August the 28th: Ugh, so sore
Between helping my roommate move in yesterday and having to walk back from Walmart with Chynna today (seriously, the buses were so late that we were to DISREGARD THE SCHEDULE and Chynna and I didn't even pass the bus on the Walmart half of the route until we were nearly back on campus). That and I keep banging my shins on the shelf underneath my desk. I know it's there by now but I just can't move my legs the way I want with it there and I don't think I can remove it and stash it in my closet. Gah, it's pretty painful too.
So, didn't do much other than that (it took THREE HOURS to get out, shop, and get back and Walmart had almost nothing we needed, dammit, forgot to get that combination lock too) but I did hang out for our Read Comics in Public Day. I just found the manga/comic section of the library the other day so I had my stuff to read but when I commented on someone having Scott Pilgrim and I was annoyed that the copy at our library isn't due back until December 31st I got into a spat with someone over downloading. I think there's a problem with the whole mentality of reading comics today if the first thing out of your mouth after I complain about waiting for comics isn't "yeah that sucks" but "you know you can torrent that online." *headdesk* And I really hate myself because I just can't get my arguments straight whenever this happens and it annoys me so much. I feel like an effing idiot and just want to practice debating again so I can actually tell someone "fuck off, I'm not stealing intellectual property." Gaaahhhh, and even when I say that I'm going to be a commericial photographer and I don't want people to steal myself so it's rather hypocritical (which implies that I won't download even if I really want to, that it's more my morals than anything else) people seem to write me off as a flake. Okay seriously, that's a fairly decent reason right there and you write me off? I hate the times that make me feel so much mature than people older than me when I know it's not sure (and it scares the shit outta me that this is not only accepted but normal*).
Someday I will write up a really good rant about that when it's not early in the morning and I will print out copies to hand to people when they suggest this, it'll be strange as hell but hopefully people will at least listen. Oh and comic girl? First you complain about three dollar an issue comic and then complain that buying all the Scott Pilgrim books "is a $60 investment." Pretty sure that by page count alone it's a better deal....
So, going to bed soon and hopefully skyping my mom tomorrow, hoping for a nice long chat so I can bounce around some ideas that I've had. In the meantime I will resume my cursing of those who don't care about starving authors even then I say it that bluntly. GAAAAAHHHHH.
*Fer christ's sake SCOTT PILGRIM IS EVEN PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH, it's not like it's a continent and a country away to buy it!
So, didn't do much other than that (it took THREE HOURS to get out, shop, and get back and Walmart had almost nothing we needed, dammit, forgot to get that combination lock too) but I did hang out for our Read Comics in Public Day. I just found the manga/comic section of the library the other day so I had my stuff to read but when I commented on someone having Scott Pilgrim and I was annoyed that the copy at our library isn't due back until December 31st I got into a spat with someone over downloading. I think there's a problem with the whole mentality of reading comics today if the first thing out of your mouth after I complain about waiting for comics isn't "yeah that sucks" but "you know you can torrent that online." *headdesk* And I really hate myself because I just can't get my arguments straight whenever this happens and it annoys me so much. I feel like an effing idiot and just want to practice debating again so I can actually tell someone "fuck off, I'm not stealing intellectual property." Gaaahhhh, and even when I say that I'm going to be a commericial photographer and I don't want people to steal myself so it's rather hypocritical (which implies that I won't download even if I really want to, that it's more my morals than anything else) people seem to write me off as a flake. Okay seriously, that's a fairly decent reason right there and you write me off? I hate the times that make me feel so much mature than people older than me when I know it's not sure (and it scares the shit outta me that this is not only accepted but normal*).
Someday I will write up a really good rant about that when it's not early in the morning and I will print out copies to hand to people when they suggest this, it'll be strange as hell but hopefully people will at least listen. Oh and comic girl? First you complain about three dollar an issue comic and then complain that buying all the Scott Pilgrim books "is a $60 investment." Pretty sure that by page count alone it's a better deal....
So, going to bed soon and hopefully skyping my mom tomorrow, hoping for a nice long chat so I can bounce around some ideas that I've had. In the meantime I will resume my cursing of those who don't care about starving authors even then I say it that bluntly. GAAAAAHHHHH.
*Fer christ's sake SCOTT PILGRIM IS EVEN PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH, it's not like it's a continent and a country away to buy it!