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The dream I had last night is partly stuck in my head, so I'm going to try my best and write some of it down. I remember that I was hired, for some reason, at an airport. It wasn't a big airport, but there were a lot of people coming through. My job was to help people with the self-check-in stations. So the first part of my dream was me awkwardly standing there watching people check themselves in. Then, and man looked up at me as if he had a problem, so I went over and looked at the screen, but suddenly the counter changed from a self-check-in place to a concessions stand with a bunch of candy on it. I looked at him and was like, "You want to buy candy?" He nodded and I told him I would be right back. I walked over to my manager and told her, "This man wants to buy concessions." She looked at me and said, "Oh, would you mind doing that for him?" after which I proceeded to ask her, "Is there any special way to do them? Any nuances I should know about?" She told me no, so I went back over there to help the man and his wife. He started to tell me what I wanted, and I picked up this goofy thing that looked like a larger version of the Kindle. There I attempted to enter in the items he wanted. I would search for the name by typing in the first few letters, and then press a button. Every time I did this, though, after I pressed the button, the screen of the thing would turn to a static picture of the logo of the airport (now that I'm awake, I can describe it as what happens when you turn a Kindle off: the screen displays a still of the cover of one of the books you have in your library). I went through this process over and over again while these people looked over my shoulder. Eventually, the airport emptied and it was just me and this couple. I went through the process one last time (it didn't help that the wife of the man was pointing at buttons and getting in my way the whole time) and hit the button; only then did I realize that the button had the 'power' symbol (like on an xbox) on it. I exclaimed, "No wonder! I've been turning it off after every search!" And then I woke up. Yeah...

Morning classes are way better than afternoon classes in my opinion because they mean you have a ton time during your day for jobs/friends/studying. This is totally true. I third this. My freshman year schedule wasn't too great. I had an early morning class every day (8 am 4 days, 7:30am 1 day), but then I had a break until like, 12pm and then went until 3 (and on thursday i would TA a lab at 2:40pm). Since then, I've tried to get my schedule to where i finish by at least 1pm and keep MWF class-heavy and T TR class-light. Like TTan said, if you get your classes done with during the morning, you have all afternoon to study/hang with friends. Plus, your mentality changes and, even though you might be tired in the morning, once you finish at like, 12 or 1, you'll be glad you took those morning classes, cause when everyone else is going to afternoon classes, you're done!

Forgive me for the double post! But I was typing something up in MS Word 2010 and I saw the little animation at the bottom of the window, the book that flips pages and has a pencil writing on it. And I remembered how cool I thought this was when I was young and computers were running like, Windows 95. I remember wanting to be like my parents and be able to type without looking at the keyboard so that I could watch the animation (at the time I couldn't even type). So I would pretend to type (key smash) and just watch the pencil do its work. Ahhhh, the nostalgia.

^ Reverse psychology. I'm dying!!! :lol:

I'm not 21. :s

I'm not sure which of the girls she is. I'm always gone when they clean, so I never see them. I've said hi frequently to one of them that I've seen a couple times on the weekend (not the girl who wrote this) because I think she's pretty cute. But I'm leave for good this Friday, so I guess it doesn't really matter at this point, haha.

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Been trying to get the music of similar bands. Looked into Man Overboard, The Offseason, The Wonder Years. You know of any others?

I think that last point has to do with suspense of when it will happen. If someone kicks my ass and I yell at them while they're walking away, "One day I'm going to get you!" the suspense may get at them for as long as I wait. Of course, the situation would have to be a lot worse for the suspense to actually be effective in enacting revenge. Say, if someone murders a family member and I vow to get revenge on them (say, kill them or one of their closest family members), the length of time you wait is likely to add to how painful it is when it does happen.

Could someone maybe make this image fit the size requirement and perhaps re-size it so that it fits the dimension requirements, too? This one might actually work since there aren't a lot of frames besides Finn and Jakes blinks.

People of the Sun - RATM. Whenever I listen to these dudes, I feel like a complete badass, haha.

[hide][/hide] I'll give this background a try.

