23.11.09

Random Insanity

Isn't that pretty much this whole blog...?

For the first time in quite a while, I miss GJ. Stupid server failure.

I've got a giant history project due Monday. (You may remember it - I was ranting about it a while back...) I've pretty much got it outlined...actually doing it is so far proving to be another story. The PowerPoint's been open for a few hours now, and I've done a slide and a half. Progress! Only not really! Yeah!

It's the last leg of my teenage years this week...I haven't decided yet if that's good or bad.

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S ALMOST THANKSGIVING. Where the fuck did this last year go? I distinctly remember posting last Thanksgiving, how can it have been a year?? According to all the adults I've ever talked to, the years don't slow down either...le sigh. Maybe rather than holding time in an unsuccessful death grip, I should just embrace it and go with the flow...

That's enough for now. I'm starting to feel guilty abandoning my project.

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Remus

16.11.09

Variation on a Theme

Why does the basket case in me stick around like no other?

15.11.09

Aw jeez.

Apparently I'm not where I thought I was...

14.11.09

Come Together

Why are the Beatles so timeless and so absolutely amazing?

4.11.09

I Wish It Was Sunny With a High of 75...Bloody Midwest.

We were talking together
I said, what's up with this weather
Don't know whether or not
How sad I just got
Was of my own volition
Or if I'm just missin' the sun

And tomorrow I know
Will be rainy at best
And the forecast I know
Is that I'll be depressed
But I'll wait outside
Hopin' that I catch sight of the sun

Because on and off
The clouds have fought
For control over the sky
And lately the weather
Has been so bipolar and
Consequently so have I

But now I'm sunny with a high of 75
Since you took my heavy heart and made it light
And it's funny how you find you enjoy your life
When you're happy to be alive

And the temperature is freezing
And then after dark
There's a cold front sweeping
In over my heart
And we might break up
If I don't catch sight of the sun

Because on and off
The clouds have fought
For control over the sky
And lately the weather
Has been so bipolar and
Consequently so have I

But now I'm sunny with a high of 75
Since you took my heavy heart and made it light
And it's funny how you find you enjoy your life
When you're happy to be alive

Relient K
'High of 75'
Mmhmm



To state the obvious, I'm feeling better about life again. I guess, when I go down, I go down hard.

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Remus

2.11.09

I'm Having an Angry At God Moment

Ever feel like God's cheated you? You don't think about it, maybe once or twice a year, but never enough to make you stop and really reflect. But then comes that moment...You get an assignment that asks for your family tree and anecdotes from your family. People around you discuss the fathers in Disney movies and compare them to theirs.

For x-number of weeks, the conversations never stop. The assignments don't go away. The assault continues.

Eventually, defences will break. They *will*. It's part of human nature and psychology.

Well, kids. My defences have fallen.

It's not the first time, but that doesn't make it any easier. For one of my history classes this semester, we have to reconstruct our family trees and place the women in our families in their historical context. I imagine this would be a lot easier and considerably more enjoyable if I had any relatives beyond my mom's generation alive. I can't simply call them up and ask what they thought of the times they'd lived through. I know dates; they would be fascinating conversations. I have to use what my mom and her sisters remember, and what census documents can tell me. I'm a history major. I can't help but feel cheated of a source. The furthest into history I can reach with my own two hands is the late fifties.

Disney fathers have been discussed more times than I really think necessary for the last two and a half months. Maybe I'm just overly sensitive, but can we please stop discussing them for a while? It's the same conversation every time, it doesn't need to be rehashed. I've had very negative thoughts about this before. I've been sad, I've been upset, I've been non-committal, I've been so furious I wanted to punch something. The only positive thing I feel has come from this aspect of my life is how close I am with my mom. I would trade that for nothing. But I still wonder why I couldn't have had both.

As frustrating as these things are, it takes a certain combination of mood, hormones, time of day and recent events to make me turn my anger to God. Considering how quick to general frustration and anger I am, this is something of a miracle. I may shake my fist at God, but it's in good humour - God creates all good things, I consider my sense of humour good, therefore, if A then B. I don't mean it. When I'm in this kind of mood, though...I blame God. I get mad at God. That's not true. I get royally pissed at God. It's all His fault. He made my life this way for whatever the hell His purpose could be. He could have changed it.

Now I find this rant turning into territory somewhat covered by the sermon in church today. The pastor preached on Lazarus Rising and the attitudes and feelings of the involved parties (it tied into All Saints Day, but that's not prudent to this rant). I find myself having similar thoughts - 'If you'd been here, my brother would not have died'...I can't help but ask, why me. I realise I'm throwing this out of proportion, but in my circumstances, I've got more than enough on my plate.

