[extract][/extract]Who For Some Strange Reason Capitalize The First Letter Of Every Word They Type?
There's A Load Of Them On Twitter And Facebook And Every Time I Read Their Updates It's Impossible For Me To Read It As A Sentence In My Head So When I Read It (In My Mind) It Sounds Robotic Because It's So Grammatically Incorrect And The Sentences Do Not Register Correctly In My Head
Seriously What The Hell
Although this entry is kind of a self plug, there's also a bit more than that.
Around this time last year, I wrote my first serious short story. It was a sleepless night. I was sitting downstairs on the couch, at about 5AM. I explicitly remember what I was doing. I was on Tumblr, messing around, trying to create a music blog. I remember that the aim of the blog was for me to review new albums that fell under my musical taste. At the time, I had never reviewed anything.
I abandoned the blog after a day of trying to figure out Tumblr's god awful settings.
But while attempting to write my first review, I was hit by a pang of existential crisis. It was very short lived, about an hour at most. I remember feeling so frustrated, because I could end up writing ten thousand reviews and maybe nobody would have read them outside of a few friends who I'd have showed the blog to.
Out of that existential crisis came a little story called The Escape. A page long story, written in about ten minutes. I threw it on the Library, my first noteworthy addition to the repitoire of great literature on there.
About two hours later, I went on and saw that none other than Master Neverdead, the Story Mat legend himself, had replied to my topic.
He loved it. Master Neverdead, the dude who supposedly writes better than anybody on Sals, and who people beg to get a review from, loved my story! A story I had written in ten minutes, with no pre-planning!
Needless to say, I was stoked. The Escape still had errors, and I went back and revised it. Still, long after people had stopped replying to my topic and giving reviews, I felt very proud.
But I didn't write more. I couldn't write more! Ideas skirted the edge of my brain, but vanished into the ether. Sometimes, I chanced upon an idea. The idea would sound friggin' amazing. Like, "oh my god why have I never thought of this before it is so good," amazing. These ideas would always pop up while I was at school, or on the bus, or out somewhere. Then, when I got home, and started typing out whatever had festered in my head; it would always conjure the same result: "God this is shizzlety!"
I'm a good writer. I'm fairly confident in that. I really enjoy putting my thoughts into words. Heck, that's why I love Sals so much. I can write so much about things that I'm interested in, and nobody is gonna say anything about it. It's not like school where I have to fight for the attention of the class during a discussion, or when I'm browsing Facebook and I just want to enter an argument between two randoms and shove in my opinion. Nope, on Sals, I type what I have to say, and it's there for people to read. And everybody can do that, which is what's so great about it.
Making posts about topics comes naturally to me. I mean, why wouldn't it? It's just me putting my thoughts into prose.
Writing stories is a whole 'nother deal. You have to weave your thoughts into varying sentence structures, speckle them with an array of word choice, and portray them in ways that don't fuddle the brain. You are forced to capture people's attention.
Then, ten months after The Escape, I got on my laptop and started typing.
To explain the setting: I was fudgeing pissed off. I had been chasing a girl for a little while and was frustrated about something she did. I was thinking things that didn't even come across as words. Just raw thoughts and images that were coherent to me, but wouldn't be to anyone else.
So I started typing, and -bam!-, enter Jones. This one was a bit longer, about three (paper) pages. Jones and I are different characters. He's temperamental, quick to judge, paranoid, and a tad bit crazy. I am none of those things (or so I perceive). But I took all those emotions I was feeling, the entire situation I was in, and turned it into a person. Well, not a person, a story. A person who defines a story. Jones was a literary manifestation what I was feeling.
Jones was different for me. After I wrote The Escape, I had a feeling of, "Damn, that's really good." When I had finished Jones, it was more of a feeling of relaxation. I had just pushed a burden off of myself. The story of Jones and the thing that I was experiencing at the moment are so entirely unrelated, but they're the same exact thing. I had literally crafted a story out of what I was feeling. It didn't exactly feel good, it just felt... it was like, "this story is here. I have written it. There."
