Moving

Going to college today. I have words, but they do not convey what I'm feeling. I think that's how I've felt for a good chunk of "while." Well, now I'm sighing, because I know that I have to fit a couch into a dorm room, and I know I'll be rarghing when it inevitably doesn't fit. I really don't know if it will, and since god is still spiting me, I'm sure it won't. Then again, today could easily be a turning point. God could prove that he has feelings for me other than malice. I wonder how it's going to go. I wonder if god will forgive me. I wonder if my friends will.

That being said, I'm still not sure if I even believe in god. Though, I don't think that has much to do with moving. Maybe it does though, in that I have something to blame my moving misfortune upon, even though I know it was all my fault. He made me do it?

No. I'm the one sitting here and procrastinating by writing a blog post instead of actually working on moving. I wonder how late I can procrastinate this and still get all my stuff in on time. It really shouldn't be that hard, considering that I only really feel the need to move in a minifridge, computer, and clothes. The futon and other necessities can all come later since I live so close to home. Also, there won't be any space for the futon until at least a week from now. We didn't order bed lofts and there will probably be some repercussions because of that. For one, there won't be any space for moving in a couch.

I also don't know how I'm going to be able to set up all the electronics that I plan to move in. I will need a power splitter, and a surge protector would be nice. I think I will also need about 2 feet of extension cord, which is expressly forbidden from the dorm rooms. Thankfully, it would be hidden underneath a sleeping implement, be it futon or bed.

I wonder when most students are planning on moving in. Are they all going to come at 4 or are many going to wait until the last moment. And then, would that last moment be on Sunday at 10pm? I assume people will be moving in all weekend, but there's no easy way to be sure of that. I also assume many people are going to be late, but once again, I can't really know until I see it. I also think there are going to be quite a few people who showed up a little early, and will therefore be waiting for the 4pm opening time, so I don't really wanna catch the opening rush.

There are just so many things to consider when moving into a new room, and it only becomes a ton more hectic when hundreds of people are doing so simultaneously and in the same building.

Just thinking about all the things that are supposed to happen today is making me nervous. I generally am not nervous at all, but right now I can't stop the shaking. I've moved in to a college room before, but this is a new day. It's one I haven't experienced before.

The Beach!

I went to the beach today. I was almost dragged there. I guess though, that made me like it even more. I think when I expect something to not be fun, it ends up being more fun than I expected it to be. I think this makes a ton of sense.

Activities that were done today include eating breakfast at Bob Evans, going to an arcade, getting fries and ice cream, playing mini golf, buying candy, and eating calzone like foods.

I like eating, so that was great. I enjoyed my omelet smothered in hollandaise, even though I'm fairly picky about hollandaise sauce in general. However, they had good hollandaise and used it in the meal well. I am happy with Bob Evans. I will have to return to there at some point in the future. This is what I do with things I like. I repeat them. I also liked the calzone, though I'm not sure if that will be a repeatable experience. It may be one of those experiences that I like, but not love enough to do a million times. In fact, I probably won't seek out a Bob Evans, but I've seen them on the road before and I acknowledge that I would now be willing to go to one in the future. Boardwalk fries and ice cream are things that I already knew I loved and will probably get every time I go to the beach.

As for the playing mini golf, I enjoyed it much more than I usually do. Often, I find mini golf to be really fun, but today I didn't think I was going to have any fun. That all changed though, when I decided to own everyone that I was playing with. Winning always makes an experience better. Well, it doesn't always, but it is a common trend.

As for the candy, I haven't actually tried it yet, but I'm sure it will be delicious. I have chocolate things and caramel things. These are some of my favorite things to have. I also bought a box of taffy, because I almost feel like I have to every time I go to the beach. I think it's because my dad always buys a box of taffy that he shares with me when we go to the beach together. He likes taffy because it's one of the few candies that he can actually eat. Being allergic to bread sucks when even some puddings are thickened with flour.

So, all in all, it was a fun day. I enjoyed myself. I think I do that often when good food is involved. I still want to be a chef some day.

