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Just like the title says.

I haven't written in here for quite some time, so I thought I'd write some new things down. Unfortunately, I don't have much to write about. I've become re-addicted to several video games of late (Kya, Kingdom Hearts, DDR, etc.). I had a friend come down for a few days, and we did some gaming for hours on end. After that, I couldn't stop playing games. I've probably put in about 20 hours of gaming into the past 5 days. Yeah. So sad. I've got tons of other stuff to do, but I find myself playing for hours at a time. My eyes hurt. crying It doesn't help that I'm sick and thus have free time to waste. Sigh.

Good news - Avatar: the Last Airbender DVDs are coming out in January. Hopefully they'll have the whole first season on the DVD's (as the second season is supposed to start in January). Yeah. I'm a nerd. Hurrah!

Oh, dear. I was just informed earlier today that not many people will understand my journal title. It's a bit like my name, then. Ah, well, I guess I will just have to go through life being misunderstood. crying Oh, whoa is me. But I will make it. And here's a hint on the name of my Journal, kiddies: buy a dictionary. I own at least 4 (though that's mostly due to the fact that I keep losing them, buying new ones, then finding the old), and I must say that they are most helpful. Heck, I even have dictionaries for languages I don't speak. They're cheap, they're effective, and they can make you sound much more intelligent than you really are (I speak here from personal experience).

So I've discovered that I am too squeamish to kill bugs, forcing me to settle for trapping them and waiting for friends to come kill them (or waiting for them to die so I can use the vacuum to suck them up. Lately, though, my room has been invaded with rather large crickets of mutantous proportions. I know, in theory, that there is nothing that these bugs can do to me; however, something deep in my brain has not realized this yet. And unfortunately, that thing in my brain happens to control my motor reflexes. I cannot get too close to these things without squealing, shaking, and eventually running away. The solution? Make a Bug Trapping Spear. The BTS works in this way: take a 3 1/2 foot pvc pole. Insert a tissue in one end so that half the tissue hangs out. On the other end, attach a cup using sticky tack. Track down the bug. When you see the bug (invariably it will be behind a piece of furniture with renders the cup useless), use the Pest Distraction Device (read: tissue) to make the bug run to a more strategically advantageous place (read: the middle of the floor). Once said bug is in position, twirl the BTS around to utilize the Cage Dispenser (read: cup). Slowly center the Dispenser over the bug, then swiftly bring the cup down. Rotate the BTS 3/4 right to dislodge the Sticking Mechanism (read: sticky tack), and pull the BTS away. If the pest is large enough, find a book, CD pack, or other suitable large, though non-tippable item, on top of the Cage.

Right, so I'm bored and don't have much to do right now. My bait is resetting, so I don't want to go fishing again. I haven't seen many good threads for now to post on. And I should get back to studying anyways. So I hope that one and all have a peachy day/night/thingie (this is assuming anyone is reading this - if you are, feel free to leave comments...). And I'm off.

So not much is going on right now. I should be studying, but I'm not. Nothing new there. Wasting time is so much more fun than spending it wisely, neh? I'm not quite sure what to post. I could mercilessly mock people on the site for spelling and grammar, but that's just plain rude. I do find it amusing, however, that so many people complain about how people are not "litrate" or "litarate". If you want to complain about that, please, please, please spell the word correctly. I guess I may be too picky about that, though; my friends call me a Grammar Nazi because I insist on correct spelling and grammar in written and spoken English (only for native English speakers, though. I'm not so mean as to yell at people from other countries who are gamely trying their best at English). Wow, I sound mean. I should say, though, that I make plenty of typos, so I guess I shouldn't grumble about it.

I wonder, though, why it is so hard to find someone who can write a really decent paragraph? I wanted to say it's because a lot of the people posting are younger, but that would be wrong for me to post, both because I've seen lots of 20-somethings and because age doesn't necessarily correlate with writing ability. Still, it would be nice to find a few people who could respond with intelligence and intelligibility. I've met some really smart people who just don't seem that smart because of their writing style. Yes, we are on an online forum/page/thread, but does that mean that we must mutilate the English language? Yes, English is hard language, yes there are rules in it that don't make sense, yes it is the perfect example of why combining 9 langauges into one bastardized language is a bad idea; but does that mean that it must be sentenced to a very slow and painful death?

Hmmmm....what else can I talk about? My avatar turned out cute; a little perkier than I had intended, though. And about the only color that looks good on her is yellow, further adding to her perky appearance. I am not perky by nature, nor am I an optimist, so the character slightly clashes with my personality. But for some reason, I like it. smile Her hair and eyes match mine, and I guess I can think of her as the positive thoughts I don't always express. She's my inner optimist. Although I'm not a pessimist; I like to refer to myself as a realist. Some people say the glass is half-empty, some people say the glass is half-full, I say it's both - the top is empty, and the bottom is full. Always see what there is. Hard thing to do. For reference, read a Terry Pratchett book with DEATH or Susan.

So yeah, I'm pretty much out of ideas right now. Nothing much more to say. I hope if anyone is reading this (which I doubt most people will do) they have a peachy night/day/certain period of time.