Now please understand, I'm not trying to buff myself up, and make myself seem like a really good writer. No, no, let me get to the point.
I want to write. I want to write well. Both of the stories I've written have been me just taking the environment around me and turning it into a short story. Is that the sign of a good writer? I want to be the kind of writer who plucks an idea out of thin air and fleshes it out into an epic. That sounds like something I'd enjoy.
I still love both my stories though. They're my creations, and they've received positive responses from most of the people I've shown them to. Hopefully, I'll write bigger and better stuff in the future.
Completely hypothetical situation here.
You're the intern on some committee for some state government regarding some thing. You're an intern in hopes that one day you'll be on the committee, but the evaluation process for interns is pretty selective so you gotta be really good to get in there in the first place.
It's a good thing, right? You'd wanna keep that position.
So let's say, hypothetically, that the committee doesn't want the interns anymore. They're annoying, they don't do anything, they laze around, they drink all the coffee, whatever.
The committee gives the interns one last fighting chance to prove that they're worth keeping on.
What would you do?
Well I'll tell you what I would do.
I wouldn't act like a complete fudgeing idiot like CERTAIN FORMER DMs.
What the fudge was going through your head Desireful? Honestly? Calling Don a fudgeing pedophile? Exactly how is that going to help our case? Last time I checked, we're trying to keep ourselves in business here, not give them more firepower to use against us.
And to the rest of the DMs, what the hell? Sryen, Tabt, and Finway; you're just gonna sit back and let this happen? Do you guys care? How can you choose NOT TO PARTICIPATE in something that directly affects all of you?
And you redmonke? What the fudge is your deal? I thought you at least would have some reasoning, instead of just not giving a fudge and getting yourself demoted like a complete idiot. I respected you once. That respect is now gone. Enjoy the mediocrity of sitting in your Tech Support forum for the rest of eternity.
And fudgeing Adam. The only god damn reason you're on board with the respected member thing is in hopes of you becoming one. You're nearly as pathetic as Venom. There's a little brown on your nose...
I'm gonna try my best to keep this Respected Member thing from going live, because it seems like I'm the only one left who gives a damn.
Got A Day to Remember's new album.
I'm in love with "All I Want," and "2nd Sucks" is also really good. I haven't given the rest of the songs a good listen, let's hope this album is good! :P
Anyone else heard the new album/the band?
I'm thinking about hosting a little Dungeons and Dragons game on Sals. It'd be just like an actual game - with a map, character sheets, monster sheets and everything, but I'd make up the story as I go along. It'd be a topic in the Scape Lounge. Of course I'll have to find a way to make it work in the format of a forum but I think it's possible. I'm thinking five or six people would be the main players but I'll find ways to incorporate people on the sidelines into the game as well.
Think Andyana's adventure thread with that Side Hair Fringe dude except more detailed.
Thoughts? :)
I hope that some of you can forgive my behavior over the past few days. I've been acting almost entirely out of anger lately. It was mostly because I just don't think I was being given a fair argument, and that I've always been "that other guy" who snuck in during the last DM promotion and I was just letting out my anger about that. I'll admit, even before this DM stuff I was acting a lot more catty / jerk-ish towards members on Sals. All in all, I'm hoping you guys haven't lost all your respect for me
So my cousin has not been doing well. Recently, his limbs have started to grow weaker and he's reverted back to crawling. His epilepsys and seizures are becoming more frequent and he's in the hospital again.
After some thorough testing they've concluded that there are sac-like things that are disrupting his frontal lobe, causing weak motor skills, lack of speech, autism, seizures, asymmetry in the brain. Basically that stuff will slowly drain his brain until he becomes braindead, and then eventually he would die.
