life update!

Last night, I had a dream (“as I recall, it was a horror dream.”  No, actually, kidding).  As far as I can tell, it had no coherent plot, but it might have involved playing Command and Conquer 3, Cameron (from House, M.D.) who incidentally, was also in C&C3, Remus Lupin, who might also have been FDR and married to Cameron*, werewolves (I, possibly, was one), Mr. David, my childhood fear of jungle gyms, aaaaaaand the fact that there is a door from the public bathroom into the room that I sleep in here at the Chalet, and I pretty much have this unfounded, supressed fear that someone might walk in on me while I’m snoozin’.

Right.

Ironically, this is a pretty good summation of what I’ve been up to (except for FDR and the jungle gym, I dunno what is up with that!).  So here are some things that have recently happened in my life, of no particularly significance or order:

1. So I never thought I was OCD, but I think I might be.  Command and Conquer has this thing where it tracks the number of wins and losses for all the games that you play, and I had a perfect winning record before a couple of nights ago.  Well, as some of you may know, my computer has gotten into the nasty habit of overheating and shutting off without prior warning, and it did just this in the middle of a mission. WELL, C&C3 registered this as me chickening out and recorded it as a loss… and now my record is no longer perfect.  QQ WOE IS ME WTF I H8 LYFE. I am seriously am considering just erased my record as a whole but then I’d lose my 18 wins.

2. My iTunes won’t open for whatever dumb reason.  Think I might restart my computer after this post.

3. While we’re on the topic of my computer, it seems to like to protest everytime I run anything vaguely graphics-intensive.  This includes any and all games that I thought I could get my fix of this summer.  BALLS.  I am hoping it is the altitude affecting it, and it’ll be right as rain when I get back to Boston.  :(

4. Since my laptop has been mostly out of commission, I’ve spent a lot of time reading webcomics and playing on my DS.  I beat The World Ends With You the other day and finished reading Questionable Content this morning.  TWEWY was all right; the curveball at the end was, well, BALLER, but I wasn’t terribly fond of the gameplay.  I’ve since moved onto FFXII: Revenant Wings which I am really liking right now, because it just might hint a teensy tiny bit at an RTS-style gameplay.  PLUS the graphics are awesome!

5. You should all read Questionable Content.  Why?  It’s hilarious.  The characters are adorable.  Also there is a kickass character named Dora and she’s really hot and has a cute Indie boyfriend and I may or may not be living vicariously through her.

6. Speaking of webcomics, have you seen this recent xkcd?  Because, sadly, I think that might describe me.  This blogpost is kind of hard evidential proof.

7. I don’t usually drink more than a bottle or two of beer, because I apparently say really, really stupid, inane things after more.  Not embarassing things, but stuff like “Wow, that telescope is really big!”  Except, I think I remember more high school French while drunk.

8. I’ve been getting into Blaqk Audio, which is the electronica side project of two members of AFI.  I don’t really like AFI, but I do like Blaqk Audio’s sound, and Davey Havoc (seriously, is that actually his name??) sings better in this than he does in AFI, I think.  His voice isn’t really made for punk, at least, to me.  My favorite song is “Semiotic Love” which y’all should listen to!  I’m kind of obsessed with it.  Dunno what the deal is with the video though.  Didn’t even watch it, so no guarantees.

9. Still sort of getting over fictional character crush on good ol’ Remus Lupin.  Think I might reread Prisoner of Azkaban again when I get home.  That, and I hear that Deathly Hallows is better the second time around.  I might actually just skip all of Harry’s piss-whining in his tent.  And the part where Remus and Tonks… aw shucks, no, I can’t do it.  Never reading Deathly Hallows again.  It’s over, J.K. Rowling!  We’re done.  I’m not over it, and I never will be.

10. To those of you who have been texting me, I apologize for not responding.  Usually I am sleeping when it gets to me, and by the time I wake up and am coherent enough to text a response back, it’s like, 3am where you are.  I love you and we should hang out when I get back!

11. I will post Arizona pictures when I get home.  I was hoping to embed them into this blog (I’ve been trying but then I gave up, as you can tell) but it’s a bitch of a job and takes forever to load and stuff.  I think I might make a Flickr account or something and post it up there instead.  They’re also all on Facebook, and I should be friends with all of you reading this blog.  Er, at least I hope I am.  Unless you’re Jamie Bamber – in which case, read on! (And friend me on Facebook!)

12. Craving sushi.  Minado’s run when I get home, y/y?

Well, that’s sort of it for now.  Now that the REU folks have left, there isn’t much to do except y’know, work (god forbid!).  The good news is that I made a good sum of money this summer.  The bad news is that I also spent a good sum as well.  Balls.

Cheerio, over and out.  Next post will be from Boston! <3

*DUDE.  Not that I’d EVER want to separate Remus from his dear Tonks, but wouldn’t he and Cameron be kind of adorable?  (Question: who WOULDN’T Cameron be adorable with?  Answer: Gaius Baltar.) I mean, he’s like, the ultimate sad, hurt, broken puppy (get it, pun!  ’Cause he’s a werewolf!).  Also, Lupin + Remus = Lupus, clearly.  Match made in heaven.

**How hard would it be to get all of you to start calling me Tonks?  HMMM…