Currently...
Hello again everyone, and for those of you who are new to my LJ, welcome. I'll be sure to add you as friends, let me know what color you want your box or else you'll have one assigned to you! This journal is under fascist rule!
>_>;;;
Anyway, I'm really bored, and I feel like sharing right now, so I'll just write down a bunch of things I am 'currently' doing/feeling/thinking, etc.
My current occupation:
Ever since WotC Retail closed down (damn you, Hasbro, damn you!) I'm not working nor going to any university but decided to just jump right into the workforce and begin training at Clover Park Technical College as a Health Unit Coordinator. Since it's something I can actually be good at, and pay the bills at the same time. Although I have to read the crappy, crappy handwriting of doctors and transcribe it into something people can actually understand, and occasionally get bitched out by them for no apparent reason, I tell myself:
1.) At least I don't have to actually handle urine, feces, blood or whatever the patient has (I'm a paper pusher)
2.) At least the pay is pretty good for not having to do the above mentioned;
3.) At least it's not Flying J's.
So for now, it's good enough for me. I just hope to work on actual paid hours soon (which will be around January or so), so I can possibly move out with Chrissy and start buying stuff again.
My current hobbies:
For starters, I'm still currently enrolled in Tae Kwon Do but haven't been in a little while. Still supplementing with home training so I won't completely die next time I come to class... plus owning weapons is always great, as its an excuse to train and have lots of fun at the same time when you're bored. Current favorite weapons: bo, kama, nunchaku.
On the other hand, I've been taking a huge break from writing my Ragnarok Online fanfiction (though, so far, I've been getting decent reviews on them :/) which I should really get back into, if it weren't for playing the damn game itself... isn't that sad? When you want to do something based off of a freaking game, but you're sidetracked because you're playing that game to begin with... thanks to Rebirth everyone's doing this whole RACE-TO-99 bullshit. It's rather retarded considering 1.) you can't make 99 overnight, or even in 2 months without giving up part of your life, soul, and physical health, 2.) if you base an MMO solely around leveling up, you're missing out on other stuff and perhaps have missed the point. Reminds me of a quote from Episode 7 of purepwnage.com...
~~~~~
Jeremy: 'I have to own the game! I pwn n00bs, like, it's what I do! I have to play like every minute of like every day to completely own an mmo, you know? Like what, are you surprised and stuff? You shoulda seen this coming...'
Whatsername (the mmo girl, I forget her name already): Didn't we have alot of fun together just chatting, and hanging out?
~~~
W: Gaming isn't always about owning.
J: Maybe you should try playing some games that like take some skill you know? Like, all that matters here is how long you play or how high you roll dice, you know?
W: Jeremy. Games are about fun. Don't you have fun playing the games?
~~~
J: You don't get better, playing an MMO, ok? Your character grows up, but what are you? What do you get? Do you get skills, you don't get anything out of it, you know? What about you? You? YOUR character, you know...
~~~~~
Lol, yeah, some of the stuff is arguable, but I noticed deeper meaning (to me at least) in a comedy series that makes little sense to anyone who's, you know, normal. Anyway, despite the whole pressure to get a rebirth class in RO and what not, I think I'll cut down a bit and keep it to WoE (yes, owning is my fun) at the very least while focusing on other stuff... I mean if I keep trying to multitask over such a broad field without ever getting good at anything, I'll prolly be like, a poser.
PM: Posermobile says you out of prepaid minutes, son!
Waiter: But I just bought minutes!
PM: Fees, dude, fees.
PM: 25 cents to connect, yo!
PM: ...plus an extra dollar a day!
PM: Freeze it!
Waiter: You guys are posers.
PM: ::starts beatboxing::
Anyway, god forbid but I've also gotten back into Magic: The Gathering after about a year or so (since I worked at Wizards). The game has changed some since then, but after getting off a little rust, I found out I can still play! Like riding a bike, except the cycle's different now ...(I miss Onslaught block T_T) Plus I don't have too much money I can spend as opposed to while I had a job and all, so my pool of cards / choice of decks becomes slightly more limited since I need to work with what I've got, or through trades.
