It's Been Awhile

It's become evident to me that I don't post as often as I used to. And that's how things go, they eb and they flow. But maybe it's just me- on the Nintendo Poll Channel, they asked whether blogging would gain or lose popularity in the upcoming year. I said it would lose popularity, but I was a minority.

School has been hectic this week. We're branching out into multiple projects. I work on one thing. Tom focuses on another. Alex does an awful good job working on both. He deserves Fridays off with the 8-5 days he puts in. Our report is now up to 45 pages, which sounds like a lot, but in a sense it isn't. This is a massive project for three people to work on. Normally they only let one person work with a professor on a project, and those peoples' papers tend to run 12-20 pages, so we're relatively on track, but I would honestly be surprised if we stayed below 60. There are 4 weeks left out of 11. It's nearing crunch time. Decide what we want to do and no lallygagging.

I am highly impressed that "Batman" is already in my cell phone directory. Most people I know have seen it already, and none of them have disliked it, which says a lot. I've been going to a lot of summer movies myself. A brief recap of the movies I remember (in no particular order, from May 'til now):

WALL-E. JUST. GO. SEE. IT.

Iron Man- good, but not my cup of tea.

Hulk- I thought it was good.

Speed Racer- I like flashy things.

The Happening- a letdown, but I've convinced myself that there's something deeper going on

Get Smart- Funny.

Kung Fu Panda- Surprise of the Summer. Funny, awesome.

Wanted- Action-packed. Lots of action. Didn't even know it was based on a graphic novel when it came out.

Indiana Jones- Why?

Meet Dave- yea, I saw it. Not as horrible as people make it sound, though.

Narnia 2- Never saw the first. Makes me want to.

I went to Brent's place on Friday to have an old-school Super Metroid side-by-side battle. Brent's got a way cooler path, using a lot more tricks, but I somehow managed to eek out a faster time by 1 minute. (1:20 (99%) to 1:19 (100%). It was a silly missile Brent missed- we didn't think too much about it. I could've easily done the same thing.) We then watched the current world record online. They can do it in 0:55. Seriously.

Went bowling with Zach on Saturday. That was interesting, I won a dollar playing this new colored-pins game they got at Fiesta Lane. I managed to leave up the two non-white pins during a throw, and that earned me a buck. I somehow beat Zach in 2 of three games, but he won overall with a higher series score. We met some interesting folk that we got paired up with. Never seen a happier, guy wearing a pink Shamu t-shirt. And he was sober. Zach and I had one beer each. But that was it. I miss going bowling with everybody like I did in high school. And if you went to that bowling party I arranged via facebook that first December after we graduated, it was cool. Like 30 people came. I miss some of my friends from high school, but I've made new friends, and remade friends with people from before, so it all works out.

Saw WALL-E with Pat and his friends Ben and Maxine. For all of us it was the second time. There was an annoying kid sitting next to me talking to his grandpa, all in Spanish. I found it interesting the things that kid picked up and what else he didn't. None of the other guys knew of the "twist" after the credits. Kinda changes things a bit, depending on how you look at it. But I was glad to see WALL-E again. It is just such a wonderful movie. It is able to get a message across with perhaps the least dialogue of any Disney movie. Not sure what to make of that.

Life is happening. I wish I could get out more, but even my facebook personality test says I'm no extrovert. It describes me almost to a tee. It's not that I'm agoraphobic, I just never have fun when there are a bazillion people around, especially if they're all drunk. Me playing with Brent, that's fun. Me and Zach bowling, that's fun, albeit with a couple of strangers. Watching a film with Pat and company, fun, despite some Spanish chatter. Going to a club, trying to hook up with somebody whose voice you can barely hear over the noise they're blaring that's supposedly music, not fun. There's no way I can get into the mood if everybody else is doing the exact same thing. I don't run that way. Like the old music video for Switchfoot's "Dare You to Move" (not the beach one) everybody is running in one direction, except for one guy. What he's running to, or away from, we never know. But I loved that video. It was simple, not flashy, and got to the point while playing an awesome song. I don't run the same pathways as everybody else. Never have. Hopefully never will.

I have no idea what I'm doing for grad school.