I'm still here!
It feels like it's been so long since I last posted, but really it hasn't even been five days. I don't think it's even been three days. Anyway, I'm in sort of a LJing mood right now, so here goes.
I'll start off with what I left out of my previous post. Aside from journaling topics and writing skills, I found out several things about me as a result of those forty nights of posting. Actually, I suppose I already figured on most of these, but now I have proof. The first lesson proven was obvious: I suck at multi-tasking because I naturally focus on one thing at a time. I can't listen to two people talk at once and understand them both, which is why entries 12 and 39 were so difficult. I spent most of the time trying to understand what was being said at me, whereas music is fairly easy to tune out unless I specifically listen to it directly. I think this may be part of the reason for how caught up I get in a new idea that interests me; I can hardly tear myself away from the planning.
Another thing I realized about myself is that while I love tradition and having a firm root in something, I also find myself trying to change things up somewhat in a lot of little ways. The most noticeable example in these posts, like most of my writing, is how I try to avoid reusing words near each other if I can help it. Then there's the fact that I like to see how many different variations on people's names I can find. Maybe half of scintilla72's highlight words in IRC may have been added because of me calling him things like Scintillicious or Scintsations or Tillanook. Not all of those may already exist, and for all I know he already had those highlights set up, but I can at least take credit for getting the name Jeeks to catch on a couple years back. Even if someone else actually did it, I'm still taking credit for it because in my mind that's what happened.
Perhaps the most important thing I learned is that you guys really do care about me. I mean I figured you did, using the same mindset that a lot of you brought up in entry #13 (if you didn't like me, you wouldn't actively associate with me), but now I've seen y'all pay attention to me like this so if I ever start to have doubts again, I can just point to my LJ and say "NUH UH, SEE?" to myself. Take that, me! Granted, I think part of the reason I felt such a disconnect is that I feel awkward initiating conversations even with people I've known all my life, so a lot of the time I don't really take part in Skype or parties or stuff too often, which means I miss out on stuff a lot. And that just leaves me lost and confused. It's like missing every other episode in a long running series or watching a musical by only listening to its soundtrack. I can piece together some of it, but there are always some key details that I don't get.
Well, that about covers the basics of the experiment's results. My chart is missing.
Not much change going on over here just yet. Dad and Jessica are leaving for Alabama via train Thursday morning though, so I have only one more day before two weeks or so of solitude. Well, maybe a week and a half. My brother is supposed to be dropping by toward the beginning of the second half of the trip. Still, work will keep me plenty busy, and for the rest of this week at least, I have filled up with a hair appointment, a birthday party, and hopefully an eye doctor appointment next week. I can't decide if I want a new hairstyle or to just keep my current style except shortened though. Aside from all that, I'm also planning on starting to take over Jessica's soon-to-be-emptied bedroom. I've been in this same bedroom since we first moved into this house in the spring of 2001, so I suppose it's about time for a change. I should find some graph paper so I can lay everything out before I start the move though.
According to the schedule I was supposed to not work today, but Janet traded me for my Thursday shift, so now I get two days off in a row after tomorrow! No credits today or Sunday, but I got three on Monday, so whatever.
I got unstuck in Half Life thanks to aessy's help (again). Again, it ended up involving a passageway that was in plain sight that I didn't even realize existed. Now that I'm on the next chapter, I feel like I'm playing Area 51 or some game like that.
I finally went to see The Incredible Hulk tonight at the Sunrise Mall theater, where movies are shown for a last time before hitting DVDs. The theater itself is pretty lame, but for three dollars a ticket, I don't mind at all. Jessica said she actually didn't want to go out tonight, but I told her I wanted to see it with her before she left, so she came along after all, even though she ended up not particularly enjoying it. I liked it though, and not just because I really like Edward Norton. I can't compare it to the previous Hulk movie at all, on account of I never saw it, but I never really had much intention to anyhow. I thought they handled the backstory pretty well in the intro, which was actually one of the main highlights for me. There was a lot of giggling in the theater during the almost-sex scene, because there were a LOT of kids watching. But yeah, all in all, I enjoyed it a lot.
Eureka made me sad, because the beginning of the episode recording got screwed up. I'm gonna have to rewatch it online sometime, because it looked like there were some good lines there. I really don't like Carly, or whatever the Fixer lady's name is. She's almost as irritating as Beverly, except she's less overt about (what I assume are) her ties to The Organization. Speaking of Organizations, in the theater lobby tonight I noticed a sign advertising SEASON THREE OF HEROES THIS FALL!!!! WOOOOOOO!!!! That made me happy.
Well, that'll be all for now. I'll check back in a couple days from now once the other two are gone for a different perspective.
EDIT: Oh yeah, funny story about work today. One of the guys on the cleaning crew asked me if the registers had garbage cans. I giggled about it off and on throughout the day, because he's been cleaning our store for at least a month, and emptying ALL the garbage cans is part of his duties.
Really though most of these outside cleaning crews we use now aren't very thorough, far as I can tell. It's too bad Housekeeping was eliminated as a position for employees of Kohls proper (as opposed to subcontracting).