As for Kamigawa block, I read all three books; Outlaw: Champions, Heretic: Betrayers, and Guardian: Saviors. It's pretty decent stuff, although the overall story kind of reminds me of Mononoke Hime for some reason... as for the cards, I'm very proud of Wizards of the Coast R&D, or whoever names them... WotC could have EASILY made Kamigawa full of wannabe Japanese sounding things like every other fantasy roleplaying company does, complete with Chinese/Korean Ninjas and BOA STAFFS and NUMB CHUCKS, but they really did their homework to make this set have a very authentic Japanese feel, even down to the smallest detail in the art. Good job WotC! Not to mention, since they're allowed to make the world whatever the frick they want since it's a different plane and not actually Japan itself, they just did that extra mile.
Only discrepancy that I noticed was...well, hmm. Some will tell you that 'oni' translates to ogre, or demon (I tend to think of it as a red skinned brute with a spike club, tiger loincloth and horns), but in most typical fantasy stuffs, most likely from D&D, ogres are like... big flesh eating humanoids and demons are somewhat more varied in appearance (when I think demon, I think EMBODIMENT OF EVIL). Onimusha told me that ONIS = OGRES = YOUR FRIEND and DEMONS = BAD = PWN THEM HARD. G_G Then again, it's your story I guess... 'oni' can be demons or ogres and 'kappa' can be like a huge yellow mutant monkey with 257 teeth for all I care.
Enough dork talk. Don't worry, I'll get slightly political soon /gg
I usually don't announce this stuff either, since its usually personal (and getting too personal causes LJ drama, but then again what is the LJ community for...) but at the moment I'm very much in love, with someone I've known for quite awhile named Chrissy. ^^ Speaking of, happy B-day, LOL. <3
My current position on the U.S. Military:
'Though you might not expect it out of a damn liberal like me ('hey, I can be conservative sometimes), I actually have a great amount of respect for our soldiers, or more specifically, what it is to be a soldier. 'specially since I haven't ever been one.
From what I've read, observed, etc (speaking from the outside, of course), I figure a soldier's duty is to kill or subdue the enemy. No real way around that--someone who wants to become a soldier should accept the fact that they most likely will have to kill, and possibly get killed in the service of their country or whoever they are serving. Someone from high school who I hadn't seen for awhile ended up joining the Army, and is going to be sent to Iraq very soon. He told me, it'll be 'just like playing Halo'.
I thought, 'yeah, except you can't respawn after getting your ass fragged across half the field in real life.'
So yeah, support our troops--bring them home alive! 'was a pin I decided to pick up at this year's Pride festival. Violence and death are a part of war, but if you aren't completely sure, at least in one's own mind, of what it is they are fighting for, it doesn't get any easier. I mean you figure, since the W is all supposedly pro military and shit, means that he (And those that approve of him) is the most supportive of the troops in our country? Please.
Just because the current administration consists of warmongers, does NOT mean they are strategically competent in matters of war.
Ugha the Caveman says:
if someone no agree, it always easier to bash their face in!
My current position on music:
A friend from the Trigun boards once told me that what she hates about music, is that there will always be someone, somewhere, to talk down on the kinds of music you listen to. It's true, you know, but someone telling that to you is like saying 'well I don't like your hair, change it for me'. You can choose to, in order to be more accepted by that person or group of people, but if that's your hair and that's the way you like it, then the more likely response would be 'f you, I'll listen to whatever I want'.
I noticed the way I've been finding most bands and stuff was through my friends. The ones I liked, I bought CD's of and what not, whereas the ones I didn't, I obviously didn't really bother with, but didn't talk down about. I mean, I'm not the type to look up every band member and find out the band's history and stuff. It's fine if you do that (in fact, I think it's kind of cool), but I dunno, I just don't, I just listen. ._. So it feels funny sometimes when people say things about a band that I listen to that I never knew about beforehand, cause I'm there like 'durr bubbles, i dunno, i just listen to them, i don't like KNOW anything about them'.
Then there are the stand off wannabe ascendants (LABELS PLZ huhu), who think they've risen above everyone else to some Buddha-like platform because they claim to have escaped the neverending downward cycle of music genres and people continuously making the same shit over and over again... which, sadly, is somewhat true (how many bands can you try to label 'POSER'?) but on the other hand, who gives a fck. If I like it, I like it, it's hard to be an original nowadays, just like in alot of things in life. As long as you enjoy it and it does something for you, why not?
So for some of you who think you've escaped the neverending cycle of music or whatever, and that puts you above everyone and their mom, STFU. And for the sake of abusing well-used internet lingo involving prefixes, GTFO!
