Scatterbrained once again

Ah, it's been a little while since I've gone Scatterbrained. We'll just have to see how this turns out.

Let's see...

I think I'll start here.

A couple of friends of mine in the anime club, who actually may be bigger geeks than me, are writing a story about us in high school, but we all have bizzare powers. Ben can transform into animals, Brittany can clone herself, Kerrie can grow to bizzare sizes, Cami can blow stuff up, and Danny has super strength. What do I get? "Control over my hair."

Control over my hair? Suddenly that's a superpower? So far in the story I'm pretty much amounting to being a human rope factory. I tie people up and save my friends from falling into holes.

This is a lame superpower.

Why is it that people always make fun of my having long hair? Is it really that odd? I mean come on, lots of famous people have or had long hair. Every rocker from the 80's and 90's worth mentioning, most of the historic Samurai, and even Jesus, for Christ's sake. Yes, I made a funny.

Finally got cable installed over at this new house. It's great. After a couple weeks, I can finally feed my addictions--Buffy and Teen Titans. I have no idea why I've attached to the former, but the latter just entertains me.

I've been really quite busy this week for some reason. I went from last week being a slow, drawn out bore torture to this week that's been a roller coaster.

Sunday: Go over to Ben's, hang out, swim, play video games, come home.

Monday: Spend the night at Simon's, play Halo, play Heroes, sleep, wake, come home.

Tuesday: Get home in the morning, get online. Five minutes later, I've been talked into going to Beaverton to go to a Japanese market called Uwajimaya for no real reason. That kills several hours and several more brain cells. I had giant spam sushi. An entire slab of spam, turned into sushi. It was one of those foods you have to try. Anyway, afterwords I come home. A few hours later, I'm called to go back to Simon's for a second helping of Halo, some Star Wars game, a big bag of jawbreakers, and more Heroes. Sleep, wake, come home.

Wednesday: Go to my grandmother's house and hack up plants for a while, mow her lawn, etc.

Thursday [Today]: Nothing. I got a break.

Friday [Tomorrow]: Go with Simon to pick up Kristen from camp.

Saturday: Go to Ben's with Brian and spend the night. Generic chaos ensues.

Sunday: Wake up at Ben's, curse myself for having too much caffeine, consume more caffeine, come home.

I hate my hair sometimes. Right now it's so knotted up that I suspect boy scouts have been in it.

But I have conditioner and dandruff shampoo now, so maybe, just maybe, it'll stop getting knotted up so easily. I'll have it trimmed too. That'll help. I hope.

At anime club on Friday we went to Ben's and watched the original Power Rangers from Japan. It was fun. I wonder sometimes about the sanity levels of the people in anime club, including myself, and whether or not we should be allowed outside with normal people lest we confuse them into killing themselves.

Then we went swimming. Yay. I need to swim more.

I really should start working out. I've had a bit of a gut for years now and always wondered if I'd look better if I got rid of it. What am I saying? Of course I would. That, and I need to get acne medicine and do away with my facial warzone once and for all.

I am currently very sympathetic with the female species. I have for a bit of time now been shaving various non-kinky parts of my body because I dislike having hairy legs, armpits, etc. It's a big, grade A pain in the ass. I sympathize with you ladies and wonder how you put up with it. I'm also curious as to how you do such a good job because my legs, no matter how hard I try, always end up with stubble.

Oh well, with time I'll get better.

I need to go register for college classes. I also need to register to get my G.E.D. I'm still pretty peeved at my mother for making me be homeschooled and causing me to be unable to achieve a diploma. Yeah, I know it sounds like the blame game, but it's true. If she hadn't homeschooled me, then given up halfway through and sent me very confused into the middle of Sophomore year, I'd have my credits, a slightly less irregular social life, and a diploma right now.

Oh well. Can't change the past, right?

I want my bow. My parents got me nothing for my birthday and I've mentioned a bow as the gift they should get me and while they sometimes will talk about it they won't do anything. I want my bow so I can set a target up out back and start shooting. I want to get into archery because I think it's something I can get good at.

Last time I was at outdoor school, I did archery. I went down to the range during rec time, picked up a bow, shot three bull's-eyes out of nowhere, put the bow down and walked away. While it was honestly fluke and I didn't deserve it, that earned my the title of "Robin Hood" for the rest of the week.

I kinda liked it.

We're supposed to start a new D&D campaign pretty soon, but I haven't heard from Janelle about it in a while. She moves in like a month to go off to college, and that really doesn't leave much time for us to game. We need to get on top of it if we're gonna do this. I really want to. I like the character I've created for it.

I bought blank CDs yesterday. Now I can start burning music again. That's good, because I need to update my portable tunes. What's not good is how much CDs cost. Ten dollars for 25 blank CDs? Seven for five blank MINI CDs? Absurd. They're plastic and metal, not that special, and certainly not that expensive to produce. So why charge so much?

I guess it's because the makers know that they're popular. Stealing and copying and burning and mixing music is a huge thing these days. Back in the day you spent hours making a mix tape. That was a pain. But now you just pop one of these in your computer, pick a bunch of tracks, and tell it to make it. Couple minutes to instant CD with all your favorites. It's easy. So the people making the blanks know that without them, this fad of burning music would die, and thus the people will pay what they must for the luxury.

This is turning into quite a long post. I'm slowly running out of the purple words printed on the edge of my brain to talk about, so I suppose I'll wrap it up. More Scatterbrained another day.

But before I go, a song of course:


Three Doors Down - Kryptonite

I took a walk around the world to ease my troubled mind
I left my body lyin' somewhere in the sands of time
But I've watched the world float to the dark side of the moon
I feel there's nothin' I can do, yeah...

I watched the world float to the dark side if the moon
After all I knew, it had to be somethin' to do to you
I really don't mind what happens now and then
As long as you'll be my friend at the end

If I go crazy, then will you still call me "Superman"?
If I'm alive and well, will you be there holdin' my hand?
I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might
Kryptonite...

You call me strong and call me weak, but still your secrets I will keep
You took for granted all the times I never let you down
You stumbled in and bumped your head, if not for me, then you'd be dead
I picked you up and put you back on solid ground

If I go crazy, then will you still call me "Superman"?
If I'm alive and well, will you be there holdin' my hand?
I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might
Kryptonite...

If I go crazy, then will you still call me "Superman"?
If I'm alive and well, will you be there holdin' my hand?
I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might
Kryptonite, yeah...

If I go crazy, then will you still call me "Superman"?
If I'm alive and well, will you be there holdin' my hand?
I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might
Kryptonite...