So, how 'bout that weather huh? Yes, I am bold enough to do that, so sue me.
Wait, please don't. Already don't have money.
Awesome segue aside, it is cold, and Maria and I find this disagreeable. Very disagreeable. Out come our warmest winter jackets. For me, its also the addition to my wardrobe of the brilliant and truly fantastic invention of warmth: The Scarf.
Yes! one of mans greatest inventions, a mere strip of cloth, wrapped around the neck in a pleasing, both aesthetically and practically manor. Aesthetically in that a scarf can indeed be used in a purely fashionable sense (oh you say? a man who states correctly the uses of scarfs you say? Yes! I say!), practically in that there are major blood vessels in your neck, close to the surface, and warming those help to regulate the overall body temperature, as well as helping to keep the brain at its optimal temperature.
Fantastic cloth aside though, the cold is a terrible time, for me, and for the readers of this blog. My Grey Coat just isn't warm enough to drop to negative temperatures. I can't. The lowest I go is about 2-4 centigrade. I just can't go any lower, no matter the number of layers, or the delightfullness of my scarf. So, as the days get colder, I am forced to employ warmer coats, and my Grey Coat will be employed less and less. Yes, I know dear reader, that it is indeed a terrible thing, but I must, for I cannot be cold. I don't do well with cold. I makes me miserable. Awfully miserable, and my total delightfulness goes don't, and we don't want that now do we? Yes, I am hanging it up, and joining the hundreds, even thousands of people wearing pea-coats I'm terribly sorry dearest readers, but I must.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Monday, November 12, 2012
Time Management, or why I probably won't be doing a lot of sleeping in my life, ever.
So joy, it happens a lot. That's really good you know? as is what knowing what makes one happy. So yea, I've learned what I like. There's a lot, and I've come to a conclusion. I'll tell you after this:
My interests!
Books! I love books, and I have a long list of books. Its good to know what is a good book is to you. For me, I am fond of the Gothic styles of literature, from Britain. The particularly verbose nature of the literature strikes me as agreeable, for my own writing, when not in such a casual instance such as this, is frighteningly verbose. So yea, books, there are a lot, my list of books, not in order, of books that I need to read, mind you not all of them are Gothic, but all of them I believe that I'll like
War and Peace
The Brothers Kamarzov
Alice in Wonderland
The Metamrophoses - ovid
Vergils the Aeneid
The Oddasy and the Illiad -Homer
The wroks of Plato
The Colllected works of Aristotle
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Moby Dick
Bartelby the Scribner
The invisable Man
The island of Dr. Merow
The Time machine
The Prince
Mrs Dalloway
The Geasnies
Beowolf
Canterbuy Tales
Game of Thrones series (minus the first)
The Jungle
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Authors I'm suppose to read:
Eurodroa Welty
Faulkner
Subjects I'm interested in reading more about:
History of Europe, Russia,
Russian culture
Chinese culture, and history
Greek Philosophy
Indian philosophy
Governmental ideology (creation of governments)
Theology
Mind you this isn't a comprehensive list, merely a brief over view, I've missed some.
Video games offer new and fantastic worlds to gamer (yes, both definitions of the word fantastic, oh yes there are two, deal with it), and allows someone to very much leave this world and inter another. One can easily be lost in the world of a game, solving puzzles, slaying dragons, saving princesses, being intergelactic bad-asses or Batman, the world enthralls the gamer, and its beautiful, just as books are. Here is my list of games that I am playing, or need to play.
Videos Games:
Metriod Prime for the Wii
Epic Mickey for the Wii, yea, I have one
Bioshock
Bioshock 2
Bioshock Inifinte
Oblivion
Skyrim
Batman Arkam city
Batman Arkam asylum
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
SuperMario Brothers 3 (I need to beat that game)
Deus Ex Human Revolutions
Dishonored
Portal
Portal2
Halflife 1
Halflife2
Brawl
Mirrors edge
Metal Gear Solid series
Halo 3,4, Reach, and ODST
Left for Dead 1-2
Legend of Zelda series
There are more, so again, a mere brief over view.
There are many things that I love, and below are a list of things that I love, but most, except for mosaicing, I am terrible at, however, I love the puzzle of it, especially since I don't ask for help on these things. I have to figure it out myself, and well, I'm not a terribly clever person when it comes to these sorts of things. Still though, my list of interesting things that I like.