Packing

Or not packing, as I'm procrastinating by writing this post. I have to move in to my school dorm this week. I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, I want to be with all of my friends. On the other hand, I don't think I really want to be around people ever again. Truthfully, the classes themselves don't factor into my feelings at all. Some will be boring. Others might possibly interest me. I'm not taking enough classes for it to really matter all that much to me.

My classes are strange to me. I'll be taking 3 electrical engineering classes and a physics class. I'll also take the required Scholars course. Variety is the spice of life, right? So school will be about as bland as white bread with a glass of water. I don't need to be interested in my classes, as long as I take them and do well in them. I just need to make sure that I care enough to actually put in 3 seconds worth of effort on my homework. I'm sure that my roommate will bother me about doing homework since I'll bother him about the same thing. It would be hypocritical of me to tell him to do work when I'm ignoring work that I have. Though, hypocrisy has never actually prevented me from being a douche before. It only makes me hate myself.

Anyways, I need to put stuff together for moving into my room with said roommate. We have plans on the room arrangement, but I'm not sure how we're actually gonna do it. There are still some factors that we aren't clear on yet. It is important to know whether or not the bed lofts are wider than the couch. This shall all be figured out soon, and truthfully we'll loft our beds either way. We will need to if we want enough space to set up the projector. This will be our replacement for the TV that we won't have.

Now I'm going to have to find a way to move a couch and a projector. After that I'll need to move a mini fridge and my computer. After all of those things, I'll still need clothing and toiletries. I hope that that's all, but I really doubt it. Last semester I ended up moving out with 3 times as many things as I moved in with. I think it's because we emptied out my room at my mom's house when she decided to rent it out and move in with her new husband in Germany.

My reluctance now involves lots of heavy things going up and down elevators, in addition to the thing about wanting to curl up into a ball and burn the whole world. If I burn everything that could possibly hurt me at some point in the future, then I'll never get hurt again. Except maybe by the flames. Also, I wouldn't be too keen on all the burning people. I generally like people. Having people burn would be a bad thing.

Anyways, I feel the need to give the disclaimer that this semester will be filled with lots of rarghs and sighs. Packing will get many of those out of the way. It's hard not to sigh when stuck with the daunting task of moving a couch into a dorm room, and it's hard not to rargh when said couch doesn't fit through the doorway. So then, let's kick it off with a long sigh inspired by looking around at all the things that I need to put in bags and boxes. *Sigh* I suppose it need to be done, and once it is, I'll be able to just crash and never get up ever again.

Kirby Superstar

I feel able to review this game because I've played through it in its entirety at least 3 times. I love it. There's something about power stealing that just draws me. It's there in the Megaman games too. However, the way that this game does it kind of floors me. It has several games in it, and though power stealing is in all (most) of them (not the minigames), it's represented differently in every single one.

Truthfully, this game has many games in it. They all play similarly, control wise, but they all present them differently. Spring Breeze is what you think of when you hear Kirby. It plays how most Kirby games do. Dynablade has levels. You can go to whichever level you like and carry powers between them. The Great Cave Offensive is one long expansive world with only doorways between areas. There are boss fights and checkpoints, but no over world map. If you want to get back to the beginning, then you have to play through it until the end, or start a new game. Revenge of Meta Knight plays like a Mario game, in that every level has a timer that you race against. Then lastly, my favorite game in the collection is Milky Way Wishes. You can pick any power at any point, but only once you collect the statue for that power. I think this is the best way to put powers into a game, since you can play whatever you want whenever you want. This is how most Megaman games operate, which is why I'm a fan of those as well. Though, I've been liking Megaman Zero more and more these days. I think that I just enjoy having multiple different ways to kill people at my disposal.