(lol, gtfo. I love that one.)
See ya later!
>_>;;;
Anyway, I'm really bored, and I feel like sharing right now, so I'll just write down a bunch of things I am 'currently' doing/feeling/thinking, etc.
My current occupation:
Ever since WotC Retail closed down (damn you, Hasbro, damn you!) I'm not working nor going to any university but decided to just jump right into the workforce and begin training at Clover Park Technical College as a Health Unit Coordinator. Since it's something I can actually be good at, and pay the bills at the same time. Although I have to read the crappy, crappy handwriting of doctors and transcribe it into something people can actually understand, and occasionally get bitched out by them for no apparent reason, I tell myself:
1.) At least I don't have to actually handle urine, feces, blood or whatever the patient has (I'm a paper pusher)
2.) At least the pay is pretty good for not having to do the above mentioned;
3.) At least it's not Flying J's.
So for now, it's good enough for me. I just hope to work on actual paid hours soon (which will be around January or so), so I can possibly move out with Chrissy and start buying stuff again.
My current hobbies:
For starters, I'm still currently enrolled in Tae Kwon Do but haven't been in a little while. Still supplementing with home training so I won't completely die next time I come to class... plus owning weapons is always great, as its an excuse to train and have lots of fun at the same time when you're bored. Current favorite weapons: bo, kama, nunchaku.
On the other hand, I've been taking a huge break from writing my Ragnarok Online fanfiction (though, so far, I've been getting decent reviews on them :/) which I should really get back into, if it weren't for playing the damn game itself... isn't that sad? When you want to do something based off of a freaking game, but you're sidetracked because you're playing that game to begin with... thanks to Rebirth everyone's doing this whole RACE-TO-99 bullshit. It's rather retarded considering 1.) you can't make 99 overnight, or even in 2 months without giving up part of your life, soul, and physical health, 2.) if you base an MMO solely around leveling up, you're missing out on other stuff and perhaps have missed the point. Reminds me of a quote from Episode 7 of purepwnage.com...
~~~~~
Jeremy: 'I have to own the game! I pwn n00bs, like, it's what I do! I have to play like every minute of like every day to completely own an mmo, you know? Like what, are you surprised and stuff? You shoulda seen this coming...'
Whatsername (the mmo girl, I forget her name already): Didn't we have alot of fun together just chatting, and hanging out?
~~~
W: Gaming isn't always about owning.
J: Maybe you should try playing some games that like take some skill you know? Like, all that matters here is how long you play or how high you roll dice, you know?
W: Jeremy. Games are about fun. Don't you have fun playing the games?
~~~
J: You don't get better, playing an MMO, ok? Your character grows up, but what are you? What do you get? Do you get skills, you don't get anything out of it, you know? What about you? You? YOUR character, you know...
~~~~~
Lol, yeah, some of the stuff is arguable, but I noticed deeper meaning (to me at least) in a comedy series that makes little sense to anyone who's, you know, normal. Anyway, despite the whole pressure to get a rebirth class in RO and what not, I think I'll cut down a bit and keep it to WoE (yes, owning is my fun) at the very least while focusing on other stuff... I mean if I keep trying to multitask over such a broad field without ever getting good at anything, I'll prolly be like, a poser.
PM: Posermobile says you out of prepaid minutes, son!
Waiter: But I just bought minutes!
PM: Fees, dude, fees.
PM: 25 cents to connect, yo!
PM: ...plus an extra dollar a day!
PM: Freeze it!
Waiter: You guys are posers.
PM: ::starts beatboxing::
Anyway, god forbid but I've also gotten back into Magic: The Gathering after about a year or so (since I worked at Wizards). The game has changed some since then, but after getting off a little rust, I found out I can still play! Like riding a bike, except the cycle's different now ...(I miss Onslaught block T_T) Plus I don't have too much money I can spend as opposed to while I had a job and all, so my pool of cards / choice of decks becomes slightly more limited since I need to work with what I've got, or through trades.
