Happy Birthday Linus

Don't you love point form? How about point-formed sentences?

• Explosions occured one night, I actually went to investigate. Preliminary theories included:
• "OMG we're under fire from alienz"
• "OMG gangs are taking over the city"
• "OMG the U.S. is bombing us for maple syrup" (okay, this one is an exaggeration)
• There's someone walking in the attic
• Thunder (but no rain nor clouds?!)
• Buildings asploding

• Things we did
• Hid in the basement with sticks
• Timidly took a look outside
• Boldly took steps outside
• Walked towards the sound, took about 45 minutes to get suitable spot to see black smoke billowing from some distant building
• Returned home to google the asplosions, OMG propane factory blows up!

Okay, so that was a few days ago, and I was at a friend's house at 4 am.

• Eighteen
• Happy birthday, Gabe
• I slept through most of my day
• Lived through the night
• Some wishes came true
• Some probably won't
• I know I shouldn't feel giddy for seeing "you have... 32 new messages", but it felt kinda cool
• All you readers out there should post ideas as to what I should do now that I'm eighteen. So many times I've thought "damn, wish I was eighteen", and here's the time, and I've got nothing.

My sleep schedule is still bad.

Tomorrow (today), I think I'll go downtown to the Hot and Spicy festival.
I'm saddened by the fact that I thought I would get the house to myself for the weekend, but turns out one of my parental units is staying. God. Effing. Damnit. No, I didn't want to throw any parties or anything, it's so much nicer being alone though. I will try and be out of the house as much as possible, as I cannot stand it with that parental unit around.

Happy birthday.

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Good Morning (again?)

A most peculiar thing today.

I go to bed at six am (which is, in fact, early in comparison to other days that I dare not mention again. They are like a black spot on my calendar, they're gone from existence, as I slept almost entirely through those days), and somehow wake up at nine am, feeling not too tired. Looking at the sun shining through my window, my internal clock somehow estimates the time to be 2-3 p.m. So I decide to get out of bed, take my shower, and just go downstairs, a normal routine, what.

As I step into the kitchen, the reality of time hits me like a ping-pong ball to the forehead (APPLIED DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD, PING PONG BALL APPLIED DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD). And suddenly, I feel very, very tired.

So I go back up to my room, and collapse into my bed, only to wake up at five p.m. from a phonecall.

Some would argue that it's because of my shitty sleep schedule that I fail to grasp time correctly, others would think my body was determined to get up really early, and that I should pay attention to this. Maybe If I had stayed up, and gone on the computer at the time I first woke up, and pressed F11, my crush's name would have popped up on the screen! ZOMG!

Me? I say, the day breaks, the mind aches.

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Good Morning

And a good night to those of you sleeping at this hour.

As for myself, I'm alright, save one important thing.

I've fallen back to the vice that has plagued my previous summers: addictive computer games.

I've been spending hours playing Diablo 2, instead of doing normal summerly activities such as frolicking around in the ravine and so on. Why? Maybe out of sheer boredom, out of loneliness. I haven't gone out in the night like I did so often in weeks. Instead, I stay locked inside and rot away. But hey, guess what? After I'm done this post, I'll probably go back and continue levelling my level 71 barbarian. And then go to bed, sleep till four, and rinse and repeat, with some virtual school work (which I have been neglecting because of my newfound hobby).

Pathetic, right?

Hey, at least I'm past the denial step.

My departure is looming on the horizon, but I find that I'm not as scared of leaving town anymore. After all, I'm currently not doing much anyway. But I think I'll miss not having the freedom of frolicking in the city for whatever, and I really should take advantage of my last month and a half of being around people I know.

Hey hey, my my.

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Close, but no cigar

That's probably the expression my math teacher used the most.
Summer school's doooooone, I had my exam yesterday (if you can't tell, I'm writing this entry at 5:30 am), the exam was -easier- than the practice exam that he gave us the day before to complete. I answered all the questions (I'd say 95% of them right) that didn't have to do with Trigonometry, and, as for trigonometry, well, I answered about 50% of those. I hate Trig. It's awful. The identities. The formulas. The definitions. The endless barrage of possible answers, and the ever-so-annoying "special triangles".

But luckily, the Trig section was very small! So yay, I know I'm getting a good mark on the exam, hence a good mark on the course.

As for Virtual Summer School, that's working out nicely, it gives me something productive to do on the computer instead of browsing 4chan, youtube, XKCD forums etc.

Oh. And the biggest announcement of all, which I almost forgot at this primitively early hour:

Katimavik destinations. I got the package in the mail today.

From September 17th-January 7th, I'll be in Strathroy, ON (it's a small town 40 km west of London!). Between January 7th-March 25th, I'll be in Sainte-Marie, QC, a small town south of Quebec city. And... drumroll... Between March 25th-June 27th... I'll be in VANCOUVER, BC!

I was really hoping for a BC destination, and I get the best for last! And Vancouver is just totally awesome! Yaaaay.!

I think the tuffest part of the program will be in Quebec (though it'll even be harder for the people in my group who aren't bilingual, I'll admit), because, despite global warming, the snow is still going strong during the winter in Quebec. My parental units gave me a little speech on how I'd finally experience the true Canadian winter. It so happens that my mother lived in a town very close to Sainte-Marie, and I have relatives just about everywhere in Quebec, so no doubt I'll be seeing someone at some time or another.

I am currently haggling with my parents to buy myself a laptop, and I admit, reader, that part of the want of this laptop is so that you can stay updated on my adventures through this very blog. I know it's a bit sad, but I would find it very hard to live without a computer (rather, the Internet) for extended periods of time.

More details to come, I've already saturated this blog with enough stuff.

Goodnight.

Last edited April 15th 2019: Added exclamation point, barred the full stop. GH

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The Real 50th

Well it turns out that my last blog post was a sham - my earlier collaborator, K473z 7h3 m4gnific3n7, seemed to have forgotten to take out a draft of one of her posts, which counted into the 50 post count. Now, I've double checked, and I'm positive this is the 50th blog post written on this blog, and the 47th written by me. I'm a bit of hypocrite, because I'm always saying stuff like "what makes the 100th anniversary so important, why not 101?". The answer to that is that people like nice numbers, not ugly ones like 37. Some things that make me happy/comfort me

• Beating Evan at Super Smash Bros. Melee/Brawl
• Beating people at Guitar Hero
• Walks in the night
• Truth confidence
• Curry (aka comfort food)
• The first match in a badminton tournament, and winning the tournament (obv.)
• Being owed something
• Compliments about my hair
• Beauty's Cantata
• Pachelbel's Canon in D
• Fish puns
• Happy surprises

Some things that make me sad/depress me

• Critically acclaimed movies
• Nightwish
• Truth disappearance
• Lonely wanderings at night
• Insomnia
• Trigonometry
• The 4 am blues
• Sunrise after an all-nighter
• Loss of communication with a friend
• Others' miseries
• Waking up with less than 8 hours of sleep

Edit: Edited for simple privacy 2022/09/03

Cinquantième

Fiftieth blog post. I've come a long way. But guess what? This blog post won't be commemorative.

Si seulement la princesse au long cheveux comprenait que si le sauveur est lui même très troublé, il ne peut rien faire pour elle, car dès qu'il esseyerait d'escalader ses cheveux, il tomberait. Et si la princesse comprend cela, je ne peux rien faire d'autre que m'excuser pour le moment. Et si je me fous les pieds dans le plat en écrivant ceci, je m'en fout.

I won't check the grammar on that, but I don't think anyone will be able to call me out on it.

Happy 50th...