I got back to my hotel room, and the cleaning people leave this generic Welcome card. And the girl who cleaned my room this time usually underlines "Enjoy your stay." This time, she drew a smiley face after her name and underlined as follows: "I'll be your room attendant. If there is anything we can do to make your stay more comfortable...[etc etc]". I doubt she meant anything by it, but I just thought it was hilarious when I first saw it.

I was thinking this the whole time. Monogamous is such a long work to type, though! :P

Yeah, just realized that. Ok. I was just having trouble labeling people 'needy' when they get upset when someone breaks their trust. It seems like such a natural thing to do. I mean, I find it hard to believe that anyone would not at least be slightly upset/angry upon finding that someone broke their trust. But then again, trust in the sense of being faithful to one's partner is out of the question in a poly relationship.

Ok, forget poly relationships. What of the relationship with a best friend? (not sure you addressed this part of my post; at least, I can't see where you did). My best friend violates my trust; you label me as needy if I get upset/angry about it? I'll eventually need to move on, but that doesn't mean whatever emotions I feel (naturally due to the nature of the situation) immediately following the betrayal means I'm needy. This sounds like stoicism, which is, I believe, impossible to achieve and inhuman.

I must be really bored. Reading through The Beliefs, Religion, and Faith thread, lol.

Dammit I love triscuits. Especially the Cracked Pepper & Olive Oil flavored ones. Though, I have been waking up to hearburn on many of the mornings after having eaten them.

This thread got me thinking about the last time I got revenge on someone. And I just can't think of a time when I took revenge. I'm a pretty chill guy, and I hate arguments and fights, etc. I've never gotten into a physical fight with my friends, so I've never physically got revenge on any of them. I was never close to any girls, so one never hurt me in a way that I felt the need to hurt them back. Non-physical fights with my guy friends don't last more than 20 minutes, tbh. That's one of the great things about being a guy. A friend does something to piss you off, you call him out on it, argue for a bit, realize it's stupid, and then just go back to being friends. In short, what I'm saying is that I can't think of a time when I ever got revenge on someone for something (aside from petty actions that you might classify as revenge, such as pushing my little brother over cause he hit me (stuff that happened when we were toddlers)). I guess it shows either 1) I feel revenge to be ultimately wrong or 2) I'm way too much of a people-pleaser/peace-keeper/laid-back type of dude to get into any situations where revenge is a possibility. Maybe it's a combination of the two, lol.

I guess this shows that I'm a monogomy guy, but I still can't see how him actually getting emotionally upset about someone breaking his trust defines him as needy. Moving away from this example, which has more issues attached to it, if I was dating a girl and she broke my trust and cheated on me, how is me feeling upset about that needy at all? Hell, what if I'm not even dating her? What if it's not a her? What if my best friend breaks my trust somehow and I get upset over it? Is it needy to do so? I mean, yes, I agree that eventually I would need to accept it and get over it. But to immediately just say, "Well, misplaced that trust. I'll move on" without feeling any anger or frustration towards the person... Well, that seems just impossible to do. It's natural to feel that way, not needy. The reason I used the best friend example as opposed to a girlfriend example was so that you couldn't say, "Well, he shouldn't have been that emotionally attached to that person (if he was in a polyamorous relationship, which I know you'd advocate for :P)."

Just got back to the hotel. Ate two bananas with peanut butter since they were getting really brown and I didn't want to waste. I then proceeded to eat all 10 pillow mints the cleaner left on my desk. How's that for a good afternoon/pre-dinner snack?

