu-sama. I think it's the demented chibi giggling evilly. Other stuff about this page...uhh...oh yeah! I'm so cool! See, file manager has this little "page statistics" thingie. Last time I looked at it I had like 10-20 view since October 1998 or something dumb. Basically nobody ever looked at this thing. I now have over 200. I feel so cool. People are reading about me!
(haha, I am SO lame)
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