Personal interests:
Tinkering
electrical systems
Radios
clocks
Mosaics
glass, in general
running
So yea, there is a lot on my plate in terms of things to do when I don't have something more important to do, like college. You know, that thing that happens, all the time. Yea that. When thats gone, I have some 59 listen things to occupy my time. Yea. That's sort of a lot. Like a lot a lot, and I've come to this conclusion, one interest per week! Its brilliant! That way, I can keep everything current, and I won't get bored with it, because I won't have that much time to do it . Also, as I make cycles, the same article from each group will be reused until completed, that way I finish books, instead of having 20 some odd books being read at the same time. This week is literature, next week, video games, and the week after that, i believe I shall tinker some in my basement. But finally, an organized way to achieve everything that I'd like to.
My interests!
Books! I love books, and I have a long list of books. Its good to know what is a good book is to you. For me, I am fond of the Gothic styles of literature, from Britain. The particularly verbose nature of the literature strikes me as agreeable, for my own writing, when not in such a casual instance such as this, is frighteningly verbose. So yea, books, there are a lot, my list of books, not in order, of books that I need to read, mind you not all of them are Gothic, but all of them I believe that I'll like
War and Peace
The Brothers Kamarzov
Alice in Wonderland
The Metamrophoses - ovid
Vergils the Aeneid
The Oddasy and the Illiad -Homer
The wroks of Plato
The Colllected works of Aristotle
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Moby Dick
Bartelby the Scribner
The invisable Man
The island of Dr. Merow
The Time machine
The Prince
Mrs Dalloway
The Geasnies
Beowolf
Canterbuy Tales
Game of Thrones series (minus the first)
The Jungle
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Authors I'm suppose to read:
Eurodroa Welty
Faulkner
Subjects I'm interested in reading more about:
History of Europe, Russia,
Russian culture
Chinese culture, and history
Greek Philosophy
Indian philosophy
Governmental ideology (creation of governments)
Theology
Mind you this isn't a comprehensive list, merely a brief over view, I've missed some.
Video games offer new and fantastic worlds to gamer (yes, both definitions of the word fantastic, oh yes there are two, deal with it), and allows someone to very much leave this world and inter another. One can easily be lost in the world of a game, solving puzzles, slaying dragons, saving princesses, being intergelactic bad-asses or Batman, the world enthralls the gamer, and its beautiful, just as books are. Here is my list of games that I am playing, or need to play.
Videos Games:
Metriod Prime for the Wii
Epic Mickey for the Wii, yea, I have one
Bioshock
Bioshock 2
Bioshock Inifinte
Oblivion
Skyrim
Batman Arkam city
Batman Arkam asylum
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
SuperMario Brothers 3 (I need to beat that game)
Deus Ex Human Revolutions
Halflife 1
Halflife2
Brawl
Mirrors edge
Metal Gear Solid series
Left for Dead 1-2
Legend of Zelda series
There are more, so again, a mere brief over view.
There are many things that I love, and below are a list of things that I love, but most, except for mosaicing, I am terrible at, however, I love the puzzle of it, especially since I don't ask for help on these things. I have to figure it out myself, and well, I'm not a terribly clever person when it comes to these sorts of things. Still though, my list of interesting things that I like.
Personal interests:
Tinkering
electrical systems
Radios
clocks
Mosaics
glass, in general
running
So yea, there is a lot on my plate in terms of things to do when I don't have something more important to do, like college. You know, that thing that happens, all the time. Yea that. When thats gone, I have some 59 listen things to occupy my time. Yea. That's sort of a lot. Like a lot a lot, and I've come to this conclusion, one interest per week! Its brilliant! That way, I can keep everything current, and I won't get bored with it, because I won't have that much time to do it . Also, as I make cycles, the same article from each group will be reused until completed, that way I finish books, instead of having 20 some odd books being read at the same time. This week is literature, next week, video games, and the week after that, i believe I shall tinker some in my basement. But finally, an organized way to achieve everything that I'd like to.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
The story of an Island, or Hey where'd my tea go and why is it so dark?
Dearest readers, I'm sorry, I got lazy.
But at least I'm honest yea?
So today, I come to you from my heart, and a story. I have had a wonderful weekend, thanks, for asking, and while Its been truly fantastic, it must come to a close. It was amazing, like a haven in a world fraught with chaos and disorder, I find that there is a place where I can go, where my heart is at peace, and glows with a good light. I smile more, and feel better, even while writing my rather lengthy essay. But through it, I've come to realize several things, several rather heavy things.