I'll start off with what I left out of my previous post. Aside from journaling topics and writing skills, I found out several things about me as a result of those forty nights of posting. Actually, I suppose I already figured on most of these, but now I have proof. The first lesson proven was obvious: I suck at multi-tasking because I naturally focus on one thing at a time. I can't listen to two people talk at once and understand them both, which is why entries 12 and 39 were so difficult. I spent most of the time trying to understand what was being said at me, whereas music is fairly easy to tune out unless I specifically listen to it directly. I think this may be part of the reason for how caught up I get in a new idea that interests me; I can hardly tear myself away from the planning.
Another thing I realized about myself is that while I love tradition and having a firm root in something, I also find myself trying to change things up somewhat in a lot of little ways. The most noticeable example in these posts, like most of my writing, is how I try to avoid reusing words near each other if I can help it. Then there's the fact that I like to see how many different variations on people's names I can find. Maybe half of scintilla72's highlight words in IRC may have been added because of me calling him things like Scintillicious or Scintsations or Tillanook. Not all of those may already exist, and for all I know he already had those highlights set up, but I can at least take credit for getting the name Jeeks to catch on a couple years back. Even if someone else actually did it, I'm still taking credit for it because in my mind that's what happened.
Perhaps the most important thing I learned is that you guys really do care about me. I mean I figured you did, using the same mindset that a lot of you brought up in entry #13 (if you didn't like me, you wouldn't actively associate with me), but now I've seen y'all pay attention to me like this so if I ever start to have doubts again, I can just point to my LJ and say "NUH UH, SEE?" to myself. Take that, me! Granted, I think part of the reason I felt such a disconnect is that I feel awkward initiating conversations even with people I've known all my life, so a lot of the time I don't really take part in Skype or parties or stuff too often, which means I miss out on stuff a lot. And that just leaves me lost and confused. It's like missing every other episode in a long running series or watching a musical by only listening to its soundtrack. I can piece together some of it, but there are always some key details that I don't get.
Well, that about covers the basics of the experiment's results. My chart is missing.
Not much change going on over here just yet. Dad and Jessica are leaving for Alabama via train Thursday morning though, so I have only one more day before two weeks or so of solitude. Well, maybe a week and a half. My brother is supposed to be dropping by toward the beginning of the second half of the trip. Still, work will keep me plenty busy, and for the rest of this week at least, I have filled up with a hair appointment, a birthday party, and hopefully an eye doctor appointment next week. I can't decide if I want a new hairstyle or to just keep my current style except shortened though. Aside from all that, I'm also planning on starting to take over Jessica's soon-to-be-emptied bedroom. I've been in this same bedroom since we first moved into this house in the spring of 2001, so I suppose it's about time for a change. I should find some graph paper so I can lay everything out before I start the move though.
According to the schedule I was supposed to not work today, but Janet traded me for my Thursday shift, so now I get two days off in a row after tomorrow! No credits today or Sunday, but I got three on Monday, so whatever.
I got unstuck in Half Life thanks to aessy's help (again). Again, it ended up involving a passageway that was in plain sight that I didn't even realize existed. Now that I'm on the next chapter, I feel like I'm playing Area 51 or some game like that.
I finally went to see The Incredible Hulk tonight at the Sunrise Mall theater, where movies are shown for a last time before hitting DVDs. The theater itself is pretty lame, but for three dollars a ticket, I don't mind at all. Jessica said she actually didn't want to go out tonight, but I told her I wanted to see it with her before she left, so she came along after all, even though she ended up not particularly enjoying it. I liked it though, and not just because I really like Edward Norton. I can't compare it to the previous Hulk movie at all, on account of I never saw it, but I never really had much intention to anyhow. I thought they handled the backstory pretty well in the intro, which was actually one of the main highlights for me. There was a lot of giggling in the theater during the almost-sex scene, because there were a LOT of kids watching. But yeah, all in all, I enjoyed it a lot.
Eureka made me sad, because the beginning of the episode recording got screwed up. I'm gonna have to rewatch it online sometime, because it looked like there were some good lines there. I really don't like Carly, or whatever the Fixer lady's name is. She's almost as irritating as Beverly, except she's less overt about (what I assume are) her ties to The Organization. Speaking of Organizations, in the theater lobby tonight I noticed a sign advertising SEASON THREE OF HEROES THIS FALL!!!! WOOOOOOO!!!! That made me happy.
Well, that'll be all for now. I'll check back in a couple days from now once the other two are gone for a different perspective.
EDIT: Oh yeah, funny story about work today. One of the guys on the cleaning crew asked me if the registers had garbage cans. I giggled about it off and on throughout the day, because he's been cleaning our store for at least a month, and emptying ALL the garbage cans is part of his duties.
Really though most of these outside cleaning crews we use now aren't very thorough, far as I can tell. It's too bad Housekeeping was eliminated as a position for employees of Kohls proper (as opposed to subcontracting).