and life just gets shinier

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Though I would hardly consider myself a tech savvy type, I am one of those who likes to pretend I am competent and aware of all the latest gadgetry and technological doodads. This I accomplish through more or less impulse purchases (I would say I spend a lot of time deliberating, sometimes 3 whole days) then mull over whether it was a good idea, if I’m the kind of person who really needs a lot of fancy accessories and such, but lemme just put it out there that whoever, whatever, an iPhone 4 is absolutely an incredible piece of hardware. Don’t assume that simply because it’s never crossed your mind to have an application that allows you to know what the constellations are floating above your head that it is unnecessary–you will soon find it IS necessary and you’ll wonder why you’ve been such an idiot to have waited around this long only being able to identify the Big Dipper with your measly childhood astronomy knowledge. Yes, with the iPhone 4, you’re no longer a wimpy, sniffly nosed kid. You’re an adult. With an iPhone 4.

I may need to be wary; if I feel this powerful only having possessed an iPhone for several hours I may start trying to tinker with the very fabric of our reality, and from every science fiction story I’ve ever encountered that’s when things can get a little bit weird.

almost july and little to show for it

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Well, I guess this blog needs a little dusting off. I left it for greener pastures when I trotted off to Japan for 8 months, so prompting the creation of a new blog (link can be found in previous post) to record down to the tiniest detail my adventures overseas. However, as is often the case, and quite apparent from a cursory look at the pattern of this blog’s archives, I am a poor excuse of a conscientious writer. At any rate, this summer has felt quite different from previous ones, which is likely a direct result of having been in a place that I absolutely loved and wasn’t too keen on leaving, so my homecoming has been lackluster and dull at best. My brain still seems to be trying to sort things in ways that make sense, but generally my head is full of half-thoughts of english and japanese.

If there is a single aspect of this summer worth noting, it is as my summer of True Blood. I have been watching this show fanatically, without pause, for the past few weeks, and have managed to get myself so raveled up in this fictitious tale that every second thought is somehow related to the show. To be unequivocally clear, I am really smitten with the character Eric Northman as portrayed by Alexander Skarsgård. Ho boy, does that vampire have a compelling physique. And his story is pretty interesting too. Apologies to Edward Cullen, but he and all the rest of the Twilight vampires really seem like a bunch of sissy-willows. I mean even the more emotionally prone Bill Compton still maintains extreme levels of badassery when pushed to his limits.

Oh, I also saw Super 8 today with my brother. It was a great little story, I thought. Definitely got my full $5’s worth of entertainment value. Plus, there was a really great preview for Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which I inadvertently called when I whispered to my brother that the whole thing felt like Planet of the Apes mere seconds before the film title flashed up at the preview’s conclusion. I won’t lie, I felt very cool. But yeah, Super 8 was, well, great. I have also decided that anything set in the 1970s and involving aliens is destined to receive Steven Spielberg’s approval. If I were anything of a mathematician it might be kind of fun to come up with some function that describes this behavior, but as I am an idiot with numbers and equations I’ll stick to my meager arsenal of words.

One more thing: nostalgia is the arbiter of apathetic individuals’ decisions.

And sleeplessness is the reason behind every vaguely philosophical utterance of the adolescent mouth.

That’s all. Off to bed now, chitlins.

Progressed Summer Mind Dredging

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The summer is reaching its climax, and with it the end of my living-at-home-with-parents time. Perhaps it’s a bit sad, but because I am a selfish youth I can only think of how great it will be living not only not with my parents but in a foreign country. I’m sure after several months, once I’m settled in I’ll think more about them. For the moment, however, the near future is endless possibility, a notion I find terrifically thrilling. All that remains is to actually prepare for traveling, something I never do more than 12 hours prior to departure; otherwise, the whole reality of what I’m doing hits me and I get all anxious and nervous and suchlike. Doing it all at once gets my momentum going for the long trip to my ultimate destination, while distracting me from thinking about a lot of unnecessary yet stressful details.

Anyhow, this’ll most likely be the last update on this page for a while, but mosey over to yet another of my blogs to continue hearing the absolutely enthralling tales of my adventures here, yonder, and elsewhere.

Summer of my discontent, or so it has appeared thus far

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I’ve been on summer vacation for over a full week, and I feel as if I’ve mostly exhausted what small entertainments my hometown has to offer. But in all honesty, I haven’t been trying very hard either. My laziness overcomes me so I end up dallying about the house all day. The weather recently has also been no help–absurdly hot and miserable and muggy, it’s just not the kind that makes me want to be outside. Then being confined to the indoors, that’s also about as horrible when I can’t seem to manage a single conversation with my parents without getting worked up over something.

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Well, it’s been about a month now since I’ve been home, and I’ll say that conditions have improved.  The weather is still bordering on intolerable, but there was something of a good rainstorm day before yesterday.  As for being bored out of my mind, I’m still not doing much with my days, but I’ve at least cleaned a few closets out (read: made huge piles of things in the hallways) to pass away the time.  This has also been a summer for books.  Over the past month I read four books, which is certainly an accomplishment as I’m more of the type to only read comic books and magazines.

At any rate, I’m midway through my summer break and for the moment I am content; though thinking back an immediate cure for my back-to-home doldrums would’ve been a swimming pool in the backyard.

May Day

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Happy May Day to one and all! I realize it’s technically no longer the premiere of the month, but even a belated celebration is better than nothing at all. I usually say this in nearly all of my ruminations, but here I go again: time is a tricky little thing that always gets by me. Seriously, it’s already the fifth month of 2010. That’s nearly halfway, and in only a few months I’ll be packing up and shipping out to the other side of the world. It blows my mind. What am I doing in the interim? Well, that remains to be seen, but I hope it involves profitable employment mingled together with some good ol’ fashioned fun with friends. My unproductiveness becomes painfully more obvious with each passing day, and it’s getting to be an annoyance more than anything else. Not to be overly dramatic, but my experience has led me to the conclusion idleness equals insanity. Even for the week I was home recently I couldn’t handle being in my house for more than a few hours before cabin fever set in.  I need constant stimulation, or near constant.  Maybe it’s my generation?

a fresh new computer for a fresh new day

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Well, I got a new laptop today. It’s pretty spiffy, if I do say so myself. I even got the Pro, so my keyboard is all backlit and stuff. Right now I’m working on getting all my essential items from my old laptop onto my new, beginning with my iTunes library. I tried to do the whole fancy Migration route, but apparently it didn’t move any of my music. Luckily, there are other methods, one of which I’m utilizing with seemingly good results. Of course, being the superstitious sort that I am, I hesitate to say that everything is going fine and dandy, because that’s when all of a sudden things turn fine and ugly. Anyway, my old laptop seems a bit melancholy–however, it’s moving into the ownership of my brother, who I think will take superb care of it. He’d better, anyway, if he knows what’s good for ‘im.