The Fire

Wah~~~ Target called me tonight to see if I wanted to work. I said sure...I wasn't doing anything better...and I need the money. It was okay, I guess. I just wish I had been better prepared. I wasn't really planning on doing anything strenuous today, so I had only ate a cup of ramen up till that point in the day. Then I went in from 5-10. It hurt, but again I'm sure the money will be useful.

So back to the fire. Yesterday, some weird stuff happened. Like, the power in my house went off like 6 times in a row in about 6-10 second intervals. Then probably another 2 times about 30 seconds after those 6 times. A few minutes later, my grandma was yelling for me for something. I missed her, so I went outside to look for her. Her van was still running, so I thought she was in it. I went over to check, but didn't see her. However, in the windshield I saw the reflection of some weird crap. So I turned around and saw huge, billowing clouds of black smoke coming from behind my house. "Holy scrotums!" ~~ holy scrotums is right. So I went around back and looked. The layout = my backyard, then a small power plant, and then a farm. Well, aparently something in the farm caught on fire....a very large fire. It was pretty damn big. Lots of firetrucks and just insanity...so I looked at it for a minute or two...and then went back inside. This explained why the power went out so erratically and I felt better. I thought it was pretty exciting that something so crazy happened practically in my backyard. XD

Update: After having a conversation with Zach, we see all the highs and lows in life and I came up with the question of "Are we, as humans, really capable of feeling sustained satisfaction?"

My Room

Well,...today has been my first productive day that I wasn't at work. I just spent the last 4 hours reclaiming my room from all the shit that it has become home to. There was so much crap in here and almost none of it was mine...I just wish I still had my futon. ;_; But I think it's ruined now because when I brought it back from Pittsburgh, I'm pretty sure the matress was put outside. Oh, well...I don't need it anyways. >.<; I have a bed, I guess it'll do. I can't believe it took me almost a month to even bother to try to get my room back.

The New Target

I started working again yesterday. Luckily, the people I started with on my first day were all really cool. No assholes yet. There was this one really nice lady that was helping me at all day and she was from the south. Besides the fact that she told me, you could really tell that she was. The East York Target seems really slow though. Food Ave...sucks. The popcorn here is much more toxic than the popcorn in State College. ewwwww. But the strangest thing of all (something only me and Jim will understand) is that in York, we don't have to do pulls...it seems. The backroom does them all. Soooooooooooo bizarre! Then this one guy was telling me how his daughter has "the hots" for me as I'm walking by. >.<;; Whatev...I just laughed a lot and kept working.

The T Sucks

I feel really strange having to sneak around my house at 5 in the morning. Like I shouldn't have to do that. I live with my brother...and his girlfriend. So I'd still feel bad if I made noise and woke them up. Bah. I think I just think that it shouldn't be like that and I should be able to do whatever here. It's my house too. I don't know *exasperation* whatev. I get to see my parents for the first since christmas soon. I think they'll be here the third week of June. Joy of joys...? I think not. It'll be nice to see them, but I wish that was it. My mom will try to push all sorts of her reformed lifestyle onto us...and then we'll all get pissed off at her and want her to leave. So I hope it doesn't happen like that.

But about the T. Stupid Target. So they were supposed to call me back about whether or not my availability worked out with them or not. Well, I get tired of waiting because I seem to be put off a lot when it comes to this kind of thing. So I call and find out that I'm already on the schedule. Oh, gee...that'd be nice to know. You'd think if they want me to work and said they needed to call me back, that they would call me back and tell me I'm on the frickin schedule. Bah! *grumble grumble*

I should just stop staying up till 5 in the morning and my sneaking worries would be gone, but this seems to be the time when everything happens for me. ;_; shaft. On a side note...I hope Jim gets a car soon. It would be cool to see him. --Peace--

...I should get some ninja points for this sneakiness >.<;;

Who's Got Game?

Not me. That's for sure. I don't know how I get a girlfriend, but it definately is not my smooth personality. But, Zach and my brother both tell me that when I drink, I'm a whole 'nother pimpin' person...like Steve Urkel vs. Stefan Urquelle. I don't really buy it, but I thought it was worth throwing out there. Anyways...I went out to the bar lastnight with brother to support him in karaoke.

