Random update

Sorry I've been away for a week. Lots of stuff has (or has not) been happening to me and my life. I'm still in the middle of resolving them.

My car is (in the process of?) being repossessed. Yes, I'm becoming just as much of a loser as my penultimate boyfriend. The story is long and (for me) infuriating, but it's as much a product of my own doing as anything else. (I've been unemployed for about seven months, at first just to take a break from working, but now I'm actively seeking employment. You'd think a Grinnell degree would count for something!)

So, that's the story of the week so far. In other news, I'm selling off the bulk of my yet-valuable Magic cards. I don't have many left--I've had many sales like this in the past. But I do still own some sought-after cards, like Consecrate Land and Mind Twist. These, I think, should fetch a pretty penny. Who knows about the other stuff. Reading/researching on eBay has shown me that sometimes a sale nets a BUNDLE, and sometimes really good cards just sit there and don't move at all.

I'm also planning to pawn my old stereo, the one I bought right before my junior year in college. It's basically worthless, so if I see even $30, I'll be pleased.

I've got an idea for a CCG that involves psychotropics. That's it. Right now, it's just an idea. I've got a possible card back design, a few sample creatures, and the eight (nine?) psychoactive substances that can be used as "mana". I don't have any spells or abilities, or special locations, or equipment, or anything like that. Like I say, right now all I have is an idea. But it's fun to work on. (I'm using my rubber stamps to make the cards on regular index cards, and it's worth it to get my fingers inky again.)

Had quite the DXM trip(s) two weeks ago, around my birthday. Some people may not put much stock in the idea that an OTC drug can lend one paranormal abilities, but I feel a lot was revealed to me during that time.

F and I have reaffirmed the idea of me going to Michigan for about six months. I want to be around my family very, very much right now. It'd be timely, too, as two of my elder relatives are in and out of hospitals and hospices.

Saw Unbreakable. Thought it was fucking fantastic. Now that's the way to tell a graphic novel.

stolen from femakita

You said your birthday is 2 / 24 / 1975
which means you are 27 years old and about:

58 years 4 months younger than Walter Cronkite, age 85
54 years 9 months younger than Pope John Paul II, age 81
50 years 8 months younger than George Herbert Bush, age 77
43 years 5 months younger than Barbara Walters, age 70
41 years 3 months younger than Larry King, age 68
35 years 1 month younger than Ted Koppel, age 62
31 years 8 months younger than Geraldo Rivera, age 58
28 years 8 months younger than President G.W. Bush, age 55
23 years 7 months younger than Jesse Ventura, age 50
19 years 4 months younger than Bill Gates, age 46
14 years 8 months younger than John Elway, age 41
9 years 0 months younger than Cindy Crawford, age 36
3 years 7 months younger than Jeff Gordon, age 30
0 years 10 months older than Tiger Woods, age 26
6 years 9 months older than Jenna and Barbara Bush, age 20



and that you were:
22 years old when Princess Diana died
20 years old at the time of Oklahoma City bombing
19 years old when O. J. Simpson was charged with murder
18 years old at the time of the bombing of the World Trade Center*
15 years old when Operation Desert Storm began
14 years old during the fall of the Berlin Wall
10 years old when the space shuttle Challenger exploded
8 years old when Apple introduced the Macintosh
8 years old during Sally Ride's travel in space
6 years old when Pres. Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr.
4 years old at the time the Iran hostage crisis began
a 1 year old on the U.S.'s bicentennial Fourth of July

http://www.frontiernet.net/~cdm/age1.html

( Recollections... )

A reply buried in a huge thread in the Debate community

Post to which I replied:
Democracy? I'm familiar with the idea, and I believe in the possibility of peaceful change. I'm a registered voter, and I participate in the political process. Geaux me.

Please re-read my original post. My complaint doesn't concern citizens who have problems with some of our government's policies; everyone disagrees with something that the government is doing. I have an issue with people who believe that the entire system is unsalvagably corrupt – people who use language like America is an oppressive fascist-imperialist Orwellian state with complete seriousness. If America's government is truly that bad, is reform a possibility?

Ask a Jew who survived the Holocaust if late-1930s Nazi Germany could have been reformed, or if a revolution against Hitler could have succeeded. My point: if the American government really is an unthinkably awful, oppressive, atrocity committing war machine...wouldn't it be better to move to a country with a more humane, agreeable government?

Or could it be that the people who call our government "fascist" have no idea of what a real authoritarian government would do to them? (How would Stalin, Mao, or Hitler handle the problem of dissent on the internet?)

(See it here.)

( My short response )

I haven't played Final Fantasy X, so I can't really comment.

Take the Final Fantasy X personality test here! by thingwraith