May 10, 2010 06:02
Sitting in living room today, waiting for water to boil. Mother mentioned Jesse James, called him stupid for cheating on Bullock. Mentioned new cow old cow as a joke. Mother had me explain. Mother asked me what I thought of monogamy, said it was weird. Father got angry and asked how after being raised in this household I could be like that and if I didn't believe in God.
Didn't understand, said monogamy is weird and suddenly atheist. Stopped and explained to him just because I think it's weird doesn't mean I wouldn't be monogamous, seemed more relaxed.
I'm reaching a point now where I'm reverting in education almost. I don't know, right explanation? No. I'm shedding existing ideals and opinions and questioning everything. More I question, less sense everything makes. Had moment of enlightenment today, beer was explained to me in perfect clarity. It's a social lubricant, everything about beer makes sense now. Also got 98/100 on ethics midterm, funny story behind that, not for suitable for livejournal archival.
Having problems in new guild so far, without realizing it most of the time I'm stepping up and contending for leadership on raids, might just be old raidleader in me. Hasn't caused many problems yet, but other raidleaders act unhappy because I challenge current strategies constantly. They have validity, people in guild have problems executing a single strategy unless practiced to ridiculous numbers. I change strategies constantly, rarely want to use same attempt more than two or three times. Consider it gathering data to see what happens if this is tried, or that, or this, or that, what about over here, if mob is turned this way, if healers are over there, if tanks are this close, if I pull/split with different ability. With many outcomes, can look and see what best applied strategy would be. Others do it many times until seems impossible or success, then stick with that one/change. Taking charge as tank makes me happy though, tell people where they need to be and what I want them to do. Funny when I say mob inc nw wall and no one moves out of pull path, then eats mass frontals and die.
Besides ethics midterm, struggling on 10 page paper I had to write for the class. Was given 7 weeks, have 8 days left to do it, nothing written. Maybe I picked awkward subject about ethics, accounts for 40% of total grade though. Guess I'll do it last moment like everything else I do. Had to step up today to do midterm though, but slacking severely on doing other work I need to be doing. Someone tricked me today, brilliant trick really. Dangerous trick, not safe to trick others like this.
I wish the world was as easy to subjectively define as beer was for me. Maybe it is, but I think it'll be a longer than lifelong journey to understand most of it. Maybe no need to understand or try to, but just call things as seen in the now, with no excess.
Happy at prospects of new computer, seeing world like EQ2 in different quality, running games unable to run currently.