We were supposed to meet my cousin there and he was going to bring this Kirsten Dunst look-a-like. She really did look just like her, it was pretty crazy. He ended up bring 2 girls (Steph and I never found out the other's name), a gay guy--Alex, and the Kirsten Dunst stunt double. I just want to add in the fact that all of these people--minus my brother, my cousin, and the Kirsten Dunst look-a-like--were all younger than me. They were pretty wild...drinking...drinking...drinking. I wasn't sure they would make it home okay, but it was too late anyways. They were past the point of logic.

My brother picked two songs for karaoke...Bust a Move and Drift Away. He put Bust a Move in first, which I thought was a mistake. An hour and a half later, nothing. The DJ ignored him. So I said he should've put in the white people song, and they would've picked him already. So I took it up for him and 30 minutes later he was singing Drift Away. -_- Strange, huh...?

So towards the end of the night (1:20 am), we're getting ready to leave and this Steph girl was trying to hook up with this dude, but she was too shy to really talk to him. So the stunt double was trying to talk for Steph and hook them up. Now, for some strange reason, at this point Steph started talking to me...even though she was trying to get with this other dude. It turns out he went to the same high school as me. To the point of this rambling...at the end of the night she gave me her number. @_@ Me... the one who was NOT trying to hook up with anyone got a number, while others who WERE trying to hook up did not. >.>... why...? I don't know...but over the whole time I was there (10 pm - 1:30 am) I only had 3 drinks. Apparently there is something in me that can at least let me socialize and talk to people, even though I am the Silent One. The only bad thing about this is that I might see this Steph person again, because she is friends with Kirsten Dunst (the name just stuck) and Kirsten Dunst is friends with my cousin. But that stunt double made me smoke a cigarette, I guess it's cool though...she bought me one of my drinks.

...my night in a nut shell...me going out, watching karaoke, then wondering why some people just don't have social skills... I know mine suck, but I somehow manage. Chuck, if you read this and see that I can do it...know that you can do it, too. Now go forth! And find yourself a nice new girl! XD

Passing Daze

Still nothing much happenning. I got my time off. It's okay. I need something to do, though. I need some purpose in life here. Since I'm not really doing anything all the days are just passing by so fast, soon I'm not even gonna know what day it is anymore. I hate that feeling. I called Target back and they said they would get back to me. Pssh. I give them one more day and then I call back again or start applying elsewhere. This is ridiculous. I'm sure I could make more money working somewhere else, but I thought the transferring route would be easier. Guess not.

The other night I was at my buddy's house and this girl came over at 3:30 in the morning. That's not the worst part...the worst part is that she was hammered and on coke--not good. She kept calling saying, "I'm coming over, I'm coming over." And he kept telling her no, but she just wouldn't listen. He was so pissed when she walked in the door. All she did all night was keep us up. "I wanna do something, I wanna talk." And he kept telling her to go to sleep. Then eventually, she thought he was a little pissed, when in reality he was ready to throw her out. So she kept saying she was gonna go to sleep then. But she didn't and kept keeping him up. Luckily, I was already out by this time. It turns out they argued until 6:30 in the morning and he just told her to get her shit together and he's taking her to her car. "Get the hell out!"

That's my exciting story of the week.

Home Again

I've been home for about 3 days now. I don't know what to make of it. It's nice to be around old friends, but home just isn't home for me anymore. Especially in state my house is in. No parents = no provider...and no place in the house to really call my own. I have no room! T.T So I haven't unpacked my stuff because it doesn't really have any where to go. It makes me sad at life. I just need to get my own place or something. But if my brother wasn't here, I don't know what I'd do with a whole house to myself. My parents would probably be happier if it was just me living in it though--I would take care of it better. I feel out of place here. Like I'm intruding on someone else's life, but that might not really be the case. So I'll just let it go. I'm still waiting to find out if I've been transfered by Target. XP So hard to get stuff done. I hope I do have work, it'll suck to have no money.

黒龍会

I really have been doing nothing this whole week since I finished my paper writing hell. It's really nice. ^.^ I got the newest Karoake game for Xbox, Karoake Revolution Party, which I am excited to play. But it seems I don't have the little jiggy to hook up the mic to the controller. ;_; I'm so sad...so, I think I have to buy another one, damnit. -_-; I'm leaving tomorrow and I took my final shower in the dorms. That's kind of sad because I like the dorm showers...always limitless warm water and the water pressure is waaaaaaay better than it is at my house. home shower = suck. XP On a strange note, I'm pretty sure someone else in the showers was peeing in the shower while I was taking a shower. I just thought it was kind of strange to do that in public showers...because everyone can smell it.