We all need this thing, an escape, a haven in which everything is yours. Happiness preserves the mental faculties, and especially in college, there is a need to expand ones mental faculties, as we are pushed far outside our range of previously known knowledge. Its is at this internal oasis that we find rest a peace, and the means to continue. And that's just brilliant. What isn't is that I am just now discovering where mine is. The previous 18 years of my life have been without the need for one, or rather, up until recently there was no need for one, and so these lessons or preservation of humanity and cognition are new to me. Added still that they are filled with extra turmoil, and I struggle with even finding my haven, and being able to get to it, as it isn't within me, but a physical place, away from my home. So there's that.
Which brings me to that fact that my comfort zone, for college, is rather small, and that's not uncharacteristic, what is however is its size. For its precisely the same as high school, and there it was rather small as well. I was never one to be adventurous, although, yes, I have adventures (both IRL, and DnD), they are always.... tame (although I doubt some would disagree). Pardon my digression, but I'm unchanged, while my surroundings have changed. This goes back to the haven idea presented above, and that there I have arrived rather unfashionably late to this idea of getting out of ones comfortable bits, and into something new.
'Haven't made a friend in college yet.
Yup, there's that.
But I find myself struggling, with college-y things, and a great deal of other things, and its nice to know now where my haven is. Its still difficult, but I can escape for once, and despite masculinity driven stereotypes for my sex and gender, I still love a cup of hot to scolding tea, and a book. Or perhaps a 360 controller. Either one is good with me. Both alone or with friends, both online, or IRL, or neither, that, that is my joy, my new escape involves more processing power than a desktop, and better graphics than a IMAX movie, and while I love it, it probably won't make me friends outside the ones that I have now, so we are left with an interesting dilemma, to continue the just newly found comfort zone, one that is truly necessary at times, or not to, and force a new one involving being social with humans? A difficult quandary to be sure, a quagmire if you will, yes, my struggles with it are only beginning. Damn.
But at least I'm honest yea?
So today, I come to you from my heart, and a story. I have had a wonderful weekend, thanks, for asking, and while Its been truly fantastic, it must come to a close. It was amazing, like a haven in a world fraught with chaos and disorder, I find that there is a place where I can go, where my heart is at peace, and glows with a good light. I smile more, and feel better, even while writing my rather lengthy essay. But through it, I've come to realize several things, several rather heavy things.
We all need this thing, an escape, a haven in which everything is yours. Happiness preserves the mental faculties, and especially in college, there is a need to expand ones mental faculties, as we are pushed far outside our range of previously known knowledge. Its is at this internal oasis that we find rest a peace, and the means to continue. And that's just brilliant. What isn't is that I am just now discovering where mine is. The previous 18 years of my life have been without the need for one, or rather, up until recently there was no need for one, and so these lessons or preservation of humanity and cognition are new to me. Added still that they are filled with extra turmoil, and I struggle with even finding my haven, and being able to get to it, as it isn't within me, but a physical place, away from my home. So there's that.
Which brings me to that fact that my comfort zone, for college, is rather small, and that's not uncharacteristic, what is however is its size. For its precisely the same as high school, and there it was rather small as well. I was never one to be adventurous, although, yes, I have adventures (both IRL, and DnD), they are always.... tame (although I doubt some would disagree). Pardon my digression, but I'm unchanged, while my surroundings have changed. This goes back to the haven idea presented above, and that there I have arrived rather unfashionably late to this idea of getting out of ones comfortable bits, and into something new.
'Haven't made a friend in college yet.
Yup, there's that.
But I find myself struggling, with college-y things, and a great deal of other things, and its nice to know now where my haven is. Its still difficult, but I can escape for once, and despite masculinity driven stereotypes for my sex and gender, I still love a cup of hot to scolding tea, and a book. Or perhaps a 360 controller. Either one is good with me. Both alone or with friends, both online, or IRL, or neither, that, that is my joy, my new escape involves more processing power than a desktop, and better graphics than a IMAX movie, and while I love it, it probably won't make me friends outside the ones that I have now, so we are left with an interesting dilemma, to continue the just newly found comfort zone, one that is truly necessary at times, or not to, and force a new one involving being social with humans? A difficult quandary to be sure, a quagmire if you will, yes, my struggles with it are only beginning. Damn.
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