Silliness

Instructions
1. Put your iTunes on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS!
4. Tag 10 friends who might enjoy doing the same as well as the person you got the note from.

How do you feel today?
Free Stress Test - Professor Murder

What is your motto?
Dog Star Descends - Lustmord

What do your friends think of you?
Stand Up - Flobots

What do you think about very often?
Waitin for the DJ - Talib Kweli

What is 2+2?
Ashes in the Fall - Rage Against the Machine

What do you think of your best friend?
State of Emergency - Skindred (What's goin' on, all over this whole wide world...sounds about right)

What do you think of the person you like?
Like You Want - Mondo Generator

What is your life story?
Awaken - Dethklok

What do you want to be when you grow up?
I wish I had a 303 - Dave Remix

What do you think when you see the person you like?
Tribe to a Nation - Sepultura

What do your parents think of you?
Want - Disturbed (Probably why they pay for my plane tickets)

What will you dance to at your wedding?
Jesus Wrote A Blank Check - Cake

What will they play at your funeral?
Looking At You - The MC5

What is your hobby/interest?
Cow - The Melvins (Moo! Mooooooo! I do like steak)

What is your biggest secret?
Snake Appeal - The Melvins (wink wink, nudge nudge)

What do you think of your friends?
Love Her Madly - The Doors

What’s the worst thing that could happen?
Rumble - West Side Story

How will you die?
Naked and Famous - Presidents of the United States of America

What is the one thing you regret?
Work - RJD2

What makes you laugh?
Mini Mini Mini - KMFDM

What Makes You Cry?
Love is Unkind - Danko Jones

Will you ever get married?
Bomb This Track - Mindless Self Indulgence

What scares you the most?
Cannibal Song - Ministry (Not quite. I've never met a cannibal before)

Does anyone like you?
Wasted and Ready - Ben Kweller

If you could go back in time, what would you change?
The Script For My Requiem - Blind Guardian

What hurts right now?
Call Me Down - Five Horse Johnson

What will you post this as?
Abraham - Sufjan Stevens

I'm not going to tag anyone, though the three-ish people who read this can feel free to post it somewhere.

Dragging

I really just want it to be Thanksgiving, but there's a lot of work to be done before that. This lab will take up the rest of this evening and tomorrow evening, and the paper will be my whole weekend.

But after that, home. Home is an opportunity to relax for a bit, and seeing family is always nice. But right now I seem to be looking ahead...I want the semester to be over so I can get to the next one...I want the year to be over so I can graduate already. This may not be so good.

I'm wondering why it took so long to start really doing what I wanted to do, socially. I got a little start freshman year, though for reasons clear to me now, it never really got very far...
I'm not sure how I got my priorities so mixed up. At the time, everything I was doing seemed fine and good, but now that I'm going about things differently, a good year and a half seems like it was spent in a holding pattern. When now I'm meeting new people, having fun, and learning about myself, my last relationship seems like it was a holding pattern and an utter waste of time.

I know it was a learning experience, and I doubt I would have gotten to where I am now without it. But if I had been more willing to take risks and broaden my horizons, the results would probably have been better. Instead, I was trying to bring someone else up to my level, rather than pushing my own level up even further. And in the last semester, I've proven to myself that I can change myself much quicker and easier than I can ever change others.

And now, I know what I need to do, and I have so much less time left to do it in. Best to take advantage of the environment while I have it. Whenever I move on to my next big thing, I want to be sure that I really have no regrets.

Filling in Time

I have an hour right now, and I don't feel like doing work.

I've realized life will never boil down to a set of snappy sayings. That being said, it's important to take in all experiences that come to you, and use them to help form your understanding of you as a person.
I guess these are two things I try to live my life by: be open-minded, and fight for what you believe in.

On a completely different note, the correct answer to the question 'What should I do, Internet?', is 'Shut the fuck up and stop whining, nobody cares.' When you don't have a real person to talk to, your plea is worth nothing in the eyes of...well, no one. Oh well. This applies more to blog posts, on internet forums there is at least a specific group of people in the other end.

Blah.

Motivation is hard to come by these days. I think I need a break.
But, alas, another lab and a draft paper are due before Thanksgiving. Well, shit.

This weekend may help. Or, it may not. I don't really have anything planned, so we'll see what happens. On the plus side, there are a lot of possibilities.

Side note: RSS feeds are great, because then you don't have to visit a website more than once. Though that's great for having your reading habits go undetected, it's annoying for sites that have comment sections. I mean, on Jalopnik, I can't even read the comments in Thunderbird.

Music that rocks

I've been listening to Karma to Burn, a very cool stoner rock group. It's like they kick you in the face...with music.
But seriously, a good combination of aggressive rock with some interesting instrumentation and arrangement. Sweet.

Randomness b/c I feel like it

I miss the days when coming back drunk after a night of abortive revelry immediately meant a pissy, emo livejournal entry. Admittedly, this applied more to my friends than me, because it was just such entertaining reading (Ha!). I guess it's a combination of voyeurism and Schadenfreude. Clearly, I'm a terrible person. So please, to those whose blogs I read (all two of you), take more time from your busy schedules to rant. Or, point me to some ranty blogs for a good fix.
Well, I'm not drunk, and my revelry tonight was not abortive. Tonight was AEPi's pledge party, and it came together pretty well, despite my initial anxieties. I had fun, and took to heart my personal goal to not take anything too seriously. It worked, because I busted a move, or two, or sixty. It was cool.

Help, I'm a Rock!

Looking back through some blogs, I saw that at given points in the relationship, both my exes said the same thing:

I'm very stable.
...Wonderful.

See title.

Politics

Well, tomorrow's the election.
I don't really have the energy to make a political rant. The amount of ignorance out there, and the amount of negativity, it all sickens me. I just want this whole damn thing to be over, the best man for the job to win, and us to get on with our lives.
That being said, I'm voting tomorrow, and you all should too. It's the least we can do to counter the rampant and inevitable Republican voter fraud.
Did I mention I'm a pessimist?

Spread it around

Halloween is a pretty cool time to party.

Also serves as a reminder to be flexible, get out there, and let the chips fall where they may. Lots of opportunities abound, you just need to go out and find them.
Wow. I sound obnoxiously chipper.