Hello everyone! I am posting this from my parents' living room, because they have internet and I still don't. I just wanted to say a few things.

1. Obviously I am wicked behind on reading and updating, so I think, for the foreseeable future, that the daily posting schedule is going out the window. I was kind of starting to feel burnt out with that anyway, and running out of things to say. Not that I'm abandoning y'all or anything, and I'm sure I'll have plenty of new work stories here shortly, but I just thought you should be aware of the schedule change.

2. I also think I'm going to stop with the song quote titles on a regular basis. This is honestly because I don't think anyone really cares anymore, including me. But, by all means, if anyone feels strongly that they want me to keep going I could probably manage.

3. I have learned SO MUCH at this job in just a week, and it's awesome. For instance, on Friday I learned that the head of my department is a gymnastics coach on the side, and he did a backflip in the office for us. I promise I've learned environmental stuff too though. :D

4. I'm not quite mature enough for this office environment. Someone said that multi-family housing was an area in which we needed 'deeper penetration' and I started to giggle, then realized that no one else was laughing. I guess 'that's what she said' isn't a popular joke around here. It's not a super serious place, but it's a lot more professional than where I worked in NC.

5. During HR orientation, when the guy was listing off all the things that could be considered sexual harassment, I had to concentrate really hard on not laughing because we used to do EVERY SINGLE ONE of them at my last job on a regular basis. Especially discussing people's sexual prowess.



Everyone hope that I get internet installed soon!
So, I'm not exactly a gamer, and I'm surely not a video game expert, but please indulge my comments on this list of "Ten Video Games that Leave the Violence Behind" (NB: I am 100% all right with violent video games, I was just curious to see what was on the list.)

Number three is Kingdom Hearts, one of the very few (actually, maybe the ONLY) video game I have ever played from start to finish. It is, quite literally, all about violence. Except for the very first level where you go around collecting coconuts and fish, 95% of what you do in Kingdom Hearts is beat the bad guys with your keyblade until they die. The other five percent is gain experience so you can beat them to death more effectively and/or upgrade your weapons for the same reason. Well, there is a story to follow and some things to collect along the way, but it is almost all hitting progressively bigger things until they die and give you all their munny, XP and MP. Who the hell played this and thought it was non-violent? Did they only play the Winnie-the-Pooh part? Just because it's got Disney characters doesn't make it all sunshine and rainbows; my strategy for beating Maleficent was to let Goofy and Donald beat the crap out of her until she was almost dead, while I hid on a high ledge and healed them, then swoop in for the finishing blow. How is this leaving the violence behind?

The next game on their list is Mario Kart Wii. On the one hand, at least the goal here isn't to beat people to death. On the other hand, between blowing people up, being run over, running people off the track, things trying to hit and bite you, and the inevitable swearing and throwing of things that happens in real life when you play Mario Kart (you never really learn to swear until you learn to play Mario Kart) I hesitate to call this one non-violent either. Plus, it allows you to ruin the dreams of your friends and family members, not just pixels.

Further down the list, they have Pirate 101. I've got exactly zero experience with this, but I have a hard time believing that a game about pirates doesn't have any violence in it. Then they have Portal, which I haven't played either, but isn't it about a killer AI? I feel like there's going to be some violence in there at some point.

At least I can vouch that Just Dance is non-violent, unless you're me and are constantly kicking furniture and whacking your hand into the fan pull while you're dancing.



Answer to last Wednesday's song: Science Fiction Double Feature, from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. [livejournal.com profile] becofoz got this one right!
Two funny things from the internets for your enjoyment:




:D :D :D



Answer to last Wednesday's song: All of Nothing, by O-Town. [livejournal.com profile] kaitydid33087 got this one right!
OctoberMeme

Guys? I don't have a bucket list. I mean, there's things I want to do, I guess, but I'm terrible at making long term goals, and even worse at sticking to them. Off the top of my head, I would like to go to Europe (especially Ireland and Italy, lands of my forefathers) and visit Ayers Rock in Australia. Oh, and I'd like to go inside the Statue of Liberty too. :D

P.S. You should all read this and laugh and laugh and laugh like I did.