In FlyFF, I finally started my guild! It's soooooo cool, I think. It's called 黒龍会(くろりゅうかい) = Black Dragon Society, or such. Too bad the game doesn't have Japanese language support, so I had to do it in rōmaji. It was just an accomplishment to start the guild. Yay! It was a little funny how I just rounded up a bunch of low-level players just to start my guild, but some of them are pretty cool. So it's not that bad.

Paper Writing Hell

Wow...So I spent all day yesterday writing this paper about this book I didn't really read. But it's funny that when I would normally read it, I got through about 50 pages in 3 hours... but when I was reading yesterday just to write that paper, I got through the last 300 pages in 6 hours and wrote a 9 page paper about it. -_-;; stupid poo. But the paper writing hell is finally over.

After that I chilled a bit and then me, Courtney, and Beth when to the commons for free breakfast type food. It was good. mmm....tater mush. >.<; The line was hell-ish though. We sat in the dark corner. And we saw lots of people. We heard someone blowing a whistle pop, and then Beth wanted one. But hers was the Ryan-calling whistle because when she blew it, Ryan came in our general direction. XD

Now, today at 10:33 my semester is officially over. I finished my last, and only, final in about 15 minutes. It's such a good feeling to know I have nothing I have to do now. I can just watch anime and play games and whatever the hell I want that is not school. Yay! Oh, and as I was walking back to my room after the final I noticed that all the squirrels aren't pudgey anymore. They're really thin now...so they look young or something >.<;

おきパ

Yes,...if you have asian text support, you see that title right. It's my lame attempt at Japanese contractions, so to speak. おきパ　for 沖田パーティ. But onto that later. First, I have to cover the lame stuff. Then the exciting stuff is last.

I went home this weekend to take home a bunch of big stuff I don't need at college because everything I have won't fit in my car in one trip. So, that was the solution. It's a shame I had to do it this weekend, but it was really just the logical time to do it. At home, I didn't really do anything because I'm a slacker at life. I haven't been working on the paper that's due tonight. So, I spent most of my time reading my book...and then I stopped reading and just started writing. F that shiz...I can't remember much of what I read after I read it in that book, so I decided to just start skimming through the chapters and giving summaries of them in paragraph form. Althought that isn't what the professor really says he wants for in the assignment. He says he wants a argument analysis, not a book review; but the instructions sure sound like book summary. XP bleh... Anyways, that was most of the boring weekend. I had to fill up my car before coming back and I was depressed that it cost me $30, and the tank wasn't empty. T.T That's up like $13-$15 from when I first got that car. Gas prices make me want to hate life. Stupid government and stupid economy.

Speaking of stupid stuff...>.>...I watched the second Naruto movie. It was really terrible. Definately worse than the first one, but not as bad as Versus. Either way, I wouldn't really want to see it again. What are they thinking when they come up with these movies??? And why can't Naruto have a move other than rasengan? ...although I will admit that double-rasengan is kinda cool.

To the party...the party, yeah!

We wanted to have a farewell for 沖田先生 and decided to have a small gathering. Before my oral test on Wednesday, I invited her to have a "last drink" with me, Kevin, and Beth. The planning was really terrible. We really had no idea where to have it. Luckily Dominic let us have it at his apartment. Okita was supposed to show up at 8, but she was late...as she always seems to be. But it's cool, I was just worried she wouldn't show up. She said she would bring food, but I was amazed at how much food she brought. It was sooo much. And I know that Chinese food from Wegman's is not cheap. >.<; Beth made this really good cashew chicken stuff. I was sad that I ate a wrap before going there...I didn't think Okita would bring so much food. It was amazing to be able to just hang out with her because she is really cool person. We played DDR and Naruto, and like Beth said...she picks up games really fast. Most of the night was spent in conversation, though, much like I expected it to be. Ah, it was so interesting to hear what Okita really thought about classes and people and other random stuff! It was just a lot of fun. I wasn't exactly sure how it would turn out, but I think it ended up being good. I'm glad she was happy with it. I even got an Okita hug. It made me feel special, and then I was happy that everything worked out and we got to hang out with her one last time before she leaves. I wonder if anyone else got a hug...?

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