sick/lacrosse/dishwalla/other stuff

Yes, long time, no see, I know.

Well lacrosse started and its fun and stuff, beyond the whole getting nailed in the balls twice over the course of two practices thing, but I figure there is a price to be paid when God hates you. Ah well, I can actually throw now, though my catching could use some work. My mom is being really %#^%#$ about filling out all the paper work and stuff--it's the usual "you need to learn to do this on your own" trip, but the thing is most of the information that they need is stuff that I don't know.

In other news, I've been sick for the last two days so what was supposed to be an already short 4-day-week is now reduced to two, if that. I don't really know how I'm going to be feeling tomorrow; I'm a little better tonite than I have been up till now, but we'll have to see whether or not that holds up. Actually, I'm caught up on all of my work now, but that's b/c not much has happened yet, but I don't think that my luck is going to hold for tomorrow. And I do have two tests to make up and I'm not looking forward to that in the least bit.

Oh, and I'm going to break from the planned order or ranting business for a moment. Wayfarer layout stuff has been going on though I did miss tonights meeting, due to my inability to do much more than see how long it will take to fuse my ass to my couch. On the whole it hasn't really been all that much fun, especially cause Mertens has been really annoying. I did get to lay out my own story, though Lydia really did most of it while I was busy finding pictures, and then Cedric did the whole eye-in-the-trees thing, but that really did end up turning out rather well.

On to Dishwalla. I have been listening to little else lately. Especially AND YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT LIFE'S ABOUT, and even more specifically, "Upside Down". Good stuff, very good indeed. Perhaps its mirroring my agitation with the fact that what promised to be the beginning of spring gave way to more cold weather and even a little snow (though it didn't stick around for long). Well, we'll see how long it is before I feeling like dropping grunge/rock in favor of punk again.

I have actually been making some progress on IoF 2.3, I'm about sixty pages (I think) into it, which is pretty decent considering how many other things I've been preoccupied with. I would like to get back to HiTN eventually, but I'm still hashing some things out. It's actually coming along nicely, and I'm starting to get some great ideas on Cormeria and all of that--the whole idea came from just the opening frame for the "I write sins not tragedies" music video, and now I'm running with it into a strange world of strangely dressed men and women trapped into an eternal late evening ball. Lovely stuff. Oh, and a quick bit of footage from "Enemy at the Gates" has finally cemented me on a place for the Kami/war/thing--the frigid outskirts of a besieged city (New Arkunhael, maybe, idk), where the soldiers are drawn back into the city every now and then on leave, and then go back out to the trenches and ruined bits. Ki'ara is still mired in a dismal view of the future, and I'm going back to the whole idea of her and her pals fighting off gov forces in a mall, then getting airlifted out to a mining tower/corporate headquarters place. Don't ask who is going to be doing the airlifting or anything like that--I'm not there yet, okay?!?! Yes, so it's all coming along nicely--I might even get an explanation for why the evil corporation/government conspiracy is letting its prisoners run around in the virtual worlds, unrestrained. Yeah, actaully, by big thought of the day which I just received would lie along the lines of everything they programming needing some sort of physical representation in the virtual worlds--prisons, keys/passwords, doors/security checkpoints, etc.--cause that would make for easier user interaction with the controls--don't have to train your staff or nuthin. Well, okay so I've kinda used this idea before, just not for the idea of keeping prisoners locked up--pretty good though. Yes, follow me here, so another reason they would want this would be cause they're using a new sort of programming which is really powerful and descriptive and flexible and whatnot--i mean for chrissakes theyre creating friggin universes here!--but its one drawback that they cant get over is that everything needs a physical representation. And they don't really care either, cause they can throw in whatever road blocks they want. But they dont during the story, cause they're busy prepping for their global announcement that they've figured out how to isolate the male and female parts of the human brain--"cured the disease", if you will. No one's paying attention. Back to the code, though, it's this mystical stuff that some college dudes created--they understood it, but the gov found out, took it, and killed them, so now no one entirely understands how it works.

Ok, I'm in danger of divulging major storyline secrets and stuff so I'll stop for now.