hat in hand

Did a boatload of acquiring of articles of clothing materials today. Mostly shirts, but I grabbed a pair of pants as well as some dress shirts and ties, a book bag/satchel, and a jacket and tweed hat that were exorbitantly expensive. Good thing I didn't really notice until after I had bought them...wait a minute, that's not how it's supposed to...Damn it. Whatever, the hat is amazing, as is the jacket though it's far to hot to be traipsing around in a fleece-lined thing, what with it being 95+ and all the last few days. It actually rained today, but it was so hot that most of the precipitation evaporated immediately, producing copious amounts of steam. Quite lovely, especially when you're trying to drive through it. Just peachy.

Additionally, I bought the new Sum 41 CD which I really enjoy. They seem to have succeeded in their pop punk/metal fusion in all of the places where Does This Look Infected failed. So Long Goodbye really resonates with me, more than any other songs that I've tried to assuage certain feelings with lately. The whole album is delightful, really, even the fruity little French ditty. I think there were references to pants, but that's just based on a sketchy understanding of Spanish and no French whatsoever.

While I was at Best Buy I also picked up Shadow of the Colossus when I saw that they were basically giving it away for a paltry $20. Haven't started playing it yet; I think I may like to get further in Gears and God of War before I start in on yet another game. We'll see. The third item of purchase at the remarkable store of superior commodities of an electronic nature was 300 on Blu-Ray. Just watched it, actually, and it was delightful. Seeing the whole thing in uber-HiDef was toe-wriggling delicious.

So that concludes my shopping exploits. Did I mention I procured the most amazing hat ever? Indeed I did, but the point bears repetition.

I really ought to get working on the Warzone Project again, or it really might never get done. Time's awasting, dear God, only 3 weeks of liberty left. I've been cooking up some lovely ideas for LiZ, though - mostly to do with city layout and whatnot. The biggest change is that the characters aren't going to be running around together all of the time. They'll cross paths, especially Kami and Zal, but otherwise, they'll just run into each other, making weaving the different stories together both more interesting and difficult. But that's off in the future.

I was thinking of having a rambling outpouring of thoughts on the divide between the individual's feelings and those that society/culture preprograms onto that individual. Sort of a head vs. heart thing, but at the same time, it's neither and yet both. Very ephemeral and whatnot, but I don't know that I really have the mental will to go diving into that pool at this point.

Funny, I think I've nearly given up the ghost, really feel like it, and now all of a sudden I feel like inquiring, whether out of curiosity or genuine desire, or something else...I don't know. I might just do it, though. I guess...Well, there really isn't much to lose, but I guess there is the problem of success. And therein lies another problem - that I would have a problem with getting what I alternately think I want and think I don't care about any more. Well, I suppose I'll just have to brew on this for a little longer. Since I've gotten my fingers all warmed up, I might just take a stab at writing something, while I'm sitting here hoping my sister and her compatriots don't descend on me like a plague of ravenous savages (read: teenage girls).

- Veracity Out -
you can see a million miles tonight, but you can't get very far