I just...guh.

Now I'm tired, and I still have homework to do. I'll probably feel better in the morning. I'm sure God'll forgive me one bad night.

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Remus

26.10.09

Random Thoughts

I really need to apply for that bloody loan.

I got mail today! Woo! It's the little things in life.

Hall activity tonight = carving pumpkins! Yes! If it comes out ok I'll post pics.

'Tis the season to work out schedules for next semester; mine looks pretty good, even if I don't get my first choices. I'm pretty geeked.

I dreamt of the house again last night...but you know what? That's ok.

Oh! Believe it or not I cleaned my room yesterday. O_O I know! I did - I swept, I cleared trash, the place looks quite spiffy. For now.

I've had a procrastination attack. I have a PowerPoint due Wednesday that I haven't started yet. Oops. I've got time. I will survive!

I considered being Velma from Scooby-Doo for Hallowe'en. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find a long, orange, turtleneck sweater?? Never mind a maroon skirt! Guh! Ah well. Planning for next year commences...

My plant (which I haven't named yet, oddly enough...) seems to be coming back after some funky deformed leaves sprouted. It's now spawning happily again, so I guess all is well.

I miss my cat. =[

Must end on an up note! Um...ooh.

Christmas is coming. Slowly but surely...stalking in the distance...

Yay!!

I can't feel my heartbeat. Why haven't I keeled over? ^_^

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Remus

4.10.09

Writing, Part Deux

Here's the rest of it; this is a bit more...emotional. I think I actually accomplished what I set out to do - explore my mind to see what's what. Before you judge me, my ego showed its ugly face. Just so you're prepared.

2007年7月30日
4.20時ぐらい

So much for the 'let's create a story!' idea, I don't see a plot developing here, wanna muse on acting? Maybe if I got back into that lax, sensitive state of mind I can come up with some insights? Let's give it a try, even though my writing and spelling is still deteriorating, case in point, just in cases...anywho, Doc says anywho, too, it's not just a stupid family thing I picked up, there are others out there will wonders never cease? At any rate, I was gonna start on acting, y'know, on the other page, I was really in a kind of trance, just writing whatever without letting it become too dark in tone and just listening to the noises at the park interesting, raelly, but now that I'm trying, can I do it again? what do you think? Not at all, so let's start at acting again, maybe that'll let me sink into it. So about that just kidding, I think I should teach myself to write with my left hadn, if only so I can keep going when my right hand cramps up, it does that a lot, especially in class or if I'm writing a lot, kinda like I am now, so ADD much? I was gonna muse on acting. So right, acting - I know I can act, I'm sure you tire of hearing it, but really, I ca...although, I'll admit, I'm not very good. I can through the monologue I've known for years in the sanctuary a while back, just because I could, because it was empty and no one could hear me even though there were people downstairs (they were all the way in the youth room, so no worries there. I don't know why I have such a block about acting if people can see or hear me, but I get seriously impaired if people are around. So I took advantage of it, and it was GREAT fucking great. My hand hurts. I didn't project, but I think I was still pretty damn good. If I keep at it, at the whole thing, perhaps I could pull Hamlet off in a couple years? Or is that too presumptuous, too grand an idea with absolutely nothing nothing, no bullshit on my resume, the most impressive being I don't even know - I took classes under the [theatre prof. I like best]? Please, I need to prove myself, I need to find out what the plays are for this upcoming year I think I just got a papercut so I can read the plays and actually know what I'm doing, rather than going into an audition cold, you'd think I'd learn, and I could always ask [my cousin/godfather] if he'd be willing to go over a scene with me, just for practise, I don't know. I haven't found my niche yet, haven't found the one thing that comes so easily to me that I can simply do it and enjoy it - not violin, cello, piano, guitar, acting, writing, languages, history - NOTHING - although, maybe writing, even though I'm not so good with deadlines, I guess acting is there, but in order to improve I have to be willing to be open to the lessons, I should see what [the professor]'s teaching/directing next semester and see about working with him again, or trying yet again to sit in on his Shakespeare class because, dammit I know I can do it! I know it's there! I just have to loose the chains binding it and let myself go! Maybe that's part of it too, it's not just a matter of learning the lessons of how to do it, and of course applying them, it's also a matter of letting myself go. I can't go crazy on stage like I want to, I'm too afraid of being judged, of people disapproving of what I'm doing, of it not being 'right,' although in theatre, there is no right or wrong, there is only strong and weak, I'm afraid of making a weak choice, I hate being judged even if it's only in my mind, I hate the feeling, what was that bout keeping the tone light, I'm too judgemental, I have all these limits I've placed on myself for no clear reason, although I just got a flash of [an elementary schoolmate], maybe something clicked in that whole thing that's been there ever since, I don't know, I don't even remember half the shit that went down in that whole thing, I just remember hating her and wanter her to leave me alone - something about Play-doh, I don't even know - but maybe it was something with that, or maybe that's just the influence of the swimmeet across the street, she was on the swim team then, I just don't know - ADD - but I do know that I have alot of weight - a lot should be two words, I know - attached to letting myself out of the shell, I just wish I could either throw them off and let them become so much space junk, or failing that use them, 'throw the weight around', as it were SOMETHING to get rid of them, ignoring them doesn't work even, they're definitely always there, anyway. So I was talking about acting and stuff at some point - my writing gets even worse when there are crazy emotions affoot (I spelled that wrong too, get over it) but apparently I do have a lot of silly shit buried in my memory. I wonder if therapeutic hypnosis is anything like this? So yeah, if I can overcome these mysterious obstacles and be me around everybody, I'd be willing to bet that acting would come ten times easier. So yeah. I think my brain's petering out, I have to pee and my hand is really pushing for secession at the wrist so that being said, I'm done for the day. Thanks for reading.
4時51ぐらい