I also liked how Kirby Superstar allowed co-op in a game that used to be built for only one person. Your helper would take on the presence of one of the enemies of the power he was using. This meant that helpers using the plasma power don't have to touch the ground. They could fly wherever they like. Also, the wheel helper could actually be ridden by Kirby. This interaction added something to SNES 2 player games that I hadn't seen before Kirby Superstar. Donkey Kong Country 1, 2, and 3 were all great games, but they failed to provide the second player with anything to do while they waited for the first player to die. Kirby Superstar also provided a way for the second player to catch up to the first without things like the bubble in the recent New Super Mario Bros. The bubble worked out, but sometimes I found it easier to ignore than and let it find me, rather than going out and grabbing it myself. The recall feature in Kirby Superstar was much easier to use. It also came out over 10 years earlier... Games don't always progress as time goes on.

Another great thing that Kirby did was that it had very brightly colored maps. Some people don't like this, but I personally found many Donkey Kong Country stages to be very dark. However, Donkey Kong Country did have very beautiful graphics. Also, for those of you who think bright or light colors are bad, please play Yoshi's Island. This game was full of pastels, but the detail put into every single stage really shows that impressionist painters deserve much more credit than they are often given. Pastels and surrealistic shapes can also be incredibly detailed and shiny. I use the term shiny here to mean very nice to look at, rather than having a high spectral reflection value. I know that isn't really the definition, but I like it none the less.

Regardless, back to Kirby Superstar. This is one of my all time favorite Kirby games. It even has one of the best selection of powers. The only one that I can think of that has more powers is Kirby 64, but most of those powers seemed to be filler, rather than fun to use. I think they were running out of ideas on how to use those power combos at some point. Though I do really like the curling iron power. Ice and stone are not particularly fun alone, but together they make a ridiculously strong power. I think there should be more power combination games. I enjoy those.

So to sum it up, this is a great game. I've loved it enough to play through it multiple times, and still have the original cartridge. This makes me feel less bad in downloading ROMs to play on my laptop. If you can get a (legal) hold of this game, then I strongly suggest trying it out. I've enjoyed it on every single play through. It's even one of the few platformers that becomes more fun with friends. (In my opinion, NSMB did not become more fun with friends. At least, it wasn't because of the game that it was more fun, but because of having the friends around, which I could have with a single player game too.)

Bleached... Blond?

So I decided that I don't like my hair being as dark as it is. Or I should say, as it was. I decided to go ahead and bleach it. I asked my friend to come over to help me. Neither of us have ever done this before. By the way, the smartest way to do something is with someone else who has never done it before. This definitely ups the clueless factor when both people are meandering around asking each other if it's being done right.

The box said that the hair bleach should be left in for 30 to 60 minutes. I guess that would work if the bleach didn't take 2 hours to put in. Again, this was a first time sort of deal for both of us. It took much longer than it should have, but it all worked out in the end. My hair is much lighter than before.

I've got to admit, it does look rather artificial. I don't mind. Actually I like it. It has this neat effect where it fades from blond into brown near the tips. I'm not saying that it's bad. I'm just saying that it's easy to see that it is not a natural color.

Truthfully, the color isn't really blond. It's more like orange. It makes sense because there have always been red hair genes in my family tree. I just never thought that I got any of them. I thought that my hair turned from blond when I was young to brown as I got older, but it seems that it was actually a dark red hair color. I am pleased with this. I've always wanted to be a red head. Now, it is a fair bit light for red hair, but I like it.

The experience also had an interesting effect on my psyche. Now when I look in the mirror I say to myself, what is that poser trying to prove? Then I realize that it's me. This will absolutely make sure that I learn to not judge before I actually talk to a person, since I know I'm not terrible to hang out with and I currently look like the kind of person that I wouldn't want to associate with at first glance. I'm classically conditioning myself to be less judgmental. I'm happy with myself for doing this. I also feel like a nerd now.

Angel

That's the second show down. I think it says something when you watch an entire season of a TV show in 4 days. I think that thing that is says is that you have no life. I really don't think I do have a life anymore. I'm okay with that. I'll have a life again when I get back to school.