Yeah, their actual grandson used to be my best friend. But he 'lost it.' Broke his leg with some kid he had met at a local high school. Couldn't play football for my high school anymore (which really helped him stay responsible socially and academically). Started hanging out with kids who were a bad influence on him, left my junior year of high school to live with his older brother in California, etc etc. Anyway, I was such good friends with him that his family was my family (at least the family that lived in the same town as we did). I guess ever since I had become his good friend I had been the adopted grandson for his grandparents. But after he left, it's now a lot more obvious I guess. And since my actual grandparents are pretty distant and don't act like grandparents, it's really nice. I mean, who would pass up the opportunity to have a grandma who bakes you cookies and sends them with you off to college? I know all my housemates really well. We've been friends since freshman year (living in close proximity for the most part). And yeah, I really didn't have a choice on moving in late. I basically left before we were even allowed to move in, and I'm coming back two months after we've gotten the house. But the house is in good condition, so I'm hoping the smallest shittiest room isn't too small and too shitty. :P

So far my computer is fine since the fiasco a few days ago. I've been running scans on it often. There's this thing on my computer called HP Support Assistant. And it does monthly tune-ups or whatnot, and I'm not sure what this exactly is. It's been on my computer since I first got it. But the application itself has trouble running most of the time. For instance, suddenly a black box appears in the middle of my screen (basically in the place of a window), and then it minimizes to my rocketdock, but stays as a solid black box. Hovering over it displays "HP Support Assistant" and when I click to restore it, the window appears, this time with a title bar, but it's magnified and the rest of the window is black. Usually it quits responding and I end up ending the application via Task Manager. I guess at some point, when I'm not doing anything on my computer, I should try to open it manually and do a tune-up or something. In other news, I'll have three weeks of summer left once I get back from my internship. My older sisters want me to spend the majority of it at home so they can see me and hang out and have the whole family over to their new house. In their words, they want to spoil me. And I don't mind this at all. I also have to visit my adopted grandparents and catch up with them. But at the same time, I want to move up into my house at my university asap so I can settle in seeing as I haven't moved any of my stuff there and everyone else is moved in (probably got stuck with the smallest, shittiest room...). I also want to move up there because the girl I'm sorta into is living up there a few blocks down and I want to be able to hang out with her a lot before school starts while we still can. I was thinking one week at home and then two weeks up at university. But my older sisters are making me feel guilty about only staying a week. I want to see them really bad, but I also want to see this girl really bad.

They both have their 'goods' and 'bads'. As always, movies are able to lengthen emotional parts where no words can really describe what's going on (of course, Tolkien always is very eloquent with his words). For example, the Grey Havens: the parting was probably less than a page in the book, but during the movie, it seemed so much longer and so much more powerful simply because all the hobbits are so distressed at Frodo's parting. I always tear up during that part. That's just one example. Also, the way Jackson simplified certain parts of the movie (such as Eowyn and Faramir's relationship) was advantageous in my view. It made the relationship seem much simpler and more pure (even so, the simplification causes a whole dimension of the relationship to be lost). But then again, the book holds many more events and small snippets than the movies, which in some cases is unfortunate (i.e. Tom Bombadil). I can comfortably say that the Lord of the Rings as a combination of film and books is my favorite of all time. Now let's hope The Hobbit is up to par with the LOTR movies!!!

Haven't seen the new Batman, but the new Spiderman is a must, I'll say, especially if you walked away from Toby Maguire's movies thinking, "Wow, this is pretty dumb." I was reading an article on computer security that had been sent out to all people working for the government agency I'm working for. The title was something like top ten security programs (not just anti-virus programs; one of them was a password program). Microsoft Security Essentials was one of the top five. Definitely sticking with it since it's updated with virus definitions often. Plus, it's free. If i was forced to buy a program, I'd probably go with Trend Micro.

Finished The Return of the King today. And I remember why I was so glad Peter Jackson left out the whole Scourging of the Shire from the movie. I've gotta say, that was pretty boring stuff to read through again. After such an epic journey, they come back and have to deal with some ruffians and save the Shire now? There were parts that I enjoyed, but overall, I like it how Peter Jackson simply made the movie end with them arriving back in the Shire, which hasn't changed much at all since they left. Kinda reinforces the hobbit way; hobbits don't involve themselves with the rest of Middle Earth, save for Bilbo's journey and then the journey of the Ring. It holds a lot of significance I think to have the Shire still unaware of what happened. Anyway, I think I'll move on to the conclusion of the Ender Quartet, Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card. Should be very good, as I've enjoyed the three previous books.