My dad called one of his neurologist friends to get some more info. My dad gave him the situation and all the details and stuff. His neurologist friend did all his internship in Australia (where my cousin and his family are living) and has a lot of information on their treatment model. He says it's very experimental, kinda the opposite of what my cousin needs. He said it'd be optimal to 1. get a second opinion 2. see if they can arrange to have the surgery in either america or the uk.
Even after my cousin goes through the surgery there's a good chance that he will still be very mentally handicapped and there is a huge chance that he'll lose speech functions.
:D
@Msamsara
If anyone wants to follow me, feel free. I'll follow back.
I don't even know why I made it I just wanted to know what the buzz was about. ^_^
To be honest, I think Yuanrang and Venom deserve a round of applause because they were definitely (in my opinion) the highlights of this whole charade. Also Adam because he played the biggest role in planning this whole thing. :D
Oh yeah and Donovan for taking so much flak from me and Desireful.
I think it's already noted, but I'd just like to add that if you felt offended by any of the staff (including us DMs), please don't. Nearly everything that any one of us said in the past few days has all been in favor of the joke and I apologize on my behalf and on everybody's if you got offended.
Oh yeah and you guys totally stink it was the most obvious joke ever lololololo :P
And screw redmonke. My performance = :P
May have mentioned earlier that I was going to see Rise Against on May 6th. Thing was I was waiting on my dad to buy the tickets. Well my dad was incredibly lazy and never bought the tickets so now I had to settle and buy the ones for the concert on May 5th, which is a Thursday.
Here's the plan:
My two friends come to my house. We walk to the bus stop and get on a bus to NYC. We're there by 6PM. The concert starts at 8PM and we'll hve time to get to the venue. The thing is, Bad Religion and Four Year Strong are also performing...
The concert won't be over till midnight. The last bus from NYC leaves at 11pm. That means we'll have to take the train home. The first train that leaves is at 1AM. We won't be off the train until about 2:30 AM. And not only that, we'll be at the Princeton Junction train station, which is about ten miles away from home. I'd somehow have to drop both of my friends off at their homes. None of us can drive. My dad won't come to get us since he'll have work in the morning. SOMEHOW I need to work this out.
All of this could have been avoided if my dad simply bought the tickets earlier when I told him to. :/
Protip: Never order Christmas presents online.
I spent about $200 in presents for my friends this year. The stores were all out of stock in the things I needed, so I ordered them through Amazon or the brand's specific website.
So it's Christmas Eve, I checked the tracking numbers for all the gifts I ordered, and it seems like none of them are gonna arrive by tomorrow. The very earliest they'll arrive is Tuesday or Wednesday. Now when I give the presents the people I give them to won't receive the full effect even though the presents are really awesome.
BUT I told all of my friends and they're all understanding and say that it's okay.
I hope everyone has a great Christmas! And to those celebrating Kwanzaa, have a good one!
:santahat:
So I'm getting 40 Agility tomorrow. It will also give me the milestone of a total level 1000. Some of my friends and hopefully some people from Canting will be there for the screenshot.
I'm gonna get it around 8:30 GMT. It'll be in the Barbarian Agility Course (so you'll need at least 35 Agility and have done the Barcrawl to come). I plan on going through all of Barbarian Assault right afterwards. I'm not sure who it'll be with, but if anyone who I played it with today showed up, they'll automatically be included, and possibly some friends.
Hope you guys can come!
Seriously?
The staff is so idiotic that I can't even take them seriously anymore. Yuanrang has turned into an egotistical goosedown that I now have no respect for. I'll probably be demoted within the week.
This forum is going to hell.
Laptop's motherboard is fried. This computer is as archaic as Tabt. I've been going on Sals from my phone lately. New laptop will be here sometime in November.
Love you guys <3
Tomorrow, we get to do one of the most fun projects I've had for school yet.
We get to record a video of us rapping in Spanish, teaching you how to make nachos. There's some other stuff in there too (a three-act video, in which the rapping-nachos is only one part), but that's the part I'm most excited about.
Can't wait :)
