When I was in Iowa, I was able to pass off as an African, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Latino, and, on one occasion, as an Anglo. But mainly, the people guessing my ethnicity were Anglo. But today, I fooled my first Asian, who came up to me at the bus stop and thought that I was. . .well. . .Asian. Apparently, there is a clone of me walking around BYU, taking International Asian classes, and being the Asian version of me. I blame the Toth demon.
I guess I can fool anyone if I can be mistaken by an Asian FOR and Asian.
Maybe I should try to get a Chinese citizenship, then I can get cool stuff only available in China, like the most current Nintendo games, rather than having to wait a year or two before they come to America. . .or Opium.
November 17, 2005
Granny Gamer (edited)
I came across this blog while searching videos on putfile.com: Old Grandma Hardcore. She is a gamer through and though. Like any other gamer, she cusses, basks in the beating of virtual authority figures, and relishes in the conquering of a video game. She is well versed in every gaming platform and has beaten every game put in front of her. She's the type of grandma that you are glad is NOT yours, but wished you lived next to. (At least that's what I wish)
November 7, 2005
First:
This was an epic weekend. . . an end of an era. It's taken me, literally, all my life to accomplish but, now, it is done. I can finally rest.
I'm talking about completing my Star Wars collection. The first episode (Episode IV) originally opened in May of 1977. I was not born yet but I'm pretty sure I was begging to come to earth. By some mix up in paperwork, I had to wait to be born on November 29, 1978 (hint hint) and so I missed opening day then. But for the last 3 episodes (Episodes I, II, & III) I was able to make opening night. I've also been able to get my Star Wars DVDs in order too. Until saturday night, my collection wasn't complete. Now it is. I can rest assured that I have the Led Zepplin of movies. It's been a life long duty to finish the collection but now I can turn my attention to other lesser endevors, like school, or some junk like that.
Second
My chest has been hurting for the past couple of days. In some instances there has been slight pain when I breath. When I press my chest right over my heart area, it hurt. It hurt to sit up, it hurt to lay on my side, it hurt stretching. I've been puzzled as to what it could be. My arm left arm wasn't in pain, so it's not a slow moving heart attack or anything like that. So I was at the Manti temple on Saturday for a friend's wedding and Bishop Freestone was there. I told him about it and he said that it was probably my ribs a bit separated from my breastplate. Whew! I thought it was something serious. A couple saturdays ago was the last of my team's intramurals soccer games. During the game, one of the opposing team's strikers got through my defense, but luckily, the ball got too far ahead of him. It was pretty much a similar situation to when I tore my ACL. I ran out of my box to get the ball, he was en route. I had just enough time to kick the ball before we collided. My hand was caught between him and my chest. The IMPORTANT thing was I saved the goal, but I guess that's when it separated. After doing push ups a few days after the game, I started to feel pain. I guess the push ups aggrivated it and it started hurting. Now it's getting better and I'm sure I will be good for next semester's soccer season.
Chalk another soccer injury for me.
Third
I've learned to not play catch with a Hand Grenade.
This was an epic weekend. . . an end of an era. It's taken me, literally, all my life to accomplish but, now, it is done. I can finally rest.
I'm talking about completing my Star Wars collection. The first episode (Episode IV) originally opened in May of 1977. I was not born yet but I'm pretty sure I was begging to come to earth. By some mix up in paperwork, I had to wait to be born on November 29, 1978 (hint hint) and so I missed opening day then. But for the last 3 episodes (Episodes I, II, & III) I was able to make opening night. I've also been able to get my Star Wars DVDs in order too. Until saturday night, my collection wasn't complete. Now it is. I can rest assured that I have the Led Zepplin of movies. It's been a life long duty to finish the collection but now I can turn my attention to other lesser endevors, like school, or some junk like that.
Second
My chest has been hurting for the past couple of days. In some instances there has been slight pain when I breath. When I press my chest right over my heart area, it hurt. It hurt to sit up, it hurt to lay on my side, it hurt stretching. I've been puzzled as to what it could be. My arm left arm wasn't in pain, so it's not a slow moving heart attack or anything like that. So I was at the Manti temple on Saturday for a friend's wedding and Bishop Freestone was there. I told him about it and he said that it was probably my ribs a bit separated from my breastplate. Whew! I thought it was something serious. A couple saturdays ago was the last of my team's intramurals soccer games. During the game, one of the opposing team's strikers got through my defense, but luckily, the ball got too far ahead of him. It was pretty much a similar situation to when I tore my ACL. I ran out of my box to get the ball, he was en route. I had just enough time to kick the ball before we collided. My hand was caught between him and my chest. The IMPORTANT thing was I saved the goal, but I guess that's when it separated. After doing push ups a few days after the game, I started to feel pain. I guess the push ups aggrivated it and it started hurting. Now it's getting better and I'm sure I will be good for next semester's soccer season.
Chalk another soccer injury for me.
Third
I've learned to not play catch with a Hand Grenade.
November 2, 2005
I got up at 5 am.
I've been starting at my laptop screen for 6 hours straight.
I've taken a total of 124 steps all day today.
I've touched every key on my keyboard a minimum of 600 times.
I've consumed quite a bit of Pepsi.
I've breathed fresh air only 3 times today.
Twice I've consumed quasi-healthy food.
I've changed internet radio stations at least 1024 times.
And for what? 100 measly lines of code for a programming project that was due today and i'm only half done and I'm pretty sure I'll get rid of at least 30 lines of the code I've written because it was for debugging purposes.
I hate Java.
I've been starting at my laptop screen for 6 hours straight.
I've taken a total of 124 steps all day today.
I've touched every key on my keyboard a minimum of 600 times.
I've consumed quite a bit of Pepsi.
I've breathed fresh air only 3 times today.
Twice I've consumed quasi-healthy food.
I've changed internet radio stations at least 1024 times.
And for what? 100 measly lines of code for a programming project that was due today and i'm only half done and I'm pretty sure I'll get rid of at least 30 lines of the code I've written because it was for debugging purposes.
I hate Java.