15:02 - 2004-03-15
Ad Tedium
Ever been swimming in one of those Lazy River things when you're a kid? Where the whole pool is like a giant river that goes in a big circle and there's a current and, usually, a lot of people to nearly drown you? These things are fun when you're little because little kids don't complain about the same things adults do, but when you're a kid the water is a lot deeper. So you swim for a little while with all these strangers, try not to get seperated from your family, and then for a moment once in a while, the ground slopes up gradually and you can stand about waist high in the water. After that the current sweeps you off again and you fall off the drop-off and have to start swimming again. It's always a nice relief to get to stand up for a moment and not have to struggle for air and such, it's liberating isn't it? Weekends are a sort of upward slope for me. I get a little while to walk in the current of life instead of paddle and gasp around a bunch of huge Mexicans, which is basically what school is like. It's easier to breathe.
Well, I can finally breathe again. Spring Break is finally here. Heh, I think I started taking it for granted the very instant the last bell rang. But freedom doesn't seem to mind whether I acknowledge it or not. No matter what I still only have it until next Sunday. Less than a week already...
I'd prolly be a bit more affected by that realization if six days didn't seem like such a long time. Already today I'm running out of things to do. We rented a buttload of movies, and I've got a few things I could do in my video game. They'd probably be a bit frustrating, but time would still get consumed. Thank goodness it doesn't take any effort to waste time. I wouldn't if I could think of something to use it for, but you see life a lot differently when you can't drive.
I only get one shower each day, so I have to save it for when I really need it. I might wash my cats though. Occasionally I go play Solitaire, but I'm really getting tired of it, and the stuff I've been ticking out into my text file is just insane. They're mostly stories and narratives writen from the points of view of the things that live on my desk.
I wonder if I should try to come up with some things I'll need to get done in the future. It seems like much of the time I am rushing to do stuff. Someday, when I have a job, what are the things I'll wish I'd gotten done in advance? How can I save myself time later by wasting it now?
I have to build a Mousetrap Car. Your guess is as good as mine as to how I'm gonna pull that one off. I can't find my dad, and Cody nii-chan is out of town...
I've never even seen a mousetrap.
The kids at school made a big deal out of this and used it as basis to ridicule the rest of us: Not knowing the logistics of something so simple and commonplace as a mousetrap. It may come as a surprise to some people, I guess, that not everyone's houses are infested with rodents, and that some of us don't have to buy mousetraps, so...we don't have them. Why else would you have them? Not that I haven't been curious, but my parents got tired a long time ago of buying or doing things for no reason but to humor me.
The point is though, by the end of this week, I have to have a car that is powered solely by a mousetrap and that can be rigged up to move far enough to get me a passing grade.
Despite how serious I may have sounded, however, that subject doesn't weigh very heavily upon me right now.
I downloaded some MIDIs onto my mom's computer. I've always liked them, but I won't pretend the quality isn't lousy. It's good enough, but probably not for most people.
I'm still suspicious, but my cat hasn't peed in my room since I last mentioned it. I think perhaps she fears my wrath. She is wise to.
Spee and I went and saw Hidalgo. The best way to describe it, I guess, is to say it was a better than Seabiscuit, because both were horse movies. For some reason, both of them were more exciting than I had expected. Viggo Mortensen is just cooler than Toby Maguire maybe. Sorry, but it's true. I could also talk about Hidalgo's preferable lack of American gutsiness and cursing and that weird slow-motion dramatic effect they used in Seabiscuit and quite a few other "touching" sports movies, but I put "American" in the same sentance with a couple of other words that might be seen in bad taste. I liked Hidalgo okay though, it was fun to watch that British lady get smoked.
Reading over this will probably make me wince, I'm not holding a steady train of thought at all ^_^
I got to watch the first two episodes of Battle Athletes today. It's an anime that takes place in the future, and it's about girls who live in space competing in all sorts of extreme physical events. Or something along those lines. So far, the series is really good, the animation is sort of like what you see in .Hack//Sign. I like Kris Christopher the best so far, but I want to see more of Tanya, because I bet they'd seem about equal to me if I saw as much of Tanya as I have so far of Kris. Though...I really don't think I want to see exactly as much of Tanya, heh, heh...You know what I mean if you've seen the show.
However, I should be more careful. I have to ration these episodes. There're only six, and I've already watched two...If I don't watch out, I'll end up with absolutely nothing left to do but sleep.
*cringe*
Tonight I'll try to watch Adult Swim, it should bring back some refreshing memories. I haven't watched in a long time, so I have no grasp anymore of what the schedual is like. Chanel mentioned something called Witchhunter Robin, which I suppose will be pretty cool if I see it.
I'll ask my mom to buy me a camera, and rent me a few Gameboy games sometime today or tomorrow.
Cameras are great, when you have a lot of time on your hands. My movies are lengthy, living proof of that.
Watched Return of the Jedi last night. My sister and I have all sorts of inside jokes and puns that have built up over time based in the Star Wars Trilogy, mostly because a few years ago we muted it and did a sort of Dubbed Parody to all three movies. It was fun to relive some of them, and that movie is so much better than most of the stuff around today. There was always a part at the beginning that I liked a lot: (commense nerd talk) When C-3PO and R2 show up at Jabba's hideout and his "greeter" asks them what their business is. It was always kind of interesting to hear that guy speaking jibberish, so this time I turned on the subtitles and jibbered along with him.
Then C3PO says, "I'm sorry, I'm afraid he can be ever so stubborn about these things" and the Doorman responds by throwing his hand in the air in a strange/cool profiley position and saying "Noht cha!"
Even though I never knew what the heck he was saying, I still liked to rewind it and watch him do that, heehee.
When nobodies here but me, and everyone's off on long drives, and no one is online, I begin to understand what it's like when you leave your dog or cat home by itself. There's nothing to do but listen to the quiet, or, MIDIs, if you're me. The MIDIs are nice for drowning out the strange little echos I've started hearing every now and then. You start preparing food for no one and then not eating it, or quickly finding things to snack on constantly when you aren't really hungry. I'm doing my best not to worry about things or invent things to worry about, because, left alone, I think that's most of what I do.
That and make up songs, draw little pictures, etc.
It's kind of nice, in some ways, I guess....
*sigh*
*long pause*
I miss Oniichan....