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And there you have take two - four pages written and ginormous on here. So yeah. I'm sure Freud would have a field day with this sucker.

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Remus

2.10.09

This is What I Wrote, Here's the Very Note

This is the six-page monstrosity I wrote a few months back...Yup, finally typing it up. So here 'tis.

2009年7月30日
4時ぐらい

Because this is so unfamiliar a feeling - not really. I want to write, even if it's just some silliness that barely has a plot, or is characterization, or...what have you. I just need pen to paper in a non-depressing capacity. No really. I'm gonna try starting to free-associate, and see what comes of it. Maybe I'll get a non-depressing story out of it...?

I just tried to get rid of an inkblot by swatting at it. Isn't it ridiculous how the human mind will do that? See something that's not right and try to fix it, only to be proven wrong? Cats sure have it easy - sleep, eat, bathe, sleep, get high on catnip, sleep, play with the humans, sleep, eat, get high, repeat. Human lives are so complicated, and it's all our own fault, really. But that's getting into philosophical, psychological bullshit, isn't it? All of a sudden my writing's very large, maybe my hand snuck some Viagra? Oh no, it tells me now that it was Cialis. All Greek to me, a Greek kid graduated from [my school] this last year, no one knew how to say his name right two times in a row. It kinda sounded like chutzpah, or at least looked like it. I tried to find [one of my former teachers] on Facebook today, no luck, I think. He taught me chess, and the phrase 'incessant caterwauling.' I don't think I spell it right but that's ok, I don't usually write it, only say it. [That year] is also when I learned that ICP meant not 'I see pee' but 'Insane Clown Posse', I heard one of their songs later, 'The Dating Game', I liked it, haven't heard it in years. [My best friend at the time] first played it for me, she was probably my first best friend, not counting [two friends from where I grew up], I'd forgotten about them. Man it's been years since I saw them, not since [one of them] moved, wow. But back to [my best friend], I went to elementary school with her, I don't remember meeting her, but I don't remember meeting a lot of people, even as recently as [my fellow Mousquetaires], although apparently they remember meeting me, I guess I'm memorable or something, I don't know, memory's a weird thing, isn't it? I mean, some things sit right there, waiting to be seen and other things sink to the bottom, waiting to be dredged back up to the light of day. Supposedly free-associating can dredge up those 'lost' memories, but ten minutes in all I've got is [the two early friends] and some really sloppy writing to show for it. Ah well. Maybe I just don't have anything interesting that I can't remember at will. Someone's smoking outside, and I'm beginning to think that all the craving I've done these past few months has all been in my head, because since I've been home, I haven't really craved, even at school I haven't truly craved since probably January. Good thing I guess, between my lack of income and OCD I'd become addicted good and quick. My writing has gone from sloppy to downright appalling, my spelling's really beginning to suffer. Olga's...what do I usually get? I don't even know, it's been so long since I've been there I reckon it was November, how things will change. In case you couldn't tell my concentration was broken, let's try again in a few minutes, shall we?

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That was the first try; only two pages written...The rest is four pages (two sheets front and back), I'll type that up for tomorrow. I figured breaking it up would make it easier to read, so...yeah. Part deux is on its way.

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Remus

13.9.09

How absurd.

Words cannot describe my love for a fictional boy-genius.

Seriously. There are no words in the English language.

That is all.

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Remus