As for Kamigawa block, I read all three books; Outlaw: Champions, Heretic: Betrayers, and Guardian: Saviors. It's pretty decent stuff, although the overall story kind of reminds me of Mononoke Hime for some reason... as for the cards, I'm very proud of Wizards of the Coast R&D, or whoever names them... WotC could have EASILY made Kamigawa full of wannabe Japanese sounding things like every other fantasy roleplaying company does, complete with Chinese/Korean Ninjas and BOA STAFFS and NUMB CHUCKS, but they really did their homework to make this set have a very authentic Japanese feel, even down to the smallest detail in the art. Good job WotC! Not to mention, since they're allowed to make the world whatever the frick they want since it's a different plane and not actually Japan itself, they just did that extra mile.
Only discrepancy that I noticed was...well, hmm. Some will tell you that 'oni' translates to ogre, or demon (I tend to think of it as a red skinned brute with a spike club, tiger loincloth and horns), but in most typical fantasy stuffs, most likely from D&D, ogres are like... big flesh eating humanoids and demons are somewhat more varied in appearance (when I think demon, I think EMBODIMENT OF EVIL). Onimusha told me that ONIS = OGRES = YOUR FRIEND and DEMONS = BAD = PWN THEM HARD. G_G Then again, it's your story I guess... 'oni' can be demons or ogres and 'kappa' can be like a huge yellow mutant monkey with 257 teeth for all I care.
Enough dork talk. Don't worry, I'll get slightly political soon /gg
I usually don't announce this stuff either, since its usually personal (and getting too personal causes LJ drama, but then again what is the LJ community for...) but at the moment I'm very much in love, with someone I've known for quite awhile named Chrissy. ^^ Speaking of, happy B-day, LOL. <3
My current position on the U.S. Military:
'Though you might not expect it out of a damn liberal like me ('hey, I can be conservative sometimes), I actually have a great amount of respect for our soldiers, or more specifically, what it is to be a soldier. 'specially since I haven't ever been one.
From what I've read, observed, etc (speaking from the outside, of course), I figure a soldier's duty is to kill or subdue the enemy. No real way around that--someone who wants to become a soldier should accept the fact that they most likely will have to kill, and possibly get killed in the service of their country or whoever they are serving. Someone from high school who I hadn't seen for awhile ended up joining the Army, and is going to be sent to Iraq very soon. He told me, it'll be 'just like playing Halo'.
I thought, 'yeah, except you can't respawn after getting your ass fragged across half the field in real life.'
So yeah, support our troops--bring them home alive! 'was a pin I decided to pick up at this year's Pride festival. Violence and death are a part of war, but if you aren't completely sure, at least in one's own mind, of what it is they are fighting for, it doesn't get any easier. I mean you figure, since the W is all supposedly pro military and shit, means that he (And those that approve of him) is the most supportive of the troops in our country? Please.
Just because the current administration consists of warmongers, does NOT mean they are strategically competent in matters of war.
Ugha the Caveman says:
if someone no agree, it always easier to bash their face in!
My current position on music:
A friend from the Trigun boards once told me that what she hates about music, is that there will always be someone, somewhere, to talk down on the kinds of music you listen to. It's true, you know, but someone telling that to you is like saying 'well I don't like your hair, change it for me'. You can choose to, in order to be more accepted by that person or group of people, but if that's your hair and that's the way you like it, then the more likely response would be 'f you, I'll listen to whatever I want'.
I noticed the way I've been finding most bands and stuff was through my friends. The ones I liked, I bought CD's of and what not, whereas the ones I didn't, I obviously didn't really bother with, but didn't talk down about. I mean, I'm not the type to look up every band member and find out the band's history and stuff. It's fine if you do that (in fact, I think it's kind of cool), but I dunno, I just don't, I just listen. ._. So it feels funny sometimes when people say things about a band that I listen to that I never knew about beforehand, cause I'm there like 'durr bubbles, i dunno, i just listen to them, i don't like KNOW anything about them'.
Then there are the stand off wannabe ascendants (LABELS PLZ huhu), who think they've risen above everyone else to some Buddha-like platform because they claim to have escaped the neverending downward cycle of music genres and people continuously making the same shit over and over again... which, sadly, is somewhat true (how many bands can you try to label 'POSER'?) but on the other hand, who gives a fck. If I like it, I like it, it's hard to be an original nowadays, just like in alot of things in life. As long as you enjoy it and it does something for you, why not?
So for some of you who think you've escaped the neverending cycle of music or whatever, and that puts you above everyone and their mom, STFU. And for the sake of abusing well-used internet lingo involving prefixes, GTFO!
(lol, gtfo. I love that one.)
See ya later!