Answer to last Wednesday's song: All Star, by Smashmouth. [livejournal.com profile] becofoz got this one right!
Even though it kind of makes me feel like a failure to my generation, I just do not get Twitter.

That is all.




Answer to last Monday's song: Absolutely (Story of a Girl), by Nine Days. No one guessed this, though I also found a video on YouTube that said it was by Three Doors Down, so...
Quoted from The Pervocracy (who in turn is quoting Cosmo):

"Shocker: This Word Is a Turn-Off To Guys.
It's not "marriage" or "period." According to our most recent crop of Cosmo Bachelors, it's the F bomb--more than half said it's unattractive. [...] Experts say it's like burping. He knows you do it, but he'd rather think you don't... so you maintain a sexy, girlie mystique."

'Yeah... Fuck that fucking steaming mound of fucking bullshit.  I'm a fucking person and I will use all of the words available to fucking people.  I will talk like I fucking want.  I will accustom men to the idea that some women say "fuck" a fuckload and others don't because we're fucking people and we're fucking different.'


God fucking bless you, Holly.


From here: http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2012/01/cosmocking-february-12-part-one.html
Ok, so the best invention ever, is wireless internet.




Today at work, I was simultaneously faxing a shitload of faxes (same fax to like 150 different numbers. No joke.) and photocopying blueprints (which are very large and unweildly and like to curl up at inconvenitnt times) while answering the phone when it rang, (which was always at the most awkward moment) after I had put a new dry ink cartridge in the giant blueprint copier (with no guide but some poorly drawn diagrams on the box) and IT WAS GREAT!

I left at 5, exhausted and hot and sweaty and so very very satisfied. I did something today, somethign helpful, and I did it efficiently, and I did it well.

That's the way working should be, and that's the way I prefer it.

Goddamn it.
My brother and I bought a wireless router yesterday... which means that I am currently online... IN MY LIVING ROOM.

And it is AWESOME.


In other news, Hannah Loso is a blanket hog.

Saw My Super Ex-Girlfriend last night. It was ok. Funny at times. Luke Wilson is still hot.
"You did throw a shark at me."

Janeea won at poker last night, but I wasn't doing too shabby. And she and Kim won at Trivial Pursuit too. Whores. (But not really, obviously)

Ah, I don't really feel like going into details, but last night was a good night. I love hanging out with people. (Who doesn't?)

Stupid Video World didn't have any more copies of V for Vendetta last night. Oh well. Hence there were games instead.

Yeah, I'm just spewing random nonsense thougts as they come into my head. I'll stop now.
Do you ever just not want to do anything except read pointless and yet fascinating stuff on the internet? I do. And I just spent over an hour, probably more like two hours, reading old movie reviews for no reason other than I felt like it.

And it's not like I'm procrastinating, because there isn't acually (shocker!) any work I should really be doing, and I still have plenty of time after RENT rehersal, I just wanted to waste time on the internet.

People wonder how come I know so many quotes and useless pieces of trivia, and this is why. I spend time on the internet, reading lj communities, looking up trivia, scanning imdb, and just finding random sites to look at. It's completely pointless and I love it.


And another unrealted thing: I understand that lj communities need to have rules, but I don't understand why they make a lot of the rules they do. They're just stupid sometimes.

And they don't have to be so mean and snooty about accidentally breaking a rule, especially a trivial rule that didn't like offend anyone or anything, and extra-especially when the person apologizes.

I'm really tempted to start a community with no rules, where people can post whatever the hell the want and offend whoever they want and be as vulgar as they want, but I know that's a bad idea and somebody'd post child porn or something and I'd get arrested, and so I'll just sit here are rant about stupid lj community rules and how they've taken all the fun out of the Remus/Sirius community because they suck.

And I got all upset about it like a month ago, and I'm just ranting about it now because I feel like it.

And the sunset is absolutely breathtakingly georgeous and there's no way for me to save it and it bothers me.

*sigh*

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