So anyways, I've finished Angel. I've watched all of it. The one thing I noticed is that after season 4, they kept mentioning Buffy characters, but never had one make a guest appearance. They almost did, but then they skirted around it very slyly. I wish they had actually pulled Buffy into the show, but I guess she wasn't important enough.

Another thing I noticed is that Buffy took the entire last season wrapping up the series. Angel took about... 2 episodes. I was watching and waiting to see if they were going to get some big bad to show up, but unlike in Buffy, they actually go out and look for the evil, rather than waiting for it to mess shit up. I like this about Angel.

Also unresolved was... everything. They gave a cliffhanger to a season ending show. I guess it isn't as bad of a cliffhanger as is the Sonic the Hedgehog ending, but I still wish that this show had another season more than I wish Sonic did.

Joss Whedon did as Joss does. He made me like every single character in the end. Unfortunately, then Joss did as Joss does again... I'll leave that one unanswered for the people who still want to watch the show.

I feel like I haven't laid down any spoilers yet. I wasn't planning on it. Though I feel the need to say that there's one thing I notice in almost every TV series that I kind of dislike. They always start out funny, in order to draw us in, and then become really serious after a season or two. Buffy does it after about 4 seasons. Angel managed it in 1. I understand that Angel is supposed to be dark and dreary, but I like myself some comedy. I want a reason to laugh. Unfortunately, decapitation does not make me laugh. Angel surely had a lot of that. If I found that funny, then I would have been set.

So if you're asking, then yes. You should watch this show. I've heard it described as Batman in LA, which is fairly adequate, except that Batman has no sidekicks and never actually kills anyone. Angel also makes villains that I can like more than the heroes. Which reminds me. Angel has also made me refer to good people as "champions" much more often than I did before. It seemed to be a keyword of the series. I don't find this a bad thing though. I like calling my friends champions. I hope they don't mind being called champions.

So the show has adventure. It ventures into comedy. It has deep seeded themes and messages. It really is a sophisticated show, at least compared to most of what I watch. I will always have complaints with Joss, as I will with any director or writer, but that he makes bad shows isn't one of them. For those of you that didn't follow, this means that he makes good shows.

P.S. This is an opinion. You don't have to like the show, but I do recommend that you give it a try.

Workless Summer

Work was fun. Then it became boring. Then it started being pretty terrible because I was making quite a few mistakes. Now I have no more work, and I'm not feeling any better about where I am and what I'm doing. I'm not saying that the grass is always greener, but I realized that there's as little to do at work as there is here. I thought here would have games and free time to travel and visit friends, but I was wrong. Friends don't want visits. They have a ton of stuff already on their plates.

For example, school is coming up. I need to move in on Thursday. I thought it was Saturday, but I was wrong. I need to check in and move shtuff on Thursday of this coming week. Then I get the one weekend to hang out with friends before I have to get back to the grindstone. However, this grindstone will involve tons of friend meeting and happiness. Though I doubt I'll be able to participate in this happiness. I'm going to have so many things on my mind that I won't be able to emote much at all.

Then again, I find that will be much better than being bored here. Still, the grass is not always greener. Before I had a job, I knew that I didn't want one. When I was in school, I wanted it to not end. I know where I want to be. I want to be in an endless semester. Of course, if it's endless then I don't have to worry about finals and grades, since I usually only worry about that stuff the last few weeks of any semester anyways. I just want to live with the people that are the most important to me, and make sure that they stay that way.

Anyways, bitch bitch bitch, moan moan moan. I think I'm just complaining into the internet know, because I do have things to do. I just don't wanna do those. I want to do other things. Things that I can't necessarily do. This is just laziness turning into boredom. Really, I'm complaining about nothing, but like complaining, so I'm giving myself a reason to do so. Well, if you read my blog, then you already know that I complain frequently, so I don't know how much you mind me doing so again. Hm... I think I shall go back to game reviews. I do have time to do them, since school doesn't start up for another week. I guess then I would appease myself while helping my wonderful audience. It would be a win-win! Yay!